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Mr. Bryan's Spescti at Nashville, Tenn. A subscriber sends us a dispatch that wus sent out generally ns a report of Mr. Bryan’s speeches in Kentucky, con taining this paragraph: The speeches were in favor of the alignment of the poor against the rich rather than in favor of free silver.” Our correspondent, Mr. W. J. Teagne, •f Greensboro, makes this comment on; the above dispatch. “I do not believe it. Can yon give any light on it in your excellent pa perT’ Happily we can “throw light” on the eoutinued misrepresentation of Demo arm cy’s foremost champion. Mr. Bryan made three or four speches in Kentucky •n his return from the Nashville Ex position, where he made an elaborate address. The speeches in Kentucky were exactly along the same line as the •ne in Nashville. We give below a synopsis of Mr. Bryan’s Nashville speech, which does not contain a syllable that •an be distorted by a fair-minded man aa being “in favor of the alignment of the poor against the rich.” We feel sure that every reader of this paper will enjoy fee speech, the full notes of which are as follows: “I want to say to yon that events are coming to our rescue, and that the plat form is stronger to-day than it was a year ago: nod I prophesy that it will bo stronger a year from now than it is now. We are not apologizing. We are not on the defensive. We are on the aggres sive. We are still pressing the battle slong those lines and our enemy of last year is furnishing ns proof that we are right. Therefore, to-night, I am going to spend my time laying down proposi tions for our opponents to meet. “In the first place I assert that onr plank in regard to arbitration is stronger sow than it was last year, and you can challenge any Republican to dispute that proposition. “But that is only one plank. We de nounced government by injunction and some said that we reflected upon the courts. We did not. We simply insist that even a judge is a. servant of the people, and the people have the right to limit the jurisdiction of their courts, as they have the right to declare that a man charged with crime shall be tried by a jury and not by a judge. “It is for the people themselves to ■ay what jurisdiction their judges shall ecercise and what shall be the methods •f trial. The difficulties growing out of the coal strike have called the atten tion of the people to the dangers that Inrk in government by injunction. "Let me call your attention to another thing: We opjH)sed the trust last year, j We denounced the trust. We insisted t that it was hostile to the genius of our, institutions. We insisted that a govern-; ment like ours must be great enough to suppress a trust organized to drive out •competition and then plundering the pub-! lie after competition had been destroyed. The opposition to trusts is stronger than it was last year, because the people have seen what it was to have the trust draw, a tariff billl in the pretended interest of; tiie nst of the people. That tariff bill,; more than any other tariff bill that has ever been drawn, was drawn by the trust; and for the trust. One of the members of Congress called attention to a recent decision of a Cennan court in which the court held that the trust was in keeping with the idea of protection, | that if you gave a tariff to a manufactur ing industry, you expected the industry to take advantage of it, and if it becomes necessary to form a trust in order to get tihe advantage of that tariff law, then ♦he trust must have been in contempla tion of those who framed the law. That is not the exact language, but if you' will road the quotation from the German •ourt you will find that he sustains our : •ontention, that it is absnrd to give a trust the protective tariff and then com-! plain that they did not mean to take : advantage of it “My friends, the tariff hill has been 1 written. Congress met. Congress did not have time to abolish government by injunction, but Congress did have time to turn over the taxing power of this nation to a syndicate of the United States. “A Republican in Nebraska was asked last Monday whether he thought the Dingley bill had anything to do with the rise in wheat. ‘Well,” said he, ‘it was at least a striking coincidence.’ Now, I don’t know whether you have anybody in this State who sees a striking co-j incidence in the rise of wheat just about! the time the Dingley hill was passed, but if there is I want to call that per-j ton’s attention to another striking co incidence. Wheat has fallen 10 cents from the highest point it reached. It was up to a dollar one day in Chicago; I think it is down to something like DO cents. It has been as low as 88 cents, and what worries me is how can the Republicans account for the fact that after the Republican party raised wheat to a dollar, it let it go down again? It is a striking coincidence. Now, if it is a good thing to have wheat at a dollar, and the Republican party put it there, in the first place, how can it excuse itself for letting it go down again? “Well, then, there is another thing that, to my mind, is a striking coincidence. Sow, the rise in wheat, unless it is fol lowed by a rise in other things, might not be a universal blessing. Take my own case, for instance. My farm is in \ corn. I have five acres near Lincoln, which I had saved. I had saved the five acres for a damping ground for the world’s silver. (Great applause.) I had some Republican friends who seemed to be afraid that if we had free coinage our country would be used as a dump ing ground for the world’s silver, and so I just saved five acres, and if I had been elected I was going to surprise my timid Republicans friends by offering it as a dumping ground for all the silver of the world—it would have held it all— so that the Republicans would not have been bothered by having it. But the election went against us, and I saw that for four years, at least, my land would not be needed for a dumping