The Dickinson press., 1896-09-05
BRYAN'S CREED.
The Gist Of His Long Argument In a
Few Short Para
orar1,o

6soHssSs
I believe it will be blessing to the
United States to lose five hundred mill
lions of gold.
) l believe it will be blessing to the
United States to take half the purchas-
ing power out of its five hundred millions
!of silver dollars.
/. / believe it will be blessing for the
United States to take half the purchas-
ing power out of its billion dollars worth
of paper money.
to double its value.
believe that so cents is twice us much
us 100 cents.
1 believe that the farmer will be better
off when he sells half rs much of his
produce as he, does now at the same rate.
believe the farmer will be benefited
by having to pay twice US much as he
Since hold that the farmer wonid be
better off if he sold half as much as he
does now at the same rate, it follows
THAT l hold the farmer will be still bet
ter off if he sold quarter as much as he
does now at the same rate.
Therefore, it follows that I hold it
would be better for the farmer il he sold
nothing at all, but let his produce ro: on
his farm.
l hold that the city workingman would
be better off if he earned half as much.
as he does now.
/ believe that all the widows and or
phans whose means of support is invest
ed in loans will be blessed by getting
back so cents on the dollar their bread
winners toiled for at 100 cents in the
dollar, and that they would be still bet
ter off if they had to go to the poorhouse.
l believe it would be a blessing for s.
mn mn 1or0oSfnro in 90 ir1nc hO nj rr,ho
have laid up 5000 oo,o5o nte BY toll Tat at
100 cents to the dollar to get back half
the amount Of their savings instead Of
tthe whole.
/. 1 hold that the country would be bet.
ter off if half the value of the capital
;of the 1000 national banks, amounting to
nearly $500, 900, were extinguished.
try.
i believe it would be blessing on the
states of the American union if the $780,
10000 deposited by private persons in
1000 state banks were reduced to SO
cents on the dollar or largely lost alto
gether. This would encourage thrift and
animate enterprise.
1 hold that the states would be fur.
ther blessed if half of the $3.50, ,OOO, 600
capital in state banks were shrunken to
half their debt-paying power. This
would help the farmer.
I I believe it would be a blessing to
towns If the fire insurance companies
! were so crippled that they could pay only
half the face value of risks.
| believe that it would fall like q bene.
;diction upon the holders of thirteen bill.
lion dollars worth of life insurance, on
(which they had paid 100 cents to the dol.
| liar, to learn that they can realize only
80 cents on the dollar of their policies.
\, I believe that it would be an on.
couragement to home makers to know
that the four hundred and fifty million
dollars in building association shares
Ewere to shrivel to half their value.
\: l believe that, although owners OF
silver would not permit the metal to be
lit was worth more to export than tt
coin, although coinage was free and un
limited, owners of silver are unselisf
patriots in desiring to coin unlimited sill
1 yer into dollars now when they can ge
q chance to do so at twice the worth o.
the silver ut the market price and hal
the value in the dollars to the people.
100000 invalids and the 22OOO6 widow
and orphans. on the pension roll of th
. nation to deprive them of half tn
amount paid each monthly. It will b
especially heroic for those who get alon,
now on $40 month to contrive to liy
ION SIS month.
IL believe that it is better for the Unite,
States to grade down with China an
: Mexico than up with Great Britain
Germany, France, Austria hungary
, Holland, Belgium.
III I hold that expulsion of all our gol
and contraction of half our silver an
! paper is expansion of our currency.
hold that the law of gravitation ca
be suspended by act of Congress.
H. l believe financial quicksand is roch
bottom for nation.
rl believe that the best way to build u
: n country is to destroy it.
I'll; l believe my. wife has more politica
J. sense than all the politicians in the cour
3 try. God bless both of us. Amen
h Chicago Times Herald.