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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-10-30
Bryan for Fiat Money.

Bryan 1OE H10V money
EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER.
Mr.. Bryan at heart cares nothing for
he free coinage Of silver: Mr. Bryan
and he is only using the free coinage
IF silver to arrive at that finally. This
ID serious charge to make, but If
cannot prove it will apologize publicly
Tor it.
In the September number Of the .Arena
Just last month-there Is an article on
he currency by Mr.. Bryan, In which
asing bonds in time of peace, and espe-
He says: "When the United States,
without waiting for the aid or consent
Of any other nation, opens its mints to
The free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of
l6 to / it will bring real relief to its peo-
lion of bimetallism throughout the world.
1t will then be prepared to perfect its
financial system by furnishing paper
money invested with legal tender quail
ties and sufficient in volume to supply
the needs of the government. Its paper
money will not be loaned then to favor.
ties, but will be paid out in the expenses
Of government, SO that oil may receive
The benefits"
This is fat money, pure and simple:
Mr.. Bryan proposes to stop taxation and
pay the expenses of the government by
printing fat money. This government
once launched upon that boundless sea
would as certainly fall and 60 down as
lid the French republic. which was set
Up at the close of the last century by
lot of theorists and revolutionists.
They issued during a few years forty
thousand millions Of francs of fiat money
called assignats and mandats. They
gave legal-tender quality to it, but
while it could pay debts they could
not compel people to take it in pur-
chase. In other words, they could give
legal-tender quality to the money, but
they could not give purchasing power
to it. From day to day it was issued,
hntil finally it all disappeared as utterly
worthless. Not single franc of it was
ever paid or redeemed, and the people
who had parted with their property
for it were rendered paupers. Their
property was gone and the money they
| aad received was valueless.
Shall this be a lesson to us? And
nn we contemplate the probability of
putting into power as President of the
| United States a man who holds such
views? In my humble opinion there is
out one way to bring us back to prosper
ty and to the path of progress, and that
8 to return to the system of admins
ration which has been of such great
n that path, to follow the lamp of ex-
,erience. To do that every true, honest
American citizen, without distinction OF
party, should unite in this attempt ut
.estoration. and should by an overwhelm-
ng majority stamp out now and forever
he heresy and the folly of cheap and
aebased currency.
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An Assault on the National Govern.
ment.
DON NJ. DICKINSON,

Let us see what confronts us. What
is this free government that we hear
about from the rostrum only OCCASION
ally on the Fourth of July and gala
days? But word about this funda-
mental expression. Up to the estab-
lishment Of the American government,
governments had failed on the face of
fhe earth for the object for which gov
crnments are formed.
The theory is that this is the best
government and the only free govern
ment which achieves for the people
the largest amount of happiness, COM
fort and prosperity for the greatest
ors, lodging absolute power of legisla.
ton, the execution of laws, and all
Judgment upon laws in one man, and
It failed; tie people were oppressed
and made serfs. They tried then oil
garchy, "a government of many men;
Il failed for the purposes for which it
was founded; so that all monarchy and
ali systems and every republic in the
world had failed when our fathers
formed the United States. of America
and gave US place in the family Of
nations. (Applause.)
What was the peculiar part of the
government which promises permanency,
which promises republican or demo;
cratic form of government, that could
i've? It was this: We established 9
legislature to make laws, congress; VIC
limited the powers of that legislature by
written constitution-thus far, Mr.
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buttons, who represents neither the old
heroic South ne Too ouI Gor1ou ond

