The age-herald., 1898-01-09
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN
 4 "YOUNG HICKORY Leading Speaker at a Chicago
 Celebration
 IN HONOR OF JACKSON DAY The Boy Orators" Irony Directed at
 Secretary Lyman Gage. HIS FINANCIAL POLICY RIDICULED Would Put 7O,00O,000 Freemen in
 the Clutches of the Bankers. FRESH VICTIMS ON ALTAR OF GOLD While the Blood of Prosperity is Being Choked From the Country Jackson's
Would Put 7O,00O,OOO Freemen in
 the Clutches of the Bankers.
FRESH VICTIMS ON ALTAR OF GOLD
While the Blood of Prosperity is Being Choked From the Country Jackson's Victory Over Human Vampires an
 Inspiration for Present Action.

Chicago, Jan. S.-A host of democrats eel ebrated Jackson day by a banquet at the Fremont house this evening. The Hon. w. J. Bryan was the principal guest. He reached Chicago from Lincoln this morn ing, being met at the depot by National Committeeman Gahan and others selected 10 welcome him. For an hour or so prior to the feast MT. Bryan held a reception in the hotel parlors and shook hands with large number of callers. Nearly 300 were seated at the banquet Mayor Harrison presided and acted as toastmaster.
 MT. Bryan was received with cheers when introduced and spoke in part as follows:
 Tt is especially fitting that at this time the American people should recall the name of Andrew Jackson and gather inspiration and encouragement from his public career: We are engaged today in a contest very similar to that in which he played so con- spicuous and honorable a part.
 Jaci,scn Against the Bankers.
 During his term of office the national banks attempted to overawe the represent atiyes of the people and the government He grappled with them and overthrow them. Arrayed against him were the very
 
 of the gold standard in the United States in spite of the almost unanimous yrotest of the people-the same classes which are now trying to coerce the government into the surrender of the sovereign right to control the money of the country It seems that every generation presents a combat between the producers of wealth and the money changers.
 rba latt secrecy, fastened themselves upon the body polite and prey upon industry until their hold is broken by an awakened and indig- nant public The present secretary of the treasury, MT. Gage, is eminently fitted to be the instrument of the fnanciers in their effort to complete the scheme commenced twenty-four years ago and continued with out interruption until the present day.
 Bryans Master Irony.
 "He possesses a sublime faith in the su- periority of money over man, and a preme contempt for the rights, the inter- ests and the opinions of the people at large. He knows that tho gold standard was adopted in the United States without any party ever asked for it; he knows that for twenty-three years after it's adoption no party ever dared to commend it; he knows that in the campaign of 1896 the party composed of bolting democrats was the only party which dared to declare the gold standard blessing; he knows that at the polls 9S per cent. of the voters register ed their opposition to @ single gold stand ard, differing only as to the means of se- curing bimetallsm; he knows that the president, to whose partiality he owes his position, sent commission to Europe to beg other nations to help us get rid of the gold standard; he knows that the senate and house with scarcely a dissenting voice appropriated s100000 of the peoples money to pay the expenses of the commission while it was seeking relief from the gold standard; he knows that France, by join- ing in the demand for international bi- metallism condemned the gold standard; he knows that the farmers, the laborers and to large extent the manufacturers of England desire international bimetallism; he knows that the maintenance of the gold standard means unmerited advantage to the money owning and the bondholding classes, is undeserved punishment to the vast majority of the people of this country and of the civilized world; and yet, in spite of his knowledge of all these facts, he Is deli li',erately planning the gold standard permanently upon the people of the United States.
 Gage Wants to Give Bankers Full Sway.
 'sNot content with advocating policy wtlIich places the destinies of 7O,OOO,0OO or .-eemcn in the hands of foreign fnancers nnd permits a few London bankers to con- trol aur standard of money, he now pro- poses to give the national banks full and complete ccitrol of the paper money of the :.ation. Tn November. 1.96, six million and a half of electors voted agaist the retire. mcnt of the greenbacks and seven millions supported platform which was silent on the subject. The republican candidate for president in his letter of acceptance pledged the republican party to keep in circula- tion (and as good as gold) all the silver and paper monies now Included in the currency of '-e country, while only one party advo- :nted the retirement of the greenbacks and tmrt party boiled less than per cert of the total vote.
 A Trust Greater Than All.
 '.Ir. Gage Knows these facts Ind yet in