The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1896-09-12
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coinage Of silver will at once raise its
commercial or bullion yalne to an equal
ity with gold, start up our manufactur-
ing interest again and restore prosperity.
Against this assertion the greatest
financial authorities in our own country
and the world, old gray haired men who
have devoted all their lives to a study Of
financial problems, state emphatically
that the highest price silver will 90. can
possibly go with free and unlimited coin
age OF silver by the United States is 75c,
and that il viii destroy what little pros
perity we have left. 4 large number Of
them place IT lower than this and assert
that even that price will only be tempo
rary. that it viii drup again to present
prices Who IS the best authority upon
this question, these old gray.haired
students or this young Nebraska lawyer
There is over two billions OF silver and
silver bullion at present in the market,
and an unlimited quantity IN sight ready
to be mined. II will be cheap as iron in
a few years il all the mines are run to
their full capacity. We have more OF il
now than We know what to do with aad
IL has nearly brought US 10 ruin in the
attempt 10 maintain it on a parity with
gold.
We can only have one standard Of value.
The commercial world demands that and
table as the law Of grayitation. Gold is
the standard of yHlre throughout the
world to-day, and will remain SO proba-
bly, forever. IL we hold the station OF a
first class nation 10 the world we must
adopt the commercial values Of the world.
We cannot escape from that proposition.
We are a selling nation; we produce far
more even now than we can consume aud
our development IS far from its limit yet
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customers. the people who buy goods.
Commercial nations do the same. We
must do il also, big as Mr.. Bryan says
we are; free and independent from all
other nations
We are one Of great group of CONNER
cial nations. with unlimited resources for
the production OF unlimited amounts of
nearly all the products of the modern
world. and we must go into the markets
Of the world on our merits or stay out
We are not independent in a commercial
sense. No nation ON earth is so. The
people who buy our products dictate the
prices. That is governed entirely and
absolutely by the demand and supply.
Even Mr.. Bryan knows that At least,
We believe he has common sense enough
TO know il, but he wants to be president.
and having no argument TO sustain the
platform made for him to stand upon,
ana winch he pTOclalmS ne does StanC,
upon With both feet, he has nothing left
but appeals to the passion and prejudice
Of the different classes, through the arts
OF an elocutionist. He is no orator, that
was demonstrated at Madison Square
Garden, whore he made his one effort to
sustain bis position through argument,
and had to read it from manuscript. No
successful orator ever did that. His fail
ure was so overwhelming that even his
monumental egotism realized it. and
from that moment he changed his
tactics.
From that time his speeches have been
a repetition Of the one theory left in his
mind. Passion and prejudice. Trying
by every artifice in his power to array
one class against another. He will fail
MS he deserves to do. We are not nation
of classes. We are one great common
people where every man stands upon his
merits and achieves standing and success
as he improves his opportunity. All our
great men aud leaders have come from
the common people, some of them from
the very poor and lowly. Intellect is be-
yond our creation. 1t comes from the
Infinite, and we take our place in the
world according as the Creator creates
us. No man in this country is born
great, but every boy in the land can
achieve greatness If he has the intellect
and improves his opportunities.