Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-08
BRYAN AT WASHINGTON,
HIS VIGOROUS REPLY TO MR..
CARLISLE.

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speech at Washington, on the 10th
of Septemb Der, Secretary Carlisle had
written letter to Mr.. Helm at
Louisville, KY, in which he declared
that the Government would pay out
gold dollars in exchange for silver
dollars, in other words, redeem sill
yer in gold should this be necessary
to preserve the parity of the metals.
Below we present Mr.. Bryan'sspeech
in reply to this threat of the Secre-
tary.-EDIToR.l
"Our opponents are doing as much
for us in this campaign as we are
able to do for ourselves. Laugh
ter,) OF all the public documents
recently issued, the most important
one is the letter just given to the
public, written by the Secretary of
tho Treasury, from which / desire
to quote one sentence: 1T is the
duty Of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and of all other public officials,
to execute In good faith the policy
declared by Congress- aud mark
these words, and whenever he shall
be satisfied that the silver dol
lar can't be made equal in purchas-
ing-power with the gold dollar, ex-
cept by receiving 1t In exchange for
the gold dollar, when such exchange
is demanded, it will be his duty to
adopt that course.'
want you to mark these words,
because in those words the Secretary
of the Treasury tells you that when
ever the Secretary of the Treasury
is satisfied that it is necessary, he
will commence redeeming silver dol
lars in gold. Laughter.) l call
your attention to 1t because / want
to emphasize the deceptions which
have been practiced by this admin
istration on the money question.
When this administration advised
the repeal of the Sherman law, you
were told that the repeal Of the Sher-
man law would remove the diff
Guilty, and yet, as soon as the Sher-
man law was repealed, the same au-
thority which promised relief as
soon as that law was repealed came
to Congress with the demand that
the greenbacks and Treasury notes
must be retired by an ISSUE of gold
bonds, in order to stop the drain on
the treasury gold.
The Secretary Of the Treasury in.
forms you that if the greenbacks
and Treasury notes were all retired,
so that there would not be dollar
of paper money to be presented for
gold, yet it would be his duty to
commence to redeem the silver dol
lars in gold, and to start another end
less chain that would drain the
Treasury. According to the doe
trine laid down by Mr.. Carlisle, you
cannot stop the drain upon the Treas
ury until you retire all the silver
dollars, and leave nothing but gold
in the Treasury vaults, am glad
that our opponents are thus COM
PEELED to expose to the public eye their
heartless, merciless and criminal
policy. l am glad that they have
told the public we must have gold
alone, and thus have confessed that
We are in the hands of two banking
syndicates, and must pay them what
they want.
Talk about monopolies and trusts
Here they propose to establish the
most gigantic trust-a money trust
and to LET the men who own gold
dole it out to the other 70, 900, 900 of
American citizens.
/ denounce that policy as more
cruel and heartless than would be
the domination Of any foreign
power. 1 would rather, as has been
said, put our army in the hands of a
foreign general, or our navy in com
mand of foreign admiral, than to
put the Treasury Department in the
hands of a secretary who would bar
ter 1t away to syndicate. Cheers. J
/ would resist such q financial policy
with as much earnestness as l would
an invading army. (Cheers.)
Once when Mr.. Lincoln was can
didate for Office, some one said to
him, Il hope the Lord is on your
side,' and he replied that he was
more anxious to be on the Lords
side. daughter and applause.) !
am glad that In this campaign we
have so many evidences that an
overruling Providence is on our side
and In no one instance that / know
Of is that overTuling Providence &c
distinctly and clearly manifested as
In the recent letter Of the Secretary
of the Treasury. Let me ask you {
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