The morning times., 1896-09-06
scRURz ANSWERS BRYAN
Critical Analysis Of the Lat
ter's Eastern Utterances.
SILVER MEANS DrsHoNoR
Has No Fear, However, That tho
American People VIII Allow Them
selves to He Deluded-Bryan's Elec-
tiop Would Deal a Death Blow to
Credit of Democratic Institutions

| Chicago. Sept. 5.-Hon. Carl schurz ad
dressed an audience OF $500 men anc
women tonight, all that Central Music Hal
could hold, and many went away for lacl
OF seats. He spoke ON the money issue
| Money League.
Mr. Schurz's anti Bryan and anti-silveI
arguments We're closely followed and his
| critical analysis OF Mr.. Bryan's utterances
! in the East was frequently appla uded. He
spoke substantially as follows:
have come from the East to the West
to speak TO you for honest money. 1 10
not Imagine, myself to he in an '.enemy's
country" There is to me no euenIy's,
country within the boundaries OF this
republic.
Wherever am among Americans, I
am among fellow-citizens and friends.
bound together-by common interests and a
common patriotism i n this fpirit ,Eall
discuss the question OF the day. ! tfaIi
not deal in financial philosophy. but in
dry facts.
There are sporadic discontents in the
country. partly genuine, partly produced
by artificial agitation They may be
specified thus:
There are farmers who complain of the
low prices OF agricultural products: Ia
boring mon complaining OF a lack OF re
munerativc employment: men in all sorts
OF ofpursuits complaining OF a general business
stagnation and or a scarcity of money
In some parts OF the country. especially
the South and West, there are many people
complaining of o want of capital and a
too high rate of interest.
CRY FOR MONEY.
The cry for money Is the favorite cry.
These are the principal and the most
uefInite complaints
1naJ there mas Deem a considerable fall in
the prices OF many articles since 1873 u
certainly true. but was this TALL caused
by the so-calied decentralization or silver
through the act OF 1873?
Now, not to speak OF other periods OF
Our history, such as the perlod from 1886
10 1851, everybody knows that there was
considerable tall in prices, not only as
stance dropped from 81 a pound, in s64. to
II cents, in lS71-but in many kinds OF
Industrial products, before 1873. What
happened before 1873 cannot have been
caused by what happened in 1873.
What does the ratio OF 16 to L. mean?
1t means that under the law sixteen ounces
OF silver shall be held TO lie worth one ounce
of gold. But are sixteen ounces Of silver
today worth one ounce or gold in the
markets or the world?
There is not sarc person in the United
States or anywhere else who would today
give one ounce or gold for sixteen ounces
or silver, knowing that lie can get more
than thirty-one ounces OF silver for one
ounce OF gold.
What. then. would free silver coinage
e would mean that anyone' american or or
foreigner, could at pleasure expand our
silver curreES and thereby increase our
public obligation by taking to our mints
silver bullion worth about 90 cents and
get back a silver dollar worth about vice
as much In its debt-paying power.
WILL COME TO THEIR SENSES.
We are told that the Bryan panic eau
not last forever; that finally the business
OF the country viii adjust itself to the
silver basis: that then unrest will Cease
and that Confidence and prosperity will
return. No. the unrest will not cease.
For with the establishment. of the silver
basis will come Ire disappointment OF those
who brought it on.
Fellow citizens. it Is a grave matter
matter OF vital importance to the ex-
istence Of this nation. The public men
who teach such moral principles to the
people educate the people for the con-
tempt and adherence OF mankind. The
cannot live. It will rot to death in the
loathsome stew OF its own corruption. II
the nation, accepting such moral prin-
ciples, be this republic 1t will deal
death-blow to the credit OF Democratic
institutious from which the cause OF free
government will not recO-er for centuries.
The American people will before election
day arrives, have fully discovered what all
this means They will Indignantly repel
the unSpeakahle insult offered To them by
the politicians who have dared to ask for
such bait They will know how to resent
the deep disgrace inflicted upop the nation
in the eyes OF the whole world by those
Americans who exhibited their own teller
that the American people were capable OF
taking such bait.