Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-28

contradict the testimony of the masses
OF the people of every country which
has ever had it. Now, my friends. do
you believe the republican party is go
ing to try to secure bimetallism? The
republican platform was written by
men who believe this nation must have.
whether it likes it or not, whatever
financial system foreign creditors insist
on our having. Therefore, say, when
they go forth declaring they want in
ternational bimetailism they are
merely holding that out as a mask be-
n ind which they may work to fasten
the gold standard permanently upon
the American people,
Mr.. Bryan then discussed the or
ganization known as the National
Democratic party declaring that it was
organized simply as an adjunct to the
Republican organizations.
ITO further brand it as nothing but
fraud and deception" he declared,
those who advocate that independent
Democratic ticket employ speakers who
openly tell you that they are going to
vote for the Republican candidates
and advise others to do so."
Mr.. Bryan in answer to a question,
explained at some length how silver
would get into circulation and how
others than NINE owners would benefit
by free silver coinage and continued:
My friends, there are just wo
great principles which we apply to he
money question aud they are sufficient
to solve it.
And here is the first principle: That
when the supply of money does not in
crease as rapidly as the demand for
money, then the value of each dollar
rises. That is a proposition, is that
true? 1t is solid as rock, and upon
that proposition you can build a sys-
TEN. We apply the law, the law of
supply and demand to money. We say
destroy half the crop of wheat, and
you will raise the price of wheat. We
say the man who has wheat profits by
the rise and we say that he is glad
wheat went up. We apply that law to
money We say destroy half the money
and the value of the other half will
rise, and that the man who owns the
money, on contracts payable in dollars
will profit by the rise. And we also
say that he will be glad money went
up. We say hostile legislation has in
creased the demand for gold and
raised the purchasing power of an
ounce of gold. We say that hostile
legislation has lessened the demand
for silver and lowered the price of sill
yer bullion when measured by gold,
and we believe you can undo by law
what you did by law, that if you drive
the metals apart by legislation, that
you can bring them together again by
friendly legislation.
'You ask me why we invoke the law
now. ask you why you invoked the
law in 1878. You say that commerce
is ominoptent; why did you not let
commerce act then? Why did you come
in and get law passed IN the night
and in the dark to do what commerce
could not do. Open the mines; create
a demand for silver, and that new de-
mand, acting with the demand now
existing, will raise the price of silver;
and if that demand is great enough,
we believe it will be able to absorb
every ounce of silver presen1o5 <+.Aour
mints; then, my friends, the opening
of these mints of this nation alone will
restore the parity of gold and silver at
16 to 1, and make a silver dollar equal
to a gold dollar, melted or coined,
everywhere in the world