The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-24

ity; nothing more; nothing less. When
man gives bushel of wheat for dollar
| In gold he buys dollar in gold
and the dollar in gold buys the
wheat. Both arc commodities and a COM
modify is something that cannot be manu-
featured by law. lApplause.]
I'VE want n little sense There was a
time when this government issued green
backs. and people called them money, and
| still we were getting in debt We had
| magnificent times. But when the time
| came for payment then people said: DO
| not let us pay: let us Issue more green
backs; we had good times then: let us
keep 1t up Laughter and applause. ]
But whenever you issue your promise to
| pay the day of payment comes and when
that comes hard times come along with it,
| Here Is man who buys a farm on
credit, buys n wagon on credit, a piano
on credit, sends John and Mary to school
on credit. And all at once they say:
We want pay Why he says, gentle
| men, never had better times in tho world
than when / was giving these notes, and
l have got plenty more on hand, and IL
| you only had the philanthropy to take
| them my family can be happy still .
! Laughter and applause.l All these things
Rave to be paid. and they have to be paid
In money, and how are you going to get
your money? Primarily, you have got to
dig 1t out of the earth. Then how arc you
| going to get It? You have got to swap your
| labor, your muscle. your mind, your prop
erty for that money
Good Money Always Good.
Another thlng-good money is always
| good. Good money Is always at par never
| at a premium and never at discount
| When people buy good money with bad
| money they say the good money is at a
| premium. That is not so. The bad money
Is at a discount. That is what Is the mat
ter. tApplause.l Good money Is always at
| par. And yet we have a man running for
the presidency. on free silver platforms
llaughter] with two vice presidents, that
| says money is the creature OF law.
| well, as a man told me to-day, law Is
often the creature of money Ilaughterl
but money never was and never will be
the creature of law. If you can make
| money by law, why shouldn't we be rich?
| II hundred people should settle on an
island and form government and elect O
| legislature, they could make laws. and
II money Is the creature of law there Is
no reason why they should not be as
wealthy as Great Britain. daughter and
| applause.1 Law is inexhaustible laugh
teri. and IL you can turn it into money.
no nation has an excuse for being poor.
| Then there IS another thing. If the
| government can make money by law--and
would like to have some good Bryan man
answer the question--if the government
| can make money by law. why should the
| government collect taxes? Laughter and
applause.l
Let us be honest. Here is. a poor man
| with little yoke of cattle cultivating
40 acres of stony ground. working like a
| slave In the heat of summer, in the cold
! blasts of winter, and the government
| makes him pay so taxes, when, according
! to these men, II could issue a Sl00o00 bill
In second. Issue a bill and give the fell
| low with the cattle rest. Laughter
| Ia n nnCsihla fnr N
anything more absurd than that the gov
| eminent can create money?
Government Creates Nothing.
LET me tell you why: The government
| creates nothing. The government does not
support the people. The people have to sup
port the government. [Applause,l The eov-
| ernment Is a perpetual pauper It raises no
| corn, no wheat, digs no gold. 1t collects
| taxes-alms-and we have to support the
! government. We give a part OF what we
| create by our intelligence, by our strength,
and the government produces nothing.
never did. and never will. We cannot de-
| pend on the government for bread. We
| have to feed the government.
Withdraw our support. and where would
| the gentleman, the official be? What
| would become of your presidents and con-
! crosses, were 1t not for the taxes paid by
the people? We-and remember five
have to support the government govern
mcnt cannot support us. and the idea that
the government can create money in pol
ltics, in finance, is just as absurd Rs the
doctrine of perpetual motion Is In me-
chanics: just as idiotic as the philosophers
stone: just as absurd as the fountain OF
eternal youth [applausel; just as idiotic az
the transmutation of metals. Any man
capable of believing that money can be
created by law Is incapable of reasoning
on any subject. rplause.l
''Ah but they S. what makes gold VAL
In I'M ha 10 hns made II "A legal
tender. Again, gentlemen, you are arguing
backwards. Because 1t was valuable, the
law made IL a legal tender. Making II
legal tender did not give IL value; but being
valuable, the law made it legal tender,
recognizing its value.C AND. yet, these gen.
tlemen say that it got all its value from tho
law making It a legal tender. 1t is exactly
the other way. The legal tender law rests
on the value of the metal. Why Is gold
valuable? don't know. Why do most peo-
pie love oysters? 1 don't know. Applause
and laughter.l Why do so many people get
idiotic about election? GAppiause ] don't
know. But these are facts in human nature.
Tor some reason, or for many, people give
"A value TO gold. And that value Is recog-
nized by the law-making power. and that Is
all there Is to the legal tender act.
GLOW Can Money he Too Good?"
But, says Mr.. bryan, our money Is too
good How can money be too good? There
may not be enough of it in my nei6hborhood
there is not. ILaughter.l But how can 1t
be too good? He says: We want more
money | say Yes. We want good money,
and the more good money we have, the bet
ter There has been added to the money of
the world S225 C00,000 in gold the last year,
dug from the miserly crevices of the rocks.
Next year there will be, in all probability,
SlCO, 100, 600 more than that. We are get
ting more good money.
But, he says, We want cheap money.
Well, why? Because the money is now so
good that people hoard 1t. Consequently
lie wants to get money that nobody will
want to keep. IApplause1 Money that
everybody will be crazy to spend. II
we get that kind of money, who will take 1t?
I'm this city, many years ago, there was
an old colored man at the Grand Pacific
met him one morning, and he looked sad.
and said to him: Uncle. what is the mat
ter?' Well he said. my wife ran away
last night. Pretty good looking woman.
good deal younger than am. but she has
run on And he says: Colonel, want to
give you my idea about marriage. III man
wants to marry a woman, and have good
time, and be satisfied and secure In his
mind, he wants to marry some woman that
no other man on Gods earth would have