Bryan In Michigan

William J. Bryan reached Michigan, Oct. 14, and in twenty-four hours he had traversed the upper península, made twelve speeches and addressed 40,000 people. In this time he had traveled 435 miles, shaken hands with bluff miners and woodsmen, too numerous to count. He made five-minute speeches at Watersmeet, Iron river and isorway, half-hour speeches at Escanaba and Ishpeming and talked for an hour and fifteen minutes at Marqette. Crossing at Mackinaw on the morning of Oct. 15, Mr. Bryan went to Petoskey where he was greeted by 5,000 people including many Grand Army men in uniform. At Watersmeet Mr. Bryan said: "The money question has never been submitted to the American people as it is today, since the time of Andrew Jackson. At that time the people met and discussed and decided whether a national bank should run the country, and in this campaign they are discussing and are going to decide whether the financiers shall run this country in the interests of foreign financiers, or whether the American people shall run it themselves in their own interest. Mr. Bryan's next stop was at Florence, Wis. A portion of his speech ran: "We have been trying the gold standard for twenty years, and if there is anybody who believes that it has been a success and that we ought to maintain it still because it has been a success that person has not had much influence in national conventions, because in all the time we have had the gold standard in this country not a single party has ever declared that the single standard has been a success. (A voice - "We have not got enough money.") I find a great many of that kind. If there is anybody who has too much let me advise him to vote the Republican ticket, because you won't have too much of it for the next favor years if you do." At Iron Mountain Mr. Bryan was received by a very large crowd. He said: Evil of a Kising Dollar. "You say that a dollar rising in value every day is a good thing for the farmer, beeause when he gets a dollar it will be a good dollar. Put the emphasis on the 'when.' You say it is a good thing for the laboring man to be paid with dollars which buy a great deal. Remember that the laboring man is interested in getting a chance to work before he is interested in being paid with good dollars. He knows that the gold standard increases the number of idle men and that idle men are a menace to every man who has employment, and the laboring men understaiid this' because the laboring men of this country are demanding the opening of our mints and the restoration of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 ot 1. I would rather trust these laboring men to know what is good for them than to trust men who have spent their lives trying to destroy laboring men's organizations and who try now to speak for them." Mr. Bryan was presented at Escanaba with a badge of the national colors, Burinounted by a crown of süver. He said In part: "Hanger" of Agita tion. "No wonder the Republicans in several states have declared against agitation, my friends. It is agitation that is defeating the chances of the Republican party for success. If you could keep people from talking and thinking, it might have a chance this year. Four states declared in Republican conventions, not only that free coinage was a bad thing but that agitation was a bad thing. "I never heard a man denounce agitation without wondering how he ever got into this country and why he did not stay in a country where people do not vote. In a nation like ours there is only one way to redress grievances, to remedy wrong and that is by agitation, by public discussion, and our opponents say that they don't want agitation. I wonder how they expect to stop agitation without stopping the cause for agitation. "They are getting the eart before the horse, my friends. They say stop agitation, as if agitation was a cause. Agitation is the result of a condition and when you remedy that condition, you will stop agitation and not before. Our opponents seem to think that all they have to do is to get the heads of tbe trusts and syndicates together and let them shout in chorus 'Sto talking,' and the people will keep still. But they won't, my friends. ■'My, friends, in one sense our campaign is a defensive one. In another sense it is an aggressive campaign. It is defensive in that we are defending our homes and our fireside from an enemy as dangerous as ever attacked the welfare of the people. It is an aggressive warfare in that we demand afftrmative legislátion. It is aggressive in that we are for something and kwow what we are for and how ve are going to get it. We propose a financial system. Our opponents, without proposing, simply oppose what we propose. We ask them what they are going to do -and they say they are going to oppose us. That is all. We ask taem what they want in the way of a financial system, and they say ttey want what we don't want. "They say they want sound money. We teil you what we think will be ,t)uncl money. They teil us they want lonest money; we teil you what we 'ihink is honest money and what Is more, a more honest dollar than the gold dollar is today. "Myfriends.there are two things necessary for money, quality and quantity, It does not do you much good to have the quality if the quantity is absent. Suppose I am hungry and someone makes a speech to me and convinces me that a certain kind of food is the very best food in the world, and I should eay 'where is it?' They would answer 'Haven't got any.' I will be hungry after I heard the speech. But if he is like the average advocate of the gold standard, after he describes this good food and has told me that he had not any and I asked him what I am going to do about it, he says, 'Just have confidence that you have eaten it.' "