The record-union., 1896-09-13
WAITi WAIT! WAIT!

went on to say that if silver can be
driven out of the United States it can
be driven out of all other nations. AS If
any one wants to drive silver out Of the
United States; as if anyone ever pro-
posed or dreamed Of such thing; as if
there are not as good friends of the
white metal opposing the Bryan plan as
there are friends Of the metal favoring
the plan Of the boy orator. But let the
candidate speak for himself:
Wait until these influences, wait until
these heartless, merciless influences
have driven silver from here and they
will turn to other nations. Wait until
they have driven silver from India and
2o0, 100000 of people reach out after
their share Of the worlds supply Of gold.
Wait until they have driven silver from
China and 35O,0O0,000 Of people reach
out after their share Of the worlds sup
ply. Wait until they have driven Japan
to the gold standard and Mexico and
South America, and then you will put
gold on the auction-b block and every
toiler under the sun will bow to it and
work on a little harder and get little
less of the yellow metal.
If people wait until those things come
to pass, Bryan will be older than Me-
thuselah, and the nation viii outnumber
the years of the centuries of time. Sill
yer is not going to be driven out. No
body wants to drive it out. No one
wants it to be cheap and degraded
money. No one wishes it's reasonable
volume Of circulation to be reduced or
circumscribed.
But seriously, and wea ppeal to the
eyer such an example of fiorid rhetorical
bosh as this wait, wait, wait" plant Of
Mr.. Bryan? Apply to it the simplest
rules of reason and experience and see
how it will stand the test. If this is the
full measure of the intellectual power
of Mr. Bryan, then Mr.. Irish is right
when he says the boy orator would not
recognize a syllogism if he met 1t in
broad day in the middle of the road.
We had thought Irish merely sarcastic,
but we really begin to believe that he
has sized up Bryan to his full intel
lectual stature.
Now let anyone look into the sta
tistical works and examine the facts
which establish this truth; in the United
States maintaining the integrity Of sill
yer so that "a cents Of bullion when
coined actually buys a 100 cents worth
of necessaries or luxuries, we have
So SO Of silver per capita, while Mexico
where the dollar has just half the pur-
chasing power as that Of the United
States, the per capita is but 81 54
France with a gold standard has S12 "A
of silver per capita, while Japan with
the single silver standard has but 81 %
and China 81 0S.
Germany has S4 20, though she has
not the single silver standard, while
Holland with the gold basis has S12 10
of silver per head, and India, which is
on silver basis, only has but So Il, and
Switzerland with the gold basis has So.
South America is a single or silver
of silver is but SO cents, while Great
Britain has 50 So of silver per capita,
to 81 IA in Central America where they
have silver only.
Mr.. Bryan is doing the silver cause
injury by his foolish speeches, such as
that from which the above quotation is
made. We mean the real cause of sill
yer, namely the bimetallic cause. For
no true citizen wishes the single gold or
the single silver standard to dominate,
but stands for a financial system that
will keep gold and silver money Of the
nation upon a parity, and upon pre-
ciseIy that line of desire the plan of the
Record Union proceeds which we
have repeatedly set forth in these
columns.