Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-10-03

free and they know they prospered
then.
Study the question young men aud
learn that prosperity prevailed under
free coinage once and must prevail
under it again, if at all. Learn that
under free coinage .ownspeople drove
m lies in the country TO borrow few
hundred dollars of their farmer friend.
Such were the conditions of 80 TO 80
years ago. You know it, you know
the farmer in those days was the
money lender, while today not one
farmer in a hundred can pay the
actual running expenses of his farm
with the produce he raises, much less
the interest on the mortgage which the
bank. or some townsman, lawyer,
doctor or iinancier, holds against his
place.
In view OF this changed condition
OF affairs what more argument need
any farmer, mechanic or farm hand
need to convince him of the advan-
tages TO be derived from the free
coinage of both gold and silver, which
will be the certain result of the election
of William Jennings Bryan.
But, our Republican friends friends
to the Banks and millionaire man
utacturers) will say free silver is all
right, but in order to put it on parity
with gold, in other words to make a
silver dollar and a gold dollar equal,
We must have the cooperation OF
European nations. Now, we feel
satisfied that no sensible man believes
this. We cannot think that anyone
doubts the ability of the American
people, the people of the United States
to govern this nation. Why a non.
producing nation like England should
be required TO cooperate we can moi
understand. for if she has gold and nc
other money, gold she must pay fol
our produce, which she is compelled Il
buy. She has put herself ON gold
standard, because she has gold, and il
she can keep us on this standard she
has all to gain and we have all to
lose. We do not and cannot produce
enough gold to pay interest on what
we owe, while with the free coinage OF
silver we could soon raise her mortgage
every dollar of which is payable in
either gold or silver.
This, readers, is just what the Re
publican orators proclaim reputation,
but they cannot prove the charge. Il
is false and they know it is false
You know il is false. The honest mar
is he who pays his obligations as
promised, and this is just what the
United States will do when she pay:
England's debt in silver bearing the
government stamp.
But, they say silver dollar under
free coinage will be deprecated
dollar, and will only be worth fifty
three cents. They offer no proof oi
this. They have none to offer, hui
you have proof positive that it is false
in the fact that prior to 1873, when il
was coined free il was on a parity
with gold, yes, at times it was worth
more in the market.
But they tell you this has never
happened since and never will again
Again. we say this is false and offer a:
proof of this the fact that in 1890
only six years ago, when free coinage
bill was passed by the lower House Of
Congress silver went up to S1.26 an
ounce, in ten days. This bill wa;
defeated in the Senate, the Sherman
Bill being substituted, then silver
dropped back TO its old price, about
60 cents an ounce.
This was the effect of prospective
free coinage in 1890, an advance OF
81 cents in the price of silver in about
ten days. The same will result in
1897 and with the advance in the
price of silver will go the advance in
the price of your farms, your farm
products, your horses and your cattle
DO you want to witness return OF
the prosperity of your fathers? Dc
you want to realize profitable prices
for your labor? Do you believe in
the protection of yourself, your home:
and your children? If so, vote fol-
Bryan, the only presidential nominee
named by the people. He promise:
to restore the money that made your
fathers prosperous, and it restored will
make you and your children pros
porous.
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