The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-05
Bryan's Creed Condensed.
Chicago Times,Herald.

uEtQ HihllOhS Oh HOlu.
/ believe il will be blessing To
the United States TO take half the
purchasing power out of lis five
hundred millions o. silver dollars.
| believe it will be a blessing for
the United States 90 take half the
| purchasing power out Of its billion
dollar S worth OF paper money.
| believe that to cut a dollar in
two is TO double its value.
| believe that 80 cents is twice as
much as 100 cents
believe that the farmer will be
better off when he sells half as much
OF his produce as he does now ut the
present rate.
believe that the the farmer will
be benefited by having 10 pay twico
as much as he does now for every
thing he does not raise and must buy.
Since | hold that The farmer would
be better off If he sold hall as much
as he does now at the same rate, il
follows that ] hold the farmer will
be still better of il he sold u quarter
as much as he does now at the same
rate.
Therefore, it follows that hold it
would be better for the farmer if he
sold nothing at all, but let his pro-
duce rot on his farm.
hold that the city workingman
would be better of ii he earned half
as much as he does now.
| believe that all the widows and
orphans whose means Of support is
invested in loans will be blessed by
getting back 80 cents ON the dollars
their bread winners toilcd for at 100
cents in the dollar, and that they
would be still better OFF if they had
to 90 to the poorhouse.
believe it would be blessing for
5000. 600 depositors in savings banks
who have laid up 81 900, 600, 600 by
+.toil at l0Eretrts to the dollar to get
back half the amount Of their saw
ings, instead of the whole,
hold that the country would be
better off If half the value Of the cap
ital Of the 1000 national banks,
amounting to nearly 500, 600, 000,
were extinguished. 1t would help
business all over the country.
| believe it would be Il blessing on
| the states Of the American Union if
the 5000 600 600 deposited by private
persons in 1000 state banks We're
reduced to 50 cents ON the dollar or
largely lost altogether This would
encourage thrift and animate enter
prise,
| hold that the states would BE-
further blessed if half the S250, 900.
coo capital in state banks were
shrunkcn to half thcir debt-paying
power. This would help the farm
! crs.
believe It would be q blessing to
towns ii the fire insurance COM
panics were so crippled That they
could only pay halithe face value OF
risks.
| | believe that it would fall like q
baneiictjon upon the holders OF
| Sl3. 900. 900 600 worth of life in
surauae, on which they had paid loo
| cents TO the dollar, TO learn that
they can realize only 30 cents ON the
dollar OF their policies
DAlieve that il would be an en-
couragement 10 home makers 90
know that the $50. 900 600 in build
ing association shares We're to
shrivcl To half their value
| believe chat, although owners OF
| silver would not permit the metal
70 bc coincd into dollars for Ameri-
cans when it was worth more 10 ex
port than TO coin although coinage
was free, and unlimited, owners o
silver are mseltish patriots in desir-
ing to coin unlimited silver into do.
lars now when they can get Il chlnc,
20 10 so at twice the worth OF the
silver at the market price and hall
the value in the dollars TO the peo-
pie.
] hold it TO be a solemn duty tu
the SEQ. 600 invalids and the 220, OOD
widows and orphans on the pension
roll of the nation to deprive them
of half the amount paid each month.
ly. 1t will be especially heroic 70,
those who get along now on ten dol
lars to contrive to live on five dol
lars month.
| believe that it is better for the
| Dnllcu otateS 10 grade UOWn WIN
China and Mexico than up with
Great Britain, Germany, France,
Austria Hungary, Holland, Bel
gium.
] hold that expulsion OF all our
gold and contraction of half our sil
yer and paper is expansion of our
currency.
| hold that the law OF gravitation
can be suspended by act of congress.
! believe financial quicksand is
rock bottom for nation.
! believe that the best way tc
build up a country is to destroy it.
] believe that my wife has more
political sense than all the politI-
clans in the country. God bless
both of US. Amen.
The entire Republican state ticket
of Vermont was Overwhelmingly
elected Tuesday.
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