The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-24

money, no matter how Il IL payable. to
nave the gold behind It, want II SO good
that when savage looks on It his eyes will
gleam as though he looks at shining gold.
States.
Il want to teach the people OF the world
that democracy is honest [Applause.1
1 want to teach the people OF the world that
America Is not only capable OF self-govern-
ment. but that II has the self-denial, the
courage. the honor. to pay its debts to tho
last farthing. tApplausc.l That is what
1 want to do And yet we have man rum
ming for the presidency who appeals to all
people In debt. and says: Vote for me.
vote Tor me, and you can pay your debt in
6o-cent dollars That is what he says to
| them. Not a very honest proposition, but
| that Is what he says: Vote for me and you
can pay off your debt with half the money
| II requires now
"And thereupon the creditor says to Mr.
Bryan: You are not going to cheat me. are
your And Mr.. Bryan says: 'No,-rfree
| coinage will make silver WORTH 81 % an
| ounce In gold; free silver willNmake the
silver dollars equal to the gold dollars and
! thereupon the debtor holds his coattails
and says: In Gods name, how is that GO
ing to help me-? [Laughter.l In all his
| speeches he has been guilty OF this con-
tradiction-cheap silver for debtors, and
silver as good as gold for creditors Zap
plausel, and you know that man has not
| ments yet. [Laughter.l He will make the
| same statement probably tomorrow.
when he appeals to the farmers he
takes the ground that they are all rascals.
and what he has said about the farmers is
an insult to the farmers, and the farmers
of Vermont and Maine have replied lap
plausel, and II the farmers of these states
with their soil can be honest Ilaughterl. I
think farmer in Illinois has no excuse for
being rascal. [Applause.l regard the
70 ot,d yl,ay, hos
shines and the rains fall and the frosts
walt. they will pay their debts.
Talks of the Populists.
1T want to tell you tonight that all the
stories that have been told about farmers
being populists are not true. Applause
You will find the populists IN the towns. in
the great cities. in the villages. All the fail
ures. no matter for what reason-they are
on the populist side. They want to get
rich by law. lLaughter.l They are tired
of work
Then there is another thing want TO
ask these gentlemen. because am OF an
inquisitive turn of mind. [Laughter] II
you can make silver l6 to by law when in
fact 1t is 81 to THAT is, It takes sixteen
ounces. according to them. OF silver to be
worth one ounce of gold. Now, It takes
81 ounces to be worth an ounce Of gold.
But they propose by law to make &c ounces
of silver the value OF an ounce OF gold.
IF they do that by law. what is the
use of wasting all that silver? [Laughter.l
If they can hy law make IL 16 to l, why not
put another clause on and make 1t to L?
Laughter and applause.l And If they by
fiat can add As cents worth of law TO 90
cents worth of silver and make dollar,
why not make oil far Tapplausel and use
the silver for forks and spoons? IA voice
in the audience: How much is in the dol
lar now?"l In a silver dollar? 1.-THE voice;
''Yes."l Four hundred and twelve grains
cd Tl,a iZ
That is l6 10 l.
Now. let me tell you-one Of our dol
lars to-day, sixteen to one, Is made equal
with gold. And now is 1t made equal with
gold? Because the government OF the
United States has promised to redeem II In
gold. [Appiausc.l If there was only one
grain OF silver in silver dollar, and our
government promised to keep 1t on an
equality with gold, II would be just as
good as II there were il2. GApplause.l The
silver of the United States to-day, as coin.
is worth between 81 and SO cents on the dol
lar. and the moment the promise of the
government is Withdrawn all the dollars OF
the United States coined of silver VIII only
be worth 81 cents each. The rest Is
promise not fiat, but promise. and as long
as we believe the government Is able, as
long as we believe the government has the
honesty TO redeem its promise. that silver
will be good. [Applause.l
Promises to Pay Money.
Now there is another trouble. A promise
20 pas money is not money. A promise 10
pay money is like n nomination for an
Office, and the fulflllment OF that promise Is
like the election to that office. and on tho
4th day of November even Bryan will
know the difference between promise and
fulfillmcnt.
LET me tell you a little something about
the history of our money. which people
don't know or else they forget In 1892 we
made in this country double standard
gold and silver And the ratio was fixed
by Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Ham
ilton, and they both said that they fixed
that ratio on the commercial price of the
metals. That ratio was fifteen to one.
And we started with double standard
gold and silver.
But the double standard has always
been hard to maintain. Franco has
changed the ratio more than 100 times, and.
as Dogberry says, where two men ride a
horse. one man rides behind Laughter
and applause.l SO in 1906 they found there
was too much silver in the silver dollar and
jefferson stopped the coinage, and no more
was coined until 1887 and then It was that
our people in congress declared that they
adopted the gold standard
"They lessened in 1853 the silver in the
silver coins, and again they declared that
their object was to create a gold standard,
and in all of the time from 1852 to 1873 there
were cOlneu III the Jnltcu states only o,VVU,-
900 silver dollars, and they had all gone out
OF circulation. There was too much silver
and people got them and melted them up.
Eight million-that is what the friends, the
fathers. did for silver They found that II
they put too much silver in q dollar II
would be exported or would go to the melt
ing pot, and so they put in a little less sill
yer, so that IL would not be taken for other
purposes. That Is all.
Now. then, according to Mr.. Bryan, our
fathers were the friends of silver. And yet
our dear old fathers in all their lives only
minted 100000 of these sacred dollars.
tLaughter.l
Alleged Enemies of Silver.
NOW see what the enemies OF silver
have done. Since 1873 the enemies of silver
have coined 430,000,000 OF these dollars Zap
plausel, and yet silver has kept going
down. We are coming now over 100000 a
month. and silver keeps going down. That
is the difference, and we are now floating
these 430.000000 of dollars on tho promise
OF the government to keep them on pari-
ty with gold. lAppiause.l
II wish everyone here would read the
speech OF Senator Sherman delivered at
Columbus a little while ago, in which he
gives the history OF American coinage, and
every man who will read II will find that