Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-01-15
BRYAN AT CHICAGO.
Andrew jackson Was the Text
of His Speech.


a - ~ tAANN - AAhAHH
Holly Waged To-day.
CHICAGO. Jan. S.-A hest Of Demo-
Gratis celebrated jackson Day by a ban
quot at the Fremont House this even
ing. The Hon. William j.. Bryan was
the principal guest. He reached Chicago
from Lincoln this morning, being met
at the depot by National Committee
man Gahan and others selected to well
come him. For an hour Or ST prior to
the feast Mr.. Bryan held a reception in
the hotel parlors and shook hands with
a large number of callers. Nearly five
hundred were seated at the banquet,
Mayor Harrison presided and acted as
POSTMASTER.
MIR, Bryan was received with cheers
when introduced, and spoke, in part, as
follows:
1T is especially fitting that at this
time the American people should re-
call the name of Andrew jackson and
| gather inspiration and encouragement
from his public career. We are en-
gagged today in a contest very similar
to that in which he played So conspicu-
Gus and honorable a part, During his
term of Office the national banks. at
tempted to overawe the representatives
of the people and control the govern
ment. lie grappled with them and
overthrow them. Arrayed against him
| were the very classes which have forced
a continuance of the gold standard in
the United States, in spite of the almost
unanimous protest of the pecple-the
same classes which are now trying to
coerce the government into the sur
render of the sovereign right to con
troll the money of the country, 1t seems
that every generation presents a com
bat between the producers of wealth
and the money changers. The latter.
conducting their campaign in secrecy,
fasten themselves upon the body polite
and prey upon industry until their hold
is broken by an awakened and indignant
public,
Secretary Gage Criticised.
''The present secretary of the treas
ury, Mr.. Gage, is eminently fitted to be
the instrument of the tinanciers in their
effort to complete the scheme com
menced twenty-four years ago and con
tinued without interruption until the
present day. He possesses sublime
faith in the superiority of money over
man, and a supreme contempt for the
rights, the interests and the opinions
of the people at large. He knows that
the gold standard was adopted in the
United States without any party ever
asking for it; he knows that for twenty
three years after its adoption no party
ever dared to commend it.; he knows
that in the campaign of 1896 the party
composed of boiling Democrats was the
only party which dared to declare the
gold standard a blessing; he knows that
at the polls 80 per cent. of the voters
registered their opposition to a single
gold standard, differing only as to the
means of securing bimetallism; he
knows that the president. to whose par
TALLY he owes his position, sent a com
mission to Europe to beg other nations
to help us get rid of the gold standard:
he knows that the senate and house,
with scarcely Il dissenting voice, appro-
priated 500, 600 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 joining in the demand for interna-I
tional bim~etallislm, condemned the gold
standard; he knows that the farmers,
the laborers, and to Il large extent the
manufacturers of England, desire in
ternational bimCtalli>m; he knows that
the maintenance of the gold standard
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 deliberately planning
the gold standard permanently upon
the people of the United States.
London BANKERS in Control.
"'Not content with advocating policy
which places the destinies of seventy
millions of free men in the hands of for
eign tinanciers and permits a few Lon
don bankers to control the standard of
money, he now proposes to give to the
national banks full and complete CON
troll OF the paper money of the nation.
In November, 1896, six million and a
half of electors voted against the retire
ment of the grecnbackS, and seven mil
lions supported a platform which was
silent on the subject. The Republican
candidate for president. in his letter of
acceptance, pledged the Republican
party to keep in circulation and as
good as gold all the silver and paper
moneys now included in the currency
of the country, while only one party
advocated the retirement of the green
backs, and that party polled less than
l per cent of the vote.
Mr.. Gage knows these facts, and vet,
in spite of that knowledge, he is seek
ing to organize a money trust more
dangerous, not only to the industries.
but to the liberties of the people, than
all the other trusts combined. At such
a time and under such circumstances
the memory of the hero of New Orleans
ought to be invoked in every State.
county and hamlet, to arouse people to
a sense of their danger.
Twelve months have elapsed since
we celebrated this day a year ago, and
every month has borne witness to the
failure of Republican policies to bring
relief to the people. Just after the pass
age OF the Dingley bill our opponents
were boisterous in their announcement
that prosperity had returned. The Re-
publicans were given full swing. They
framed Just such a law as their Q .rts
desired and their brains devised. and
what is the result? Read the dailv ma