The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-14

so distress suggests remedy. The six
and half millions Of toiline people who
were with us two years ago were con-
vinced that something was wrong and
that we had to begin by reforming our
money system. There were more than
those six and half millions, but there
were some who were just above freezing
upon on the subject. On the money
question men vary from just above freez-
ing up to the boiling point. When man
is Just above freezing, II he owes bank
the bank can scare him when he gets to
the boiling point the bank cannot scare
him. II a man is a laborer and just above
I freezing his employer can ooerce him;
when he gets to boiling point he cannot
be coerced. (Applause.) And, my friends,
we are raising the temperature all over
the country. (Applause) There are
more people now who understand this
money question than there we're in 1896,
and there will lie more people In 1900 to
un derstand this money question than
there are now. You ask me why expect
we shall triumph In 1900p 1 tell you In
the front rank in 1900 will be thousands
and tens of thousands who carried
muskets against us in 1896, because they
will feel that they are responsible for
four years of continuance OF the gold
standard and they must go where they
CAN do valiant service to atone for the
harm They will be making converts to
our cause, and they will be pointing out
every step of the way that leads them
from blind belief in gold monometallism
to intelligent understanding of the money
Of the constitution"
Mr.. Bryan's conclusion was grand.
After referring to the unanimous action
of the Democrats in congress in voting
fifty millions, and to the splendi services
of Fitzhugh Lee, Mr.. Bryan said:
"Place Democracy anywhere and 1t
will be true to its history. Democracy
means the equality of all before the law
Democracy stands for government
which derives its powers from the consent
of the governed; Democracy stands for
government that comes up from the peo-
pie, and that being the meaning of DEM
ocarcy, is it strange, my friends, that
every Democrat in the United States feels
warm place in his heart for those
neighbors just below our southern border |
who are seeking to have the right to have !
government that derives it's just powers
from the consent OF the governed.
Democracy stands ready to meet ana !
prepared to solve all the questions, do
mestic and international, that can con-
front our people, and Democracy is APP
pealiug every day with more force to the
sympathies of the people, and it will
gather strength until it shall win vic
tory that will place its government upon
Democratic foundations and drive pluto
cracy back into oblivion for at least q
generation to come.
81 want Democracy of the fathers,
Democracy that shall know no difference
between individuals; Democracy that
says to the poor man, You shall have
what you earn and says to the rich
man, You shall possess what you earn
also want Democracy that will pro-
teot the little that the little man has and
protect the great amount that the
greater man has. want Democracy
that shall say to the poor man, You
shall not lay hostile hands upon that
which industry has procured and which
economy has laid away, and want
Democracy that will say to avarice,
Thus far shalt thou go and no farther
Thou shalt not eat the bread thou hast
not earned (Applause.) THAT is our
idea of the Democracy, and it is because
it is tie true idea, it is because it is the
just idea, it is because it is the righteous
idea, that it will appeal to the people
more and more, and will at last prevail"