Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-20
Bryan and Jefferson Against Bailey,

Bryan and Jefferson Against Bailey.
The. DEBORAH Republican in an ar
ticle entitled Bryan VS. Jefferson says:
AT Jeffersonville, Ind, Bryan was
inspired by the name to say
In this campaign we are attempt
ing to revive the principles of Jeffer-
son and apply them to the solution
What fraud and lie this is!
Jefferson said 1.-The proportion be-
tween the values of gold and silver is
A MERCANTILE PRoBLEM ALTO
GETHER."
And then jefferson aided in estab-
fishing ratio of 16 to between gold
and silver and at that ratio they re.
main SO long as they had equal mint
ing privilege and legal tender, and
when these were taken from silver
it was rated 8 per cent above gold in
the markets of the world.
The Republican further says:
Jefferson said, "Just principles will
lead us to disregard the commercial
proportions altogether"
Bryan says the free coiners intend
to disregard the commercial proper
lions altogether.
Just principles, further says JET
ferson, "will lead us to inquire into
the market price of gold in the several
countries with which we shall he con-
nected in commerce. and to take an
average from them"
In 1890 Jefferson made two reports
to congress on subjects referred by
that body to him, one was report
recommending the decimal division
of weights and measures the other
the report in favor of U. s. mint and
the coinage of money establishing
silver as the unit with 371a grains OF
pure silver coined and named the
dollar. This was the just principle
for which Jefferson reported and
which was adopted and for which
Bryan contends. Jefferson made what
he commended for, an honest dollar
consisting of 3714 grains of pure sill.
yer which remained the quantity of
pure silver in the honest dollar from
1902 until 1878.
Jefferson fought the establishment
of the United States bank alleging il
his report:
"That the power to create nation
'sal bank was in it's very nature one
''too vast and Influential over the
rights and interests of the people
''to be either necessary or an Incl
dental power to others expressly
granted"
We find in Jefferson's works thi
opinion of his:
'That no one has natural righ
ITO the trade of a banker but he VIII,
has money to lend. Let thos,
''among us who have monied CAPT
"tal and who prefer that method O
employing it in loans rather thai
otherwise set up bank and Civ
''cAsH OR NATIONAL BILLS for tn
'Snotes they discount
Does the republican favor this doc
trine of Jefferson's or is it still we'd
ded to the national banking system
of loaning credit? In Jefferson
memoirs is this letter to his frien,
Epps wherein he says:
Treasury notes bottoned on take
"bearing or not bearing interest a
may he found necessary, thrown in
ito circulation will take the place c
$50 much gold and silver. Ban
paper must be suppressed and til
circulation restored to the nation
(which it belongs"
The Republican scorns every poll
ical principle advocated by Jefferso
yet it seeks to convey the idea that
is disciple of his political teaching
Jefferson Was opposed 20 granting t
corporations the use of the soyereig
right of the government to issu
money, the Republican favors gran
ing to corporal ions the sole and e.
elusive power to issue all the none
of the country except gold, denyin
to the government even the right t
coin silver which jefferson made til
5 money unit Of acco unit. Bryan is
direct line with Jefferson's polio,
the Republican is the advocate of tt
: Hamliltonian theory.
, Thos. Jefferson had the most in
, plicit faith in the honesty, the vi
tue, the intelligence, the PATRIOTS
of the people and relied upon the
as the rightful source of polite
2 power. Hamilton reposed the lii
: faith in the divine right Of the kin,
and potentates of the earth. Bryu
: puts faith, as Jefferson did in tt
: people, the Republica an pins its fat
upen the creed of Hamilton.
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