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Multitudes of Enthusiastic Silverites Meet
Him at Every Point.
A GLOWING TRIBUTE TO YANCE.
Said There Were Personal as Well as Political Rea
sons for His Visiting North Carolina.
TAR HEELS CAUSED
Asheville made great preparation for
receiving William Jennings Bryan, '
Tuesday evening, and night the clans !
began to gather from the highlands.
From every available camping-ground
in the environs of the beautiful hill
.city, camp-fires could be seen glowing
cheerfully in the crisp September air,
the .sound of the enthusing banjo was
heard, while the merry mountaineers
were gathered around it, talking Bryan
and free silver at 16-to 1 and jubilat
ing over the good times coming, after
the inauguration of the Nebradkan on
the 4th of March next. "-"
hen... the Bryan special reached
Asheville at 2:35 p. m., it was met by
the enthusiastic escort provided bythe
energetic Buncombe county' 'Demo
cratic "executive committee. The Bryan
party were ushered into carriages, and
the procession formed. A mounted
escort of ladies and gentlemen, the la
dies under the lead of Mrs. Col.; Rum
bough, led the way. ; The Bryan car
riages cutne next, containing besides
Mr. Bryan, Chairman Clement Manly,
of tijie Democratic State executive corn-
William Jennings Bryan,
Democratic Candidate for President.
mittee; Chairman Hal W.! Ayefe oi the-
Populist State committee; Chairman
Frank Carter, of 4be Buncombe coimty
Democratic executive committee. The
rest of the carriages came next and the
mounted escort of one thousand horse
men after these. Five hundred of these
horsemen came all the way from
Greene county, in east Tennessee,
bringing three days' rations.
The line of procession from the
Southern Passenger station was up
Depot 6treet to Patton avenue and
thence direct to the Battery Park. The
streets-were lined all along the way
with men, women and children, eager to
the distinguished .Nebraskan. Flags
flying from windows and porches and
the people who viewed the procession
from, house-tops and those who packed
the available standing-places along the
route kept the candidate constantly
bowing his head.
The stand from which Bryan spoke
was erected in a curve of Southside
avenue as the street bends around Mc
Dowell: HilL The side of the hill had
been a corn field, and the people
brought newspapers by the thousands
spread them upon the corn hills and
sat upon them comfortably. The erowd
for Died an exceedingly pietuesque
sight, a gVoup of color the women in
their holliday attire relieving the
denser blackness of the crowds of men
The acoustic- properties
pot were faultless.
which trended no
vara, ourveu.
itf ipeakerj
w jv m m . . ..
raves str'1 F aboB Bl ou-
tal Wvr.er tb fifl Bonn a all was
ORTH CAROLINA
HIS i
OMINATION.
nary tones of conversation at the bot-
torn of the bill. In this place 13,000
people were gathered. Some esti
mates placed the number as high as
15,000 The immense throng remind
ed one of the pictures of the multi
tude on the Oriental hillsides, which
were fed with the loaves and fishes in
the olden time. On the stand besides
the members of the Bryan party were:
Col. A. T. Davidson, Maj. W. A.
Guthrie, C. B. Watson, Locke Craig,
K; U. Garret, W. W. West, J. S. Ad
ams, Prof Eggleston, J. P. Sawyer
indeed nearly all the prominent De Hi
eratic citizens of Asheville, as well as
many ladies.
As the Bryan cavaloade came in
sight down the avenue, the crowd rose
to its feet and cheered. As the speaker
mounted the stand, as high above the
people's heads as an old-fashioned pul
pit, the crowd again rose to its feet,
cheering wildly, the ovation lasting
several minutes, and the demonstra
tion was repeated with intensified vigor
after the candidate's introduction by
Locke Craig, Esq. an elegant intro-'
Auction, by the way, eloquent, grace-
fully delivered and just of the right
length.
