The record-union., 1896-10-17

in his mind, he wants to marry some
woman that no other man on Gods
earth would have
| II anything is to be paid for in good
money, labor is that thing Let the big
fellows take cheap money; let the men
living next the soil be paid in gold.
want money of this country as good
as that of any other country in the
world. When our money is below par,
we feel below par. I want our money
so good that when savage looks on it
his eyes will gleam as though he looks
at shining gold.
want to teach the people of the world
that democracy is honest, that Amer
| lea is not only capable of self-govern-
ment. but that it has the courage and
sef-denial to pay it's debts to the last
| farthing.
Yet we have a man running around
saying vote for me and you cay pay
your debts in 50-cent dollars" That's
what he says to them, people in debt.
1t is not an honest proposition. But the
creditor asks You are not going TO
cheat me, are you?'' And he replies.
Oh, no; free coinage will make silver
worth 81 %; free silver will make sill
| NCl ooildIS DIS SOOo SOlu doliciS'
In all speeches Bryan has been guilty
of this contradiction, cheap silver for
debtors and silver as good as gold for
creditors; and, do you know, that man
has not yet seen the Inconsistency Of
/ these two statements.
When Bryan appeals to the farmers
he assumes them to be all rascals. 1t
is an insult to the farmer. I regard the
&c nd vxyha tho
shines, and when the rain falls, and
the frost waits, he will pay his debts.
The farmers are not all Populists. You
will find the Populists in the towns,
great cities and villages. They want
to get rich by law. They are tired OF
work.
If you can make silver Is to l by law
when it is 81 to 1-make sixteen ounces
of silver the value Of an ounce of gold
what is the use of wasting all that sill
yer? Why not put in another clause
| and make it to /?
If by fiat we can add 4S cents worth
of law to 80 cents worth of silver and
make a dollar, why not make all fiat and
use the silver for forks and spoons?
One of our dollars is to-day 16 to l.,
made equal to gold; but how is 1t made
1 equal to gold? Because the Govern
ment promises to redeem it in gold. Ii
| there was only one grain of silver in 1t
! it would be the same.
! Some 81 or So cents worth of silver is
in the dollar of to-day; withdraw the
! Government promise and the dollar Will
| be worth 81 or 80 cents, no more.
You see it is promise, not fiat, and as
/ long as the promise is good the dollar
/ is good.
A promise to pay money is not money
! A promise to pay is like nomination
/ for office, and the fulfillment of the
/ promise is like the election, and on the
/ 4th of November Mr.. Bryan will under
/ stand the difference between promise
| and fulfillment.
| In 1892 we set up the double stand
ard, gold and silver and Jefferson and
Hamilton fixed the ratio at ID to l.
But a double standard is hard to
maintain. France changed her ratio
more than a hundred times. As Dog
| berry says, Where two men ride
horse, one rides behind"
In 1906 we found there was too much
silver in the silver dollar and Jefferson
stopped the coinage No more was
coined until 1887, and then it was that
Congress adopted a gold standard.
In 1858 we lessened the silver In the
silver dollar, and from the beginning
we coined to 1873 only 100000 silver
dollars, and they had all gone out of
circulation by 1873. There was too
much silver in them and the people
melted them up. So the fathers put
| less into the coin that it might not be
exported and go to the melting pot.
Bryan says the fathers were the
friends of silver; yet they made only
5000, 900 silver dollars in all their
! lives.
What have the enemies Of silver
dcne since then? Coined since 1873
430, 600 600 of the dollars, and yet sill
yer has kept going down; and we are
| coming 100000 of silver dollars a
month now, and floating them all on
| the promise of the Government to
maintain the parity.
Senator Jones voted for the Act of
1873, and said gold was the mother
OF civilization" Senator Stewart voted
for it, and said gold was the only
standard" They have changed their
minds.
They say I used to talk the other
way I have never changed my mind
to demonetization of silver, because it
put an additional burden on debtors.
1 But hereis the trouble now All the debts
! due in 1873, or made then, have been
paid or are outlawed. We cannot help
| the debtors injured then. You can't
help the debtors of 1873 by injuring
the creditors Of 1896 The thing was
acquiesced in by the commercial world,
and this nation cannot correct the mis-
| take of mankind.
! Believing silver demonetiZed in '13,
| denounced it. / wanted it remone-
| tized, but I wanted good dollars.
1 said twenty years ago at Cooper
| Union: II am in favor of honest money.
am in favor of gold and silver. / am
in favor of paper with gold and silver
behind it. 1 believe in silver, because
/ it is one of the great American prod
ucts, and / am in favor anything that
viii add to the value of an American
product, but / want silver dollar
| worth a gold dollar, even if you have
to make it four feet in diameter
A great Republic cannot afford to
stamp a lie on silver gold or paper.
It cannot afford to be a clipper of
coins.
They say that during the war we
/ had plenty Of money. 1 never saw it,
lived years without enriching my
eyes with the sight of dollar.
/ You cannot make a paper dollar
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