Show JUDGE THE FUTURE BY I HIPAST THE PAST < 4r Dissection of the Men Who Are Posing as tIle Friends + of the Poor People A TREE KNOWN t BY ITS FRUITS t Folly of Awaiting For an International Inter-national Agreement The GoldbuRK Who Arc Posing1 as J the Friend of the Poor Man Wave ai 31ucH Love For the Tin Bucket i et Rrifnuta an a Hawk Has Form For-m Dove or n Snsilce Has For n Independence in 177O and J Deiumdencc In 1SOC The Issue p AOTT on iN Clean Cut and He Who Huns May Read The True Friends of the Linljorlnfr Man and Where Ie They May Be Found HORNELLSVILLE N Y Aug 29 Before a gigantic gathering of farmers zt Maple City Park near Hornejas yule this afternoon William J Bryan severely crirticised the third ticket movement and those who are taking parr in it Mr Bryan was at his best and spoke with an earnestness approaching fervor Fully 7000 people were present and the manner in which they showed their appreciation of Mr Bryans remarks re-marks gave them the title of being one of the It > MOST ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCES v the candidate has addressed since he 1 started out from Chicago after his nomination r Bryans voice was husky when he began but it soon gained strength and came strong and clear bcfore his discourse was finished He spoke as f6 ws Fellow Citizens I have not time to enter Into an elaborate discussion of t C the issues presented to the people in r this campaign but I desire to call attention at-tention to a few things which may assist as-sist you in deciding on which side you i shouild cast your influence There ana certain things which you hove a right to consider It is the object or at least it should be of the public speakers speak-ers to help their audiences to understand + under-stand the merits of disputed questions and It is one of the evidences of sincerity sin-cerity of purpose that the person discussing dis-cussing the public issues shall discuss A them plainly clearly so that every one can understand just what is said and Just what is meant when ambiguous language is used Whom t OBSCURE EXPRESSIONS ARE EMPLOYED EM-PLOYED It Is an assured fact that th person using them had something to conceal rather than to make plain The Good PJsok speaks of certain persons who iWe darkness rather than light and the Good Book gives a reason for that peculiar aJhection Do you remember what it is They love darkness raiiiier than light because their deeds are evil Yhencvcr I find darkness employed em-ployed in the discussion of a question or In tine statement of a position I am Irresistibly reminded of that Bible passage pas-sage and conclude that the person who attempts to obscure does it because be-cause he is not Tilling that other people peo-ple shall know what he believes and what he desires to accomplish When I hear a man talking about sound money without telling what he means by it I think he love darkness rather than light because his deeds axe evil < applause and when I find that our opponents are toning their arguments from people who have not namies > yani afraid there is A PURPOSE IN THE OBSCURITY > Let me call your ttention < to something some-thing which you will find at the top of the first column of the first page of the Buffalo Courier under great bighead big-head lines Ready to Unload Indian Bankers hope that Bryan will win Great Hoards of Silver they are eager to dump it by the ship load on the United Staite mints and to double its present prices Under these headlines I find the special cablegram from that great city whence comes most of the arguments of our enemies London England Hisses In the course > of an interview today a leading Indian merchant just returned from Calcutta said to meA me-A leading merchant name unknown un-known laughter American politics is just now of absorbing interest to Hindoo and Parsee bankers and financiers finan-ciers as well as to native potentates Yes my friends our American politics poli-tics is of absorbing interest to all the nations of the earth because we are c < > lng to decide to govern ourselves l C < aeers Therefore they are becoming interested Continuing the newspaper Quotation All of them possessing enormous hoards of silver eagerly desire de-sire Bryans election and the chance ti thereby afforded them to DIMP SHIPLOADS of silver bullion into the United States mint at double the present price So eager are they that I have heard a wellfounded rumor an unknown person per-son has neard a wellfounded rumor that a friend has been found to aid the Silver party by supplying campaign litei ture litciThat Mr Bryan resumed is the end of the quotation from the un J known Indian merchant and the cablegram ca-blegram adds My informant is a man of such high commercial standing stand-ing that I attach much importance to this information There said Mr Bryan comment fas jn a tone ° t fitter sarcasm is a Ji Ji r JJ c 1 correspondent who does not sign his i name telling about a man of high commercial standing whose name he does not give who quotes what a leading lead-ing merchant says whose name Is unknown un-known and who says that there is a wellfounded rumor that certain things are going to happen Laughter Laugh-ter That