Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02

would be well for Mr.. Bryan to repeat
| if he wishes to rise in the estimation OF
the more thoughtful, loyal Americans.
If that Bryan will keep right along
repeating those sayings OF Mckinley s.,
and forsake the reckless course he Is
now pursuing he may yet make record
as statesman, but for his friends TO
rise upon <tiptoe, extend their arms,
spread their fingers, glare their eyes,
and scream every time they report a
good thing he has said after some great
man, is all scare, and is going to spoil
him sure. The boy is going wild over
so much fattery. The Intelligent
farmers and laborers are beginning to
think in earnest. They have survived the
greenback scare, and are able to go
through another under new name.
They begin to understand the whole
scheme. They all know that under the
present currency system the silver dol
lars are worth 100 cents each and that
is good enough for any honest man, and
under the present plan there is no
danger of our silver dollars being worth
any less; they know that all the silver
dollars in circulation were coined since
1878, and they know that the country
was never in a more prosperous condi-
ton for period of % consecutive years
than it was from 1878 to 1893; they
know that the pinch did not begin until
factories began TO shut down, after the
Wilson German bill was passed.
They know that it was that bill that
gave prices such a general knock down
and turned millions of laborers into the
street. They know that when our
mines and furnaces and factories are all
working, our men are employed and
there is a demand for the product of the
farm at good prices. They know that
there are two thousand, eight hundred
wagon loads of silver now stored away
by the government waiting TO be coined
into Just such silver dollars as we have
now, as fast as they are needed.
They know that the act of 1873 is no
more responsible for the present strin-
gency than it had for the downfall Of
Adam.
They are going TO vote for Mckinley
and Hobart, and if elected, will get it,
Bryan's bombastic speeches are draw
ing crowds of noisy fellows but the
more thoughtful ones are turning from
him, tired of his wailings. Every intel
ligent American knows that none of the
silver standard nations are Offering as
good pay for labor as the United States.
There is no silver STANDARD nation
where a laborer can get half as
much bread or clothing for day work
as he can here. Why is ii that all of
these silver howlers are so silent i'll
regard to the condition of the masses in
the silver countries? Why don't they
point you TO the labOrers, who are
wallowing in Injuries, whose financial
system they are so anxious to copy: Do
you believe my brother labOrer, that If
those silver countries Were a paradise
for the poor, these same silveriteS
would forget to say so? There is more
money in circulation per capita i'll the
United States today than i'll any silver
country on the face of the globe. If
free silver would make money plentiful
why don't the free silver countries have
more of it? France with gold stand
ard has thirty-five dollars in circulation
for every human being, while there Is
not silver standard country with one
half that amount per capita. Alas! we
look in vain for any advantage 20 be
gained for the poor by free silver
coinage.
Read in Saturdays Press, Sept. 10,
under" An European Policy and grunt
for him. LABOR.