Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-21
WHOSE WILL YOU TAKE?
Opinions Of Washington and Other Great
Men Except Bryan.

The sound money Democrats continue
to fire out literature for the doubters.
| riddling the 16 to fallacy and shaming
the men who want so cent dollars be-
cause they think such dollars would
enable them to repudiate half their
debts. Bryan. in his speech spilling
circuit of the country. has been forever
quoting from Jackson and Jefferson
and Hamilton and Madison and Lin
coin and Beecher and Carlisle to sup
/ port his doctrine that dishonesty is
honest and that an unstable currency
good for the laboring man. Much of
he literature that is going out now in
the shape of small cards consists of
quotations of what the fathers really
said. Here are some of the things that
are being pumped at the doubters at
The rate of 1,000. 0O0 a day:
COUNSEL OF THE FATHERS.
Washington: 1t Gnfation) will not
benefit the farmer or the mechanic. as
IL VIII only enable the debtor to pay his
debt with a shadow instead of a sub
stance.
Norris: The scale by which every
thing is to be measured ought to be as
ttnsound currency has caused infinite
private mischief. numberless frauds,
and the greatest distress
Hamilton: On the intrinsic value of
the money unit. the security and value
of property depend. Gold may be said
to have greater stability than silver.
as being of superior value. There can
hardly be better rule in any country
Tor the legal than the market proper
ton. Each metal finds it's true level.
AS long as gold retains SO considerable
il pre-eminence in value over silver, its
condition will be more stationary.
Jefferson; The real credit of the
United States depends on the ability
and the immutability of their will to
pay their debts. l deny their (Con-
gress) power of making paper money,
or anything else. a legal tender.
Madison: The nation should possess
a currency of equal value, credit, and
use wherever it may circulate.
jackson: Although wages are NOM
inally the same, or even somewhat
higher, they are greatly reduced in fact
by the rapid increase of a spurious Cur
rency. which appears to make money
abound. There is no fraud in gold
Like the honest principles of the
founders of our government, it is un-
changeable, and will do its office we'll
everywhere and at all times. Nature
mas set limits and labor imparts an in
variable value to it. 1t is, therefore
the true representative of the principles
OF justice and equality which should
enter INTO everything which operates
on our institutions, and should be ever
insisted on by the Industrious classes.
Benton: 1t (gold) has an intrinsic
Vaiue which gives it currency all over
the world to the full amount of that
vase without regard to law or circum-
stances. Its uniformity of value makes
IL the safest standard of the value of
property which the wisdom of man has
ever yet discovered Its superiority
over all other money gives to its nos
SCISSOR the choice and command of all |
other money.
Webster: The very man of all others
VINO mas the deepest interest in a. SQUAD |
currency and who suffers most by mis-
chieVous legislation in money matters |
Is the man who earns his daily braa1 |
by MS daily toll. A disordered cur
rency is one of the greatest political
evils. Credit has done more, thou
SAND times, to enrich nations than al
the mines of all the world
ANDREW JACKSON ON GOLD.
The useful and ornamental purposes
" when gold can be applied are the
properties that give it real value and
render the demand for it universal t.
ms with other peculiar qualities has
maze It in all ages, throughout the