People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — ANYONE CAN SEE IT. [ARTICLE]

ANYONE CAN SEE IT.

BRYAN PREACHES THE TRUTH OF THE SILVER CAUSE. Open the Mills Without Money in the Pockets of People with Which to Buy Their Products and They Would Close Very Quickly.

• From the 187th speech made by Mr. Bryan we take the following lines: "Our opponents tell us to open the mills. What is the use of opening the mills unless people can buy what the mills produce. You make pianos and organs here, but you don’t make them to play on in the factories. You make them for people to play on in their homes. How can people buy pianos and organs unless they can sell their farm products for more than enough to pay taxes and interest on their debts? (Applause.) You can open all the factories you will, but unless you put enough money in the farmers’ pockets to buy products, you might as well close your factories. "Prosperity never came down to the people from the money changers of any country on the face of the earth. (Cheers.) Have your taxes fallen any in the last 20 years? As a rule, they are higher. If, the price of your products is cut in two, you must work twice as hard to pay the same amount of taxes as you used to. The gold standard means half time in the factories and double time on the farms to make the same, amount of money. It means half time in the factories because there is not work enough for the people to be employed full time, and it means double time on the farm to make a living. Make times a little

harder, and instead of working three days out of the week you will be glad to work two. Make them a little harder, and. instead of working two days, you will be fortunate- if you get one. Make times a little harder and the purchasing power of a dollar won’t bother you because you won’t have any dollars to purchase with. “Show me a man. who makes his money out of legislation and I will -show you a man who will stand on a street corner and abuse .people who want to have legislation for themselves. Show me a man who has made his money out of unjust laws and he will deny legislation that can be of any benefit to anybody. Show me a man engaged in unlawful business and I will show you a man who says he is opposed to mj r election for fear I won’t enforce the laws. (A voice: ‘They are afraid you will.’) That is the trouble. The very people who have been using legislation as a means of private gain are the ones who denounce anybody if he thinks the laws ought to be just. The people who used the law to strike down silver in 1873 are the ones who most bitterly denounce anybody who wants to use the law to bring silver back and put it on an equality with gold. # “There has never beeh a change in the weight of a silver dollar since the days of Washington. The silver dollar was good enough until we turned our treasury over to the financiers of Wall

street and nothing Is good enough for them.” (Great cheering.)