The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-03
BRYAN'S CREED.
The Cist of Ills Long Argument In . Few Short Para
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I believe it will be blessing to the United States to lose five hundred mil lions of gold
 l believe it will be blessing to the United States to take half the purchas- ing power out of its five hundred millions of silver dollars.
 United States to take half the purchas- ing power out of its billion dollars worth of paper money.
 I believe that to cut dollar in two is to double it's value. believe that 50 cents is twice as much as 100 cents. believe that the farmer will be better off when he sells half as much of his produce as he dees now at the same rate l 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 would be better off if he sold half as much as he does now at the same rate. it follows that l hold the farmer will be still let ter off if he sold quarter as much as he does now at the same rate.
 Therefore, it follows that I hold it would be better for the farmer if he sold nothing at all, but let his produce rot on his farm.
 I hold that the city workingman would be better off if he earned half as much as he does now.
 1 believe that all the widows and or ed in loans will be blessed by getting back 50 cents on the dollar their bread winners toiled for at 100 cents in the dollar. and that they would be still bet ter off if they had to go to the poorhouse.
 1 believe it would be a blessing for D. II. have laid up $2,0O0,OOO,00O by toll at 100 cents to the dollar to get back half the amount of their savings instead of the whole.
 l hold that the country would be bet ter off if half the value of the capital of the 400O national banks, amounting to nearly $TO0.00O,OO0, were extinguished It would help business all over the coun- try.
 I believe it would be a blessing on the states of the American union if the S60O,- 100000 deposited by private persons in 4OOO state banks were reduced to 50 cents on the dollar or largely lost alto gether. This would encourage thrift and animate enterprise.
 1 hold that the states would be fur ther blessed if half of the $25O, ,OOO, GOO capital in state banks were shrunken to half their debt-paying power. This Woulu Help tuc IuTmeT.
 l believe it would be a blessing to towns if the fire insurance companies were so crippled that they could pay only half the face value of risks.
 l believe that it would fall like a bene- diction upon the holders of thirteen bill lion dollars worth of life insurance, on which they had paid 100 cents to the dol lar, to learn that they can realize only 30 cents on the dollar of their policies.
 l believe that it would be an en- couragement to home makers to know that the four hundred and fifty million dollars in building association shares were to shrivel to half their value.
 I believe that, although owners of silver would not permit the metal to be coined into dollars for Americans when it was worth more to export than to coin, although coinage was free and un- limited, owners of silver are unselfsh patriots in desiring to coin unlimited sil- yer into dollars now when they can get a chance to do so at twice the worth of the silver at the market price and half the value in the dollars to the people.
 I hold it to be q solemn duty to the S0O,OO0 invalids and the 22O,OOG widows and orphans on the pension roll of the nation to deprive them of half the amount paid each monthly. It will be especially heroic for those who get along now on $1O n month to contrive to live on So a mOnth-
 I believe that it is better for the United States to grade down with China and Mexico than up with Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria H ungary, Holland, Belgium.
 l hold that expulsion of all our gold and contraction of half our silver and paper is expansion of our currency.
 I hold that the law of gravitatiOn can be suspended by act of Congress-
 I believe financial quicksand is rock bottom for nation.
 believe that the best way to build up a country is to destroy it.
 believe my wife has more political sense than all the politicians in the coun- try. God bless both of us. Amen.- Chicago Times Herald.
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