The American guide., 1896-08-08

can to accept that dollar run through our
mints as an exchange price Tor iuo cents
worth OF product Of American toii.
To-day that Mexican brings his silver
dollar In, he takes II to our mint anu ne
takes out 50 cents worth of our wheat or OF
our manufactured goods. Tomorrow uhaer
free coinage he brings 1t to the mih.; ~
cents worth of the product Of your toll. ne
II In his norket 10 make another dollar with
and without EXPENSE Under that law this
government hands him back his silver uoi-
lar, with 4 law attached which autnorises
him to demand from you In exchange w
cents worth OF the product OF your tor. iie
brings 50 cents worth OF silver nv the
country. he takes out dollar OF American
labor In exchange. My counttynen. NJ. M.
is no financial iegerdemhlh about tiiis. Thnt
man takes oil twice as mitch as he brought
Into the cohntry. and soniebody lays MN
for doing It.
Mine Owners Seeking Benefit.
.'Whb asks this silver coinage? Who Is y
that ia to be benefited thereby? The great
silver bonanza kings Of the United states
in 1896 produced, at coinage value, ABOUT
sG2, 900, 900 of American silver. The great
silver producers Of the rest OF the woiIu
produced In the same year s2oS,oV,No' com
age value of silver bullion. Tha' IS com
modify to-day in the civilized world. lneir
proposition to you is that you shall take all
that silver at the mint-not at the price that
they can obtain In the open market-cS
cents per ounce-but that you shan take II
you, the people, We the peopie-ahu ti'n
them back 81. y for every ounce they can
produce, for every ounce that is IN thc
mines now opened for every ounce that
fills the heart OF the great mountains OF ms
country, OF Mexico. OF British Coiu''o'"'
and OF South America.
sAv ont,ntrvtnpn. who hnH mate tfilt
silver cumpalgnf For three years ana
half this land has been flooded with literat-
ure. For three yeats and half orators
have been going up and down the country
asking the people to take free silver OH the
promise that, theft products would greatly
Increase. Who has made This campaign
And who Ia behind M II our mints are
opened to the free coinage OF siisor anu
silver appreciates to Its old Standard as
they insist It will. It means on the present
production an absolute gift by the Ameri-
can people OF sSl, ,O01, ,0n0 year to the silver
producers of the United States alone, 1t
means an absolute gift by the American
people on the basis OF the present produc-
tlon OF 100000 to the silver producers OF
the world.
why the silver producers Of the United
statcs? know a mine In Idaho that Will
take ar a ~ sample, In lsss u was sold
to a great f7eign syndicate for three mil
lions and a half Of money, In three years
they took ouJof that one mine six millions
nnd half ol silver. They took II out as
the properttlof foreign subjects, ana al
most every Acat silver mine OF thiH coun-
try to-day IN a stock concern, and ma
jority Of all Its stock has been noated on
the other sidd OF the water. tApplause'I
who HAs Carrie bh the silver Campaign
''who has carried on this great silver
IN r..
dItIon Of the people has been such as TO
make them easy subjects for this presentn-
ton. who has made this plausible and Won
dorful promise Of something for nothins!
Who has been carrying 1t on' have NOT
come here to-day to say one UNJUST WORD
against any living man. but the people OF
this country b. fight to know AS TO
whether or M great advocates Of tree
silver are car on this campaign out of
love for the u lras the hired employees
OF that grea II bonanza institution
which Is ask % American people to
double the VI. ts silver output, Why
this opening mints to the free coin
age OF thu me1al3 On the nth day OF July.
JSa6. a dcmdratic paper, the Chicago
Chronicle, thy one great democratic sheet
of tho northvNst, published this In double
loaded type d It's editorial pugei
"rhe prof| |ietors OF the big bohanzas
hive found profitable to keep a large
lumbcr OF talors, lecturers and other
spokesmen oG the road preaching to the
people. Ampkx the many who hiive thus
hecn rmployeU and carried on the pa. rolls
OF the big b<-anza for number Of years
n William d. bryan. of Nebraska-lh Kisses
And appiahstk ID paid agent aud spokes-
man for the Zee silver combine.
THAT chake was thus publicly, spc-
f,oally, direct made on the nth day Of
Jw BY one pf the gteatest democratic
ne spapers the Uniled States. In the
eli, Of Z. william J. Bryan
does editorial the Omaha World
Herald, the paper there. the
omaha Bee. hat specific charge
edit rally tint again. II has never
been met
~ do not y here to say an unkind
thing Of MI an. I do not stand here 10
pay that thae ould be any reason why the
peopie of thIJcountry should not vote for
him. You mutt decide that for yourselves
nut what I ID say as an American citizen,
huyin al henlt the welfare OF this people
do say that hat man. posing as the advo-
cate OF tho tiowntroddcn masses OF his
countryJnen, holding n crown OF thorns IN
one hand and tho buEaboo OF gold cross
In the other--I say THAT man owes II AS a
euty to every man abd child in this coun-
try TO say wissthsp that charge Is false or
whether IL IL truN. fGreat applause,l do
say, my countrymen-and know whereof
I speak-thatl for three years and half
without regari 10 bryan. there has been
h selected cofps Of orators and writers.
paid employees Of the silver producers,
spreading thcl; literature ovet this country
from one end to the other, telling the farmer
that he will have more for his wheat, tell
ing the laboring man that he VIII have
more for his work. | wish | could talk to
you Eve hours and q half to-day In order
TO reach all OF these hereslcs,
Prosperity undsr Republican Rule.
at Is true that we are In the midst Of n
grcAt time OF depression and idlcnoss and
staEnation. 1t IL true that to-day 2,ep.Wo
men In the United States are Out Of en-.
pioyment. IT'S also true that every one OF
those men, up TO the last hour that the re-
publican party ran this government, has
an open place for a days work, lGrcat
''ln the city Of Chicago tho other after.
noon man begged Of me a penny TO buy
bread. iio told me that -four years ago he
worked In the Illinois steel works at $3.50
eey ttrfameday In the city OF pes
Moines, Ia, n Farmer took back a wagon
load Of potatoks Ne could not md any
body to buy them. What Is the troubleY
I- IL free silver, The opening OF our mlnts,
the putting Of the credit Of this country
In the worlds supply cf silver. the attempt
TO make something out OF nothing, tho Oh
story Of "a cents on the doilnr-is that the
trouhlc' -Four years ago that beggar In
Chicago was the customer Of the potato
man In Iowa. -Four years ago he had
money In his pocket. He bought bread
htufis and nlled his stomach to its fuil
To-day he has got nothing inside but
wrinkles lI.auHhter.l Empty stomachs
are not good markets for American prod
ucts lliRuRhtr.l
To-day they ask you people OF this coun.
try to taae free silver. because they sny
that all debtors can pay their debts at half
price. Who are the debtors OF this country
I wish ! had time to read you this state
mcnt-lshowns paper,l There are In this
country % life Insurance companies and $50
assessment life insurance companies. They
have policies on your lives and on mine,
What man do ! SEQ before mo who has not
for years been Investing his little surplus
earnings. what he could get. In the lie In.
aurance policy money that In the hour OF
reed, w.t.. he was borne to his last home
a tta h.s "a Loo ls hal mazda sat dtanluiR a