Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 26, 1896, Page 3

—— ey a BRYAN IN RICAMOND THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE ON THE MOVE IN THE SOUTH. , After Speaking at Several Points in Neeth Carolina and Virginia, Mr. Bryan Arrives at Richmond and Is Given an Enthusiastic Recep- tion—He Speaks to an Audience Which Packs the Auditorium, Richmond, Ya, Sept. 18.—Willlam J. Bryan arrived at Goldsboro, N. C., at 11:30 ast night, where the private car he Is traveling in was sidetracked until 9 o'clock this morning, at which hour he delivered an address from a platform to a large crowd which had been waiting since early morning. He said: “The Chicago platform contained a plank expressing a desire for an income tax, not saying that we are going to ignore the de- cision of the supreme court, but that an income tax should be retained and enforced, so far as the decision of the court would permit, and that we would abide by the principle till a future court, exercising the same right to reverse the decision recently given that the present court exercised in overthrowing the precedent of a hundred years, should go back to the doctrine we used to have and declare that under the con- stitution, it 1s possible to make those who have large incomes to give a share to the expenses of the government. In my judg- ment the income tax is just. It is not war upon property but it is a demand that those who have property and who demand the protection of that property by federal laws should be willing to support the gov- ernment to which they look for that pro- tection, and not seek to use the instrumen- talities of government for their own benefit and then throw the burden of supporting that government upon the backs of those not able to bear it. The three parties which have joined iz my nomination, agree that while there are other questions before the country aside from the money ques- tion, yet the money question rises para- mount to them all, and must be settled first. Other questions can wait, the money question cannot. It has been forced upon public attention; it has been brought before the people, and we have to decide whether we shall continue the present financial sys- tem wherein a few men have undertaken to run the government, or shall put the financial policy of the American people in | the hands of the American people to be framed by them and for them from now on.’ Not a day passes that I do not meet Re- Fublicans whe tell me they voted for Abrahfm Lincoln and voted the Republican ticket ever since, bit they found more of the Republicanism of early days in the Democratic platform than they can find in the Republican platform of this year. ‘They say there is more there to give them hope of the maintenance of free institutions than they can find in the Republican plat- form. ‘They are not willing to trust forelgn nations to do for the American people what the Republican party refuses to do. If anything is wrong with our laws we ean correct them at the ballot, but if we transfer the legislative power from Wash- dugton to Lombard street cur ballots cannot reach them and we simply go on bended knee and beg for sympathy and compas- sion from those who have never known or compassion. Those who are ated as money changers have never in all the history of the human race list- ened to anything but force. ‘They have no heart. They cannot feel. They know nothing but greed and avarice, which have no conscience to which you can appeal. When these Republican politicians refuse to tell the American people what kind of as em they would have they must not expect the American people to put their financial affairs in the hands of those who do not know what ought to be done; or, if they know, are determined not to let any- body else know what they know. There is no ground upon which the opposition is willing fight this battle. They dare not decla in favor of the gold standard beccuse all history teaches that nothing but serving has followed the experiment of a gold s d. We sometimes accused of using ex- trava nt language, but we do not have to use extravagant language. Whenever we want to be very emphatic we turn back the utterances of men like M rlisle,. who are now — wor- shiping the golden calf, and use their language to y what emphasis was be- fore their h were turned from the people to Wall street. If we have the universal gold standard it means that the annual supply of money given to all the people of the world must be drawn from our gold mines each year, and not all of that nts, because the great bulk used in the arts, The gold used increasing every year and ch a time, in fact, some insist time !s already reached, when can go to the r of it i the total amount of old produced every year will be necded for the arts and leave ne annual output to keep up with the de- mand for money. “Our opponents talk as If we could get along with le: and less money as the years go by. Some of them have such con- fidence in the substitutes for money that they believe the time will soon come when we will need no money at all, They remind me of the man who thought a fish could be made to live without water. He took a herring and put it into a pail