text: `` Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world , supported by the commercial interests , the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere , we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns , you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold . ''
simplified: Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world , supported by the commercial interests , the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere , we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns , you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold .