Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-10-29

\, THURSDAY OCTOBE]
does not get the benefit Of the low price
OF wheat, but the great tinanciers with
their bulglDg brows who within the last
two years have forced upon this country
q bonded debt Of $262,OOO,OOO, which
with the interest will be $500, 900 by
the time it is paid, to protect the gold
reserve. Two months ago these bankers
cav that the people would not stand
another issue Of bonds without defeat
ing HoKinlsy's election and insuring
the restoration OF tho double standard,
% some fifteen or twenty Of them
agreed among thsmselvss 70 protect the
gold Ieo0rve until after election. Does
it nos make your bosoms swell with
pride 70 think OF nation that 70 used
70 think w. The greatest and most inds.
pendent in the world having to depend
on fifteen or twenty bankers 20 defend
It. 10 former times ws used to b inde.
pendent and able 10 defend ourselves,
but now ws sre reduced to eovsrsment
BY syndiostss. and have to humbly hope
thst theg will dsign 10 protect 90 -
long . it may suit their interest to
do %.
Speaker Reed Of Maine, Who used TO
b for tho restorstion Of silver but Who
i now spraisiDg tho benefits Of tho gold
standard. ssys that "what We want 10
not moro money but more capital" In
other words q hungry han docs not
want food, what he needs is something
to eat. Or I suppose MI. Reed would
say that deaf man did not want bis
bearing restored, what he wants is some
thing to hear with. That is what the
republican orators call an argument, and
you can be sure that they would not use
them if they had any better ones to offer.
They tell you that it will not do to have
cheaper money, that in order to make it
easier for you to get money, We must
make money scsrcer. The dishonest
dollar is not the silver dollar, which in
purchasing power has remained steady,
it is the gold dollar which has doubled
and now has 200 cents OF purchasing
power. while its debt paying power is no
moro than before. The republicans will
toll you that . dollar cannot have too
much purchasing power, which means
in elect that IN time our gold dollars
viii b able to purchase ten bushels of
wheat Instead Of two. How do you like
the prospectl
Congressman johnson 10 telling in bis
spssehss about tho hard times that We
havs bad since 1888, but be doss not toll
yoa4aat the reason u that in that year
the United States repealed the Sherman
Law and tho Indian mints were closed to
silver. He tells you about the good
times we had before 1893, but he does
not toll You that during those years We
pumped 54O,O0O,O0 of silver dollars into
our circulation. and that was the reason
We had good times. In 1893 We went to
the single gold standard, and since then
times have been bad. Mckinley is
pledged to maintain the gold standard
until We get the consent Of England to
abandon it? Bryan wants to return to
the double standard and restore the
good times at once. We want to set tho
vast army Of idle men at work, We want
to create demand for your -four, your
butter and your other farm products to
feed them. We want the farmer to have
money to spend in order that all the
other lines Of business may be prosper
GUS, We want to restore the good times,
which the republlosns acknowledge We
enjoyed before We went to the single gold
standard in 1893, and We want to do this
at once; but the republicans though
their platform favors bimetalllsm say
that We must wait until England gives
her consent and that it would not be
proper for us to 60 ahead and help our
selves.