The American guide., 1896-08-08

-Four years ago heard william J.
Bryan say to great audience In my
state: Give us free trade and the Ameri-
can workngman's wages will go up but
they went down. He said: Give US free
trade and business will BOOM but Il
busted. Applause and laughterl
Promises OF tho siiveritss
The same man to-day comes before you
with new promise. They have discaI ded
the issue Of four years ago. and they say
now: Give us free silver and the wages Of
men Will Increase; give us free silver anu
new avenues of employment will open up:
give us free silver and the business of tho
country wilt BOOM My countrymen. as
buuihess proposition on which depends
| Nout welfare and mine, in view of the
value OF their predictions of four years age.
don't you think 1t would be advisable to
ask for little collateral security in aid
| of that promise? loud applause and
cheers.l Do you think that the man who
defauted on his promise to pay at n coun-
try bank 800 note four years ago could
| make new promise to pay at the same
bank to-day without at least two or three
reputable Endorsements? lLaughter.1
They say now we have discovered
nostrum for the ills of men,. and you know.
| my countrymen, that nothing sells in the
| United States so well as patent medicine,
| or a new kind of chewing gum. Applause
| You know that nobody secures an audi
ence 30 quickly as the man upon the street
corner, who promises something for moth
Ing, and to-day the whole campaign FOR
| free silver is waged upon the promises TO
! this man and to the other man OF something,
better when free silver comes, In the
| little time have to-day will discuss-of
course, in a general way, for cannot WITH
! in these iirrits go into uetail-sone Of the
arguments that are presented, You are
asked TO sail out onto an unknown sea. TO
cut loose from all well-denncd land marks,
to 20 beyond any anchor, and to follow
| that glittering sheen that comes from over
the water that flees before the mariner as
rapidly as his PROV goes.
Prevalence of the told Standard.
"Did they say to us that this country
| has been on a gold basis since 1887 And SO
| It has, and | think there is nothing so lit
! tie understood, or so poorly understood, as
| that question. What is gold basoY
! since is7s the standard Of values under the
| laws OF this country has been the gold dol
| lar | admit It, and it Is true. Sc has the
standard for England, for France, Great
/ Britain, Germany and Italy. FOR fussid
and for all Of the great commercial and ih-
| dustrial nations of the Garth l put II
| TO YOU that this is the accumulated wisdom
Of the successful people OF TINS globe IN
every country which has been preeminent
! In lts advancement along the lines OF pros
pprity, that all Of these countries are on
a gold basis, and in all oil them the soln
dollar is the standard OF values.
/ what OF It? why, II has taught 10 the
people OF this country that gold basis
means gold alone. and the exclusion of
the use Of silver and of paper money NO
! statement more false, no statement NOR"
designed to deceive has there been made
In any gold country OF the universe Therc
N In crculatpion, side by slde' money
! md all
lhe profit OF labor and In the nold OF cap.
ital There is side by side In every gold
standard country Of the globe gold. silver
and paper money, all Of II in use
Let me tell you another thing. There
Is no country on the face Of this earth, l
care not where you go, that opens It's min's
10 the free coinage OF silver, but what
ali other Kinds of money than silver ard
promises to pay In silver have ncd the
land You cannot go into G country OF MS
Garth where its mlnts are open to the free
coinage of silver and find n gold dollar CIR
culatlng among the people, Mt only that.
| but Vol cannot go to-day into any country
on earth that opens It's 'aints TO inc lroe
! coinage OF silver but what your dollar,
gold. silver or greenbacls, will buy twice
as much as the best dollar that In In the
| hands of the people OF any OF these coun-
tries. loud applause
Against y Deba.ed Currency.
"I am an American. tApplause.l be-
lieye my country is greater and GRANGER
than any other. ] have Travelled outside
this land-upon either side-in Mexico anu
in Canada. IL ! had gone across the water
| and roamed through the great capitals OF
| t,urope my experience would have been
| tbe same as Il was In Canada. The Ameri-
| can citizen, In travelling outside OF his own
country, finds that his dollar. with the
| American eagle on one side anu the Gou-
] fi.. Ath haF nEh 1e
/ In paper, representing the promise OF his
nation to pay In. the best dollar that Is OBJ
tninablc, viii be taken without one cent
| discount In every capital city nud every
commercial house OF the civilized world.
| IApplausc II II were no more than mat
Ter OF national pride should prefer not to
Mcxicanzc American citizenship, FOR,
wherever | 70, pray God may not have
to go around apologizlng for the stamp on
the dollar and accepting half price for IT.
lApnlauscl
I'VE have coined under the gold standard
In this country and put In circulation more
silver dollars-So times morc-thnn we ever
coined and put in circulation before 1873,
Stop one moment and look. To-day your
dollar IN silver. coined by this government,
Is a dollar In gold. Applause And why2
II Ia because you have surrounded the lcgls-
lhtion that authorized II by such safe
guards that the man who takes II. the man
In the store and the man on the farm and
the man In the shop, knowa when lao
takes II that not only to-day, but to-mor-
row and next wcek-aye, and nH long ns the
republican party llycs-tho dollar will be
lust the same ns II Il to-day the best dol
lar Of the civilized globe. tAprlausc
Reply to Democratic Theories.
'They tell me, and | am urged to H. by
Jones and all the others In tho senate. that
to open our mints to the free coinage Of
silver will bring silver bullion back TO ~
| cents an ounce, They have asserted It,
ltcratod It and reiterated II day after day
and month after month, My countrymsn.
did you ever stop to think that II the free
coinage Of silver Will bring silver bullion
hack to Its oll.tlmc price there Will be mont
Of this increase In the price OF products.
none Of this Increase IN the price OF labor,
that they promise on the other sidof This
ia exactly true. that every promise they
make to the people OF this country cfa rise
In values, Of more per bushcl Tor wheat or
more dollars per day for men. II u promise
based upon the proposition that the new
standard OF value. the new dollar Of silver
coinage, will be less than the present dol
lar OF the country In which we live. one
thing or the other is absolutely true.
I'VE live noxt door to Mexico. on the one
side silver has free and unlimited coinage.
on the other aid. OF tho line 1t has not, To-
day the same dolarn do not circulate aide
by side, II we open the mints OF the United
states for the free aud unlimited coinage
Of silver, one thing ask you to remember
and study at your homes. our silver dollar
on the American side OF tbs line will be
worth lust the same as the Mexican dollar
on the ether side. ! Will tell you why,
! Whenever the Mexican dealer, srGply by
coming across the line, can put his dollar
! in the American slot and take out without
copt a dollar OF the ''nltod States. whose
value will be worth the same as his ", what
Ia tho argumpnt7 Either that by free coin
age on the part OF the United statra we
double the value OF every Mexican dollar
or else we strike by ono-half the value Of
every American dollar, because they must
come TO a common level, Either we double
the value Of all the money Of China or
Japan and South America, whore the silver
| standard IL, or else we drop our standard
| If mensurn dawn 10 the leYol Of lhclrA