After the prolonged outburst of wel
come had subsided, the speaker be
gan: He said:
brtan's spee oh
I have a . reason for coming to
North Carolina which is 'personal,
aside from my interest in the electoral
vote of this State. It was the State of
Carolina which at Chicago before
Decame a oanaiaete, ueiore my own
State had taken any formal part in pre
senting my name it was the State of
North Carolina, which, by resolution,
decided to give me unanimous vote of
the North Carolina delegation in that
national convention. (Great, cheer
ing.) I appreciate the honor which
tney have been willing to do me and
therefore it gives me great pleasure to
come among these people whom they
repr saented, and what assistance I can,
if any assistance be neeeded, to secure
the electoral vote of this State for the
free coinage of silver at 16 to 1.
(Cheers.) 1 am glad the canvas of
this State opens in this county, which
was the home of one of the grandest
public given to this nation not alone
by North Carolina, but the entire
country Senior Vance. (Great ap
plause.) He whom I d
1 .H K, "
value of the other half which is in their
hands. The money-changers are pol
luting the temple of our liberties. To
your tents, oh Iareal I" (Applause.)
He foresaw the struggle in which
we are now engaged. He realized its
magnitude when many others did not.
Those words came from him as wjrds
of command. To your tents, O, Is
rael.' And the command was heeded
by the Democratic party, and they en
gaged first in a warfare within the
party to rescue that party and the party
name from the hands of those who
were using it to advance the interest
not of Democracy, but of plutocracy.
(Applause.) It was a great contest. I
venture the assertion that never before
in the history of this country did any
party have such a contest within its
ranks as that which ended at Chicago.
I venture the assertion that never be
fore in the history of this country
have the voters themselves had
so much to do with a conten
tion as did the voters of the
Democratic party with the conven
tion at Chicago. This, question was
submitted to the voters. The Demo-
ooratic idea has been that the party is
but the instrument of those who .com
pose it, and derives its power from the
will of the voters who number them
selves members of that party. Yet it
is often the case that the party machin
ery or bosses have more to do with
shaping the policy and making the
nomination than the voters themselves
l am proud to De trie nominee ot a
convention whioh represented no
machine, no bosses, but the unpur
chased suffrage of the voters of this
country (Great Applause.) A few
months ago the most sanguine Demo
crat did not believe that success this
fall was more than possible. The most
sanguine Democrat felt that four years
of gold standard administration had
destroyed almost the possibility of suc
cess. But the voters of the Democratic
party determined to make one final
fight and determined that if die the
party must, it should at least maintain
the honor of those who believed in the
right of the people to govern them
selves. (Applause.) The result is just
what it always is if people lay aside
expendiency and seek to do their duty
and accept consequences. In trying
to right the Democratic party won a
possibility of suooess whioh it never
could have hoped for if it had consult
ed expedience. (Applause. )
I, for one, said, whenever our oppo
nents would bring a pledge that the
gold standard Democrats would take,
it would be time enough to ask free
silver Democrats ke pledges.
I stated in answer Yl fca'" that
I would net suppoji resident a
man who womd in the Presidential
chair continue the present financial
policy and mortgage the United States
to English bondholders. (Applause.)
"I said it because I meant it. I may
be wrong in my judgment, because
none of as are infallible, but my judg
ment is the only judgment that can
control my conduct. (Applause.) Now
when the Secretary of the Treasury de
nounced me as a Populist and said I
said I wouldn't support the nominee.
1 replied that I did not expect him to
support the nominee if he were a free
silver man. The time came when he
was put to the test, and the only dif
ference between him and me was that
was candid enough to tell the people
I would follow my conscience, and he
tried to control a convention and then
bolted when he failed to do it . (Great
applause.) I have sent him no letter
begging his support. (Great laughter. )
The highest compliment he c&n pay is
to oppose me, because then the world
will know the secretary of the .treas
urer whom I appoint, if I am -elected,
will be as different from him as I can
find. (Great applause.)
"I do not dispute the right of any
Democrat to vote against the Chicago
ticket, if he thinks its success will im
peril the country, bnt what I ask is
that these men who have been pretend
ing to be Demoorats shall now, when
the Democratic party has been rescued
from the people's spoilers, leave the
name and not attempt to take that
name with them into disgrace. (Cries
of "right ) They call themselves
true Democrats. No true Demoorat
ever nominated one ticket for the pur
pose of voting for another. (Great
applause.)
