The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-10-31
The CRISIS UPON US.
Inc Power Of the People Will Meet the
Power of Money at the
Hallot.Bcx.
Inc vigilance of Patriots Invoked to s.s
That Fraud and Corruption Do Not
Prevail at the Polls-The Disastrous
Consequences That Would Fol-
low McKinley's Election.

upon bimetallism by the bond brokers
and gold gamblers of the world.
The first victory of our enemies was
IN 1873 when the congress of the United
states demonetized silver in this coun-
Try without knowing il, through the
craft OF John Sherman. Within a few
years from that time nearly all the
mlnts OF the world were closed to silver.
Inc friends of the double standard
nave succeeded since then in forcing
the coinage of more than $500, 900, 900 of
regal tender silver money in this coun-
try, and have preserved $500, 000, 900 of
legal tender silver in the circulation of
France.
The gold standard party made an ad-
vance in 1893, stopping the purchase
OF silver for coinage in the United
states, and closing the minis of India
10 silver. This victory for monometal-
ism resulted in arousing the masses
or the people in the United States,
and inspiring them with a determine
ton to exterrinate the single gold
standard.
The gold power, hitherto potential
in the councils of both parties, has
been forced by the Democratic masses
to relinquish its hold upon the Demo-
cratic party, and in it's desperation
1t has frightened its grasp upon the Re-
publican organization.
An unbought and unpurchasable
national Democratic convention gave
the friends of bimetallism a champion
and hero in the person of William
Jennings Bryan, and placed him be-
fore the voters of this country on a
platform which is a new declaration
of independence of foreign control.
The leading scientists and statesmen
of Europe who advocate bimetallism
have been filled with hope by these
events. They earnestly exhort US to go
forward without waiting for an inter-
national agreement. assuring US that
no such agreement can be had until
we have acted: that when we shall
have acted, the other great nations will
follow our lead.
If the battle of November is won by
the friends of the double standard it
will restore prosperity throughout the
world;
1t will give healthful uses to capital,
which is nov hidden away, fearing ir-
vestments f. anything but mortgages:
1t will CRIB the arrogance of II =
worlds great usurers;
1t will Increase the value of the
farmers PR ducts, thereby encouraging
greater production:
1t will BILE the great railroad sys-
TENS of the country to double their
buiness, and send railroad receivers
into other fields of employment;
1t will st nulate manufactures, and
give profit TO capital, and labor to L q
unemployed;
1t will light up homes that are now
dark, warm hearthstone that are now
cold, feed furnishing women and CHI
dren, and clothe "the Topped al
Widowed raggedness Of the poor"
These things will be because, follow
ing the election of Bryan in Novembo~,
will come the restoration of silver 0
its place as money. Gold Will no longer
posses double purchasing power, VIII e
silver is degraded to a commodity. TIE
purchasing power of gold will ia |,
while the purchasing power Of silver
will rise to meet it at a parity.
Dark indeed would be the future with
elected.
The silver money we have would he
a polished as legal tender;
Gold only would be the basis Of our
medium;
That medium would be changed from |
greenbacks and national bank notes o |
the elastic" fiat money of privf e |
hanks. to be contracted and expand ID |
at their pleasure;
The supply of gold for coinage pur- |
noses Is made stationary by the con- |
sumption, in the arts, of the annual |
product; and the increasing demand |
for IT, through the increase OF popula-
lion and business. is the equivalent of
constant contraction
A fixed supply and a constantly in
,reasing demand contract the volume
If money as certainly as do fixed d.
nand and a constantly decreasing SUD-
ply.
The monometallists of England and
- everywhere else, except in Wall
,treet, admit that contraction reduces
,rices of commodities. makes capital
, fraid to seek investment in enter
,rises. and that this condition causes
universal distress among the people.
ONLY the dealers in money, the
wealthy with fixed incomes, and the
az eaters In general, have any interest
n promoting the gold standard; and
ven they are injured in the long run.
because their system brings creeping
paralysis upon civilization itself, which
lone protects them in their posses
ions.
We appeal to the people Of all classes
O enlist in this great battle under the
,anner of the double standard.
To the Democrts we say:
You hold the post of honor In the
Ieht. It is the Democratic party which
,ss at last enancipated itself from
he tyranny of the money power. and IL