of salt water, and gradually took out the salt water and put in fresh water until the water was almost entirely fresh. But the change was made so gradually that the fish did not notice it and kept on living. And then he began to take the fresh water a little each day and did it so gradually that finally it was all gone. Yet the fish had not been able to detect the d oase, Then he took the fish out of a j d put it into a bird cago and fed it like a bird, but one day when he was gone his attendant thought the fish was not doing well and he put a saucer of water in the cage that the fish might moisten its food. When the man came back, behold, the fish had got his head fn the watcr and drowned because it was not used to it “My opponents think you can gradually ute something else for money and do » gradually that after awhile people ot know what to do with money bad it. But, my friends, it won't 1 by the ever-present a Mr. Bryan to the Mount, N. C., and crowd as. follows: engaged in a campaign w the line betweeh the producérs and those who, instead of pro- aged in conqen' changing the w th Those ayed on the stion have been va tice in this mornin In that some one has de: between those one who make and these who is one expre: . It is inly a question between who produce wealth and exchange it for money "ho are attempting to concen- of the world in order to the rise in the value of a $ y we are tying lass, but ci 'y to enable th of this countr, > of that wealth a a burglar enters your your family to help him out it is rot chold on the) are down the ler to drive 's money, ft 1s not fair to say we are arraying cass against class.” Virginia was invaded by the Bryan party at Emporia and there the nominee told the people he was to meet the citizens of the state in which his father was born, At Petersburg the public square was filled by an expectant audience. Mr. Bryan spoke about five minutes saying in part: “The Democratic party has written its platform. The Democratic voters in convention as- sembled had a right to write the platform and any man who did not like the platform can get out of the party and call himself something else."” Bryan at Richmond. Bryan's reception at the Auditorium In Richmond to-night was enthusiastic. The Auditorium was packed to the doors and from floor to gallery when the Democratic nominee arrived there at 8:45. Ten minutes elupsed before the cheering that followed Mr. Bryan's entrance ceased and there was another outburst when he was pre- sented by Senator Daniel. There was much disorder during Mr. Bryan’s delivery, but he managed to make himself heard to nearly everybcdy. ©n the conclusion of the Audi- torium speech be addressed a great throng from the balcony of the Jefferson hotel, where he is stopping. His speech here was short and on the general lines pursued by him in his other speeches. At the Audi- torium speech Mr. Bryan said: “{ am not here as a campaigner. I am | simply passing through the state because I would never have come to Virginia with any thought that my presence here was neces to secure the electoral vote of this e. Iam the nominee of three con- ventions, but 1 do not appeal to the yote of any man on the ground that I am nominated by Dis party. T ‘have # higher claim to your suffrages than party tles can give me. I appeal to you as the only ean- didate to the presidency who believes that the American people can have a financial policy of their own. If there is a man who respects party regula he cannot complain of the manner of my nomination. The Democratic convention which met at | | Chicago represented the voters of the Dem- cratic party more truly, more completely than any convention which has been held in recent years. “I do not a single Democr: for my election, if in his heart he believes that my election would injure his country. | To mea party is but a means to the cnd, And I shall not feel unkindly toward any Democrat who honestly and conscientiously puts his country above his party and votes against me if he believes that the pilicy for which I stand would bring injury to our common country. But, my friends, I | want the man who leaves the Democratic party to find his reason in his head or his heart, and not in his pocketbook. How can you tell whether a man is honest when he , tells you that the election of the Chicago | i 1 will | to work ticket would injure this country? give you a to tell. Any man who thinks that my election would injure this | prove it in just one way and voting for the Republican candi- date to make sure of my defeat. Don’t! tell us that your conscience would permit you to vote the Democratic ticket and then vote for a bolting ticket.” { Ve are engaged in a great struggle, one! test struggles in which the peo- ple of this country were ever engaged in a time of peace. It is a struggle between Democracy on the one side and plutocracy on the other, and there is no middle ground for any man to stand upon. They who aro not for us are against us. We would have more respect for them than if they were honest enough to go where they belong. | Now, as I have said, we appeal to no man to go contrar,; to his judgment and con- science. But I want to warn you who are contemplating