Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1896-10-08
70 REDEEM SILVER IN GOLD.
M. Bryan Calls Attention to Cariisles
Latest Statement.

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Our opponents are doing as much
for us in this campaign On we are able
Ia. do for ourselves. And OF all the pub.
lie documents recently issued the most
important one is the letter just given to
the public written by the secretary OF
the treasury, from which desire to
uuote one sentence, "It is the duty OF
the secretary Of the treasury and OF all
other public officials to execute in good
faith the policy declared by congress.
And mark these words, "And when
ever he shall be satisfied that the silver
dollar cannot be kept equal in purohas-
ing power with the gold dollar except
BY receiving it in exchange for tho gold
dollar, when such exchange is demand
ed, it will be his duty to adopt that
course.
Iwant to mark those words because
in those words the secretary of the treas
ury tells you that whenever the secre-
tary liz satisfied that it is necessary he
will ut once redeem silver dollars in
gold. I call your attention to that, my
friends, because I want to emphasize
| VQ0 Ol6C0pU1Cu budO A4o OoC4A pAesoSASS>s ~
this administration on the money ques-
ton.
When this administration advised the
repeal of the Sherman law, you were
told that the repeal ofsthat act would
remedy the difficulty. Yet as soon as
the Sherman law was repealed the same
authority which promised relief as soon
as it was repealed came to congress with
the demand that greenbacks and treas
ury notes must be retired by an issue
of gold bonds in order to stop the drain
upon the treasury's gold. But now the
secretary Of the treasury informs you
that even if the greenbacks and treasury
notes were all retired, SO that there
/ would not be dollar of paper money
to be presented for gold, yet it would be
his duty whenever, in his opinion, it
became necessary to redeem silver dol
lars in gold and start another endless
chain and drain upon the treasury. Ao-
cording to the doctrine laid down in
MI. Carlisle's letter you cannot stop the
drain of gold from the treasury until
you retire all the silver dollars and sill.
yer certificates and leave nothing but
gold as the money Of the country.
am glad that this declaration has
been made. / am glad that our OF
ponents are, step,by step, revealing te
the public eye this heartless, merciless,
criminal policy. am glad that they
have told the public that we must have
gold alone, and then confessed to thu
public that we are in the hands of two
banking syndicates and must pay then
for that gold whatever they want.
Talk about monopolies! Talk abou
trusts! My friends, they propose to es
tablish the most gigantic Of all trusts
money rrust-and let tho few men whit
hold the gold dole it out at such price
as they will to all the other 100000
Of free born American people. l de
nounce the policy as more cruel an,
heartless than political domination Of ;
foreign power. would rather, as SOM
one has said, put our army i'll the hand
Of foreign general or our navy in com
mand of a foreign admiral than to pu
the treasury department. in the hands o
a secretary who would barter it away II
syndicate. I would resist such g fnan
cial policy with as much earnestness a
I would resist the progress of an invad
ing army coming to attack our homes.