New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-07
Among many shots he sent straight to the mark

Among many shots he sent straight to the marx
were these:
can take the dollars Of my country INTO every
free-siIver coinage nation OF the world, Mexico.
China Japan South America. Wherever you
please and can buy twice as much at me
store az the most privileged citizen OF the 'o'ass
can buv with the best dollar his GoVernme", s'-'
him IN use do not care to exchange my priviitse
with any man who IL ready TO give me TWO VI "''
dollars to one OF nine , a., uoood
Is Mr. Bryan sincere or honest III MS ar ~, ."
belief? He promises the East that silver VIII ap
preciate 10 81 20 per ounce in gold. IN me
Middle and Western States Mr.. Bryan anu al ''
followers tell the people that the P'es."' 81 81.
dollar has appreciated IN vaiue un'm ), 20 20 W re-
200 cents and the mission OF his party Is 10 re-
store the dollar or 100 cents one DELI, IT, W
the other must be dishonest belief IL our la
ers are to receive double price for their prouuc.s
il will be because the dollars they receive are
worth half as much az those now In use III Tree
coinage Of silver will lift the price of silver the
wide world over to 81 - an ounce In gold' theh
there Is no cheapenIng OF the dollar
Which Is 1t to be? Are we to lift Mexico. japan
China and South America to our standard or are
we to fall to theirs? The very hazard OF 'he ~
pertinent is enough TO paralyZe all business, u,
stroy all confidence. stop all enterprises INN. an
manufactures. curtail all credits. increase all IN
terest rates and make increased manufacture vi
investment an absolute imposslbility.
The her day man spoke to me on the street
saying: Sir can you tell me where can hnd
job" / replied: my friend. have you seen a Jop
running loose in the United States since the re-
peal Of the Mckinley Act?" In lSvZ our streets
were full OF American jobs looking for men, now
our streets full of men looking for jobs Wnen
the Wilson bill passed the American JOBS
went across the water.
The argument against free coinage has rarely
been more effectively put than in this address,
and the exposure Of Bryans two-faced dema-
goglsm ought to be enough in Itself to close
against him any position OF high trust Inc
American people have had four years expert
ence of the result Of trusting the political thlm-
be-rigger who tells one story at the East ana
another ut the West. At the same great meeting
Mr. Curtis Guild. of Boston, spoke eloquently.
and among other things said:
Dishonor and prosperity can never be bound
In wedlock The deliberate betrayal OF trust Is
never quite successful. The s~nder or to-day Is
the bankrupt Of tomorrow -
Mexico China and Japan have free silver Mills
in those countries are paying dividends from ~
to 30 per cent The Japanese cotton mill
makes an annual dividend of 80 per cent but the
Japanese who are employed in that cotton MIL
think themselves lucky If they earn 10 cents a
day The rich planters Of Mexico may live In
houses that suggest the luxury OF the Roman
Empire Mexican workingmen must toll
increasingly for a week to buy a single sack OF
wheat -four
The same day in Buffalo President Carnwell
power is for Mckinley" and proceeded to show
what it is Referring to banks savings banks.
trust and building and loan associations, he said:
You have in round figures ,33O.OOO.OOO.
owned by 100000 thrifty people owning many
Of them only few dollars apiece, and at the aver
age only about 5000 apiece This is the money
power. . These they who carry the din
nrr-paii-the laborers, the shop girls, the clerks,
the vast army of the employed millions on mill
ions of them . All there is of thrift, indus
try. virtue. the good old-fashioned qualities that
make a nation great--these the qualities Of
this great army the poten;ates Of the dinner-pail
They the hundreds oe millions in our savings
banks. They hold the foremost liens upon the
assets OF our great insurance companies
As If these heavy shots. landed in the very
heart of the regulators camp. were not enough
for one day. ex-Secretary Carl Schurz spoke
Saturday at the great honest-money meeting at
Chicago and referring to the law of 1873, he
said:
will only add that was member of the Sen
ate at the time and know whereof / affirm; and
I emphaticay pronounce all the stories about the
act of 1873 being passed surreptitiousy; about
Senators and members being somehow hypno-
tized so that they did not know what they were
doing; about some Englishmen being on the
ground with much money to promote the demone
tization OF silver and so on, as wholly and UNI
qualifedly false.
Silver philosophers say prices have gone down
because by the act Of 1873 the money of ultimate
redemption'' had been curtailed, only gold being
available for this purpose. But according to the
Treasury statistics we had in lS73Sny $4,000
600 OF coin. including subsidiary silver. in the
country, and now we"have much over S6oO.OOO.-
600 Of gold alone, or more than twenty-four times
as much money Of ultimate redemption" in
1873
These were only part of the convincing argyll
ments addressed in single day to a body of
people who are quick TO appreciate sound sense
who do not waver between truth and error when
once they have seen what is the truth. and who
have never yet knowingly voted for degradation
of labor or dshonOr OF the Nation