Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-09-02
BRYAN'S CREED.
The Gist of His Long Argument In a
Few Short Para
graphs.

I believe it will be a blessing to the
lions of gold.
/ believe it will be a blessing to the
United States to take half the purchas-
ing power out of its five hundred millions
of silver dollars.
| believe it will be a blessing for the
United States to take half the purchas-
ing power out of its billion dollars worth
of paper money.
| believe that to cut a dollar in two is
to double its value.
| believe that so cents is twice ms 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 at the anne rate.
| believe the farmer will be benefited
by having to pay twice as much as he
| does now for everything he does not raise
| and must buy.
Since | hold that the farmer would be
, better off if he sold half as much as he
| does now at the same rate, it follows
that | hold the farmer will be still Let
| ter of If he sold quarter as much as he
does now at the same rate.
Therefore, it follows that j hold it
| would be better for the farmer it he sold
| nothing at all, but let his produce rot on
his farm.
| hold that the city w%orkingman would
be better off if he earned half as much
as he does now.
| believe that all the widows and or
phans whose means of support is invest
ed in loans will be blessed by getting
back so cents on the dollar their bread
1 winners toiled for at 100 cents in the
dollar, and that they would be still bet
ter off if they had to go to the po0rhouse.
/ believe it would be a blessing for g.
| 600, 900 depositors in savings banks who
! have laid up 81, 000, 100000 by toll at
| 100 cents to the dollar to get back half
| the amount of their savings instead of
the whole.
/ hold that the country would be bet
ter off if half the value of the capital
| of the 1000 national banks, amounting to
nearly ST00, 000,0 00, were e%xtinguished.
| 1t would help business all over the ccun-
try.
| believe it would be a blessing on the
| states of the American union if the $780,
600, 900 deposited by private persons in
1000 state banks were reduced to 80
cents OH the dollar or largely lost alto
| gether. This would encourage thrift and
animate enterprise.
/ hold that the states would be fur
| Their blessed if half of the $250.000, 900
capital in state banks were shrunken to
half their debt-paying power. This
would help the farmer.
/ believe it would be a blessing to
towns If the fire insurance companies
were so crippled that they could pay only
half the face value of risks.
l believe that it would fall like a bene-
| I;nt,n,, ,,nnn thA hnl1nrp 90 %l..4... la
lion dollars worth of life insurance. on
which they had paid 100 cents to the dol
lar, to learn that they can realize only
80 cents on the dollar of their policies.
| believe that it would be an en-
enlargement to home makers to know
that the four hundred and fifty million
dollars in building association shares
were to shrivel to half their value.
| believe that, although owners of
silver would not permit the metal to he
coined into dollars for Americans when
it was worth more to export than to
coin although coinage was free and I'm.
limited. owners of silver are unsel6sb
patriots in desiring to coin unlimited sill
yer into dollars now when they can &c,
a chance to do so at twice the worth OF
the silver at the market price and hall
the value in the dollars to the people.
| hold it to be a solemn duty TO tn,
500, 600 inyalids and the 220,006 widow,
and orphans on the pension roll of til,
nation to deprive them of half tn,
amount paid each monthly. 1t will b,
especially heroic for those who get alon,
now on $40 a month to contriye to liy,
ON So a month.
/ believe that it is better for the United
States to grade down with China an,
Mexico than up with Great Britain
Germany. France, Austria Hungary
Holland, Belgium.
| hold that expulsion of all our gol,
and contraction of half our silver an,
paper is expansion of our currency.
| hold that the law of gravitation ca,
be suspended by act of Congress.
| believe n financial quicksand is rock
bottom for n nation.
/ believe that the best way to build III
a country Is to destroy it.
| believe my wife has more politica
sense than all the politicians in the o
try. God bless both of us. Amen
Chicago Times-Herald.