desertion from the Demo-, cratic party at this time, that the man who, in the face of such an enemy, either goes to the rear or is found in secret conference with the enemy, is a traitor upon whom the brand shall be placed sud he sha‘) not come back again. Those assistant Republicans whose hearts are willing, but whose flesh 1s weak, may as well understand now that the contest with which we are engaged is not a contest for this year alone. I believe we shail win now. But, whether we win now or not, we have begun a warfare | against the gold standard which shall con- | + cue until the gold standard is driven from oir shores, back to England. We have’ been opposed to the importation of crimi- nals and paupers from abroad and we shall oppose the importation of a financial sys- tem which is erimina: end which makes paupers wherever it goes “We are In favor of the immediate restor- ' ation of the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We are in favor of it because bimetallism is needed to give to the people a sufficient volume of standard money to keep pace with the popu- lation and business. The treasury reports show a shrinkage of more than one hundred and fifty million dollars in the currency of the people within the last two years. The Republican party does not propose any plan by which the volume of currency shall be replenished from time to time as the people need money. They simply desire the people | to turn over our financial system to a few syndicates who can profit by the extreml- ties of the government—extremities which those syndicates have done more to create than any other cause.” “We Miss Hobart an Actress, Washington, Sept. 19.— Margot Hobart, a niece of Hon. t A. Ho- president, made her debut last night ; with FE. Blaney’s “A Boy Wanted” company, playing at the Grand opera hous ve. The house was crowded. Miss Hobart had a small part assigned her. A Young Hunter Shot. Tomah, W. 3ernie Daley, about 20 . and a resident of this ¢ identally shot himself while hunting to-d A dvep hole was torn in his shoulder by the charge from a shotgun. He lies in a very critical condition. e Alimony. , Sept. 19.—High Sher- | { Spiege tod piaced an attachment on all the real estate of Ratcliffe Hick to the value of $800,000. The attach. s to secure alimony in the suit ree now pending brought by Isabella Hicks, Yellow Fever in Cuba, a, Sept. 19.—According to the 1 returns the number of men now } rellow fever in th Is throughout the is! uid te y hospit The death rate is Come North. Ch Sept. 19.—During the latter rt of October Mr. Bryan will make | in Tlinois’ Indiana, Ohio. ! nigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, sand seches T Armenian refugees arrived here today on their way to the United States. Budape gress his peace socie opened here, the American ies bein vell represented. Mere Fighting in Macedonia, Athens, Sept. 19.---More conflic reporied to have occurred betw ug sh troops and the insur: Macedonia. News has been received that one hundred insu ts have be- leaghered the convent of St. Denys, in | fitting terms. The anti-Bryan Press of the East is The honest toiler is held up to ridicule of the day. The above sketches are ta being well paid for the nefarious work in mind on election day. HOW Th'EY LOVE THE FARMERS. "MY: PRESS. just now caricaturing the farmers of and pictured as a wild eyed lunatic, in ken from recent issues of gold standard they are doing. The farmers of the W A NY HERALD the West in a most disgraceful manner. capable of reasoning on the questions papers whose publishers are no doubt. est and South will keep these pictures! THE CASE IN COURT. TO BE DECIDED BY RIGHT, REA~ SON AND FACT. An Interesting Interview With the Famous Historian and Scholar, John Clark Ridpath’— The Populist-Demo- cratic Congressional Candidate. This eminent historian has been named as Fusion candidate for con- gress in the Fifth district of Indiana. He is neither a politician nor a capi- talist, but he is a man of high ability, a close student and a friend of the common people. In a recent interview he used the following language, which should be pondered well by every lover of our country and its free institutions: “According to my way of thinking cur government has been steadily drift- ing away from the people and getting into the power of special interests. The circle of government has narrowed and narrowed, till it appears to me the height of absurdity to call it any longer a government ‘of the people, for the people and by the people.’ I want to see this process completely reversed. I want to see the government restored to the people. I believe precisely what Webster and Theodore Parker and Lincoln said, viz.: ‘That our republic is, or ought to be, a government of the people, for the people and by them.’ “How can there be any harm in such a doctrine? In the name of common sense has it come to pass that patriotic citizens of the United States of Ameri- ca cannot advocate the right of the people to govern themselves? Has it come to that that we have, sure enough, a lot of self-constituted mas- ters who shall tell us what is good for us and how we shall obtain it? Are we Americans a lot of younglings who are unable to lead ourselves, but must be led rather as with a string and fed on porridge as with a spoon? “Among the methods as it seems to me by which the government is to be recovered by the people is, first of all, as the matter now stands, the restora- tion of our currency. We want our cur- rency system put back precisely where it was under the statute and constitu- tion for the first eighty-one years of our existence as a nation. Our statu- tory bimetallic system of currency was taken from us in 1873 by a process which I do not care to characterize in Now we propose to have it back again. The restoration of our silver money to the place it held before is the people’s cause, and the people in this contest are going to triumph, They are going to triumph in the open light of day under the clear gleam of light and truth. “The silver dollar was of old the unit of money and account in the United States. That dollar to this hour has never been altered by the fraction of a grain in the quantity of pure metal composing it. Every other coin, whether gold or silver, has been alter- ed time and again, but the silver unit never. The silver dollar was the dol- lar of the law and the contract. It is to this day the dollar of the law and the contract. To the silver unit all | the rest, both gold and silver, have | been conformed from our first statute of 1792 to that ill-starred date when the conspiracy against our old consti- tutional order first declared itself. The gold eagle of the original statute, and of all subsequent statutes, was not made to be $10, but to be of the value of $10. The half-eagle was not made to be $5, but to be of the value of $5. The quarter-eagle was of the value of $2.50 and the double eagle was of the value of $20. Even the gold dollar of 1849, marvelous to relate, was not $1, but was made to be of the value of $1. The subsidiary coins were all fractions of the dollar and the silver dollar was of silyer only. “Not a single dicticnary or encyclo- pedia in the English language before the year 1878 ever defined dollar in any terms other than of silver. In that year the administrators of the estate of Noah Webster, deceased, cut the plates of our standard lexicon and inserted a new definition that had become neces- sary in order to throw a penumbra of DEFECTIVE PAGE rationality around the international gold conspiracy. “The way to obviate the further dis- astrous effects of this international gold conspiracy is te stop it. We want the system of bimetallism restored in this country. Bimetallism means the option of the debtor to pay in either of two statutory coins, according to his own convenience and according to the contract. This option freely granted, the commercial parity of the two money metals will be speedily reached, nor can such parity ever be seriously disturbed again as long as the unim- peded option of the debtor to pay in one metal or the other shall be conced- ed by law and the terms of the con- tract. The present commercial dispari- ty of the two metals has been produced by the pernicious legislation which be- gan twenty-three years ago and which has not yet satisfied itself with the monstrous results that have flamed therefrom, “What do we propose to accomplish by free coinage? We propose to do just this thing, viz. To break the corner on gold and reduce the exaggerated purchasing power of that metal to its norma] standard. Be assured there will be no further talk of a 50-cen dollar when the commercial parity of the two money metals shall be reached. Every well-informed person must know that the present disparity of the two un- coined metals is but the index of the extent to which gold has been bulled in the markets of the world. It is not an index to the extent to which raw sil- ver has declined in its purchasing power in the markets of the world, for raw silver has not declined in its pur- chasing power as compared with the average of other commodities in any civilized market place of the whole globe. No man shall say the contrary and speak the truth. This great ques- tion is hot upon us. It can be kept back no longer. It is a tremendous econo- mic question that ought to be decided in the court of right, reason and of fact. My judgment is that the Ameri- can people, in spite of all opposition, are going to reclaim the right of trans- acting their business, and in particular of paying their debts according to a standard unit worth 100 cents to the dollar, neither more nor less, and that they will not accept the intolerable pro- gram which deglares in fact, if not in fords, that they shall henceforth transact their business and in particu- lar discharge their debts with a corn- ered gold dollar worth almost two for one.” saat mettre: It Was an Old Trick. It is possibly a fact that Mr. Bryan did not have as cordial a reception at New York as he expected, It is also undoubtedly true that many of his auditors left before his speech was finished. The reasons are too plain to need explanation. It was simply an old familiar trick that has been played from time im- memorial. It is the trick of filling a hall with a speaker’s opponents, giving him a chilly reception, and then delib- erately walking out before the speech is over. While Bryan’s friends were crowded out, his enemies were given seats. Is it any wonder that the result was a “chilly reception” and a “tired audi- ence”? But the:speech was a masterly pro- duction, all the same, and has been read with profit by millions of people. The audience at Madison Square was merely the peg upon which the speech was hung.