The record-union., 1896-08-28
BRYAN AND BIBLE METAPHORS.
Rev. DR.. Gunsaulus Says Other
Biblical Phrases Are Pertinent.

Biblical Phrases Are Pertinent.
A dispatch to the New York Sun
from Plymouth, Mass, on August Goth,
says:
The Republicans of Plymouth opened
the political campaign this evening in
Standish Guards Armory with a large
crowd present. The Hon. E. B. At
wood presided, and the Rev. DR.. Frank
w. Gunsaulus. President of Armour
Institute in Chicago, made the princi-
pal address.
Let none suppose that Mr.. Bryan's
metaphors have exhausted the Bible.
There are other phrases in the Bible
which might be used in the discussion
that was commenced at Chicago in ad-
dition to those which Brother Bryan
used at the close of his remarkable
Grafton. OF one thing we may be sure,
the patriotic ministers of this land
nave some other purpose in the use of
the Crown of Thorns and the Cross of
the Nazarene than conjuring up with
such sacred emblems the unholy
spectres of dishonor and revolution
Cheap money always gets into the
hands of the poorer classes On the
other hand the richer classes get hold
of the larger and more intrinsicany
valuable coins, and the result is that
the land is infested with an abomina-
ton, as the Scripture calls it, The only
remedy for this matter seems to be the
remedy in the Divine commandment,
'Ihou shall have perfect and just
weight
The campaign has been most ap-
propriate1y opened and prosecuted
since that baleful day in July when
I1llman and Altgeld and Hogg of Texas
leaped into the tattercd saddle of false
Democracy and headed this bewildered
steed toward public anarchy and ma
ticnal disgrace. Nothing but boy
orator would have been capable of
capturing that runaway convention, in
whose whirling wheels and beneath
whose heavy feet the craftsmanship of
Hill and Villas and Russell and Whitney
had already been broken to pieces.
Il recommend the election of Major
Mckinley most strongly because l be-
lleVe in what is praised as the money
or the Constitution I want to see the
triumph of the dollar of our fathers
But l would say that when man
come to me with only fifty cents worth
of silver duly stamped and profanely
Inscribed In God we Trust and asks
me to take it and palm it off on some
body else as the dollar of our daddies,
to be received by somebody else for a
dollars worth of something I want
that he has-I say that I decline to ioin
in the swindle, and I proclaim this to
him: Sir, my daddies and the daddes
OF this nation were not that kind of
men Silver has become cheaper, but
moral standards have not; American
manhood has not
IT we are willing to be false in coin
we will be false in our life and in our
destiny throughout. No rock in the sea
is so perilous as crew on board will
ing to place a fiction at the rudder and
to rely for a haven on g fog bank of sill
very falsehood. We have been ad-
vised not to let the money power con-
troll this election. The most dangerous
Of hitherto proud trusts and monopo-
lies which have fattened at the ex-
pense Of the whole people and the pub
lie credit is the American silver oil
sarchy. Mr.. Bryan tells US in various
phrase that he indorses the Chicago
Conventions attitude of attack upon
the rich. OF course, on our way back
TO barbarism, if we must go, we will
get rid of all our rich people. Every
body becomes poor and things are lev
eled. till we get back to the hour when
the original American begins his ex-
changes in wampum. Down with the
| rich" is their outcry. / say Up with
the poor!' is the nobler watchword-the
war cry of this campaign for the honor
of the poor mans money.
There is something more than true
monetary standard exposed to peril in
this contest. 1t is cur national flag
My friends, if a silver miner can get
something out Of the ground, fifty
| three cents worth of which he can take
to the mint and get a dollar for it, why
can't you take fifty-three cents worth
of labor to some Government factory
and say: Here, I'm like the silver man.
l have some Of this uncoined article to
sell. I want a dollar for this much of
it. Why can't you get your dollar?
We have heard a good deal lately
about declaring the independence of
America from England
1T may be right to despise England
because she prefers an honest dollar to
dishonest one but let us make it sure
that our craftsmanship is at least COM
| prehensive and true as the statesman
| ship of her Alfred and Cromwell, her
Russell and Edmund Burke Then viii
| it be worthy of Washington and Adams,
Thomas Jefferson
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