The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-10-14

the work of wellknown Democrat.
They have been sent into the middle,
Western, and Northwestern States.
They are intended TO do effective work
in the closing days of the campaign.
One of the cards is entitled 'sThe Sill
verite Catechismn and is as follows:
What is money? Something made
out of nothing by Government.
Is there any limit to the amount of
money which Government can make?
Only the capacity of the printing
presses of the country.
What kind of money is the best?
That which has the least value
What does "cheap money" mean ?
Money that will buy very little
wealth.
Why are some people poor? Because
the money they get in exchange for
their products or their labor will buy u
large amount of goods.
How can the poor all be made rich I?
BY stamping 30 cents worth of silver
"one dollar' and thus decreasing the
purchasing power of money.
What is a capitalist? A wicked sim
ner who has worked hard and saved
up little property,
What is a patriot? A man who
covets his neighbor's property and
wants to get hold of it by law.
What does ''repudiationp mean? 1t
is simple scheme for readjusting the
inequalities between the men who
worked and the men who have not.
What is the golden rule of the silver
ties? Do others as they would not do
you.
What are we to understand by ''hon-
esty" and ''good faith between men" -?
That creditors are to be cheated out of
one-half of their property whenever
the debtors control Congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more
by repudiating all the claims of credit
ors? That will come later. The pub
lie must be educated in silverism by de-
grees.
What is creditor? A fiend in hu-
man shape who loaned l0o-cent dollars
and doesn't want to be paid in dollars
worth 80 cents.
How will free silver help the farm
ers t.? By causing the withdrawal Of
all loans, paralysis of industry, stagna-
ton of commerce, and idleness of mil
lions of workers who now buy farm
products.
How will the IL To ! scheme benefit
the working class? BY making them
pay twice as much for everything they
buy, while giving them little or no in
crease in wages. II will also confiscate
half of their savings bank deposits.
What is silver mine owner? A
good, kind, unselfish citizen who
doesn't want higher prices OF silver so
that he will get rich, but simply be-
cause he loves his fellowman.
Does his love for the workers lead
him to pay more than market rates for
his labor Not much. BIsiness and
sentiment are two different things.
Besides he doesn't have to.
What is a sound currency? Dollars
with 50 cents worth of silver and 30
cents worth of fiat, or paper dollars all
fiat.
What is the chief duty of a good citi-
zen? To hate everybody who is in
dustrious and thrifty and to meekly
swallow all the nostrums of the cheap
IN Dney Office seekers
How can the people be made pros
porous? BY setting class against class
discouraging the investment OF capital,
contracting the currency, running en-
ployers, driving out gold and over
throwing our sound financial system.
Candidate Bryan is fond of quoting
Andrew Jackson. 0ne of the campaign
cards declares
Andrew jackson was goldbug. In
his message Dec. :, 1884, he said:
"The progress of our gold coinage is
creditable to the officers of the mint,
and promises in short period to fur
nish the country with a sound and
portable currency"
Here is another sockdolager for Cam
didate Bryan
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
was written by the man who said
"Just principles will lead Us to disre-
gard legal proportions altogether; to in
quire into the market price of gold in
the several countries with which We
shall principally be connected with
commerce and to take an average from
them" But w. ]. Bryan says il is
disgraceful to talk about adjusting our
currency to the curreneies of the world.
Just why Mr.. Bryan has 50 frequent
ly quoted Andrew jackson in his
speeches is not known. If hunted
down his quotations would doubtless
turn out To be az yeracious "a those he
makes from Abraham Lincoln. An
drew Jackson said in his last message ::
Engaged from day to day in their
useful tolls, they workingmenl do not
perceive that although their wages are
p)rlinally the same, or even somewhat
higher, they are greatly reduced in fact
by the rapid increases of a spurious cur
reney, which as it appears to make
money abound, they are at first in
clined to consider blessing : /. Ii is
not until the prices of the necessaries
of life become so dear that the laboring
classes cannot supply their wants out
of their wages that their wages rise"
Yet Mr.. Bryan says a cheaper dollar
would be better for workingmen.-N.
Y. Sun.
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