—Joliet News. Like Benedict Arnold. Milwaukee News: The bolting gold- bug democrats claim that they are try- ing to elect McKinley as a means of saving the democratic party. Benedict Arnold claimed that he went over to the British as a means of saving the country from the disastrous effects of a war that was certain to prove a failure. The threat of the money power to precipitate a panic is evidence that the time has come when it should be snatched bald headed. Sa Eon AE TELLS HOW IT’S DONE, THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER WILL BENEFIT LABOR, Will Give Employment to the Idle on Full Time And at Good Wages— Cheap Money Means Labor — We'l!' Sweep the Country. Dear If prices of commodities are cheap they cannot be produced with dear labor. Cheap commodities mean cheap, labor. But it is said that labor in somd of the manufacturing and railroad in4 dustries of the country are as high to- | day asever. This is not true. Bu suppose it were true; it would not an- swer the question. The trades uniond | have been remarkably successful in re- sisting reduction of wages, but they, have utterly failed in keeping the peo+ ple employed, There are at least thred | millions of willing hands which ar now idle in the United States. Thosd who have employment are either work4 ing on short hours or short days in thd week, so that the aggregate paid in the manufacturing and railroad industries to labor is certainly less than one-half the amount that would be paid to labor if prices were firm, so that enterprisd could prosper. If falling prices con- tinue it is only a question of time when wages of labor must come down to correspond with other things. This is not all, One-half at least of the labor in the United States is expended Great Sales naturally result from the great merit which makes the thousands of wonderfut cures by Hoods Sarsaparilla ‘The One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1. Hood’s Pits cure all Liver Ills. 25 cents. Women Buried With Military Hon- ors. A woman known to have passed her 112th birthday recently died near Douai, France. Her name was Jose- phine Rostkowski, her maiden name having been Mazurkiewiez, and she was born at Warsaw on March 19, 1784. 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The people have borrowed money to pay taxes and other necessary ex- penses until the farms are mortgaged and tenant farmers are increasing in a geometrical ratio, and it is only a ques- tion of a short time if prices continue to fall when independent farmers must disappear, and the peasant system of Europe must be established here. We assert without fear of contradiction that labor is not receiving one-half as much in the United States to-day as it would under free coinage. We admit that an individual who has a job that will last him for life of which he can- not be deprived by his employer or by the bankruptcy of the mcern for which he works, can buy aire with his dollar than he could jf silver was re“ monetized nd prices should regafi their normal condition. But if he is a humane man, and contributes his money to the suffering people about him, he will find that what he receives will do him and his family less good than it would if the country was pros perous and the great mass of labor was employed. We know that the goldites appeal to laboring men who have a job and tell that they can buy more with their money than they could if prices were restored and the community gen- erally were allowed to prosper, but they do not call attention to the mil- lions out of employment and the grow- ing army of tramps or the bankrupt farmers, who are being driven from their homes. In skort, they fail to call attention to the fact that civilization is decaying on account of the increas- ing purchasing power of money. They do not suggest to the laborers that the fate which has befallen others will certainly overtake them, that want of employment will drive them into the ranks of the tramps or the unemployed. They do not appeal to labor in good faith. They attempt to appeal to the prejudices of the laboring men for the benefit of one hundred and fifty thou- sand millions of obligations which they hold against labor. In other words, they appeal to the laboring men to vote to increase the value of money, decrease the value of property and labor, and enslave mankind. Contrac- tion which produces falling prices if continued will bring the same result it always has. Serfdom and slavery is the inevitable fate of the American people if they do not join the forces of reform and rebel against gold- ocracy.—Silver-Knight. Wit a better understanding of the I transient nature of the many phys- nothing in the last twenty-three years. , ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant eftorts— rightly directed. 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