The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-19

No business arrangement could be
 made which contained the element of
 time, The Bryan platform forbids con-
 tracts based on stability.
 Can there possibly be any other con-
 clusion than that the silver howllsts are
 being paid so much per howl by the sil-
 yer barons, and that plunder is back of
 the whole movement
 During the war patriotism was a
 strong element in commercial affairs.
 The continued needs of the government
 promoted industries and the depression
 of paper money could be anticipated by
 the increase of it's issue The prudent
 man could look ahead with a degree of
 assurance Under Bryanism values would fluctuate with the fluctuations of silver. The Bryan substitute may be
 worth fifty cents to-day, forty to-mor-
 row. and sixty the day after tomorrow. The prudent purchaser would be with | out reliance. The householder must | live from, mouth to mouth. The store keeper, to be safe, must turn his stock over daily. Capital would leave the country as fast as 1t could be taken out l of it. The. Bryanist threats have al | ready started the exodus. Factories
 are already being closed from one end of the land to the other.
 | If the Bryan substitute had fixed | value, the country could in time get ac- l customed to its use. In one or two l generations a new sense of value might | be acquired; just as the Germans are l acquiring the new notion of value indi- cated by the mark. But the Bryan | substitute has no fixed value and the | platform prohibits the government
 from giving it one Silver must be free,
 they howl, independent of government contnol The more free 1t is, the more l directly will it come under the control | of the immutable laws of trade; and in | trade gold is, and will continue to be, 1 supreme. The Bryanists might as well
 try to toy with the tides as with the I laws of trade. The value of Bryan's I free substitute will be exactly as gold chooses to fix 1t and to alter it. It's buying capacity will vary with it's
 value measured in gold. Gold is the superior metal of the two and will con-
 tinue to rule.
 That men in their senses can be plot ting such terrible things for their own country seems incredible! What do | they expect beyond their immediate | fees? Are they sure that even those will be paid?
 l Suppose England were to attempt to force us to accept half price for exports,
 or such fraction of the true price as she 1 chose daily to fix? Would we submit Yet the Bryanists would create con- | t,a IL l init; where resistance would be impos- sible. They not, only invite England to aggression, but give her the legal right I of aggression. The nation would be es- 1 topped from resisting.
 Every Irishman who votes for Bryan | votes to strengthen the hands of his l country's oppressor; votes to make l England, more than ever before, the l mistress of civilization; for we live in ] the age of the omnipotence of gold l Commercial warfare is to be fought l with gold. With gold alone can we es- I tablish our e-eminence among na- 1 tions. Silver is a weak weapon; no l match in the contest. Are democratic l voters blind; or is each one expecting 1 his share of the swag?
 1 Has knowledge of the principles of l republicanism so entirely disappeared that the people no longer understand
 that when the government is robbed l they themselves must make up the de- felt! That legislation, state and na- I tional, has during the last thirty years | favored the rich at the expense of the poor is most true and patent. But
 within and under the constitution full I and adequate remedy may be found. Ii I it were not so, far better for the Union 1 to be dissolved and for each state tc
 resume and defend it's original sover-
 eighty. D. CADY EATON.