The speaker continued in a sarcastic
vein to poke fun at the Indianapolis
crowd, calling them "assistant Repub
licans." He made his previous argu
ment that the Republican party was
really in favor of silver and bi-metal-lism
because it had declared for inter
national bi-metallism.
"Then yon will hear that under free
coinage we would be flooded with sil
ver until money would be so cheap we
would not have any use for it, and
when you have been frightened as bad
ly as you can be that way, they will
tell you this cheap money will run the
dear money out and it will take fifteen
years, with our mints running at full
capacity, to make money enough to
take the place of gold, and that will
make money so scarce that a silver dol
lar will be harder to get than a gold
dollar. (Laughter). You can't have
too little and too much all at once .
An opponent once put that proposition
to me in a debate down in Alabama.
There I was 1,500 miles from home
muwug Bnuugfrts. naa to answer
m n n T" 1 1 .
on the spur of the moment
date was almost w jrn out, the crowd
was so persistent at the depot that
they clambered into the car windows
and insisted on making Mr. Bry
an's hand. As the train pulled out
the candidate, waving his handker
chief, received another ovation.
BRYAN HONORS VAN OK.
At the special request of Mr. Bryan
the train stopped at Black Mountain,
because it had been the home of Vance.
Mr. Bryan spoke to the people assem
bled there and t! en asked to have
Gombroom the Vanoe home place
pointed out to him. At Old Fort there
was a large crowd. At Marion bonfires
and tar barrels weis burning, and 500
people were spoken to by the candi
date from the rear platform. At Mor
ganton there were 1,500 people pres
ent, many of them being ladies.
Hickory's Demonstration. ,;
It remained to little Hickory to sur
pass any demonstration in the State
po far in proportion to the size of the
town. At least 10.000 people from all
over Alexander, Burke and Caldwell
heard Mr. Bryan fpeak from a stand
erected in the que frangle near the ho
tel. The enthusiasm was great end
Mr. Bryan spoke for nearly an hout.
At Statesville Mr. Bryan spoke to
2,500 people. The speaker's stand
was a hundred yards from the train and
was decorated gailj in red, white and
blue, and two immense bouquete of
flowers were on cither Bide of the
speaker. The introduction was . done
in a neat speech of about ten words by
W. D. Turner, Esq. The speaker was
so hoarse here that utterance seemed
reallv painful.
Mooresville had a thousand people
and bonfl.es. The speaker was so
tired and voiceless that he could only
show himself to the disappointment
of all.
THE BUT AN. ESCORT.
On board the Bryan special were
Col. J. S. Carr, Clement Manly, Hal
W. Ayer, Chas. D. Mclver, Geo. S
Powell, T. J. Allison, Evangelist W
P. Fife, Maj. E. J. Hale, Marshal O
J. Carroll, P. M. Pear sail, Lee S.
Overman, B. L. Durham, Capt. S. B
Alexander, R. L. Cooper, Theo. F
Kluttz, Walter B. Henry, E. L. Shu
ford. Congressman A. C. Shuford, Jo
sephus Daniels, F. M. Simmons, Judge
A. C. Avery, Heriot Clarkson, Locke
Craig, W. D. Turner. Dr. F. E. An
dersou, R. N. Hackett, W. E. Chris
tian, O. T. Smith, Biblical Recorder,
A. Boshamer, M. O. Sherrill, W. B.
Gaither, D. M. Boyd, J. N. Long,
Spier Whitaker. Mai. Guthrie, came
"ram ...ir. mo -n tt
Hickory. At Statesville, W. O. Dowd,
H. Baruch, T. R. Robertson, Wil
Kobertson, L)t. l. W. r aison got on
board, and at Mooresville ex-Senator
Jarvi's joined the procession.
Bryan at Charlotte.
Charlotte has had her Bryan day.
