Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-19
Many Of Them Applying for Reduced
! Rates to Their Homes.
QUOTATIONS FROM BRYAN'S SPEECHES
A Statement Issued by the Repub-
lican Committee.


transportation bureau is anxious to have all
persons who contemplate going home to
vote call at the committees Headquarters,
Hotel Normandie, corner 18th and streets
northwest before November l, and get
their orders for reduced rates. This re-
quest. il complied with, will expedite mat
tiers for all concerned, and prevent the
gathering Of a great crowd on the last day.
when some might not be able to get their
tickets In time
The committee has issued an unusually
large number of orders for tickets already.
1t is estimated that the number exceeds the
orders issued by the democratic committee
by at least IS per cent. indicating that that
many more republicans than democrats are
probably going home to vote.
Silver md Low Prices.
The republican congressional committee
has given out the following statement:
Mr.. Bryan has SO often eontended, in
this campaign, when addressing farmers
that the demonstration of silver was the
cause Of the low prices of their products
that he cannot well squirm out of that
position. OF course, the recent wonderful
rise In the price of wheat and the continued
decline Of silver Is extremely embarrassing
TO him. but he has burned his bridges and
he must stay with the crime of 1873 But
he was not always of the opinion that the
Crime was what reduced prices He put
Is own record in print in July 1894. In
little volume printed in Washington at that
time he included all his Set speeches de-
lvered IN Congress up to that date
In a speech delivered in Congress March
IL, 1892. he said-and over what he then
said when he compiled this little volume be-
lore referred to he placed the subhead
What Reduces Prices% But you must at
tribute 1t rather to the inventive genius
that has multiplied a thousand times in
c n ho atra 80
arm, and enabled US to do today with one
man what fifty men could not do fifty years
'fss5Os That Is what has brought the price
down In this country and everywhere Nc
suggestion there that the crime had any
thing to do with the case. The farmers
know that the planters. the cultivators and
the reapers which inventive genius has
given to them have multiplied many fold
the products of the SOIL and inevitably re-
Guced the prices of their products. So much
for this position on this subject before and
after taking presidential nomination.
Alleged IncOnsfstent Statements.
) "ApFn 10, 1884, he delivered another
speech in the House. in which there are
several statements with which his present
utterances are glaring!y inconsistent. For
Instance. he said: If l borrow thousand
dollars" today and next year pay that deb:
witt, q thousand dollars, which will secure
exactly as much of all things desirable as
the one thousand which 1 borrowed, l have
paid in honest dollars. If the money has
increased D" decreased in purchasing pow
er, l have satisfied my debt with dishonest
dollars. To borrow one thousand dollars
OF the gold standard purchasing power
three or four years ago and to pay that
debt next year with dollars which had
Shrunken TO 80 cents in purchasing power
under: tree coinage would be then to dis
charge that debt with dishonest dollars
Such the advocates of honest money be-
neve would be the result. Mr.. Bryan now
Wit Ito
free coinage of silver at the ratio of IL to
l would run the silver dollar I'D to a par
ity With gold. He expressed the same be-
ltsI IN mat speech, but not so positively
IN TACT, he discredited his alleged belief
'ip thsse words:
Who doubts that the free coinage of
silver by the United States would Increase
its bullion price? The only question is how
much. 1t is only guess, for no man can
state with mathematical precision what the
rise would be. 1t is because no ono
can speak with certainty that insist that
no change in the ratio can be intellirentIv
made until both metals are offered equal
privileges at the mint. When We have the
free and unlimited coinage Of gold and
silver at the Wesent ratio, then, and
then only, can we tell whether any of the
apparent decline in the bullion price of
siSvereis due to circumstances over which
we have no control, and, if SO, how much
es.H-,t No Experiment Now.
Then 1t was only guess. No man could
tell with mathematical precision what the
rise would be. Now there is no guess about
1T, eRryan tells you with thematical pre-
cisfon that free coinage will carry the bull
lion value up to $1.29 an ounce Then he
would have free coinage ascertain the ra-
ito between the two metals, and if this ex-
pertinent should demonstrate the necessity
Tor change of ratio it can easily be made.
No experiment about it now. The ratio
Is to be fixed at 16 to 1 as unalterably as
the laws of the Modes and Persians.
He also said in that same speech:
Among those In favor of bimetallism.
and in favor of Independent action on the
part of the United States, there is, how
ever. an honest difference of opinion as to
the particular ratio at which the unlimited
coinage of gold and silver should be under
taken. The principle of bimetaIlism does
not stand on any certain ratio, and NAV
exist at 30 to as well as to 49,
THAT remarkable admission would now
De considered rank heresy to the sacred
cause OF popocracy. These few references
to Mr.. Bryans own record are not all. by
any means, of the inconsistencies with
which 1t aaounds; but they are sufficient to
snow the good people what manner of man
II Is that comes among them casting as
perslons upon other mems records. There
never was more pronounced case of the
pot calling the kettle black