my friends is THE SORT OF ARGUMENT that is being spread before the American Amer-ican people Why do not these men who are giving opinions give their names so we can find out who the men are and what their opinions are worth But I am afraid that they love darkness rather than light because be-cause their deeds are evil and they dare not come out in the open light Applause I call attention to this because we can see by it what an unsubstantial un-substantial foundation is laid for the fears which they attempt to excite in the breasts of American citizens Let me give you another evidence of the lack of candor and directness that characterizes our opponents Ex Secretary Fairchild is quoted In this same paper as saying I do not see how we can do anything else than put a third ticket In the presidential arena We have practically committed ourselves our-selves to such a course We want to see the defeat of the Chicago ticket and we shall try to draw away as many voters as we can from it We feel that their defeat may be best accomplished ac-complished by a third ticket Of course we shall find no fault with those of our friends who cast a straight vote for McKInley As to who the nominee will be I have not the slightest idea Now there my friends said Mr Bryan is a party that claims to be I in favor of honest money advocating the puttng up a ticket not for the purpose I pur-pose of electing the ticket not for the purpose of voting for the ticket but for the purpose of electing another man whom they are NOT WILLING TO ENDORSE in a convention Applause I simply call your attention to the methods which we have to meet in this campaign And I ask you whether I these methods characterize a party that I is so devoted to honesty in everything I that i wants honest money and sound dollars Derisive I laughter Now 3 against a party without daring to advocate a gold standard yet declaring in favor of its maintenance mainten-ance until other nations come to our relief and a against another socalled party that advocates the nomination of a ticket not for the purpose of electing I but for the purpose of electing another an-other ticket we present a straightforward straightfor-ward emphatic declaration which is so clear that one who runs may read We demand the immediate restoration I of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid I or consent of any other nation on earth I believe you have a right to consider I I the frankness the candor with which these positions are stated when you come to decide which side is honestly striving to do that which i best for the American people te Amerc pepleI I Now if the gold standard is a good thing the Republicans ought to have declared in favor of its perpetual maintenance main-tenance I the gold standard is a good thing then the United States oughtto have it and If the gold standard I stand-ard is a bad thing then no foreign nation I na-tion should be permitted to force a I gold standard upon the people of the United States Cheers There is not in that money platform of the Republican can party a single ray of hope Are you satisfied with your condition I so why do you not keep up a gold standard I you are not satisfied with your condition are you willing to submit sub-mit to present conditions untl other people letAE tAE PITY ON US and come to our rescue Applause That my friends is the position in which we are placed in this campaign no party depending on a gold standard stand-ard and yet a great party willing to surrender the right of selfgovernment willing to vest its legislative powers in other lands and let them legislate for the United States Hisses and shouts of Never never I do not believe I that the American people will ever i consent to receive their mandates from I over the ocean A voice with a strong I Hibernian accent Johnny Bull will I never do it I Another thng my friends our opponents I op-ponents do not attack one of the OPI I planks in our platform We declare I against the issue of bonds in time of peace and against the trafficking with syndicates who hire themselves for a high price to look after our govern ment Laughter We denounce that policy Does the Republican party denounce de-nounce i No no NOT A WORD in their platform denounces it I the I Republican party succeeds will it stop that policy Voices No no How do you know it will not I Is because I every man who is interested in these syndicates every man who profits out I of the governments extremities is declaring that the Republican ticket must be elected this year to save the I country These people would not go I to the polls and try to elect the Republican Re-publican party if they thought that that party was going to stop the trafficking I traf-ficking with syndicates Applause And yet when our opponents come before the people to whom do they appeal ap-peal for votes Do any of these Republican Re-publican speakers turn to the moneychangers money-changers and appeal to them to vote the Republican ticket No I is not necessary to waste time on them To whom do they appeal To the ones they think the least likely to vote the Republican ticket They appeal to the ones where they think it will require the most persuasion