!utions, who represents neither the old
heroic South of Lee and Gordon and
Buckner and Hampton, nor the new
South of enterprise and energy and activ-
ity and increasing manufacture, stood
up in the Chicago convention and pro-
claimed new sectional issue, the South
and the West against the North and the
East. A new sectional issue between the
North and the South! Why, God forbid!
Illinois sent out the flower of her man.
hood to the nations battlefield under
Grant and Logan and Oglesby and Palm
er to put an end to sectionalism be-
tween the North and the South forever.
Illinois gave Lincoln to the restoration
of the Union, that in his hallowed mem
grow together in close and lasting friend
ship. My father went out under Wis
consin's flag, and gave his life that there
should be and should remain united
people: have crossed the old Mason
and Dixon's line. Two weeks ago
went from Washington to Richmond in
four h no took some Of you four
eiasped in right good good Fellowship Il the e
hands Of the men who fought upon the
other side. The heroes of that great
war-South and North-will never again
enlist in another sectional strife.
1t does not matter whether the Ameri-
can craze ls rocked to the music or
Yankee Doodle or the lullaby Of Dixie,
above it; and the American baby can be
safely trusted to pull about the floor the
rusty scabbard and the battered canreen,
whether the inheritance be from blue or
gray, if. from the breast of true 1uoth-
er and the lips of brave father, its little
soul is filled with the glory of the Ameri-
can constellation. A new issue between
the West and the East! why, God for
bid! I am part of that mighty West.
i know ito brave, senterprising,. pioneer
people. have seen them rescue the
WildeE9eaa ard convert 4 into a garden.
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ABou BILL BRYAN,

Abou Bill Bryan. may his tribe decrease!
Awoke one night from deep dream Of
peace;
A Aaa aeT i peS %SsaiEe il
An angel writing in a book Of gold;
Exceeding gall had made Bill Bryan bold,
And to the presence In the room he said:
"What writest thou?' The vision raised
it's head.
And. with a look Of what he might expect,
Answered, ''Their names who'll get 1t in
"And am ] one?" asked Abou. IT don't
Replied the angel Abou spoke more low,
But cleerily still, and said, II pray thees
Write me as one not liable to err"
The angel wrote and vanished. The next.
night
It came again with great November light.
And showed the names of those knocked gale
And To-! Bill Bryan's name led all the restl
Lincoln (Ncb.) News.
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THE ROOSTER HE WORE on HIS HAT.

