Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-11-06

is Gold Democrat, and in 1896 was a
sturdy supporter of his fellow towns
man, William Mckinley. This year he
is of the same way of thinking. He
was invited by the Honest Money
Democratic League of Maryland to
speak at Music hall, Baltimore, on Oct
%. His speech was humorous, but
forcible. Below are given a few of the
points he made:
was very anxious to see il Mr.. Bry-
an would say anything on the money
question in his speech here, and
could only discover one expression. He
said that it was a great crime to teach
the American people to worship gold
dollar. The next time Mr.. Bryan
comes around here l wish you would
find out, if you can, what kind of
crime it is to teach the American peo.
pie to worship AZ cents of silver.
(Great applause.)
There was another expression that
Mr.. Bryan had indulged in, in the
neighboring city of Frederick. He de-
clared that it would be his purpose, if
elected to the presidency of the United
States-which God forbid (applause)-
that he would put the same kind Of
clothes upon the big thieves that the
Republicans put upon the little
theieves. daughter and applause.) A
very proper sentiment.
In my anxiety, as a western man,
concerned about the conduct of an
other western man down in this east
ern country, l was wondering if it
were possible that Mr.. Bryan had used
that same expression over in New
York when he was being entertained
by Croker and his friends. (Great
laughter and loud and long continued
applause) hope not; that would have
been an awfully bad break, wouldn't
it? Uaughter) Just think of an in
vited guest making the cold shivers
run down the back of his host.
daughter and applause)
/ have heard Mr.. Bryan's prophe-
cies, and have one of his last and most
momentous deliveries to the people in
the campaign of 1896, which l shall
take the liberty Of reading to you:
"If Mckinley and the Republican
party are successful and put in power
for the next four years, wages will lie
decreased, hard times will come upon
us and over the land (he was talking
to the farmers them, the price of
wheat will go down, and the price of
gold will go up. Mortgages on our
homes will be foreclosed by the money
lenders, shops and-(now this hits
you)-factories will close. We will
export no goods, and will import from
foreign lands all the goods we use.
Thus will ruin want and misery be
with u.s." CLaughter.)
And of all this, how much have we
left? Naught but Bryan. CLaughter.)
There was a gentleman from Iowa,
very eloquent speaker. He said, in
speech out in my state, speaking of
Bryan's prophecies, that if old father
Noah, instead of preparing for
food, had prepared for drouth, and
had gotten up scheme of irrigation
instead of an ark, he couldn't have
missed it wider than Bryan did
daughter and applause,)
Well we thank God that Mr.. Bryan
is a false prophet (applause), and we
only trust that the American people
will be no more easily deceived by his
false prophecies this year than they
were four years ago. (Applause)
In 1878 we had a terrible financial
panic, which was followed by five
years of deep commercial and indus
trial depression; we had the same in
1893, followed also by five years of de-
preston. In 1878 fear of panic had
given way to confidence, and people
were beginning to do business and the
country woke up to the fact that the
producing establishments were not
able to supply the demand that was
rapidly developing. What was the re-
suit? Take a keg of nails, which is
just as good as anything to illustrate.
Now a keg of nails is not a very lively
cricket, and yet in 1878 in five or six
weeks time it took a jump from $1.70
to $40 per keg. Pig iron jumped 100
per cent in a short time and so every
thing in the line of manufactured pro-
duct jumped in 1878, 100, 200 and some
times $50 and 300 per cent; for what
was true of iron and steel was true of
everything.
What happened in 1898? Precisely
the same thing, Mr.. Bryan implies
that all of this rise in prices in the last
two years occurred because OF some
institutions, formed in this country