He arrived in the "Queen City' last
Wednesdav nisrht. and was greeted at
the Southern passenger station by an
immense crowd of admirers. The pro
gram was not carried out as scheduled
by the committee, owing to Mr. Bryan s
request that there should not be any
demonstration on bis arrival. In spite
of his request thousands flocked to the
station to see the next President, but
the Pullman palace sleeper was side
tracked on the outskirts of the city,
where it remained "over" night. Early
Thursday morning an engine brought
the car into the station and the inevi
table crowd was there. As Mr. Bryan
appeared under personal escort of Col.
H. C. Jones, a shout arose that was
heard up town. He and his party
were escorted to the Buford Hotel,
where an elaborate breakfast was
served.
At 8:40 the escort cf honor, the Uni
form Rank Knights of Pythias, and the
Secofid Regiment band had been drawn
up in line in front of the hotel, while
the carriages waited at the Fourth
street entrance. A mighty cheer from
that side of the building announced the
coming of Mr. Bryan. The band
struck up a lively; air, the, corps of
mounted marshals oleared the Way and
the march to the ierk was begun. In
the handsomely fccorated carriage.Jtotop falling prices
drawn by four black-horses, were seat-1 nines. I mbst close as
ed Mr. Bryan anT Gov. Elias Carr,
Mayor J. us Weddington and Col.
Julian S. Carr. On arriving at the
postoffloe corner, Mr. Bryan and escort
alighted from the carriage and in sin
gle tile made their w ay slowly through
the narrow lane that had been opened
to the speaker's Stand.
Promptly at 9 o'clock Wm. J. Bryan
stepped upon the platform, escorted
by Maj. Robertson and officers of the
Uniform Rank Knights- of Pythias.
After Mr. Bryan had shaken hands
with all who were on the platform,
among whom weie Gov. Elias Cara.
Col. Jule Carr, W. It. Henry, and rep
resentative citizens of Charlotte and
the State, ands-.veral ladies. Major
Robertson stepped ro the railing fac
ing Mint Street and in a few words in
troduced Gov. Carr.
Governor Carr speke briefly, as the
crowd was clamoring for Bryan. He
said :
I have the ideasure of intro-
duciug to you today tlilliam Jennings
Bryan, the next Democratic Presi-
dent,"
The crowd itere interrupted
ud. ext President."
hi
rds by saying:
xt President, be-
re a majority oi
i). I will not
this . is Bryan s
Hp took bis
amid pro-
iration of Independence, and I
ffibat here in this cottnty it will be
lL'Jj 1 V
recogniV uecause ui your uaviug
made a L-declaration of your own.
I may nkid in other places those who
want to accejt a financial policy made
by foreign; powers; nut tne people oi
Mecklenburg c unty believe that the
United States caa make a financial pol-
icvof itsown. J (Cheers.) Pointing to
the hornets' nest;i which was suspended
near him, he said: "Here the enemy
will find a veritable hornets' nest.
I am not speak jog against any for-
w I 11 . . 1 1
eigner. liwould cT'espise any jngnsn
man, Gernjan, or a.y other foreigner,
who would! submit tee the United States
dictating a policy governing them in
their domestic relation."-
Tim Rerbblican plattnn sets forth
a policy never openly setwortn oeiore.
Thev do not advocate theV8oId stand
ard, but have pledged themlselves for a
double standard as soon as the for-
eign powers will neip tnemi- ji mey
came out boldly for a single standard
. i ... .... ti ii.
we could meet them but ttfey do not
An art
The goltl standard advocates never
made an open fight in their') lives, but
do their work after night. (Cheers.)
Thro is a great deal of) talk about
the two yard-sticks. I dti not mean
that it is mentioned in the Republican
platform biit it is beiog vised iu the
campaign. I A yard-stick measures
length and! cannot change, but, a dol
lar measures value, and uiay change.
You all know that a piecef iron is
shorter when it is at zero thalu wheb it
is red hot. So, if you had a yaru
stick that would be twice as Id ug when
it was red hot as it. was when bjt zero,
you would go to the store anil want
the merchant to measure your goode
with your ted hot yard-stick, bfit he
would step to his refrigerator andtake
out his zero yard-stick and meanure
your goodsl So, as it is necessary ft
have a yard-stick of uniform length,
it is necessary to have the dollar uni
form. At this point there were calls from
the crowds on be south side of the
stand and Mr. Bryan stepped to the
railing and repeated in a measure whet
he had just said, and added this: You
can iniike a dollar purchase a great
de d more by making them scarce and
nu the other hand make the purchasing
power less by making them plentiful.
