Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
BRYAN'S CREED.
The Gist OF His Long Argument In a
Few Short Para
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Few Short Para
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I believe it will lie Il blessing to the
United States TO lose five hundred mill
| lions of gold.
J 1 believe it will be a blessing to the
| United States to take half the purchas-
/ ing power out of its five hundred millions
| 1 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.
| 1 believe that to cut a dollar in two is
| to double its value.
| 1 believe that 80 cents is twice as much
| as 100 cents.
l 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.
1 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
| better off if he sold half much as he
does at the same rate, it fellows
that l hold the farmer will be still let
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 if ha sold
nothing at all, but let his produce rot on
his farm.
1 hold that the city workingman would
be better off if he earned half as much
as he does now
L believe that all the widows and or
phans whose means of support is invest
ed in loans will be blessed by getting
back 80 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.
[ believe it would be a blessing for s.
oOo. 900 depositors in savings banks who
have laid up $1,000. 100000 by toll ut
100 cents to the dollar to get back half
the amount of their savings instead of
the whole.
1 hold that the country would be bet
ter off if half the value of the capital
of the 1000 ma tional banks. amounting to
nearly SI00.0OO.O0O were eXtinguished.
1t would help business all over the coun-
try.
1 believe it would be a blessing on the
states of the American union if the $780,
100000 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.
L hold that the states would be fur
Their blessed if half of the $780, 100000
capital in state banks were shrunken to
half their debt-paying power. This
would help the farmer.
1 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.
l believe that it would fall like bene-
diction upon the holders of thirteen bill
lion dollars worth of life insurance, on
which they had paid 100 cents to the dol
lar, to learn that they can realize only
so cents on the dollar of their policies.
l believe that it would be an en-
coura cement to home makers to know
that the four hundred and fifty million
dollars in building association shares
We're to shrivel to half their value.
l believe that, although owners of
silver would not permit the metal to be
coined into dollars for Americans when
it worth more to export than to
coin, although coinage was free and un-
limited, owners of silver are unselfish
desiring sill
yer into dollars now when they can get
chance to do so at twice the worth of
the silver at the market price and half
the value in the dollars to the people
I hold it to be a solemn duty to the
100000 invalids and the 100000 widows
and orphans. on the pension roll of the
amount paid each monthly 1t will be
especially heroic for those who get along
now on SO a month to contrive to live
on So Il month
1 believe that it is better for the United
States to grade down with China and
Mexico than up with. Great Britain,
Holland, Belgium.
/ hold that expulsion of all our gold
and contraction of half cur silver and
paper is expansion of our currency.
L hold that the law of gravita ton can
be suspended by act of Congress
l believe a financial quicksand is rock
bottom for nation.
/ believe that the best way to build up
q country is to destroy it
1 believe my wife has more political
sense than all the politicians in the coun-
try God bless both of Us. Amen
Chicago Times-Herald.
Will Have to Work for It.
After Mr. Bryan shall become presi-
dent and free coinage shall be accom-
plished the people who were eager to
establish such a conjuncture of circum-
stances will finally discover that they
are no better off than they We're before.
Not man of them will be able to get a
dollar whether worth 30 cents or .l1 her-
wise. except in the same way that
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