The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-02


 of MT. Bryan's dollars and instruct him
 to exchange them for thousand gold
 dollars. When he returns he will
 know that MT. Bryan's contention is a
 fraud. If you think his failure to
 make the exchange be due to the al-
 legged crime of 1873, reverse the test
 and send him to remonetized Mexico.
 If he does not return with two thou
 sand dollars vote for MT, Bryan. Go
 yourself to a fl ee silver country; after wards experiment in gold standard
 country, and if your eyes and ears
 serve you accurately you will have
 convicted your prophet by the words of his own mouth when he claims that
 gold will not go to premium.
 Mr. Bryan's contention is a conten-
 tion in defiance of history, nature and
 reason. His administration might as
 well try to measure the depth of the
 bottomless pit with bean pole as to try to measure the value of commo-
 dity by law.
 France tried it four hundred years
 ago and gave 1t up. We tried it less
 than five yeps ago and the govern
 ment lost two hundred million dollars III lIlC OpCl LOi WiilNll llG ptoplc
 must settle some day. And Mr. Bry-
 ans apostles in the United States sen-
 ate who contended that the govern
 ment could continue to double the
 value of silver bullion by stamping a lie under the cap of liberty behind the back of the American eagle, cost us in depreciation of values as much as it did to suppress the rebellion. Com
 merce uses more than half of all the gold and silver. If all the nations of the earth should by law open their
 hints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 the success of that law would depend entirely upon the | fiat of commerce.
 MT Forsell of the late international monetary conference stated the prob- lem correctly when he told the believ- CTS in a double standard that their pro-
 position involved the necessity of as certaining the number of gallons of a given liquid that would be required to | fill hogshead of given dimensions with no way of stopping the bung hole. But MT. Bryans contention that gold will not go to premium is for the east In the west it is whispered in the ear of the wheat grower that a gold dollar can be exchanged for two silver dollars and that as the price of | wheat is fixed in London in gold, the debt paying power of American wheat | will be doubled.
 | The republican party advises the | western mortgagor and wheat grower | to consider this promise in the halo of | their own utter selfisnness Dishones- | ty will not cure their disease The lit- l tie republic of Argentine last year put | fifty million bushels of wheat on the | London market at the cost of thirty | five cents bushel. The wheat crop of l the world has increased fifty per cent 1 faster than population in the last de- cade and so, too, with nearly all the staples: and the people of the United States consumed seventy million bush | els less of wheat in the third year of President Cleveland's clover adminis- tration than they did in the last year of reciprocity and protection.
 Reliable reports are full of figures | that point to the home market as the Gibraltar of the home, producer. By | the very laws of nature and necessity the producers and the consumers of a
 nation are mutual insurers. If A and B agree to share equally their losses by | fire, A cannot set fire to B's house and l escape fifty per cent. of the loss. MT Bryan's figures of speech in which he | tells the masses that the cities can be destroyed with impuhfty and that the wheat grower must be paid bounty on his wheat in order that mankind | may escape crucifiXion on a cross of gold are unworthy of the position he occupies, and are as weak as they are profane. If it is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, so it seems to be but step for MT. Bryan to get from the prophet to the Pharisee. The republican party believes in the
 republic and it does not believe it Is
 necessary to destroy farms or cities.
 The republican party says to the wheat l grower: The law we must all obey is the law of supply and demand. Pro- tect the wheat eater and he will send you money to irrigate your arid acres; he will furnish you with still cheaper transportation; he will invent and send you new machines whereby you
 can reduce the cost of production until you can command the markets of the world. Cruelty the wheat eater on a
 cross of silver ard the buffalo and the Indian will reclaim Nebraska.
 Now let US look into the pockets of
 MT. Bryan's toiling masses and note there the result of MT. Bryan's presto;
 change!"
 Twenty men control the silver mines They will carry fifty million dollars in bullion to the mint annually and carry home one hundred million dollars in money. The mine owner, if he is not a fool-and the platform upon which he has put his boy orator indicates that he has fair knowledge of what he wants-will invest his wealth in long time gold bearing bonds. The two per cents. of the plutocrat will be in great demand. The bloated bondholder and the silver king will trade on gold basis. They will withdraw gold from circula- ton and use it for speculating purpos- es. They will give fifty three cent dol- lars to the toiling masses and tell them to trust in God for the other for ty~seven The man who earns two dollars day in gold may get in time two dollars and half day in silver If wheat goes to a dollar bushel, he must work four days instead of two days and half for a barrel of flour. The republican party tells the wage earner that the way to protect wages is to begin with wages. MT. Bryan tells the thirsty toiler that if he will .l