ground, and so I put it in com. But it is just my luck. I am something like the man who, after a series of misfortunes, said if it rained soup he wouldn’t have any spoon. You see, I didn’t know that Hanna had planned a famine in India. Now, my friends, I don’t speak of it ! with any feeling of sadness or disappoint ment, because I have no right to ex pect any inside information under this administration. But, as I cannot expect to get in on the ground floor when these famines are going to be scattered over the world’s surface for the benefit of the poor people, I have made up m.v mind to do what every man must do when he has to take his chances. I am going to put a part of my five acres in wheat, part in corn, a part in oats, and a part in potatoes, and then Hanna can’t have a famine anywhere but what 1 will be on top. “But let me pass to another subject. We said last year that the gold stand ard was bad and we denounced the gold standard, said it was anti-American, said it was un-American, declared war against it, and announced to the world that it I was a war which could not end until j that gold standard was driven from the 1 United States back to England. You i heard Republican speakers say that the ! gold standard was the standard of civ ilization. You heard them praise it, and yet, my friends, the first net of the Republican present administra tion was to ask for an appointment of a commission to go to Europe and try to get rid of the gold standard, which the Republicans promised last fall. “Republicans, yon think a high tariff is a good thing. Don’t you know that whenever you have a high tariff you nl-t ways have some party denouncing it?. Democrats, yon think a low tariff a good, thing. Don’t you know that whenever' you have a low tariff you generally find ( some party denouncing it? And yet we| had bi-metallism for eighty-one years, j and no party ever denounced it. That is; a record which any party can be proud j of. Ask your Republican friends what they have to say against so unanimous an indorsement of bimetallism. “But there is a harder proposition thnn that. We have abandoned bimetal lism and adopted the gold standard with out any party in the United States ask ing for it. What do you think of that? Change the financial policy of a nation i and go from a system universally com* , mended for eiglity-one years to an ex i periment, and no party asking that it be done. I affirm that the American people never adopted the gold standard. It was adopted for them by Congress. I i affirm next that Congress did not know that it was adopting the gold standard i when it did It. Why, the Speaker, ns ; Mr. Gaines has suggested, did not know . it when he signed the bill. Senators and members stated that after it was found out that they did not know that , the bill changed the monetary system of ! the nation. I “Well, now, for twenty years we have ;• had people say that it was impossible ! to get a bill through Congress contaln j ing an important provision without the knowledge of Congress. Republicans, did you know that events had robbed you of this argument that you have been making for twenty years? If any j Republican tells you that it is impossible ; to get a bill through Congress containing a provision of which Congrews is ignor i ant, you ask him who put section 22 into the Dingley bill. “Let me lay down another proposition, and, Republicans, this is the hardest of the three. We had the gold standard for twenty-three years and in all that time no political party in national con vention praised it. Wha t do you think I of that? Do you know of any other policy that was ever bad that the people endured it for twenty-three years when it had no party defending it? It is true of the gold standard. Will any ad vocate of the gold standard explain why the blessings of the gold (standard were so concealed that no party discovered those blessings for twenty-three years? My friends, this is not fiction; this is history. I want to ask your gold stand ard friends why it was that for twenty three years every party held out the promise of abandoning the gold standard?! “If you doubt that we were on the Democratic side last fall, read what some of the leading Democrats said af ter we had instructed a majority. They went to Chicago boasting that when the delegates found out how the dog-rates from New York felt about it that they would disobey their instructions —actual- ly boasted that in spite of instructions to the contrary they would still carry | the convention; but they did not do it. My friends* it is bad to have those leave us who have worked with us, but of all the Democratic conventions to leave, I would rather have any pretended Demo-1 crat leave that convention than any oth-l er convention the party ever held, be-! cause he cannot go out and say he was a Democrat. “According to the returns, seven mil lions and a little more favored the Re publican platform. But did- you ever read the Republican platform? That was not n gold standard platform, I be-j lieve it is the same as a gold standard; platform. That platform declared for! the double standard. It pledged the Republican party to do what it could to secure international bimetallism, and Mr. McKinley, in his letter of accept ance, renewed the pledge, and when he' was elected he started to carry out the pledge aud recommend the appointment of a commission. Do you mean to say that it is a victory for the gold stand ard to elect a party pledged to get rid of it? And yet, my friends, that is just what the American people did. Six and a half millions of people voted for inde -1 pendent bimetallism; seven millions for ! international bimetallism; thirteen mil j linotis and one-half people voted to con demn the gold standard after twenty three years of trial. “There was another platform vote. The bolting Democrats adopted a platform in i which they declared that the gold stand ard was good. Well, my friends, if any body wanted to vote for the gold stand • nrd there was a platform that expressed | his ideas. They nominated their ticket, ! they wont out and made their fight and they polled 132.