The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-05
BRYAN'S CREED.
The Cist of His Long Argument In a
Few Short Para
graphs.

I believe it will be a blessing TO the
United States to lose five hundred NIL
lions of gold.
l believe it will be n blessing TO the
United States to take half the purchas-
ing power out of it's five hundred millions
of silver dollars.
I believe il will he blessing for the
United States 10 take half the purchas-
ing power out of its billion dollars worth
of paper money.
| believe that To cut a dollar i'll two Is
To double its value
| believe that 30 cents is twice as mucn
as 100 cents
I believe that the farmer will DC better
off when hc sells half as much OF his
produce rs he does now at the same rate
| believe the farmer will be benehtted
by having to pay twice. rs much as he
does now for everything he does not raise
and must buy.
Since | hold that the farmer would be
better of if he sold half as muon as he
does now AT the same rate. II iG.ows
that | hold the farmer will be stu! Get
ter off if he sold quarter as much AS ne
does now ri the same rate.
Therefore. it follows that | hold II
would be better for the farmer il HI sold
nothing at all. but let his produce ros on
his farm.
hold that the city workingman would
be better off if he earned half rs much
as he does now.
I believe that all the widows md or
phans whose means of support is invest
ed in loans will be- blessed by getting
back 20 cents on the dollar their bread
| winners toilcd for 1T 100 cents IN the
! dollar and that they would be still bet
! Ter off if they had TO go to the poorhouse.
/ believe il would be blessing for D.
! OOO.U 900 depositors in savings banks who
have laid ND WN.OO0.0OO by toll at
! 100 cents to the dollar to get back half
/ the amount of their savings instead of
| the whole.
| hold that the country would be bet
ter off if half the value of the capital
| of the 1000 national banks. amounting to
| nearly S1OO.OOO.m0. were cXtinguished.
| 1t would help business all over the coun-
| try.
| I believe il would be n blessing on the
states of the American union if the 5000
100000 deposited by private persons in
| 1000 state banks were reduced to 30
| cents on the dollar or largely lost alto
! gether. This would encourage thrift and
| animate enterprise.
| | hold that the states would be fur
| thcr blessed if half of the $3.50. 100000
| capital in state banks were shrunken to
half their debt-paying power. This
would help the farmer.
| believe il would be blessing tc
| tDWnS III IHt UGt lIlSuTulltt GOUlll MES
| were so crippled that they could pay only
half the face value of risks.
| believe that it would fall like bene.
diction upon the holders of thirteen bill
lion dollars worth of life insurance. Oh
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.
believe. that it would be an en-
enlargement to home makers to know
| tbat Tho f,iI bnnIra1 and Effr u,iIlinr
dollars in building association share,
were to shrivcl 10 half their value.
| believe that. although owners OF
silver would not permit the metal To b,
coined into dollars for Americans wheI
il was worth moro to export than I,
coin, although coinage was free and I'M
| limited owners of silver are unselfisl
patriots in desiring to coin unlimited sill
yer into dollars now when they can ge
| chance to do so at twice the worth o
. the silver ut the market price and hal
the value in the dollars to the people.
| hold it to be Il solemn duty to tn
! 10000 invalds and the 100000 widow
, and orphans on the pension roll of tn
| nation tn deprive them of half tn
| amount paid each monthly. 1t will b
especially heroic for those who get alon
now on so II month to contrvc to liv
I OH s. q month.
! believe that it is better for the Unite
4 states 10 pTuuc uoWH WIN emma an
Mexico than M with Great Britain
= Germany. France, Austria-Hungary
! Holland. Belgium.
I. | mold that expulsion of all our COL
, and contraction of half our silver an
[ paper is expansion of our currency.
: I hold that the law of gravitation ca
: be suspended by act Of Congress.
l believe n financial quicksund is rocl
r bottom for II nation.
: / believe that the best way to build II
{ a country is to destroy it,
!. l believe my wife has more politics
2 sense than all the politicians in the cour
/, try. God bless both of us. Amen
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