The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-09-02

| can ard a WAY in which you would he
| injured. suppose yen have free e~n n
ratio OF is TO j Then what. Why. any
person IN the world owning silver nu'.oh
gould bring that bullion u our fth,s ahr
have II convc.tcu INTO tnll legal tshuvt
SILVER dollars, just IKE the cues that YOU
| Use today. Now, how could you ne NJ
jut>s1g SuiSosc some man maize W MS
mind TO injure the American neopr 1h,,
| s,r trcc coinage how would ne 90 H.
| why. he would take his SILVER 10 tne
rninls. SUPPOSE a thousand dollttS OF y
and have IL coined into dollars theh ne
Mould take these dollass ont to hdr, the
American people with them, ana now
would hc 90 10 He could take me money
lrume and he would be required 10 paw tue
freight on It and NJ would lose m, cost OF
coii ags aud lose the freight both ways.
could.
You say he would trade that silver for
gold and take the gold away and leave
tne silver Where would he get the goiu
W onlu he get II at the treasury OF the
United Statesg Not under bmetallism be-
cduse the government would not agree
TO swap, hut under himetallism the gov
urhnent converts tho silver hulhoh mo
silver money and gold bullion into gold
com anu makes them legal tender Tor al
uehts, public and private But II does not
agree TO redeem gold dollar In SILVER
or q silver dollar IN gold cNpplhusel 80
'nai Under bimetallIsm the foreigner
could not exchange his silver at the mint
FOR gold unless the government was dis
POSED TO let him do H. In llinois laSi year
and We called each other brother and
IN the course of the speeches he turned 10
me and said: Brother Bryan. VIII yon
loan me a silver dollar TO Illustrate my
Argument; | haven't any"
When II came my turn. ! thought
would try an experiment and | sara;
,BTother' | want 20 use a gold com 10
Illustrate my argument. ] haven't any
VIII YOU let me have one?"
TIC Ept red in the face. he lit not nave
eiI and called che attention Of he
audience 70 ,he fact that WAS defending
rot have the gold with which to illustrate
BITS argument and ne had just cold them
chat gold was the only good money, but
h" "a not have a dollar 81 i aud they
VIA have To rui somebody with IN
gold and mora than that. he would have
20 mud somebody with me gold who was
willing TO let the gold ro Well. there Is
s,end Of taking the silver home. Instead
or giving I 10 us. instead II ira ling 1t -
MS for gold. he might trade 1t 10 us for
property. Whenever We have anything t.
sell We ars looking for a man who has
the money to trade for what we have %
sell ami instead OF being frightened II he
Vii Just let us know when he is coming
with his silver tn exchange for our pro-
ducts We Will meet h m NJ the depot wrh
81 hriss band and escort m through the
town ard show him where tho property Is
mat he can buy.
Have you ever heard people say that It
did mt make any dfereuc, how much
money there was. thas you conld not got
tr,N "'rr,, ~" iiI ''' ,S., :" ~,
ANYBODY asks YOU how vau can get money.
no matter how much Their" IS. unless You
have something 10 sell, YOU ask him how
; ~ rni ~ any HiV'.'N =, ~ 10 MAJ
somebody who has money with viii 10
- 'p'a.H YOU ~ ~ m'oI.,N w,
S"u "uen SOM. 9, sen N'' :
s,.,'',,as's 80 "a g. - NOV, ~
: l.l,cals ana nav con, 'n on M mn,
os 81 en-. s1Nerhhei' Npu may Sr'l
~ 'reut anu gtt money We ",lrNo mat
VI ypcitnns OF our HliNls WI prhE mo
cTrhihtlon more standard money 10 the
ana with goli ana silver i1gt'her measure
ne pr ct or AL properly CT ne world, thhi
nee WI ne Mgher man u Is now ana
nav lns ''eh RESTORED ~ WIN remain more
1lhnle mon II u now ana mat is'whN We
ar" IN favor Of himetallsm
we want me RAJ 10 or lp TO ] for two
V."aois IN the hrS' place, We h"hcVe |
max rn' gap between silver ana gold hul.
non mas been caused by nos NE lceisli'NNA
anu thht II can he closed by friendly ieTNs-
lation Renewed applaus') Wa believe
Zone ana that II Is not u"rrsshiN TO make
any chang" III The ratio. there Is another
reason rave you ever niei to hSure on
what would ne the cnsrt II We changed
IN ratio according TO the plans snsg Stei
by our opponents SUPPOSE all the world
agrees to Il ratio of g 70 aud suppose
they made the change by doubling the
sl@e OF the silver dollar. DO YOU know
Whnl maj wcnld mean? u would mean
me re olnhSe OF iVnFirN SILVER doilars
INTO 2,V"."otp OF dollars. u would mean
hrs' INC shrinNase of one-half OF all the
silver IN the world, measured In dollars,
and shrinkagc of oue-quaricr Of all the
metallic money of IA. world II would
moan ana increaSe in the purchasing pow
1T o4 every inlstr. II %Null mean "A de
cre2S" in tn" value of property Of the
world ana An increase IN TN" huIlem OF
debts az the world. billions OF dolla1
more We are In favor of a ratio of 10 TO
! not because w. ~ oduco silver. hut be
canS" we use both goiu and silver. and
need al the gold and SILVER To Keep N"
parry between money aud properly We
are opposed TO tho gold Stamford Decau",
the gold standard means a rising dollar.
rising dollar means falling prices, fall
ing prices mean hard times. The party
lhat irrd to make, by raising the value
OF he dollar lower prices for the general
products of human labor. is the party
mat l.sislitcg Stagnation upon "A people