Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-09-09
Mr.. BRYAN AGAIN NOTIFIED
Silver DemOcracy's Candidate Formal
ly Advised of His Nomination by
the National Silver Party.
RINGING DISCUSSION OF MONEY PROBLEM
Cogent and Unanswerable Reasons
Why All Friends of Bimetallism
Should Unite in Earnest Sup
port of Mr.. Bryan-Issues
Clearly Drawn.


Clearly Drawn.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 9.-Mr. Bryan was
formally notified of his nomination for
president of the United States by the Ma
tional Silver party in this city last night.
Mr.. Groot said: From April 2, 1892, to
February IL, 1872, every person had the
right in this country to have gold and sill
yer coined into money free of charge and
without limit as to quantity at the rates
established by law.
On February IL, 1873, the congress de-
prived every person of the right to have
silver coined into units of money, since
which time the mints have been open to
the free coinage of gold only at the rate
established bY law. That the people at the
time that law was passed did not know
that they had been deprived of that right
no one will dispute; that they have never
fully understood the force and effect of
that law there can be no doubt; that the
motive which aotuated those who secured
its passage was bad, nobody at the pres.
ent day will deny. Those who secured
the passage of that law have not yet pro-
claimed to the world that they are proud
of their efforts in that behalf. Since the
passage of that law there has been an
ever increasing demand for its repeal and
the restoration to the people of the right
that was taken from them by law.
Circumstances and conditions have been
such since it's passage as to apparently
make the efforts of those who were in
favor of its repeal futile.
Those persons in our country who have
understood the evil effects of that act have
for years supplicated and implored the
Republican and Democratic parties alike
to restore to the people the right which
was by the law taken from them behind
their backs and without their knowledge
and consent, but their appeals have been
in vain. They who have sought. in sea-
son and out of season, to secure resto-
ration of that right to the people have
been maligned and traduced and spurned
with contempt by the money-holders and
bond-holders, their agents and servants,
in the most outrageous manner. Thank
God, their efforts have not been in vain,
for they are about to be crowned with
success.
The cries of a distressed people for
financial relief for the last twenty-three
years have been disregarded by those
who have been called upon to make the
laws and administer them in this country.
Their petitions have been ignored; their
cries have been in vain.
They have been assured over and over
again that the money question was mat
ter of little, if any, Importance, and those
who believed that it was of vital impor-
tance we're brushed aside, their advice ig-
nored, their appeals disregarded.
CIVILIZATIONS INTEREST.
OF all questions that have ever been
presented to any people in all the history
Of thesworld for consideration, the money
question is by far the most important,
because 1t lies at the very threshold of
civilization.
If our institutions are to be preserved
and the present civilization is to continue
it will only be through the right solution
of the money question.
No person can conceive of civiliza-
tion where individual rights and privi-
leges are protected and made secure
where there is no money.
Money, of whatever material made, is
the oil of commerce, the blood of trade,
and the civilizer of man. Without money
there can be no commerce or trade, ex-
cept such as is carried on by barbaric
people; there can be no home except the
home of the savages; there can be no
family ties except the family ties of the
barbarian; there can be no personal lib
erty except such as is secured by brute
force and there can be no civilization ex-
! oept the civilization of savagery.
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property and to pay debts and without it
neither can be done without the greatest
inconvenience to the people of civilized
communities.
Money is the creation of law and with
out law there can be no money except
such as is used by common consent. The
value of money, as such, in no sense de-
ponds upon the material out of which it
is made, but entirely upon the quantity
of it in circulation with respect to popu-
lation.
Money is purely domestic in its charac-
ter and it can not perform the function
of money outside of the limits of the
country where it is made except by com
mon consent, regardless of the material
out of which it is made. When the gold
and silver coin of the United States pass
beyond its borders, they not only cease
to be money, but are bought and sold by
weight and in all respects are treated as
commodities and not as money.
John Sherman and others of his ilk say
that they want our money to be 40 good
that it will circulate everywhere where
money is used, and they declare that no
money can do that except such as ls made
out of gold, and therefore they are in
favor Of the ''gold standard" because
gold is the money of the world. There
is no money of the world. There never
was and never will be any money of the
world until all the nations of the earth
become consolidated into one nation, q
thing that is never likely to happen.
Each nation must have money of it's
own and IL is a matter of no consequence
to any nation what the money of another
nation is. The money of one nation will
sell for Just as much In any other nation
on earth where the money is used as it is
worth in the country where IL is made,
less exchange.
The price of gold and silver bullion in
the United States under free coinage de.