The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-19
BRYAN's CREED IN BRIEF.
)ndensed by the Times-Herald,

Condensed by the Times-Herald.
believe it will be q blessing to the
| United States to lose five hundred mil.
lion in gold. | believe 1t will be a blessing
| TO the United States to take half the
| purchasing power out of its five hundred
| millions of silver dollars. ! believe 1t will
be a blessing for the United States to
| take half the purchasing power out of Its
| billion dollars worth of paper money
| believe that to cut dollar in two is to
double its value. l believe that so cents
Is twice as much as 100 cents 1 believe
| that the farmer will be better off when
he sells half as much of his produce as
| he does now at the same rate. | believe
| the farmer will be benefited by having TO
pay twice as much as he does now for
| everything he does not raise and must
| buy.
l hold that the city workingman would
be better off II he earned half as much
| as he does now. l believe that all the
| widows and orphans whose means OF
support is invested in loans will be blessed
| by getting back 80 cents on the dollars
their bread winners toiled for at loO
| cents on the dollar. I believe it would
| be a blessing for five million depositors
| in savings banks who have laid up two
billion dollars by toll at 100 cents to the
dollar to get back half the amount OF
their savings instead of the whole.
! hold that the country would be better
| off If half the value of the capital of the
four thousand national banks, amount
| ing to nearly seven hundred million dol
| lars, We're extinguished. 1t would help
| business all over the country. l believe
1t would be a blessing on the states of the
| American union if the six hundred mil
! lion dollars deposited by private persons
| i'm four thousand state banks were re-
| duced to 80 cents on the dollar or largely
| lost altogether. This would encourage
thrift and animate enterprise. ] hold
| that the states would further be blessed
| If half the two hundred and fifty million
dollars capital in state banks were
shrunken to half their debt-paying power.
This would help the farmers. l believe
| 1t would be a blessing to towns If the fire
| insurance companies were SD crippled
| that they could pay only half the face
| value of risks. believe that it would
| fall like benediction upon the holders
of thirteen billion dollars worth of life
| insurance, on which they had paid 100
cents to the dollar to learn that they
| can realize only so cents on the dollar of
| their policies. / believe that 1t would
be an encouragement to home makers
| to know that the four hundred and fifty
million dollars in building association
shares were to shrivel to half their value.
II II
I hold it be solemn duty to the 100000
invalids and the 10000 widows and or
phans on the pension roll of the nation to
deprive them of half the amount paid
each monthly. 1t will be especially he
| roic for those who get along now on ten
dollars a month to contrive to live on
five dollars n month. l believe that 1t is
better for the United States to grade
down with China and Mexico than up
with Great Britain, Germany. France,
Austria-H Hungary. Holland, Belgium.
| hold that expulsion of all our gold and
contraction of half our silver and paper
| is expansion of our currency. ! hold that
the law of gravitation can be suspended
by act of congress. l believe financial
auicksand is rockbottom for nation.
] believe that the best way to build up
a country is to destroy it.