News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-08-06
How Would 1t Affect Yon2


orally of the great profit there would
be to this country in the adoption of
their policy. But let every man stop
to think of what the consequences
would be to him individually, whether
he would lose or gain by the substitu-
ton of the silver standard for the
gold standard That is a practical
way to put their talk to a test.
Are you living on a salary or on
wages? How is it going to help you
to decrease the value of the dollar by
nearly one-half? You will have to
pay double for everything you buy.
The same amount of money will go
only half as far as now. Hence, you
will be cheated out of half your in
come, unless the silveriteS can double
your salary or wages. Do you really
expect any such increase? Has there
been any precedent for such sudden
change in wages SO enormous, and
where and when was it? Do you i'm
agine for a moment that if your sal
airy is now $500 year, or your daily
wages give you that yearly income,
your Employer is going to put them
up to 81, 900 if Byran is elected and
his silver policy established? In the
course of years you might look for
ward to the probability of some in
crease, but at best, as all experience
shows it would be long delayed, and
it would be much less than the adj
vance in the price of living, which
would be immediate.
Your case is the case of all those
who receive salaries or are paid wages,
and they include the great majority
of the population. Are these mil
lions of people going to vote for
Bryan at so great cost to their pock-
cts? 1t would be an expensive vote
for every man who gave it.
Have you laid by something in a
savings bank? If SO, you are one of
about five million such depositors in
the United States. Last year their
number was exactly 4,8755I9, and
the total of their deposits was S1,8Io,-
597,o23 or an average to each depos-
itor of $37I.26. That is a great num-
Der of people, and the aggregate of
their deposits is enormous. If Mr..
Bryan's plan of paying off in silver
standard money is adopted, they will
all lose nearly one-half of the present
value of their deposits. The money
in the savings banks will 60 only
about one-half as far as now. 1t will
be pretty costly for savings bank
depositor to vote for Bryan, you see
1t will be a big contribution of money
in order to crafty his ambition of be,
coming President.
We might go on thus through all
business, all trade, and every profes
sion. We might make the same in.
quiries Of everybody whose life is in.
sured or who is in building or bene
fit association, every man who has
money accumulated, and every man
who is working for money in any oc
cupation. The questions we have
asked could be changed in detail SC
as to apply to them all, and the an
swers would always tell the same
story Of loss. The actual money cos
of the election of Bryan would be
heavy to every one of them.
Is it not astounding, then, that Bryan
has the assurance to ask the people
to make a sacrifice SO great individ
ually and so enormous in IT'S aggre
gate to enable, him to get possession
of the White House for the fou
years from the 18th of next March?
Think, then, of the effect that sill
yer policy would have on yoursel
personally, and don't waste your tim,
in listening to the general promises o
its advocates. The true way to ties
it is to dissipate the cloud of boastfu
t and deceiptful rhetoric with whicI
Bryan and his fellow political speculat
ors seek to surround it. 1t offers
very simple question for every maj
to settle for himself by the applica
ton of common sense merely. A pre-
found knowledge Of finance is not ne
ceSsary to solve that problem.
you know enough to know the wort
, of a dollar you are competent to de
eide the question for yourself.-N. y
Sun.