The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-10-05
- Rryan On 20 sllrsr.

The following extract from speech Of
Congressman Bryan, ofNehraska who is
now a candidate for United States soma
tor from that state, is an able presenta-
tion of the free silver side of the ease and |
VIII be endorsed by many Of the readers
OF the Echo.
q regard the money question as the
question now Of greatest Importance.
Between now and 1896 the people VIII
be continually studying this question.
While the tariff question is now mere ina
portant than it was four wears ago. yet
the money question has grown mp beside
il until 1t has become much greater. The
valne of a dollar depends upon the num-
her Of dollars. "A boy ten. wears old knows
why corn is high this fan. The principle
applies "a money also. We have in the
world 5000. O00, 600 of dollars Of gold ana
silver. If tomorrow mine was disc0v-
cred from which could be taken as mlnoh
more gold and silver, and it wena taken to
minis and coined. making sS.Oo0. 100000
more, doubling the supply of money snd-
denly, yoll know what the result would
be. 1t is impossible TO make dollar
which Is the same Yesterday, to-day
and forever. An honest dollar wauld
be the dollar which would buy the same
value in goods. from one years end
to another, century in and century aut.
Can it be done A bank will issun mon
ey when It nays 10 issne money. The
hank is human its selfish. It's run On
| that priuefple. Yoa npst have \ currency
controlled in volume by natural laws or
! by human laws. You can't aenspd uDon
either TO Issue the proper amount Of mon
ey each wear. 1 know of no way of get
ting an absolutely honest dollar. re-
gard the metallic dollar based upon the
value of rol1g and silver. as the nearest
approach to it. The variation IN the
volume Of currency is small. The Reople
who talk Of danger are the ones who
have tried to engraft danger upon the
metallic system. When Won stt0npt to
control the volume of money bv levisla-
tian Won attempt 20 control the palns Of
{ the dollar ~ legislation. believe IN
the metallic standard. When DerSon
wants ms To Accept the single gold stand
ard he must be able TO show rs that
theFe Is gold enongh. We must have
/ bofl, Sold and SILVER mousx. l,eransa Il
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q acmsna sRnnoss this caputry decided
that II wanted i Oo0 600 horses Of Ger
tain size for cavalry Uouldp,t that Al
once create a demand and inernase thu
nrice Of horses Isn't II the same v,v
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ls7s there were .epov-b vovrrnp,ents n
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