to get them out They appeal especially to the laboring men They tell the laboring labor-ing man hat they are afraid that something is going to happen to him Laughter Now how can you tell whether these men who stand at the head of the gold crusade and yet do not have the courage to say gold when they talk how do you tell whether they are going to help the laboring man or not JUDGE TH FUTURE BY THE PAST We have good scriptural authority for the assurance that a tree is known by its fruits These trees have been bearing for twenty years and there has not been a thing on a single tree which a laboring man would have in his house if he could get it These men who have now become the great apostles preaching in the interest of laboring men my friends these men who stand at the head of the gold crusade are the men who have prevented pre-vented the arbitration of difficulties difficul-ties between laborers and their employers em-ployers They are the men who by the formation of great trusts have stifled completely and have driven the small competitors out of business and then preyed upon society with no one to restrain them or make them afraid Cheers Are these the men who at this late day are going to turn around and champion laws for the special benefit and protection protec-tion of the laboring man Show me a man who has tried TO break down labor 1 I ConUnued on Paso 2 i f < JUDGE THE FUTURE BY THE PAST Continued from Page 1 organizations shouts of Hang him hang him and I will show you a man who today is sweating blood for I fear som laboring man is going to have his wages cut in two Derisive lauerhter I Now my friends the policy of the enemy is o divide our forces An Irishman in the crowd Johnny Bulls I policy to Whenever there ha been an effort on thP part of the laboring man to secure any legislation in their behalf where have they found their friends They FOUND THEIR FRIENDS on farms and not in Wall street among the advocates of the gold standard Applause And now they appeal to the laboring man to come with the money changers and help them to defeat de-feat the farmer because he wants a higher price for his product They want the laboring man to believe that the coinage of silver is going to hurt him himMy friends I would rather risk the laboring man to decide what is a good thing for him than t leave his interests inter-ests in the hands of his enemies Applause Ap-plause The laboring men know that they cannot separate themselves from the tillers of the soil They know there can be no prosperity or happiness in the country until the farmer is sell ing what he produces for more than it costs him to produce it Cheers They known that a policy which decreases de-creases the number of homeowners and Increases the number of tenants curses not only the farmer but everyone every-one who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow and they know that the great toiling masses have got to stand together or if I may use one of the early jokes they have got to hang together to-gether or they will hang separately Now my friends I have suggested these things for your consideration and want to SUBMIT A FEW QUESTIONS fo you to ask your opponents when you enter into discussion with them because conversions are made through converted in you More people are envered these handtohand contests than are converted from the platform and I want you a missionaries to g into all the darkness around you and to bring converts into the lines Applause Ap-plause I a man says he is for the gold standard tell him he is a man without a party In the United States tell hh he cannot stand on any na tional platform ever written In this country I he says he is opposed to a gold standard and in favor of bimetallism bi-metallism ask him whether he thinks the best way to get bimetallism is to have a gold standard Laughter And i he is willing to have bimetallism ask him how long he is willing to wait for it I he says he needs other nations to help ask him what other nation he I I wants to help and WHAT CHANCE HE THINKS I I THERE IS of this helping and ask him whether j I I he thinks a creditor country whose i managers andwhose rulers profit by i the restoration in the value of the dollar dol-lar are very good people to expect to come to help us to stop the thing which is doing them good Ask him what reason he has to think that human hu-man nature is any different in a foreign eign country from what it is here and ask him i he knows of anybody here trying to hurt himself just to I help somebody else Laughter I he says that he does not think that this nation is large enough to have a nnan I cial policy qf Its own ask him what he thinks this nation is large enough toi have Laughter I he says that we are not able to legislate for ourselves on the greatest question that can come before the people ask him what right we had anyhow to declare our independence inde-pendence a hundred years ago More laughter I they tell you that they do not want a 53cent dollar ask them if they have got any of these dollars to sell now at 53 cents Tell them that under free coinage the dollar will be the same a i is now will be of the same weight and the same fineness I and