It Gannot be disputed that the money
must keep pace with the population and
industries, i
Mr. Bryan produced some typewrit
ten manuscript aud read some extracts
from a speech of Senator Sherman,
made on June 5, 1890, in which he ad-vocatcrd-riQcavasing
the circulation as
the population increased, but now he
had foreakeb that policy and was the
leader of tie Republican party and
that portion" of the Democratic party
who aut to elect a Republican presi
dent. (Cheers.) ,
"Senator; iShermau favored increas
ing circulation- at the rate of 854,
000.000 per auuuru and according to
his policy wje should not have 250,-
000,000 more mouey in circulation
than we have now. The circulation
the 30th of June, .1894, was $1,660,
000,000 and has decreased each year
since until we now have $1,506,000,000,
notwithstanding Sherman said it should
increase.
I am not surprised to find Republi
cans on this; platform with me today
who have changed and are going to
vote the Detnoi'ratic ticket. They want
an increased circulation.
"In North Carolina the Republicans
have made more capital by denouncing
this administration before this last
platform was made than out of any
thing else, but now tby are standing
sponsors for the same idministration.
Henry Clay is the on!) candidate for
the Presidency who ever came to your
State and spoke prior toWy visit. In
a apeesh on Jan. 20th, V40, ho said
that a dimlnuation of the currency
would make hard times, md people
could not pay their debts. Have you
ever had this condition in rour life
tiiae? Cries of yes, yes !
Clay said that a diminishel currency
made purchases scarce, an that in
turn caused! falling in prices and fall1
ing prices make hard times. Yon
to mak good
there hay be
need of Bneches iu other placea. He
. .1 i IT "
here paid the late senator v ance a
glowing tribute which was greeted
by prolonged cheers.
He spoke of the last speech Vance
made in which he favored free coinage
and said: t know the people will be
true to his memory. We appeal to
the masses to support the ticket and
we know they will do it.
He closed with a few words as the
iine was up and although the feople
cried for more, he was quickly escort
ed from the stand to catch the trin.
25,000 t Greensboro.
At Greenfsboro the largest etowd
that has met Bryan was at Greens oro.
There were bout 25,000 people t iere.
The streets were jammed Thn t ot
four bands ere there and hundreds
were on horsebackr
H
S At Concord. (
At Cone 3rd fully 2,500 people met
Bryan. He! was escorted to the and
ana maue a viia jiicd.
. i . t . . ,1 ...q i
At Salisbury.
At Sahaburv a crowd of 5,00i
4o-
i .knnt !thir welcome to
in
pio cuuu.v.a -
and applauded his speech.
- At fcexington.
At Lexington Bryan wasi
l 000 mople and made an adfl
gaily decorated piatiorm
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mi
a
At Burlington.
At Burlington 1,500 people greeted
the candidate, who spoke .from the
platform about twenty feet from the
depot Lit was one of the neatest short
speeches, yet "made? He created a
laugh at the outset by saying . that it
was the general custom in presiden
tial campaigns to send 'the audiences
to the candidate, but the Dehroeratio
party, nnder these hard times brought
on by the gold standarj, had adopted
the policy of sending the candidates to
the people.
.i
At Hillsboro
At Hillsboro 409 people were briefly
addressed -from the rear platform by
Bryan. A spectacled, smart Aleck by
the name of Brown, a book-seller
there, rode a horse caparisoned in
yellow paper in front of the. car. A
Bryan escort man slipped up and
snatched all the McKinley, tapestry off
the horse, leaving the gold-bug foam
ina with race.
At Durham.
A crowd of about 4,000 greeted the
speaker at Durham. Mr. Bryan, after
his rest at Col. Carr's, was introduced
by R. B. Boone, and soon bad his
audience cheering 'wildly nnder the
spell of his oratory.
Demonstration at Kalelgh.
