The herald., 1896-11-01
THE ISSUE

The candidate of the Democratic party
for president, William Jennings Bryan,
is a man of high character and great
moral worth. He Is patriotic, sincere
and scholarly, and he is actuated in all
things by lofty sentiment. He is en-
phatically a man of the people. All his
life his aim has been to help establish
more satisfying conditions of life for the
people. Whatever he says and does is
on principle. He consented to- go to con-
gress for the field it would give him to
battle against the advance of capital ag
gregations upon the constitutional
rights of the people. He would give cap
ital every needed protection against hos
tile attacks upon it's rights, and he would
deny the right of capital to trespass
upon the rights of the people. His high
est purpose Is to strengthen, broaden
and deepen the highways and channels
Of opportunity that all the people may
participate without let or hindrance in
the business activities of the times for
their individual good. He is broad
enough to contemplate and provide for
the well-being of the people, and mar
rowenough to deny the right of the gov
ernment to discriminate against or in
favor of any class or individual to the
hurt of another class or individual. In
all the walks of public and private life
he is a manly man.
In his advocacy Of the free and un-
limited coinage of silver. Mr.. Bryan is
moved by sense of duty to the public.
He honestly believes, as do millions OF
his fellow citizens, that owing to the de-
monetization of silver, and the conse
quent reduction Of the volume of the
peoples circulating money medium. the
money syndicates have been enabled to
send out into and withdraw from the
fields of commerce and industry the
money of the country. thus placing at
their mercy every business interest. He
realizes, as do all the productive
agencies of the country, that the peo-
pie can have no substantial prosperity
so long as a few men have 1t in their
power to prevent a sufficiency of money
circulating among business enterprises
to meet even their pressing require
ments. With such power lodged in the
hands Of few spectators. prices of the
products of labor and skill are neces-
sarily subject to their purpose, which is,
do SFGhto III thC ioSt Qooi tCi VI q SCA-
tury show, to constantly reach for lower
levels of value, but maintaining the
highest price possible for the use of
money. 4
Mr.. Bryan would remedy this evil by
reinstating silver as redemption money,
thus increasing the volume of the coun-
try's circulating money to where the
requirements of legitimate business
would be met upon the basis of the de-
sire of money to find profitable employ
ment in active commercial life, instead
of as mere loanable thing of insufficient
quantity to be doled out by money rings
with the one purpose of making produc-
ers pay the utmost that can be exacted
of them for its hire. The whole purpose of
those who are called free silverites" is
to provide way toextricate the business
interests of the country from the brutal
and avaricious grasp of money lenders,
and since silver is by the authority of
the Almighty one of the two money
metals which He has created for mans
use in his business life, the "silverites"
insist that the people shall have that
which the Creator provided for their
good. The battle is between the pur.
pose and desire Of the Eternal and those
who would enslave the sons and daugh-
terS of the source Of all good,