(K) votes, or a little less than 1 per cent of the votes of the United Stares. “In that minority report you will find that the bolting Democrats declared that they were afraid of free coinage would interfere with the security of in ternational bimetallism, toward which they said every effort should be directed; so that you see at Chicago they wanted to get rid of the gold standard and they THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, OCT. 17, 1897. were opposed to free coinage for fear it would interfere with the getting rid of the gold standard. Now, Ido not know whether you have any gold standard Democrats in your town or not, but, my friends, I want a gold Democrat to an swer this question: ‘Did the gold Demo crats believe in a gold standard at Chi cago?’ If they did, they tried to prac tice a fraud upon their companions In the convention, for there they were in favor of international bimetallism. “Peter Cartwright wa<s once asked if he was sanctified, and he said, ‘Yes, in spots.’ The gold Democrat is honest in spots. He spends so much time in talking about honest money that he lias no time to be honest in his efforts to get any kind of money. Now, my friends, you cannot evade the proposition. The gold Democrat was either a fraud and pretender at Chicago or lie was a bimet allist. But I do not want to dwell longer on this phase of the subject. “Now, during the campaign some Re publicans abused me. Some papers said hard things against me. If there arc any Republicans here to-night I am go ing to convince them I am a better man thnn they gave me credit for. It is not worth while for a man to stand out on a cold night and talk to the people who went, through the fight lust fall without losing their integrity. I want somebody against me. My friends, I want to convince you that 1 ant a better man than the Republicans thought I was, and a better patriot. I was proud of tin manner in which our people bowed to the will of the majority. We did noi know just where the majority came front, but we bowed to it. But, my friends, ) am in favor of doing more than accept ing defeat gracefully. I believe it help mg them carry out every gold poliev which they proposed. I believe in bl metallism. From the bottom of in heart I want it. I am in favor of inde pendent bimetallism. I would not wait for one moment for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth to decide on the policy of our financial system. Bui it will be three years before we can get a chance to put our plans in execution, ror three years we must wait,and in the meantime I am willing to help the Repub .tcans get international bimetallism, ;f there is any possibility of securing it I know they will get the credit if they bring it, but if they bring it, they are entitled to the credit for it, aud if they bring it I shall rejoice as sincerely, as emphatically, as any Republican who favors international bimetallism. I be heve that when they try to get interna tional bimetallism, until we can put our plans in operation, we ought to help hem. I am m favor o-f helping Wolcott to try and scare those capitalists, and I am speaking twice a day to back him up He says if they don’t do something r.ght away the free silver party will wm and I say so, too. He points out that the stiver movement is growing, and I want to make it grow. Well,my friends I am so earnest In this matter, I am so anxious to have bimetallism, if the Re publican party brings it I am willing to . the Republican party a plan which they can use to secure interna tional bimetallism and get the credit for it. I will tell you what my plan is. We h«Te elections in several States this fall. Now. my plan is for all Republicans who believe in international bimetallism to join with 11s this fall to muke the vote for silver as large as possible. I want to carry every State where there is an elec tion by an overwhelming majority for free silver. Then what? The news will go across tihe ocean; Wolcott will be waiting to get the nows, and when he gets the message that everyone of these States have gone for silver, he will rush to the big financiers and will show them tihe telegram and say. ‘Didn’t I tell you so. If you don’t hurry and send dele gates to that conference the free silver party will win. You have got to have those delegates sent at once.’ I “Now, my friends, reforms come to get rid of abuses, and Teforms are in itiated and supported by the people who suffer from abuses, and every reform that has been achieved of great benefit to mankind has come in spite of and not because of the capitalist. And yet the Republican party would turn over the finances of this country—the future of our eountry and the welfare of our chil dren, not to local but to foreign finan ciers. I denounce that platform as -the most infamous one ever adopted and any man ought to blush to stand upon it. | “But enough of that. Let me call your attention to another fact that has been exploded in their argument. They said all we needed was confidence. We had an election and it went their way, and according to the headlines, they can not complain of the size of their major ity. They said confidence was restored. They said: ‘Now prosperity would come,’ and did for two months. Why, the trade papers told 11s how business was look ing up. The boom lasted nearly a month; long enough for the people to spend the money the Republicans put in circula tion on election day, and then dt dropped j again. j “Then times got worse. There were more hanks that failed within the first ! six months after confidence was re stored than there had been failures in the corresponding six months of the year before. More business houses failed in the first six’months after the restora tion of confidence than had failed during j the same period of the year previous, j