Come, pause for while In your play,
And put down your ball and your bat.
Attend to me well
While story l tell
nv boy.
This man was laborer skilled,
My boy.
Contented and happy thereat;
For his job was secure,
And his wages were sure,
But his heart with longing was filed.
For rooster to wear on his hat.
One day some demagogues came,
(For demagogue read DemocratS, ''
And spouted and brayed
NH, In behalf Of free trade,
TIL they set all his fancy afiamc.
For rooster to pin on his hat.
He whooped like an imbccile loon.
For candidate fussy and fat,
Soon collapsed and came down;
AND 1t felt like punctured balloon.
On the rooster that sat on the hat.
Now his partisans float in the soup.
Along with the bill they begat.
The cuckoos all sigh
For their vanishing pie;
And the rooster Is sick with the roup.
Poor rooster that rode on the hat.
And poverty sits in the seat,
Where competence formerly sat,
And the laboring man,
through this fatuOus plan,
Is now left with nothing to eat.
But the rooster he wore on his hat.
Then take warning and never forget,
Free traders are blind as a bat.
Their promise of good
Is adversity's food,
And the laborer long will regret,
The rooster he wore on his hat.
indianapolis Journal.
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0Ee anu ekl0k ~ NVI 0S&s0nS INA 22. 01'
e. Bryan's audience what Mr.. Bryan
bays, 80 long as he keeps on saying 1t.
The mistake he made in Madison
Square garden was In the attempt to mr.
que. He ought never to do that, for
out of his mental makeup:
But, my friends, there is not q word
N this encomium which would not with
EQUAL truth and appropriateness apply
90 another famous Nebraskan. whose eX-
Dloits are inseparably linked with the
history of Omaha; whose habits are as
regular as the sun: whose character is
presence is just as handsome, whose
bowers of speech were formerly just as
great and have wrought many IN audi
Snce to tears, to laughter and to fren-
Ey; a man who, like Bryan, was pos
bessed of talking devil. and who today,
Madison sSHahre Ns%
ever to return-is feeding breadcrumbs
10 the sparrows. That man is George
Francis Train. And it must be remem-
bered that Mr.. Train once ran for the
presidency, just as Mr.. Bryan is doing
on q ticket of his own. say that the
ticket on which Mr.. Bryan is running
own, although two other gentlemen have
been casually mentioned in connection
with it-one trying to get off and thu
other trying to get on. Here, you OBJ
serve, is a sort Of political cerebus. will
not the best of feeling between the ca
nine collaterals. Mr.. Bryan's predica
ment is not without embarrassment. HI
must feel as bewildered with these tw!
appendages as the proverbial cat witt
like number of tails. He has probabl,
prevailed upon Mr.. Sewall to stay wher;
lie is, whereas Tom Watson wants t
know. He wants to know where he
''at." He wants to know whether he
a candidate for the vice-presidency o
only a vermiform appendix.
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e eat applause.) Il has always kept
silver at = parity with gold. proposes
to snd fesp saee sae BY side gold and
and each the equal Of the best, and
the best never to be inferior TO the best
money known to the commercial nations
Of the world: loud e eheerl9 H. MI; n
give work to American citizens zap
nlause). markets to American farmers |
(cries Of That's what we want.), and
sound money to both; Tremendous
eheerings and cries Of hu urrha for NC. NC
three years of experience, whatever may
have been our political relations in the
past, of the truth of the observation of
Webster. made more than half century
ago. You will recall that he said:
which shall most usefully employ Ameri.
can capital and American labor and best
sustain the whole American population
(Great applause.)
agriculture, commerce and manufac-
words of John Quincy Adams, That the
great interests of this agricultural, min
ing and manufacturing nation are SO
linked in unison that no permanent cause
Of prosperity to one Of them can operate ate
other (Applause) We cannot have
commercial growth and expansion with
out national and individual honor.
I'VE cannot have commercial prosperity
without the strictesr integrity both of
plause and cries of That's right.) The
financial honor of this government is of
too vast Importance, is entirely too sa-
cred to be the football of party politics.
(Great applause and cries of Good,
good.l The Republican party has main
It has more than once stood between
good faith and dishonor and when it
gave up the control of the government
our national honor had never before been
so high and unquestioned. Applause)
The Republican party is pledged to main
is intimately associated with it's spotless
name and honor. and this it will do un-
der any circumstances and ut any cost.
(Great cheering)
SIT taxed the credit of the government
in the days of the war to it's utmost ten
which, under God, it was happily en-:
struggle it lifted our credit higher than
It had ever been before and made il
equal to the oldest and wealthiest ma:
tions Of the world. applause and
cries e ms IF has eEn 5e is psags
of the country of whatever form OF
kind that has been used by national au
thority. It made the old greenback al
good as gold and has kept it. us good al
gold ever since. 1t has maintained every
form of American money, whether sill
yer or paper. equal to gold, and it will
not take any backward step. Great ap
plause and cries of Good, good.o N,
party ever went out of power which lief
% magnificent q record as the Repuh
lican party. (Cries of That's right
Our great war debt was more than two
thirds paid off, our currency unquestioned
our credit untarnished, the honor of tn
union unsullied. the country in its ma
ever been before: the workingmen bette
employed and better paid than ever be
fore. with prosperity in every part OF tn
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COME HOME.

"From Thomas Watson"
o! Bryan, dear Bryan, come home with me
The pops are all ready to run:
You said you were coming right bcak to the
Pate,
AS soon cs your talking was done.
Come home come home, Bryan, dear Bryan,
come home.
Poor Altgcld is dying and Boies has gone
Don't talk any more, but come home.
o! Bryan. dear Bryan, come home with me
Why don't you come home while yen can?
Free silver's all right (for the heathen).
But You can't stuff 1t down free man.
Come home. come home. Bryan. dear Bryan.
McK Kline nH IS Ready to give y1ou blow,
That viii knock you quite fiat, SO come
home Lincoln (Neb.) Call.
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Bryan as an Orator.
HENRY D. EsrABRooK.

