The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-05

care what anyone says, the man that
employs you is your best friend. What
viii injure one will also injure the 9TH
er, and what is to the interest of one is
to the interest of the other.
Mr.. Bryan damns English capital
Do you know that If it wasn't for Eng
fish capital the half of us wouldn't be
mere and the western country would be
still in possession of the savage and
the buffalo. The railroads of this
country have been built by European
money which has been accommodating
simeon 1900 The great ma jOrity of US
came out to the west with but little
money. We came out here because we
had hands and the west offered us an
opportunity to work. And thus work
has been provided largely by European
capital
Mr. Bryan says that by the free and
unlimited coinage of silver the silver
dollar viii be brought up from 81 cents
to a dollar. Bless your heart if after
all this suffering from the silver craze.
this talk of repudiat ton, this sweating
and Tuning, the silver dollar is brought
up from d cents to a dollar what do
we ga1n2 Nothing. It's there now Mr.
Bryan says that he is in favor Of IS
to /, but he isn't. He is in favor of 40
to 1, for the simple reason that the dol
lar now contains 81 cents worth of bull
lion, and he says it will be brought
up to 81 Don't you see that between
81 cents and dollar there are 49
chances of failure. He is in favor of
az to J.
1T is even now almost impossible to
go into a bank and borrow gold They
tell you that if this silver craze carries,
gold viii then be worth twice as much
as it IS now. There are now 500 mil
lions of gold coin in this country, and if
free silver carries this viii be with
drawn from circulation. What will be
the effect? A chaos such as was never
Witnessed before will result The ma
ton Will become bankrupt. The chaos
that was in the destruction of Pompefi
nj hnr1 t77a oh
occur in this country should free silver
carry.
Mr.. Bryan says that the free coin
age of silver in this country will not
necessitate the bringing over of silver
from other countries. Why if a man
can take a Mexican dollar worth so
cents and take ii to the United States
mint and have it stamped a dollar, it
viii be worth while walking across the
border. And it will be worth while
making a business of walking across
the border With free coinage our sill
yer viii fall as the silver of other cOun-
tries, and we can't bring our silver up
unless we also buy up theirs.
business cannot be done on such a
close margin, on such a prosperous
basis as on a gold standard This is
true for the simple reason that in all
free silver countries the value of sill
yer Huctuates, changes like the mer-
curry in the thermometer. Gold is
worth Just the same In every nation,
the value the same today as it was
yesterday The stamp of a country
does not affect it. On the other hand
silver is sustained by the government
The government is pledged to sustain
it. If you take bullion enough to make
a dollar to the mint, the government
stamps it a dollar and hands it back
That dollar contains but 81 cents worth
Of silver, but in the United States treas
Ury there is the balance of silver which
is not in the dollar, and it belongs to
you and to me
Il can suggest a number of things
much better than the free and unIimit-
ed coinage of silver. Put a duty on
sugar and cultivate beets where they
are now suffering from an overproduc-
ton of corn. Let's have free coinage
Of iron. corn, wheat and eggs. When
a farmer takes his produce TO the mar
ket ana sells it, he has coined that pro-
duce. He receives coin for it, just as
the mine owner receives coin for his
bullion.
If we are going to have free coinage,
let US have it in mild way first. Let
US legislate to have six eggs made a
dozen. and have the government lie for
the other six. And if the egg theory
doesn't spoil on our hands, we can try
ii on silver Or we might legislate to
have six inches made a. foot. In Kan
sas City we might have the twenty five
foot lots made fifty foot lots, and then
the children would have more room to
play in the yards.
Mr.. Stillweu concluded by saying:
w men the sun sets next election Gay
on the Golden Gate of California, it will
set on the utter defeat of the silver
forces, and Bill Mckinley will go to
the White House by the largest major
! ity ever given a presidential candidate.
/ And six hours afterward confidence will
return and the prosperity which we
have lOnged for will come"
At the conclusion of Mr.. StillwelPs
! talk three cheers were given him by the
audience, followed by three cheers for
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