Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1896 — BRYAN’S SAYINGS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRYAN’S SAYINGS.

Extracts from the Speeches of the Democratic Candidate. “You tell me that we must have a gold standard because England has. I reply to you that we will have bimetallism and then let England have bimetallism because we have bimetallism.” “There Is no ground upon which the opposition is willing to fight this battle. They dare not declare in favor of the gold standard, because all history teaches that nothing but suffering has followed the experiment of a gold Standard.” "We have been opposed to the importation of criminals and paupers from abroad and we shall oppose the Importation of a financial system which is criminal and which makes paupers wherever it goes.” “The vote—not the bosses—ran the Chicago convention and I am proud to be the nominee of the convention which gave expression to the hope, the aspirations of the common people of the Democratic party.” “The gold used in the arts is increasing every year, and we shall reach a time—in fact, some insist that the time is already reached —when the total amount of gold produced every year will be needed for the arts, and leave no annual product to keep up with the demand for money.” “When these Republican politicians refuse to tell the American people what kind of a system 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 do know, are determined not to let anybody else know what they know." “They tell us that the election of the Chicago ticket will drive gold from this country. I want you to remember that the mere nomination of a candidate for president on a free sliver platform has been bringing gold to this country tor the last few weeks.”

“If it is desirable to have money come from abroad, then it is evident that we have not enough money here now, and if we have not enough money now it is better to let the money come out of our mountains and be our own money than to borrow from abroad and have to pay it back with interest some time.” “We are sometimes accused of using extravagant language. But we do not have to use extravagant language. Whenever we want to be very emphatic we turn back to the utterances of men like Mr. Carlisle, who are now worshiping the gold calf, and use their language, to show what emphasis was before their hearts were turned from the people to Wall street.” "I am the nominee of three conventions, but I do not appeal to the votes of any man on the ground that I am nominated by his party. I have a higher claim to your suffrages than party ties can give me. I appeal to you as the only candidate to the presidency who believes that the American people can have a financial policy of their own.” “The Republican platform adopted at St Louis declares not that the gold standard is good, but that it must be maintained. How long? Until the American people are tired if it? No, they are tired of it now. Until the people desire to get rid of it? No, they desire to get rid of it now. How long? Why, we must maintain it until foreign nations desire us to get rid of it, and will let us get rid of it." “In my judgment 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 government to which they look for that protection, and not seek to use the instrumentalities of government for their own benefit and throw the burden of supporting that government on the backs of those not able to bear it” “These assistant Republicans whose hearts are willing, but whose flesh is weak (laughter), may as well understand now that the contest in which we are engaged is not a contest for this year alone. I believe we shall win now. But whether we win now or not, we have begun a warfare against the gold standard which shall continue until the gold standard is driven from our shores back to England." “The Republican platform; declares we must maintain our present financial policy not until w 2 get tired of it, but until foreign nations get tired of It and consent for us to abandon 1. To my mind, no more Infamous proposition was ever indorsed by any pa: ty, and I cannot believe as I look into the faces of tens of thousands of free J merlcans throughout all these states |hat they are willing to trust the destinies of the people in the hands of foreigners, whom we can only reach by petition." “If anything is wrong with our laws we can ooneot them at the ballot, but

if we transfer the legislative power from Washington to Lombard street our ballots cannot reacli them, and we can simply go upon bended knees and beg for sympathy and compasslop from those who have never known sympathy or compassion. Those who are denominated as money changers have never in all the history of the human race listened 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.” “Democrats who believe in tariff reform and Republicans who believe in protection are able to get together when both recognize that the money question is superior to the tariff question. A Populist leader in this state well expressed the idea, when he said that, while he believed in Populist doctrines, yet he was willing to lay tome of them aside until he could get others. For instance, he said, while he believed in the government ownership of railroads, he did not want the government to own the railroads as long as the Rothschilds owned the government.”

“But we are notified that we cannot maintain the parity because Mexico cannot. livery man who thinks that this nation Is no greater than Mexico odght to vote the Republican ticket. It Is the only place that he will feel at home. [Applause.] This nation can do what Mexico cannot do. This nation can create a demand for silver ten times as great as any demand that can be crated in Mexico, and if there is a Republican who still doubts that this nation is greater than Mexico let him remember that the United States and Mexico together may be able to do what Mexico cannot do alone." "We apply the law of supply and demand to money. We say that the value of a dollar depends on the number of dollars and that you can raise the value of a dollar by making the dollars scarce, and we charge that our opponents are in favor of making the money scarce because they are controlled by those who want money dear. If you are in favor of dear money you ought to vote the Republican ticket. If you are in favor of making money the only thing which Is desirable to own and making property the thing that everybody wants to get rid of, you want to vote the Republican ticket, because the Republican party proposes to continue the present financial system, the object of which Is to make It more profitable to hoard money and get the Increase in the rise of the value of the dollar than to put that dollar to work employing labor and developing resources of this great country.”

HANNA: ‘‘HE DIDN’T KNOW HIS BUSINESS" —San Francisco Examiner.