HENRY u. ESIAbhOOA.
But Mr.. Bryan know somewhat, and
ind in his habits of life many things
% admire. He is a man of undoubted
:alent, a talent for the stage, perhaps,
:ather than for statecraft. He is kind
husband and an indulgent father. He
does not smoke or chew, drink or swear,
Jingle redeeming vice that I know, of,
anless it might be lying; and even there
have had spells of thinking he believes
himself. Moreover, Mr.. Bryan is a man
Of rare eloquence, although anyone read
Ing his speeches would be pardoned for
sold type his words become mere rant
and bombast, while those self-same
words, spoken in Bryan's voice-a voice
as mellihuous as the sweetest pipe in
lust as would the voice Of a great Sin.
ger, by the very quality Of tone. Add to
this q handsome, graceful presence and
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ings Of two centuries and half Of Fast
ern thrift. The great West cannot live
and thrive without the cordial co-opera--
ton and support Of the strong East, and
the East cannot live and grow and thrive
as it ought and should without: the cor
dial cooperation, friendship and support
nation powerful for the welfare Of all
sections; divided, we are at the begin
ming of the downfall of the republic.
Nebraska put one star in the azure of
the dag, and Illinois put another, but
when they took their places in the flag
they were no longer the stars of Illinois
and Nebraska, but the stars of the great
est nation of the earth, shining for the
welfare and protection of every section
and all the people.
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Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN oRAroRy
Makers Of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages
What the Republican Party Stands
For.
MAI. MCKINLEY.

" MAI. MCKINLEY.
'The political situation of the country
is peculiar. We have had few parallels
to our present political condition. We
have but one political party which is
united, and that is ours. (Applaase)
Discord reigns in all others. Our time
honored opponent, the Democratic party,
is torn and divided. Two national con-
ventions have been held by it and two
national tickets presented, and their plat
forms are totally different on every sub
ject and in almost every section. The
Populist party has merged its organiza-
ton into that of the Chicago Demo-
cratic and St. Louis silver organizations,
and their allies are for the most part
harmonious except that each one has a
distinct and different candidate for vice
president. Great laughter and APP
plause.)
''Happily the Republican party was
never more closely united than now, both
in fact and in spirit, and there were
never better reasons for such union, and
never greater necessity for it than now.
CHEERS and cries of That's rightly 1t
is welded, devotedly welded, to :'arty
principles. 1t stands as it has always
stood, for an American protective tariff
which shall raise enough money to con-
duct the several departments of the gov
eminent, including liberal pensions to
the Union soldiers. tremendous cheer
ing and hurrahs for Mckinley A tariff
that will stop debts and deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United States
once more safe and sound in every par
ticular. (Applause.) Il stands for re-
ciprocity that seeks out the markets of
the world for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products without sur
rendering single days wages that be-
longs to the American workman. Zap
plause.) It believes in preserving q
home market for the American farmer
(applause), in the opening of the Amcri-
can factories for the American working
man (applause), and the opening up of a
foreign market wherever it can be done
with profit to all the great interests of
the United States.
"It is. too. for sound money great
cheering), every dollar worth 100 cents
(renewed cheering), every dollar as good
as gold Continued cheering), and it is OPP
pOsed alike to the free and unlimited
:. CO kage Of silver, and the issuance Of IT.
nnaak1e .nap0R TaonoEu u$0 Xhich the
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way way 81 G. Impeachment before the Senate.
agree. that power would be futile. 50
that we will name this great tribunal,
far away from partisan politics. politics, far
away from the dictation of party conven:
tions. and the decision of this tribunal
ma to what may be done, or what may
not be done, by the President or the Com
gress of the United States, that decision
people e Of the United States. ZAP
Now. what have we today? In the
first Mace, we have this extraordinary
proposition 1,r made. We find the powers
conferred upon the President eSt Of OF the ne
that by the law of Congress the Presi-
dent must see to it that the mails of the
United States, the communications be-
tween our commercial people, shall be
kent omen: that the mails shall go at all
hazards: Applause:) .:,:.. .. ~
tween the states, that the President shall
execute the law regarding the free trans.
mission Of freight and merchandise from
state to state. We find this power re-
sisted, and find in the declaration Of the
ment in effect that the President of the
United States cannot execute, the fed
eral laws: cannot execute the power
conferred upon him by Congress and the
Constitution of the United States, except
by leave of the governor Of the Estate state
citizens-mark it well-this is declared
nv n body of people that came together
ut Chicago and declared that they we're
Jaeksonian Democrats; ood Hqughter.) ~,
, houn advised that a convention gather
!, | =. AZ. ,<o<o nf South Carolina tn con.
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Congress, can you go, thus far and no
further, as laid down in this written doc


