Read the segment from william jennings bryan’s cross of gold speech and answer the question that follows. if they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands 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. explain the point bryan is making by using the thorns and cross metaphors to describe the gold standard.