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explore our nation s past. as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. good evening and welcome to the third installment of c-span s contend series. we look at williams jennings bryant. what better way to introduce to you the man than hearing directly from him. here s a portion of the speech that he delivered at the democratic national convention back in 1896. it s commonly referred to as the cross of gold speech which led directly to his first run at the white house at the age of 36. we do not come as aggressors. our war is not a war of conflict. we are fighting into our homes, our families and prosperity. we have petitions, and our petitions have been scorned. we treaties and our treaties have been disregarded. we have begged and they have mocked when our calamity came. we beg no longer. we entreat no more. we petition no more. we defy them. we go forth confident that we shall win. the words of william jennings bryan coming to you f ....
times of william jennings brian, the three-time presidential nominee from nebraska. what better way to introduce you to the man than hearing from him. it s commonly referred to as the cross of gold speech which led to his first run for the white house at the age of 36. we do not come as aggressors. our war is not a war of conquest. we re fighting in defense of our homes, our families and prosperity. we have petitions and our petitions have been scorned. we have been treated and disregarded. we have begged and they have mocked when our calamity came. we beg no longer. we entreat no more. we defy them. we go forth confident that we shall win. we re coming to you from his home and office in the state capital of lincoln, nebraska. it s referred to as fairview. william jennings bryan and his wife moved here. we re coming to you from the first floor of his parlor. his study is below us. he did much of his writing and entertaining here in this house. we want to welcome our ....
to crucify gold would be, of course, connected to pontius pilate crucifying christ. in the same way, bryan and populists and populist minded democrats and republicans, too, thought that the american economy was being run for the interest of those who already had property or those who already had money, those who already had banks and big industries, so there s a class divide in american politics at that time. now we have a lot of anger about the economy. the anger wasn t focused on money the same way it was then. after all, remember then, every dollar people had in their pockets could be redeemed for a dollar in the federal treasury, first with gold. bryan wanted that to be redeemed in silver as well, the means a lot more dollars could have been minted and coined because there was more silver in circulation than there was gold. really a call for cheaper money, lower interest rates, and greater economic opportunity for a small business person, a farmer, a worker who want ....
here are more of the words from william jennings bryan from his famous cross of gold speech. they tell us the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. we reply great cities rest on our broad and fertile prairies, burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city of the country. they say environmentalism is good, but we cannot have it we have a gold standard because england has we will restore. and then new england has because the united states has. if they dare to come out in the open fields and attend the gold standard, the good thing, we will fight them to the utter most, standing behind us, producing masses of this nation and the world supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer the demand for gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the bow of labor this ....
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