Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
TREND OF TILE TIDE IS TO w. J BRYAN.

- W W - differing in opinion, they unite in assert ing that the gold standard must be main- tained until foreign countries shall sig nifty their willingness that the American people shall exercise the right of free men and create
 A Financial System ot Their Own.
 If We overlook the humiliation and degradation we must feel on account of such declaration of financial dependency we may we'll inquire when the consent of the leading commercial nations will be obtained. No one who has read the proceedings of the three international monetary conferences that have already been held, or who has examined the im- practicable propositions presented at those conferences, can for a moment be lieve that any international bimetallic agreement can ever be made with the consent of all the leading commercial nations of the world.' When will Great Britain, controlled as she Is and ever will be by the creditor classes, who col lect vast sums of money for interest due her and her citizens, who buys of us an- nually many more millions than she sells to us and whose interest 1t is to make the pound sterling purchase as much of our products as possible consent that we shall be financially independent, as we are supposed to be politically independ- ent? When did the creditor classes of Great Britain ever give up or in any way yield an advantage such as they now possess through the maintenance of the gold standard? There Is no hope for in- ternational bimetallism until the United States shall establish bimetallism for it. self, and when that Is done international bimetallism may be secured without the consent of Great Britain. The United States on all subjects of legislation acts independently of any other nation on earth. By what process of reasoning is its right, authority or ability to legislate upon this, the most important subject with which it has to deal, questioned or denied?
 It Is Cowardly.
 With a nation equal in wealth and power to one-fourth of the world, 1t is cowardly to say that we must ask the permission of Great Britain to establish and maintain financial policy of our own. Believing as we do, that a return to the monetary system, especially rec ognized in the constitution as completely provided for by law from 17S2 till 1873 affords the only ground of hope for the betterment of the distressed condition of all the classes except those who live by the increment that money loaned gives to them who loan it, we appeal to all classes to rally to the support of the only candidates whose success indicates any hope of relief.
 Let the merchant and business man, whose dwindling and lessened profits have, despite his care and economy brought him face to face with pros pective bankruptcy and ruin; the profes- sional man, whose best efforts scarcely afford him compensation for his labor alone; the farmer the continually fall ing prices of whose products have left him no returns for capital invested and work performed, and last, but not least the mechanic and the miner and every one who depends upon his daily labor for his daily bread, look about him and ob- serve the great number of those who vainly seek chance to work, upon the great army of enforced idlers, and all resolve to try, not an experiment (for bi- metallism Is not an experimenD, but rather a return to the policy that throughout the vicissitudes of our na- tion's infancy, through the internecine struggle of its manhood. kept us a great, free and prosperous nation, in which the laborer was not only respected and em- ployed, but was so compensated that want and distress such as now weigh upon us was unknown. Let the
 Lesson of History,
 too recent and too plain to be gainsaid or denied be needed, and let there be mo fear that system that so wonderfully protected labor, developed business en- terprise and secured to the nation a con- tented and prosperous people in the past will do aught but bring to us a return of like prosperity, the predictions of disas- ter of our opponents to the contrary not 
 Tn MT. Bryan the Chicago convention placed at the head of it's ticket a gen. tleman of exceptional ability and of high character. No man of his age was better known throughout the United States than he. A member of congress for four years he commanded the respect and ad- mira tion of all his associations in that body as scholarly statesman and pro- found thinker. No man had ever as- sailed has character nor in any way questioned his integrity or moral worth. His character Is fit example for the young men of this country He has shown in all his public utterances that he loves his country and his countrymen, and that he sympathizes with them in their distress. He has also shown that he believed the financial system which makes gold the standard of value was in a great degree the cause of the depres- sion and financial distress prevalent throughout the land; that the condition now existing will continue while the pres ent monetary system lasts, and that he would fain return to the use of
 Both Gold and Silver
 as they were used prior to 1873, and he has proposed such a change of the finan- cial system by the usual constitutional methods.
 ' 6ucn was the cnafdcter ana Sucn L0e political opinions of the candidate to his countrymen, who, by their representa- tives in convention selected from every state in the union, put him In nomination for the highest office within the gift of the American people. This is critical period in our national history. Our in- dustrial and financial independence of other nations and people is involved in this campaign, and we firmly believe that there will be no return of prosperity until we shall have changed our financial system so as to restore the bimetallic system established by the fathers of the republic, and so believing, we urge all friends to silver as standard money and the opponents of single gold standard to give MT. Bryan and MT Sewall their hearty support. In advising this course, we do not consider it necessary that they shall abandon or surrender their present views on other questions.
 profoundly impressed with the inn portance of the issues of this campaign, for ourselves and our associates, we re- spectfully submit the foregoing to the candid consideration of the American people.
 "H. M. TELLER,
 FRED D. DUBOIES,