Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-22

farmer, the continually falling prices of
whose products have left him no return
| for the capital invested and the work per-
| formed and last, but not least, let the
grand army of laborng men so-called, the
artisan, the mechanic and the miner, and
everyone who depends upon his daily
labor for his daily bread, look about him
and observe the great number OF those
who vainly seek for chance to work.
upon the great army of enforced idlers,
and one and all resolve to try, not to ex-
pertinent (for bimetallism is not an ex-
periment), but rather return to the
policy that throughout the vicissitudes of
our nations infancy, through the inter-
necine struggle of its manhood, kept Us
great, free and prosperous nation, IN
which labor WAS not only respected and
employed, but 30 compensated that want
and distress, such as now weigh upon MS,
were unknown. Let
THE LESSON OF HISTORY,
too recent and too plain to be gainsaid
or denied, be needed, and let there be no
fear that the system that 80 wonderfully
protected labor, developed business en-
terprise and secured to the nation con-
tented and prosperous people In the past,
will do aught but bring to US return of
like prosperity, the predictions of disas-
ter of our opponents to the contrary not
withstanding.
"In Bryan the Chicago convention
placed at the head of its ticket gentle
man of exceptional ability and high char
acter. No man of his age is better known
throughout the United States than he. A
member of congress four years, he COM
mapded the admiration and respect OF all
his associates in that body as a scholarly
statesman and profound thinker. No
man ever assailed his character or in any
way questioned his integrity or moral
worth. His character is fiji example for
the young men of this country. He has
shown in all his public utterances that he
loves his country and his countrymen and
sym pathizes with them in their distress.
He has also shown that he believed the
financial system which makes the gold
standard value was in great degree the
cause of the depression and financial dis
tress prevalent throughout the land; that
the condition now existing will continue
while the present monetary system lasts,
and he would fain return to the use of
both gold and silver as they we're used
prior to 1873, and he proposed such a
change In our financial system by the
usual constitutional methods. Such was
the character and such the political opin-
ion OF the candidate, known to Us, his
countrymen, who by their epresentatives
in convention selected from every state
in the Union put him in nomination for
the highest Office within the gift of the
American people.
"This is critical period in our national
history. Our industrial and financial in
dependence of other nations and
peoples is involved in this campaign, and
we firmly believe there will be no return
of prosperity until we shall have changed
our financial system so as to restore the
bimetallic system established by the
fathers of the republic, and thus believ-
ing we urge all friends of gold and silver
as standard money and the opponents of
the single gold standard to give to Bryan
and Sewall their hearty support.
"Profoundly impressed with the impor-
tance of the issues of this campaign, for
ourselves and our associates we respect
fully submit the foregoing to candid
consideration of the American people,"