The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-07
WE'LL ARGUED.
MIR. BRYAN REPLIES TO SOME
QUESTIONS.
The Whole Thing in a Nutshell.

New London, Conn.,, Sept 2S.-At this
place Mr.. Bryan proceeded with his ar
gument in behalf Of free coinage when
man asked: Where will we be when we
get free silver?'' -,
standard? %>~ ---'e~s
The Voice. am.
Mr. Bryan-Tell me why. -. 9s~
The Voice-Because l believe 1t is best
for the country. Every nation will accept
a gold dollar for a dollar.
Mr.. Bryan-Why? I will tell you. Be
cause of it's value; the reason why our gold
dollar and our bullion are worth the same
is because the law says that you can con-
vert the bullion into a dollar at the mint.
The Voice-Well, how about silver?
Mr.. Bryan-When the laws are SO, under
the free coinage of silver, the holder of
silver bullion can convert his silver into
dollars at the mint that will fix a mint
price for silver, have mint price
for gold now and our silver dollars will
be worth as much abroad as our gold dol
lars.
A Voice-People here have the impressio
Voce-People here have the Impression
that when the free coinage of silver is
brought into effect they can take their
silver tea pots in and coin them into
money.
Mr. Bryan-It is true that under free CO.
image any man can melt up a dollar and
a half worth of spoons and have the silver
coined into 81. 20 if you have a man who
is fool enough to do it. Now, why will
people refuse to melt up their silver plates?
Because it will be worth more as silver.
plate than it will be worth as silver dol
| lars under free coinage. I4assert that the
business man depends for success upon
| the farmer and the laboring man. If you
| want business men to prosper you cannot
make them prosperous by making the
money loaner prosperous, because busi-
ness men do not make their money out Of
those from whom they borrow. They make
| their money out Of those to whom they
sell goods, and if the people cannot buy
goods the merchant cannot sell goods, and
people cannot buy goods until they have
money to buy goods with. .
A Voice-Start up the mills.
Mr.. Bryan-Suppose you start up the
mills; how are you going to dispose of
| the things which the mills produce unless
the people can buy the produce of your
| mills? Mr.. Blaine. in 1878, said that the
| destruction of silver as money and the
| establishment of gold as the sole unit OF
| value must have a ruinous effect on all
| forms of property except those invest
! ments which yield fixed return Of their
| money, and these would be enormously
enhanced in value and gain a dispropor-
| tionate and unfair advantage over every
| other species Of property.
| A Voce-Would 1t not be as hard to
change the standard of money in the world
| as it would be to change the standard Of
| weights and measures In the world?
| Mr. Bryant will answer that question
| by saying that, in the first place, the world
has no standard of weights and measures,
and we have been unable to bring the ma
| tions of the world to agree to a standard
| of weights and measures. In the second
place, why did you not give that advice
| in 1873 you are giving now? They changed
| our standard of money then. and for 20
years they have tried to keep us from