Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-09-17

nlIh hO TetuTuS Tor Capltal invested
and work performed, and last, but
not least, let the grand army of la
boring men so-called, the artisan,
the mechanic and the miner, and
every one who depends upon his
daily labor for his daily bread, look
about him and observe tho great
number of those who vainly seek for
chance to work, upon the great
number Of enforced idlers, and all
resolve to try, not an experiment,
(tor bimetalism is not an expert
ment,) but rather return to policy
that throughout the vicissitudes of
our nations infancy, and through
the internecine struggle of its man
hood, kept us great, free, prosper
Gus nation, in which labor was not
only respected and employed, but
was compensated so that want and
distress, such as now everywhere
go on, was unknown. Let the les
sons of history, too recent and too
plain to he gainsaid or denied, be
needed, and let there be no fear that
a system that so wonderfully pro-
tected labor, developed business en-
terprises, and secured to the nation
conteuted and prosperous people
in the past, will do aught but bring
to US return of like prosperity, the
predictions of disaster of our oppo-
nents to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
BRYAN.
In Mr.. Bryan the Chicago conven-
tion placed at the head of it's ticket
a gentleman of exceptional ability
and of high character. No man of
his age is better known throughout
the United States than he. A men,
Der of Congress for four years, he
commanded the admiration and re-
spect of all his associates in that
body as scholarly statesman and
profound thinker. No man has
ever assailed his character or in any
way questioned his Integrity or
moral worth. His character is a fit
example for the young men of his
country. He has shown in all his
public utterances that he loves his
countrymen, and that he sympa-
thizes with them in their distress.
He has also shown that he believes
the financial system which makes
gold the sole standard Of value is in
a great degree the cause of the de-
preston and financial distress preva-
lent throughout the land; that the
conditions now existing will continue
while the present monetary system
lasts, and that he would fain return
to the use of both gold and silver,
as they were used prior to 1878, and
he has proposed such a change of
the financial system by these meth.
Ods.
Such are the political opinions of
the candidate known to the country
men, who, by their representative
in convention, elected in every State
in the Union, put him in nomination
for the highest Office within the gift
of the American people.
This Is a critical period in our ma
tional history. Our industrial and
financial independence of other ma
tions and peoples is involved in this
campaign, and we firmly believe
that there will be no return of pros
perity until we shall have changed
our financial system so as to restore
the bimetalic system established by
the Fathers of the Republic and so
believing, we urge all friends of gold
and silver as standard money, and
the opponents of a single gold STAN
dard, to give Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Sewall their hearty support. In ad-
vising this course we do not consider
it necessary that they shall abandon
or surrender their political views on
other questions.
Profoundly impressed with the
importance of the issue of this cam
paign, for ourselves and our assOci-
ates, we respectfully submit the fore
going to the candid consideration of
the American people.
H. M. TELLER,
FRED. ID. DUBOIS,
LEE MANTLE,
CHARLES S. HARTMAN.
EDGAR WILSON,
JOHN f. SHAFROTH,
A. M. STEVENSON,