Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-17
lNGsRsOLL On SOUND MONEY
He Addres.c. 4 Large Audience.
in Chicago.
Better BE an Honest Bankrupt Inan
a Rich Thief--Better to Be Poor !
and Noble Than Rich
and Fraudwlent.

rh,o.,o Oct "a large and enthusi-
sstic ardience greeted Colonel hooeII
fnearsoll last evening and the enthusr
asm denote that his terse and expnciI
.tat ements and eloquent epigrams were
~ col. wanted. He said, In part:
"A piece az gold coined by the
ms,ns I, 500 years ago is just as goou :
day as though julius Caesar rooe
head of his legions. Since ina. my
darkness has fallen ovef the Roman
emnire and the empire has passed INTO
oblivion. but the gold coin SHINES as
brightly now as in Romes palms.
DAYS THAI is good money. but "he.
Won issue a bill or a note you "dhe
some good person behind IT, M"hes
that is money needs no guarantees"
needs no hacker, 1t Is always gooo' NO
matter how many nations go GOWN W
dust good money remain Forever
same. We have a man running v III"
presidency on three platforms WIN Nv"
vice presidents, who says money 70 '"o
creature of law. If the government can
make money by law, why shoui" 'm'
government collect taxes?
According to Mr.. Bryan our tatherS
were the friends of silver. And yet ou'
dear old fathers in all their lives ohiS
minted 5000. 900 of those sacred doilars'
Now see what the enemies OF e.iNei
have done. Since 1878 the enm.es OF siNer
have coined over 4S0, 100000 OF these dollars
and yet silver kept going down. we are
coming now over 100000 a month ahosl-
yer keeps going down.
'"senstor Jones of Nevada. in 1873, voted
for the law Of 1873. He sad from MS piace
n the senate God had mace gold the s'a""
ard. He sad that gold was the mo,her OK
civilization. Whether he has heara rom
God since or not | do not know bu' how
he IS on the other SIDE
Senator Stewart of Nevada. was there
at the same time. He voted for the act OF
1873 and sad that gold was the only stand
ard. He has changed his mind. 40 they
have sad of me, that | used to talk aSofh-
er way. 49,,
Let me tell you how / stood on th!s
question. Twenty years ago, at cooper
Union, IN the city Of New YORK, IN $780, 1
made a speech pom this subject among
others, and / want to just tell you what L
sad at that time and you VII see how
much / ave changed. .
Here is what / sa.d: I am in favor or
honest money. | am in favor or goid ana
silver. ! am IN favor OF paper win soIo
and silver behind It. ] believe in silver pe-
cause Il Is one of the great American pro-
ducts. and | am IN favor of anything mat
Will add TO the value of an American pro-
duct, but | want a silver dollar worth a
gold dollar even II you have to make Il four
feet ~ind.ameter.'
You would say my head was level, then.
No government can afford to be a clipper
OF coins. A great republic annot afford to
stamp a lie on silver or gold or paper. Hon
est money for an honest people, issued by
an honest nation. You cannot make a
paper dollar without taking a dollars
worth OF paper. We muset have paper tnat
represents money. / want II issued by the
government, and j want behind every one
Of those paper dollars either a dollar in
god or a dollar in silver worth 100 cents, 81
that every greenback under the flag can
TT up its head and swear L know hat my
redeemer liveth.' That was where ! was
twenty years ago, and that IS where l am
tonight For nations and individuals at all
times, everywhere and forever, honesty IS
the best policy.
Better be an honest bankrupt than a
t.ch thief. Poverty can hold in it's hand
honor, a jewel that outsh.nes all other
gems. A thousand times better be poor
and noble than rich and fraudulent.