The demonstration at Raleigh,
which was reached at 7d0, was mag
nificent. The Bryan party reached from
the depot to the stand in Nash square
through a long line of torch lights, led
by the band. The crowd was hard to
estimate in the darkness, but it was
immense and the sea 'of faces, viewed
from the platform-seemed endless, as it
stretched away iu the darkness. It
must have been over 10,600. Floods
of. light made the platform as fight as
dayv Mt3ryauwas greeted with a
splendid ovation. He said his North
Carolina trip had been so well man
aged that he'f el t better than when , ha
first entered the State. His mention
of Vance's name was wildly cheered.
His rebuke of the Republican party's i
attempt to array ministers of the Gob
pel against the cause of free silver was i
scorching and eloqueutly severe. Re
leigh's demonstration was altogether
worthy of the capital city. ...
Bryan was gi v n an elegant supper
at the Park Hotel after he spoke.
Many ladies lined the stairways to see
him as he entered. Hal Ayer made
the speech of introduction, and a good
one.
At Selma.
Bryan snike to 4 WW people at this
point, where bonfire were burning.'
J. T. Ellington introduced him.
At Goldsboro
The Bryan speciaj rolled - into this
city -on 1 hursday night amid the boom
of an anvil salute, and a blaze of elec
tric lights. The candidate barely
showed hiniiielf ami then retired to
rest. At 10..0 o'clock Friday morn
ing the speech was made -frfem a high
stand on East and West Centre street
A solitary soldier othe Goldsboro Ri
fles stood watch'nenr-Mp. Bryan as he
spoke. With bayonetted gun at par
aderest, he stood motionless through"
out the intense and soul-stirring bursts
! of oratorv- as nseles".. aa ornamental
and as patriotic a factor as the sentinel
who perished in the freshet of ashes at
Pompeii But he did his duty. Mr.
i Bryan was so completely rested here
that his voice had r aiued much of
tne cnurcn Dell strength aud sweetness
with which it rang through the utter
most galleries of the Culisseum at Chi
cago. Gathered around the stand was
between five aud six thousand people.
At y iUori
At this beautiful din .-haded city-he
briefly addressed 2,500 people who in
tensely absorbed in the brds of the
speaker.
Farewell at Rocky Mount.
Mr Brvan and bis nartv reached
Rocky Mount, the last place at which
speaking was to be held in North Car- !
oliua, at 12:45 p. m. last Friday. He
met with a royal reception
feature that characterized 1
in
demonstration the rjrocPWnjal was
employed there. Tr?rozen carnages
and 500 horsemenescorted the candi-
n where he
HpoKu tromTrpinorm,oiuii.. . -
tra-k iiiJ?eo' stantl, directly facing the
grand stand, the latter being packed
witb 1,500 white-clad, fan-fluttering la
dies. Some 6,000 or 7,000 enthusias
tic Tar Heels heard the speech.
The representatives of thte press went
to MrVBrva'n shortly before reaching
Rocky Mouu.tnd asked him if he had
auy ltst message for the people of
North Carolina. Mr. Bryan, reclining
as usual, 'smiled and replied with
alacrity, "Yes, teli them this: I have
bad a very pleasant time iu yojur State
and while I have spoken at a numbet
of places, the trip has been so nicely
arranged that I could rest between
times and am not at all fatigued. 1
have not only enjoyed the trip but also
my association with the silver men
whom I beve met from time to time.
"I go out of the State feeling confi
dent that those who believe in free'sil
er will Una some way ol consolidate
ing the vote so that we will prest-nt a
solid front to the gold forces iu the
coming election." . ,-.
The Virginia Brvan t-pjeciul was in
waiting at the above point, audits soon
as he finished his speech the special
steamed out for Richmond, where he
addressed a large assemblage of Old
Dominion free ttilverites.
L t;rd.ittAls t.
Th rr.a.rnirlcnt cm
nes EmiHiror which Li
ared to Pn-s'ulntCiev
placed on exnibitioa
SILTKR NUGGETS.
There is no yellow streak in Mr. f
Bryan's white metal speeches..
