Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-09-05
BRYAN'S CREED.
The Gist of His Long Argument In
Few Short Para
praphS.

believe it will be blessing to the
United States to lose five hundred mill
lions of gold.
believe it will be 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 blessing for the
United States to take half the purchas-
ing power out of its billion dollars worth
of paper money.
l believe that to cut a dollar in two is
| to double its value.
believe that 80 cents is twice as much
! as 100 cents.
I believe that the farmer will be better
| off when he sells half as much of his
produce as he does now at the same rate.
| l 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 MS he
that hold the farmer will be still bet
ter off if he sold 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 produce rot on
| his farm.
l hold that the city workingman would
be better off if he earned half as much
as he does now.
1 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
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 poorhouse.
believe it would be blessing for s.
| 100000 depositors in savings banks who
have laid up $2,OO0,OOO, 1000 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
nearly $700,000,000, were extinguished.
1t would help business all over the coun-
| try.
1 believe it would be a blessing on the
| states of the American union if the $780,
100000 deposited by private persons in
1000 state banks were reduced to so
cents on the dollar or largely lost alto
gether. This would encourage thrift and
animate enterprise.
1 hold that the states would be fur
ther blessed if half of the $3.50, 100000
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.
1 believe that it would fall like bene-
diction upon the holders of thirteen bill
lion dollars worth of life insurance, on
lar, to learn that they can realize only
so cents on the dollar of their policies.
| l believe that it would be an en-
couragement to home makers to know
that the four hundred and fifty million
dollars in building association shares
| o. l,,,.,, 90 IaIf -.
l believe that, although owners OF
silver would not permit the metal to be
coined into dollars for Americans wher
it was worth more to export than tC
coin, although coinage was free and un
limited, owners of silver are unselfsf
patriots in desiring to coin unlimited sill
yer into dollars now when they can get
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.
l hold it to be solemn duty to tn,
100000 invalids and the 100000 widows
and orphans, on the pension roll of thu
| nation to deprive them of half tn,
| amount paid each monthly. 1t will b,
especially heroic for those who get aloni
now on $40 a month to contrive to liv,
| on $5 month.
, | believe that it is better for the United
: | States to grade down with China ant
Mexico than up with Great Britain
3 Germany, France, Austria Hungary
: Holland, Belgium.
/ hold that expulsion of all our gol,
4 and contraction of half our silver an,
/ paper is expansion of our currency.
/ hold that the law of gravitation cal
: be suspended by act of Congress-
| / believe a financial quicksand is rock
r | bottom for n nation.
: / believe that the best way to build u
t a country is to destroy it.
J. I believe my wife has more politica
2 | sense than all the politicians in the coun
d try. God bless both of us. Amen
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