The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-07-24
Choose Your Flag.

The issue of the campaign is clearly
marked at last. On one side stands
William McKinelyy demanding the gold
standard. On the other is William j.
Bryan, demanding that gold and silver
shall be treated with equality at the
minis and made legal tender for every
public and every private debt
On one side William Mckinley;
standing for the scarcest, dearest mon
ey that avarice of usurers dare devise;
for the contraction of the currency; for
the payment of gold where coin was
promised; for the seizure of two dollars
where one was loaned two dollars
with double interest; for fresh bond is
sues; for the continued robbery of the
government; for shrinking prices; for
falling wages; for persistent panics; for
mortgage foreclosures; for the sale OF
million homes by the sheriff; for the
ruin Of the farmer to build up the land
kings estate; for the crushing of the
small dealer and the little factory to
make room for the great monopolist;
for the rule of the bondholders; the
rule of the national banks; the rule of
heartless syndicates; the rule of re-
ceivers and assignees; for poorer pau
pers; for richer millionares; for the
bankruptcy of America and Americans
that few Heidelbachs and Ickelheim-
ers may roll deeper in the oily fairness
of wealth.
On the other side, William J. Bryan; |
backed by no syndicates; no corpora
tions, no bankers leagues; no coterie of |
admiring ringsters and monopolists |
Pleading not for the aristocracy, but /
for the plain common people; urging
not the claims of coupon clippers, but
the rights of honest men; insisting that
when this government promised coin
and has the coin it shall not sell bonds
to buy gold; demanding that each dol
lar of public or private debt shall be
paid by one dollar with interest, and by
nothing more; that the dollars shall be
provided sufficient for the ever growing
needs of the greatest, busiest nation of
the earth; and that they shall be honest
dollars, which can not be cornered and
locked up in the vaults ofany monetary
trust. He stands for abundant money;
for the destruction of classes; for the
of the dictators; for the
coming of honest cash with which hon
est debts may be paid. He stands for
the advance of prices, the abolition of
of panics, the revival of industry, the
return of prosperity to the land where
the curse of war has not fallen, nor the
fear of famine, nor the blight of pestil-
ence, yet where strong men lneel be-
fore the closed gates of idle factories /
and beg in vain for one little hour of /
land where white-faced wo- {
men and sobbing children are hunger {
ng and starving in the very midst of I
5he grandest harvests God ever gave !
mankind s
The lines are drawn. Choose your S
eader. March as you will, with the i
jagged hosts of silver or the steel-front- l
ID phalanx of gold. But choose; and {
,hoosing, fight like men. On to the I
under foot the cursed I
towards who cringe between the lines. {
And for those base traitors who claim
'ur cause, yet for their selfish purposes |
would breed dissonsion in our ranks
nd divide our forces in front of the c
theirs be the traitors doom. '
Spokane Chronicle.
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