The Portland daily press., 1896-08-25

| Is worth exactly as much an gold dol
lar, for the reason that the country S cred
1t 10 unlmpalred, and the government s
honor unquestioned. Should tho free
| coinage of silver take place the people
would lose their confidence ia the gov.
eminent and our money would not only
| be worthless as medium of exchange in
| any other country, but in America as
we'll. The whole contention of the silver
| men in the West. is that the fall in silve
has caused the fall in the price of wheat
and all other commodities. This is not
| true, as any one who has common sense
can readily see. The fall in silver had
nothing to do With the fall of the price
of wheat, of which the farmers of the
West complain. Wheat fell because there
was an over production, because the supply
OF the world was more than sufficient TO
fesd the stomach Of the world.
In few days more man will be here
from the West who will talk to you
about per capita. What does this mean
1t means the amount of money there is
in the country for every man, woman
and child. In 1870 there was SIP. 30 pei
capita in the United States, and We had
the most prosperous times this country
has ever seen. In 1896 there is over SIC
| per capita in the country, and we are
| having the worse times We ever knew.
| Is not something troubling US more
than the scarcity Of money then. Sup
| pose Mr.. Bryan makes us more money.
You have got to do something to get that
| money cr have something to get it with.
| He can't arrange it so you eau get some
| thing for nothing. That Is contrary to
all reason and common sense. Flood the
country with money and it will do US no
good unless you have some way OF get
ting more Of it than yon have now.
Thoy tell us that things are cheaper
now than they were during the Repub-
lioan administration. What use ia it to
you? You haven't anything to buy things
with, and it does you no good. What is
the use Of having prices so per cent low
er If you have 100 per cent less money
than you had under Republican rulei
1t Is not the lack of money that ails this
country it is the lack of Republioanism.
There are too many Democrats here for
the United States to be prosperous. Con-
slider that during the four years Of Dem
ocratio mlsrule it has cost this country
| more in depreciated values than the civil
war cost. There have been over H. COZ
suicides in the United Suites during
Clevelands' administration, aud l tell
you the most of these were discouraged
| men who found it impossible to earn
enough money to keep their families
from starving under Democratic free
trade. Who was 1t that nominated Bryan
the originator of the greenback craze OF
few years ago. The grsenbaoksrs hate
silver but are fighting from bshind Its
breastworks intending to plunge this
country into bankruptcy and dishonor
| and then when revolution causes rivers
OF blood to be she'd, the greenbackers,
headed by Gen. Weaver, will rush forth
and proclaim fat money worth nothing,
and with nothing behind it to redeem it.
Then all the armies in the world cannot
prevent bloodshsd and carnage. What
did tho Democrats promise you in 1882
It was FREQ trade and you got no TRADE
at all. Why, out West, before Cleveland
was inaugurated, sheep raising ranked
| among the seven great industries. To-
day it is ruined and hundreds of men
have lost all their savings of years So
that We may say that where the West
may still be called wild.iJ cannot now be
called woolly. Tonight there arc millions
of men who are ready to lay down their
lives before these populists and anar
chists shall drag tho folds of our flag
through the dust of Republication or
trample it in the mire of dishonor