Times got bad and they got worse, and then they got worse still until they got ! so had that many people concluded that I must have been elected. “But after about six months things be gan to look up. Do you know where the i first ray of hope came from? It came from the Klondike. I read yon a dispatch from London, and since the Republicans have transferred the legislative power to the hands of foreigners. London is the Some People’s Folly. Why some persons will suffer with the excruciating pangs of rheumatism, when they can be so easily cured by that greatest of pain-cures, Salvation Oil, is past human comprehension. That Salvation Oil does cure rheuma tism is evidenced by Mr. G. F. Schra der, Fierce, Neb., who says : “I liavo used Salvation Oil and think there is no liniment on earth like it. I had the rheumatism for several months and could get no relief until 1 used Sal vation Oil, two bottles of which effected a cure, and I feel as well as ever. No home should be without it.” Salvation Oil is sold everywhere for 25 cents. When dealers offer a substitute be ware, you’ll bo victimized. Insist on having the best, Salvation Oil. place whence cometh their hope; and the first ray of hope came from the discovery of gold in the British possessions at Klondike. And they rejoice, and men who had beeu silent for six months ac tually laughed on the streets. Many men who had not been able to give an ex cuse for wliat they did last fall put on spring clothes and came down town. But what right did the Republicans have to rejoice over the discovery of more gold? Didn't they tell us there was enough gold in the world? If there was enough gold, any more would lie too much. And yet the Republicans actually laughed to find out it was well to have more gold. We were not so particular about money as the Republicans were. They insisted that we had enough gold in the world and enough money in this country. We wanted more gold to be found and more silver to be found, and we had a right to rejoice in the discov ery of more gold. We insisted that more money meant more happiness, and if you doubt it, see how happy the Republicans were when there was more gold found. “Where did the next ray of hope come from? From the wheat field. What had gone up? Why, my friends, dollar wheat is on our side. We wanted dollar wheat. What the Republicans said we want is a dollar to buy more than it ever bought before. You read the pamphlets sent out to railroad sound money clubs, telling them what would be the effect on those who were working for wages to have the products rise, and yet you find them re joicing in the rise of products, and thus they find their second inspiration. Take what the Republicans said last year about having money enough and what they are now saying about the advan tage of rising dollars and what they now say about rising prices. They remind me of a man who was traveling in the moun tain by a path that was so crooked that lie often met himself coming back, (Laughter aud applause.) I want to ask you, are not the Republicans meeting themselves coming back? Why don’t j they admit it? It is because they are so! ashamed of what they said last fall that they will not recognize themselves face to face? “I submit to you that the Republicans are today answering their own argu ments. Why, I noticed the other day up in lowa a paper said to be patient, prices will rise, and so will wages. They said last year they would now. We wanted a general rise in prices and we insisted that the wages and all other things would adjust themselves to the new lev el, and yet now they are trying to get credit for the spasmodic rise in certain products, but tell the laboring man to be patient, that prices will rise, and his wages will rise, so he will not suffer any thing. Well, they are learning. It is a slow process, but they are learning. Last year was the first year that they ad mitted anything was wrong. Before that they said be contented with our lot. When we said anything was wrong, they would point to some other nation in Europe and say we were better off than they, and ought not complain. Up to last year they said be content. I believe in contentment, but I think it can be car ried too far. “But my friends, I have now stood here in this night air and kept you here, calling attention to these evidences of the fact that we are right and our opin ions are right. You tell me that the sil ver craze is going to die out; I tell you it will not die out as long ns it is being vindicated as h is now. You cannot kill n thing by proving it is right, and the Republican party is admitting now T near ly every important position we took on the money question last fall, and in stead of being ended, the money question is just being begun. Those who began last year the warfare for financial in dependence are waging it this year, and I want to warn you, my friends, that this contest is not over when we secure merely financial independence. It will go on until that doctrine of equality before the law, of equal rights to all and spe cial privileges <0 none, is inscribed upon the walls of every executive office, of every legislative hall, of every room where a court meets, from justice of the peace to the Supreme court of the United States. It means that the people who constitute this nation, those de scribed by Carlisle in 187 S as the ones who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country, can make, their wants felt in legislation, and that the non-producers of this nation shall not longer have a monopoly on the produc tion of laws. It means, my friends, bet ter government, more economic adminis tration of government, more justice in the levying of taxes; it means that this shall be a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and this government shall not perish from the earth.” Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic Cures Fever In One Day . J. O. 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