Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-07-25


d4nendently Of any other nation on
earth. BY what process of reasoning IS
its right authority or ability to leS.slate
upon this, the most important subject
With which it has to deal, questioned or
denied? With a nation equal in wealth,
/ II 1olly TO say that we must ask the
permission of Great Britain to estabHsh
and maintain a financial policy OF our
own. Believing as we do that return
to the monetary system especially recoS-
| nzed in the constitution and completely
provided for by law from 1892 until 1893
affords the only ground of hope for the
betterment of the distressed conditions
of all the classes except those who live
by the increment that money loaned gives
to those who loan t, we appeal to the
classes to rally to the support Of the only
candidates whose success indicates any
hope of any relief
LET the merchant and business man
whose dwindling and lessened profits
have. despite his care and economy,
brought him face to face with prospect
i've bankruptcy and ruin, the profession
III man, whose best efforts scarcely af-
ford him compensation for his Ia bor
alone, the farmer, the continually falling
nrices of whose products have left him
no returns for capital invested and WORK
performed; and last, but not least let
the grand army of labOring men
called the artisan, the mechanic, and the
miner and every one who depends upon
his daily labor for his daily bread, look
about him and observe the great number
of those VINO vainy seek for chance to
work upon the great army of enforced
oilers, and one and all resolve to try
not III experiment. for bimetaliism is not
AZ experiment. but rather a return 70
a policy that throughout the vicSsitutdcs
Of our nations infancy, through the in
arna apir ctr Ia of m <An
us a great, free and prosperous nation, in
which labor was not only respected ant
employed. but was so compensated that
want and distress, such as now weigh
upon us, was unknown.
Let the lesson Of history too recent
and too plain to be gansaid or denied,
be Needed and let there be no fear that
q system that so wonderfully protected
labor. developed business enlerDrise and
secured to the nation a contented and
prosperous people in the past Will do
1ught but Drlng to a return Of like
prosperity. the predictions Of disaster of
our opponents to the contrary notwirh
standing.
In Mr. Bryan the Chicago convention
placed at tho head Of its ticket 4 gentle
man Of exceptional ability ard of high
.llaractcr. No man of his age was bet
ter known throughout the United States
than he as a member Of congress. For
md respect of all his associates in thlt
body a scholarly statesman and
profound thinker. No man had ever as
sailed mis- character Jr in any way
questioned his integrity or moral worth
His character is fit example for the
Young men Of this country. He has
shown in AL his public utterances that
he loves his countrymen and symp2-
thiZes with them in their distress. He has
lso shown that he believed the financial |
system which makes gold the standard |
If value was in a great degree the cause |
of the depression and financial distress |
revalent throughout the land; that the |
ond;ton now existing will continue |
while the present monetary system lasts, |
nd that he would fain return to the use |
f both gold and silver as they We're used 1
prior to 1873, and he has proposed such |
hange of the financial system by the |
usual constitutional methods. Such WAS |
he character and such the political oDin |
IONS of the candidate known to his coun |
rymen who by their representatives in |
convention selected from every state IN |
he Union, have put him in nomination |
or the highest office within the gift of |
ne American peop'e.
This is critical period in our history. |
Industrial and financial independence and |
5ther nations are involved in this cam
oaign and we firmly believe there Will be |
70 return 10 prosperity until We have
changed our financial system SO as to
"estore the bimetalic system established |
by the fathers of the republic, and 50
We urge all friends of gold and |
liver standard money and the opponents
of a single gold standard to give Bryan
md SeWalI their hearty support.
IN advising this course, we do not
onsider it necessary that they shall
bandon or surrender their political
-;ews on other questions
/,
Dortance of the issues Of this campaign
or ourselves and our associates, we re-
pectfully submit the foregoing to the
andid consideration of the American
Deople.
"HENRY NJ. TELLER,
erred r. DUBOIS,
LEE MANTLE,
"CHAS. HARTMAN,
"EDGAR WILSON.
JOHN SHAFROTH,
"A. NJ. STEVENSON,
"Committee.