Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-09
BUrTfyG AGAINST

BU1TfyG AGAINST 4 SOLID VAIL.
The republican candidate has becn her
aided as the advance agent Of prosperity. II
his policies bring real prosperity to the
American people these who opposed him
will share In that prosperity n. on the
other hand. his policies prove an injury to
the people generally those of his supporters
who do not belong to the ofnce-holdng class
or to the privileged classes will suffer In
common with thcse who opposed him. The
friends OF bimetallism have not been van
quishcd they have simply been overcome
They believe that the gold standard is a
conspiracy Of the money changers against
the welfare Of the human race, and until
convinced OF their error they will continue
The warfare against it.-Bryans Naledctory.
Had Bryan been referee In the fight
FOR the championship belt, John l.. Sulli-
van would not have been vanuuishcd by
pugilist Gorbctt-hr would only have
been overcome, In all seriousness, how
ever, we should like 10 know what bet
ter proof is wanted than we have al
ready that the American people rightly
Judged as the difference between pol
icics based ON experience ana rainbow
chasing after fuuciful theories.
Within fory-right hours after the
country was assured Of Mcliinlcy's clec-
ton the invisible supply Of boarded gold,
mounting into The Millions began to
circulate through the arteries of com
mcrcc. The impulse given to industrial
enterprise by the prospective re-cstab-
lishmcnt of confidence and prosperity at
once made itself felt IN the marts of the
world and American products and Amer
lean securities took an upward trend.
The hum of factories and mills that had
been closed for months on years was
again heard i'm the land ana thousands
Of idle workingmcn summoned to re-
sume their toll at rcmuncratyc wages.
Does any one pretend that such a con
lition would have followed had McKin-
ley been "Ovorcomc"? Does any one
doubt that instead of gold pouring into
the banks and into the national treas
lrv as now. Bgyan's election would have
been the signal for rush of deposilorS
to withdraw their money from the banks
ana a rush Of the bankers to draw the
gold out Of the treasury in exchange for
grccnbacks? Does any one with thin
blcful of brains imagine that the defeat
of Mckinley would have been followed
by an Increased foreign demand for
american stocks and bonds, an imma-
diate rcopcniug of American workshops
and mills, or u rise in the price of the
,I
The natural and inevitable conse-
nucnce of the defeat of Mckinley and
prospective change of our money stand
ard would have been the further pros
tratiOn of all business and the forced
lockout of wage workers employed in
productive industries and the reinforce
mcnt of the army of the unemployed
hy hundreds of thousands of men and
women. These people, exposed to the
rigors of approaching winter, would have
demanded food. shelter and clothing and
if their wants were not supplied bread
riots would have followed and the coun-
Try would have been plunged into serious
internal disorder bordering on civil war.
These dangers have been happily
avcrtcd. For all that the men afflicted
with goldophobia still persist in coniur-
ing up conspiracy of the money chan
GERS against The welfare of the human
ace. They see themselves pursued by
The gold standard snakes night and day
and probably can never be cured of their
hnlluCnatiUn.
If the gold standard were really Il con
spiracy of the money power why does
he money power employ millions upon
millions in developing and working the
cold mines of the world? If there is n
gold standard conspiracy among the
money changers why are these money
hangers constantly engaged in cnor-
mouSly increasing the volume of gold
instead of making gold scarce by cur
failing its production? More gold is be
ing mined now than ever before in the
history of the world 1t is an indS-
putable fact thnt the gold output of the
last five years is nearly 10 per cent
greater than was the gold output of the
Twelve years of the great California gold
excitement At the rate gold is now be
ing mined the increase in the worlds
supply for the ten years ending 1900
will exceed 81. OO,OOO,00O. or more than
one sixth of the worlds present gold
supply, accumulated since the dawn of
history. In the face of these facts the
continuation of the cry of gold stand
ard conspiracy is puerile as well as pre-