The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-04
BRYAN'S CREED.
The GIst of His Long Ar yument In a
Few Short Para
graphs

I believe IL will he blessing 10 the
United States TO lose five hundred mil
lions of gold.
believe il will Ire blessing 10 the
United States Is take half the purchas-
ing power ont of it's five hundred millions
of silver dollars.
| believe il will hc n blessing for the
United States To take half the purchas-
ing power ont of its billion dollars worth
of pager money
I believe that To cut a dollar in two is
to double its value.
believe that 20 ccrts il twice as much
as 100 cents
believe that the farmer will - better
off when he sells half as much of his
produce as he does now al the same rate.
believe the farmer will be benefited
. by having to pay twice as much as he
does now for everything he does not raise
and must buy.
Since ! hold that the farmer wonld he
better off If he sold half as muCn M he
does now at the same rate. II lCF1ws
that I hold the farmer will be still bet-
ter off if he sold quarter as much as be
does now at the same rate.
Therefore. it follows thai ] hold il
would be better for the farmer il he sold
nothing at all, but let his pro1uce rot on
his farm.
I l hold that the city workingman would
be better off if he earned half as much
as he does now.
| believe that all the widows and or
phans whose means of support is invest
ed in loans will he blessed by getting
back 80 cents ON the dollar their bread
/ winners tOiled for at 100 cents i'm the
dollar. and that they would be still bet
ter off III they had 10 go 10 the poorhouse
believe il would be a blessing for g.
100000 depOsitOrs i'm savings banks who
have laid up $1,000. 100000 10y toll at
100 cents to the dollar to get suck half
the amount OF their savings instead of
the whole.
/ bold that the country would be bet
4 ter off if half the value of the capital
of the 1000 national banks. amounting to
| nearly S1OOOOO. 900, were eXtinguished
/ II would help business all over the coun-
| try.
believe II would he blessing on the
states of the American union il the $780,
100000 deposited by private persons in
1000 state banks were reduced TO 80
cents ON the dollar or largely lost alto
! gethef. This would encourage thrift and
| animate enterprise.
| hold that the states would be fur
ther blessed if half of the $3.50. 000, 900
capital in state banks were shrunken to
half their debt-paying power. This
| would help the farmer.
believe ii would be blessing TO
| towns if the fire insurance companies
were 80 crippled that they could pay only
| half the face value of risks.
believe that ii would fall like bene-
| diction upon the holders of thirteen bill
| lion dollars worth of life insurance. on
| which they had mai 100 cents to the dol
| lar. 10 learn that they can realize only
30 cents on the dollar of their policies
| | believe that IL would he an en-
| cOura cement 10 home makers to know
that the four hundred and fifty million
dollars in building association shares
were TO shrivel to half their value.
believe that. although owners of
| silver would not permit the metal 10 he
coined into dollars for Americans when
| il was worth more TO export than to
| coin. although coinage was free and nm
| limited. owners of silver are unselfish
patriots in desiring TO coin unlimited sill
| yer into dollars now when they can get
| chance 10 do so at twice the worth of
the silver at the market price and half
| the value in the dollars TO the people.
| hold il TO be n solemn duty 10 the
100000 invalids and the 100000 widows
! and orphans on the pension roll of the
nation to deprive them of half the
amount paid each monthly. Ii will be
especially heroic for those who get along
now on SO month to contrive to live
on S. a month
/ believe that IL is better for the United
States to grade down with China and
Mexico than ~ with Great Britain.
Germany. France, Austria Hungary,
Holland. Belgium.
hold that expulsion of all our gold
and contraction of half our silver and
paper is expansion of our currency.
| hold that the law of gravtation can
be suspended by act of Congress.
/ believe a financial quicksand is rock
bottom for nation.
believe that the best way to build IN
country is to destroy IL.
/ believe my wife has more political
sense than all the politicians in the coun-
try. God bless both of us. Amen
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