that it will be a legal tender better bet-ter than it is today because while the I silver dollar is a legal tender today unless I un-less somebody contacts against it the new silver dollar will be a legal tender no matter if men hereafter try by law to demonetize what the demoneltize government > makes money They tell you that the government must redeem all Its obli gartions In gold Who said so No law ever said so No law is on the tatuite > books today that ever said so He went on to speak of the failure of Mexico to maintain the nominal value of the silver dollar and used substantially substan-tially the same argument as that used by him in Buffalo to the effect that the j failure furnished no argument applicable applic-able to the United States As to the objection that under free coinage money could not be coined as fast as it could be used Mr Bryan said We can make more mints and yet you find people who are frightened at a flood and then are frightened at a drouth of money I dont know any thing more pitiful than to see a man who is in mental terror lest he should have to struggle with a flood and a drouth of money at the same time Laughter They say that FREE COINAGE OF SILVER will so stimulate the production that mines will produce more than we can utilize Whenever I hear a man say that there may possibly be in the future fu-ture more silver produced than the world can utilize I am always reminded remind-ed of one thing that consoles me very much Every time i commences to rain it is possible than the rain may never stop and yet I have known it to be so dry that people have actually prayed for rain although they knew all the time that if it ever got started it might not end Applause But people peo-ple are afraid of a flood of rain because be-cause they know i has rained for 6000 years and we never have had but one deluge To be sure they talk of another an-other flood Laughter You tell me there will be a flood ofi silver I tell you it is possible but not probable I tell you we have used silver money for 6000 years and we never have had even one flood of silver all that time Laughter Laugh-ter And if the time ever comes when we have too much silver so much that we cannot use it I shall be much mistaken mis-taken I feel oh so hopeful that we will find some way of stopping the flood if we ever want to I have known some good friends who are almost afraid to g to sleep at night for fear somebody would break into the back yard and use it a a dumping place for the silver of the world Laughter A man in the crowd asked Mr Bry an to SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE TARIFF TAR-IFF Whats the use in discussing the tariff question Mr Bryan responded until we decide whether the United States has a right to legislate on any question Applause and laughter Why not submit the tariff question to the international agreement along with the money question The tariff question compared with the money question is absolutely insignificant and you cannot force the tariff question into a campaign where the people are trying to decide their financial independence of every other nation on earth Cheers I matters mat-ters not how we may differ on other questions this is going to determine the allegiance of people to party this year and if the syndicates can leave the Democratic party in order to prevent free silver I want to know why laboring labor-ing men and the farmers cannot leave the Republican party in order to destroy de-stroy the gold standard Many shouts of We will I believe that the way to make people love their government is t Q m t f not to call them abusive names when they make a just complaint but to make the government so good that i will DESERVE TH LOVE OF EVERY CITIZEN Instead of telling you that the Creator made a great many to toil and a few to ride on the back of those who toil I come to renew your faith in the love of independence which declares that all men are created equal and if ail men are created equal then no man whatever his nameor position or lot In life has a right to injure another man and that no government should enable one citizen to injure another or permit per-mit one citizen to injure another I have no come here to beg your votes but I say that when you have read my platform and understood what these policies mean to you if you then believe that through the ticket nominated at Chicago you can best serve your country serve your rights I and protect your families then I am a bidder for your votes I care not to I what party you belong but if on the other hand you believe that the election elec-tion of else is better for ton anybody beter yourselves i your-selves and for your country then it would be criminal for you to cast your votes for me THAT IS MY IDEA OF POLITICS I is not the person i is the cause for which the person stands I is not the endorsement It Is the principles I stand for certain principles and if elected I will carry them out to the best of my abilities so help me God Loud and prolonged cheering Mr and Mrs Bryan were conveyed from the fair grounds to the railroad station receiving a most enthusiastic started ovation all for along Jamestown the route and at once |