We named IN officer to execute the
laws, called the President, comforting
upon him certain powers to execute and
carry out the provisions of Congress:
His powers We're conferred and limited
by the written constitution; it had never
been done before. What then? Still q
further check in this new experiment
it be referred to decide upon the question
whether Congress goes beyond its writ
ten license under this constitution of the
United States, and to what umpire shall
it be referred if the President shall go
beyond the powers conferred upon him
by this constitution of the United
States?
We had created congress independ.
ent Of the President; we had created
President Independent of the con-
gress, within the powers conferred by
the written instrument. Then the faith
ers decided that another check was
necessary; this President and this Con-
way Of the French republic, or the
Roman republic, and of other systems
of government that have been formed;
even with written constitution they
may agree upon a certain construction.
We will set up here a tribunal, far re-
moved from political contest, the SUI
preme court Of the United States zap.
body and the Representatives of the state
and the Senate: ''Thus far shall you
60 in dealing with the rights of the peo-
pie, thus fur and no farther, and we
hold that you are forbidden to do these
things by this constitution of the United
States" (Applause.
They said further that the President,
occupying the Office Of the greatest po-
tentate on earth, with these great pow
.ers conferred upon him. he may .trans..
1890 this constitution Of the United
tos..oaads .*l2ora In no mower to inter.
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Ia destroy those elel tents Of American
liberty By which the government governs
ieast and the individual has unlimited
opportunity for industrial business, pro-
fessiopal and political honors and emolu-
ments. STU, 49, -.
dom Of the fathers Of our republic, A
and Overwhelmingly justified their fore
sight, craftsmanship and patriotism.
T They saw the horrors Of the French
revolution, and they made up their minds
to guard their country against the ex-
cesses of temporary madness. They
created the executive and the legislative
branches of the government and made
them subject to frequent submission. to
the will and Judgment of the people, but
thew enacted a written constitution I'M
der which the executive and the legisla-
tive branches must act, and then they
created that new feature of government,
that palladium of the rights of the peo-
tons, nm Independent judiciary. court
sYou have overleaped the boundaries of
the constitution and you must bring
yourselves within its limits They knew
from the precedents of liberty behind
them that the judiciary can always be
trusted There are two no places andsT
nor power gives any advantage to the
| individual. where the richest and the
poorest, the most exalted and the hum
blest stand on the same plane; one is the
ballot box and the other the court. And
yet this Democratic and Populistic Al
tribunal and make it simply the echo Of
the party caucus which controls Congress
this year and may be driven into OBJ
security next"
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Labor Needs an Unvarying and Re-
liable Currency.
FRANK s. BLACK, CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.

ssNo mans labor of yesterday or last
gear can be preserved, except by some
is the almost universally adopted agent
for that purpose. Nothing in the world
should be SO anxious as labor that the
token which represents it should be un-
varying and reliable. Who can
preserve until tomorrow the labor of TO-
day? 1t cannot be done, and the only
means of securing its benefits is to re-
ccive and preserve some token which
shall stand in it's stead and which may
be used as future needs may. require"
man is robbed, it is crime and he may
have redress. If bank fails and pays
him only IS cents on the dollar, it is q
misfortune, and he is not yet without
hope of recovery. But if he votes away
AZ cents of every dollar, it is his own
fault, and he has nothing to condemn
but his own folly, which will remain
with him much longer than his money"
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Ny fellow citizens, there are other rea-
yet Why the 10 Loyal people Of til:
time. Senator Tillman Of South Caro-
lima. chairman of the committee on reso.