Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-10-01
TO REDEEM SILVER IN GOLD.
Nr. Bryan Calls Attention 20 Cszlislsas
Latest Statement.

Ar. Bryan Calls Attention 20 Cszlislsas
Latest Statement.
Our opponents are doing as much
to do for ourselves. And Of all the pub
lie documents recently issued tho most
important one is the letter just given to
the public written by the secretary Of
the treasury, from which desire to
quote one sentence, 1T is the duty Of
the secretary of the treasury and Of all
other public officials to execute in good
faith the policy declared by congress.
And mark these words, "And when
ever be shall be satisfied that the silver
dollar cannot be kept equal in purchas-
ing power with the gold dollar except
By receiving it in exchange for the gold
dollar, when such exchange 10 demand
ed, it will be his duty to adopt that
course. -
Iwant to mark those words because
in those words the secretary of the treas
ury tells you that whenever the score
tary IL satisfied that it is necessary he
will at once redeem silver dollars in
gold. I call your attention to that, my
friends, because I want to emphasize
the deception that has been praoticed By
this administration on the money ques-
tion.
When this administration advised tho
repeal Of the Sherman law, you were
told that the repeal Of that act would
remedy the difficulty. Yet as soon -
the Sherman law was repealed the same
authority which promised relief as soon
az it was repealed came to congress with
the demand that greenbacks and treas
ury notes must be retired by an issue
of gold bonds in order to stop the drain
upon the treasury's gold. But now tho
secretary of the treasury informs you
that even if the greenba 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 (whenever, in his opinion, it
became necessary TO redeem silver dol
lars in gold and start another endless
chain and drain upon the treasury. Ao-
cording to the doctrine laid down in
Mr.. Carlisles letter you cannot stop the
drain Of gold from the treasury until
you retire all the silver dollars and sill
yer certificates and leave nothing but
gold as the money of the country.
am glad that this declaration hes
been made. I am glad that our op-
ponents are, step by step, revealing to
the public eye this heartless, merciless.
criminal policy. am glad that they
have told the public that we must have
gold alone, and then confessed to the
public that we are in the hands of two
banking syndicates and must pay them
for that gold whatever they want.
Talk about monopolies! Talk about
trusts! My friends, they propose to es-
tablish the most gigantic Of all trusts
a money trust-and let the few men who
hold the gold dole it out at such price
as they will to all the other 10000. 900
of free born American people. I de-
nounce the policy as more cruel and
heartless than political domination Of
foreign power. I would rather, as some
one has said, put our army in the hands
of foreign general or our navy IN com
mand of foreign admiral than to put
the treasury department in the hands Of
u bCCItlthlS wiz Nou1O peA tSA ~ Ss"oS w
a syndicate l would resist such finan-
cial policy with as much earnestness as
I would resist the progress of an invad-
ing army coming to attack our homes.
The Republican party offers no protec-
ton to the farmers, who constitute the
home market of the factory employees.
Er-e silver protects them against Indian
wheat and EEsyptlan cotton.