Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-03
a Cal. to Citizens to Do Patriotic
Duty for Their Country
at the Polls.
THE CRISIS UPON US
The Power of the People Will Meet the
Power of Money at the
Ballot Box.
The Vigilance of Patriots Invoked to See
That Fraud and Corruption Do Not
Prevail at the Polls-The Disastrous
Consequences That Would Fol-
low NIcKinley's Election.

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80 years war which has been waged
upon bimetallism by the bond brokers
ana gold gamblers of the world.
The first victory of our enemies was
In 1873, when the congress of the United
States demonetized silver in this coun-
try without knowing. it, through the
craft of John Sherman. Within few
years after that time nearly all the
minis Of the world were closed to silver.
The friends of the double standard
have succeeded since then in forcing
the coinage of more than $500, 100000 of
legal tender silver money in this coun-
try, and have preserved $700,00O,OO0 of
legal tender silver in the circulation of
| France.
The gold standard party made an adj
vance in 1898, stopping the purchase
of silver for coinage in the United
States, and closing the mints of India
to silver. This victory for monometal-
lism resulted in arousing the masses
of the people in the United States,
and inspiring them with determina-
| ton to eNterminate the single gold
standard.
The gold power, hitherto potential
in the councils of both parties, has
been forced by the democratic masses
to relinquish it's hold upon the demo-
cratic party, and in it's desperation it
has frightened it's grasp upon the re-
publican organization.
An unbought and unpurchasable ma
| tional democratic convention gave the
friends of bimetallism champion aud
q hero in the person of William Jen-
nings Bryan, and placed him before the
voters of this country on platform
which is a new declaration of indie
pendence of foreign control.
The leading scientists and statesmen
If Europe who advocate bimetallism
have been filled with hope by these
events. They earnestly eXhort us to go
forward without waiting for an inter-
national agreement, assuring us that
no such agreement can be had until
we have acted; that when we shall
have acted, the other great nations will
follow our lead.
II the battle of November is won by
the friends of the double standard it
will restore prosperity throughout the
world;
1t will give healthful uses to capital.
which is now hidden away, fearing ;n-
vestments in anything but mortgages;
1t will curb the arrogance of the
worlds great usurers;
1t will increase the value of the
farmers products, thereby encourag-
ing greater production;
1t will enable the great railroad sys-
iems of the country to double their
business and send railroad receivers
into other fields of employment.
1t will stimulate manufactures and
give profit to capital, and labor to the
unemployed.
II will light up our homes that are
now dark, warm hearthstones that are
now cold, feed furnishing women AMI
children and clothe "the Topped and
widowed raggedness of the poor"
These things will be, because, follow
ing the election of Bryan in November,
will come the restoration of silver to
lis place as money. Gold will no longer
possess double purchasing power, while
silver is degraded to commodity. The
purchasing power of gold will fall,
while the purchasing power of silver
will rise to meet it at parity.
Dark indeed would be the future with
Mckinley elected.
The silver money we have would be
abolished us legal tender.
Gold only would be tho basis Of our
circulating medium
That medium would be changed from
greenbacks and national bank notes to
The elastic fiat" money of private
at their pleasure.
The supply of gold for coinage pun
poses is made stationary by the con-
sumption in the arts, OF the annual
product; and the increasing demand
for it, through the increase of popula-
zion and business, is the equivalent oi
constant contraction.
A fixed supply and constantly in.
creasing demand contracts the volume
of money as certainly as do fixed dc
mand and constantly decreasing sup
ply.
The monometallists of England and
Of everywhere else, except in Wall
street, admit that contraction reduces
prices of commodities, makes capital
afraid to seek investment in enter
prises, and that this condition causes
universal distress among the people.
Only the dealers in money, the
wealthy with fixed incomes, and the
FAX eaters il general, have any interest
in promoting the gold standard; an
even they are injured in the long run
because their system brings creeping
paralysis upon civilization itself, which
alone protects them in their posses
sions.
We appeal to the people of all classcs
70 enlist in this great battle under TIL.
banner of the double standard.
To the democrats we say:
| You hold the post of honor i'll The
| fight. 1t is the democratic party which
has at last emancipated itself from
the tyranny of the money power, and Is
rising to the grandeur of the occasion
Your convention was worthy to be com
pared with the continental congress fol
it's incorrupfibility and the courage il
displayed in blazing the way to Tree
dom and independence.
To the populists:
The action of the Chicago convention
went far toward redressing the wrong,
which had been done in the name O
democracy, and which had caused sc
many of you to leave the democratic
ranks, and form new political organ