William Jennings Bryan's Speech Before The Ocala Platform

Although Bryan is discussing bimetallism and the Ocala Platform is discussing laws for farmers, they are in fact quite similar in their demands. Neither of the two parties wants national banks; they both would rather have smaller local banks to run the money in the country. Also they both believe income tax is a good thing and that it should not be removed. In William Jennings Bryan’s speech before the Democratic National Convention, he stated that “we are opposing the national bank” (Bryan). In the Ocala Platform, the National Alliance also stated that they opposed national banks and they wanted the creation of sub-treasuries. So even though their topics of discussion are slightly different, their positions on certain subjects are in fact