America is about old enough and
Tig enough . and strong enough to
standalone. '
A good many gold newspapers seem
to think they can fool their readers
with 53 -cents facts.
The term "sound money" is the
most dangerous and wi
that the prolific brain of speculators
ever promulgated.
The indictment brouirht against Mn
oryan is. that he does not consider
millionaire any better thaVsdoth
American citizen.
If, as the goldbugs sayjihe fight for
sound money is in the interest of the
wage workers when were thair employ
ers aciacd itK : y, dden desire to
saenfioe another slice of their profile
to their employes?
Bryan is in favor of coining silver
without the consent of England- Mc
Kinley will coin silver if England will
allow it. Which is the American
patriot? Work for America and let
England attend to her own business.
Abundant currency made up of gold,
silver and good .paper, means activity
in every department ' of trade and
manufactures, employment for all,
living wages for the artisan, and good
prices xor tne farmer.
i Let all friends of bimetallism call a
halt to internecine strife 'and' Stand
shoulder to shoulder against the com
I mon foe that threatens destruction to
lmerican liberty, American pros
perity, American institutions!
Senator John Sherman savs that the
; free ooinage of silver would raise
I prices of farm products, but' what good
would the money do when it would
1 require so much more of m to pur
! chase anything? Why it would do
much good. every way, if there' was.
' more to pay to buy something there
would be more to pay it with and as
I' so many are in debt it would be their
very salvation.
If free coinage would enable the
savings bank to pay off their $1,350,
000,000 of deposits in 53-cent dollars
and thereby make a profit of $634,, -500,000,
why is it tAt the heads of
those banks, who ate in the business
io make money, &re so bittarly op
posed to free coinage? Don't they
want to make all that profit?
. W. J. Bryan stands for this princi
ple : America first, the world after
wards. Wm. McKinley stands for a
principle that is just the opposite. It
is this : England's grip on this coun
try, even though obtained by unfair
and secret means, must be perpetua
ted if it takes the last shingle oft the
roof of your house.
Every attempt to restore silver,
every appeal pointing out the awful
effects whioh have followed its de
monetization, ;iias been met and
.fought bask. TlTO old ery has been
time and time again raised : "If you
try it, all the gold will drift away; if
you try it, there will be a panic,"
whioh is precisely as though some
people had a man in an air chamber,
and had exhausted nearly all the air
and stood with; one hand hold of the
pump handle, saying to him: -'If you
dare to kick, we will give you two or
three strokes and take away what air
you have."
Japan's Business Boom.
In 1873, in Japan, an once of gold
bought 15$ ounces of silver. In 1893 -half
an ounce of gold buysil5$ ounces
of silver. Prices in goltt standard
countries are calculated infold, value
The Japanese manufacturer- "irT
fore, make goods mJsSrSry, send
them to tVr'- ''Itates, sell them
The sanj's1! the gold prjipe of 1873, get
I witb that 'old as much silver as he
did in 1873, take that silver to Japan
and with it purchase as much of
everything as he ever did and pay as
much debts and taxes as he ever did.
Aa gold rides still higher tv value,
compared with silver, the Japanese
can afford to make still lower and low
er gold prices for his goods, and as
the same goods,, must sell for the s&me
price in the aam,e market the Ameri
can manufacturer must come down in
his price, although his debts and taxes
do not come down. This is the secret
of the recent importations of Japanese
goods at prices that have alarmed our
manufacturers. Cumberland (Md.)
Times.
"Labor Crucified. "
' ' TheNLondon Times has the follow
ing, which laboring men, producers,
and business men should read care
fully : i -
'It the single gold standard can be
" fdrtsed upon South America and Asia,
as.' jt has been since 1873 forced on
Srth America and Europe, gold must
inevitably appreciate to at least four
times its present absurd value, or to
put it otherwise, commodities must
decline .to one fourth of the present r
price.and labor all the world over, be
craoifiwl as it was never crucified be-
days of mediaeval serfdom
slavery, ouch is the
ie money lords can force
q upon the wiioJe world,
succeed in establishing the
gigantic moneyed aristocracy
'be rien, and thek worst system
serfdom amohs the masaea
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