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Gems From Bryan

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following are extvacts from sonie of the Bryan speeches iu congress, which have been quoted a good deal by caiupaign orators. They give a fairidea of the bent of his mind, and of the sunbursts which break through his speeches. This is an appropriate time to copy them: They cali that man a statesman whose ear is tuned to catch the slightest pulsations of a pocket-book, and denounce as a demagogne any one who dares to listen to the heart-beat of humanity. The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislatiou make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is landed as a friend of a sound curreney. The man who wants the people to destroy the government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the governmeut to destroy the people is a patriot. I rnay be in error, but in rny humble jndgment, he who wonld rob man of his necessary food or pollute the springs at which he quenches his thirst, or steal away from him his accustomed rest, or condenan his . mind to the glooiny night of ignoranoe, is no more an enemy of his race than the man who, deaf to the entreaties óf the poor and blind to the snffering he wonld canse, seeks to destroy one of the money ruetals given by the Almighty to supply the needs of commerce. The line of battle is laid down. The president's letter to Gov. Northen expresses his oppositiou to the f ree and unlimited coinage of silver by this 1 try alone, üpon that issue the next congressional coutest will be fought. Are we dependent or independent as a nation? Sball we legislate for ourselves or shall we beg some foreign nation to help us provide for the finauoial wants of our owu people. You may think that yon have buriei the cause of bimetallism ;.you may gratúlate y nrselts th; r yon have laid the free cómale of silver away in a sapulcher, rewiy juada since the eleotion, and before the door ïoiled the veto stone. Bu(, -irs, if onr cause is just, as I believe it is, ycmr lubor has been iu vain ; uo t njt was ever made so strong that it uould hnprisou a righteous canse. Silver wil! yet lay aside i ts grave o'othes and its ehrond. It will yet rise, aud in Us risiug aud its reigii will bless mankind. Alexander "wept for otber worlds to conquer" af ter he had carried bis viotorions banuer throughout the then known world. Napoleon "rearraDged the map of Europe with his sword" amid the lamentation of those by whose blood he was exalted; but when these and other military héroes are forgotten and their achievements will disappear in the oycle's sweep of years, children will still lisp the name of Jefferson aud freemen will ascribe due praise to him who fllled the kueeling subject'a heart with hope aud bade him stand erect - a sovereign araong his peers.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News