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made, and to prevent their making
others in the future unless they were
made payable in debased money. The
right of free contract was to be taken
away from free Americans.
The issues involved were not exclu-
sively financial or moral. The very sta
bility of the government was drawn
into question. The civil war was fought
to destroy the doctrine of the suprem-
acy of state. That doctrine raised its
head again in 1896, and it was an
nounced once more that national laws
cannot be enforced without the assent
of state authorities.
Social as well as governmental issues
were involved. An effort was made to
array the farmers against the towns
people, and to split the latter into two
hostile factions of employees and en-
ployers, so that industrial peace might
depart forever.
Understanding fully these issues, and
how utterly their own fortunes and
those of their posterity depended on
dealing with them rightly, once and for
ever, the American people, at the close
of a campaign OF unexampled excite
ment and intensity, have buried Bryan
under an avalanche of electoral and
popular votes. The crimes and follies
he championed will not lift their heads
again.
The east and the west have clasped
hands to sustain the menaced honor of
the republic, and the south, partially
breaking loose from her old political
mooriEgs, has made common cause
with them.
The American people have preserved
their honesty and their self-respect.
They have defeated Bryan overwhelm-
ingly, and have shown the world that
they are not a nation of cheats and an
archists.
They have voted that they will not
swindle foreigners and will not swindle
one another. They have repudiated the
regulators, and put the ineffaceable
brand of their condemnation on the
brows of Bryan and his accompl1ces.
The people have stood by the COM
mandment Thou shalt not steal, %
which a desperate coalition of cranks
and crooks has been endeavoring to re-
peal.
1t has been settled that the savings
bank depositors are not to be robbed of
their earnings, and that the laboring
man is not to be cheated out of half the
reward of his labor.
1t has been determined IndC tIhc dT-
rangements men have made for the sup
port of their families by means of life
insurance policies shall not be inter
fered with and those families deprived
of half the provision made for them.
The sanctity of contracts has been
upheld, and the infamous attempt to
put in effect a policy which would vio-
late millions of them and destroy bill
lions of credits has been trampled I'M
der foot
The men who would have Mexican
lied the money of this country, and
given the people, instead of stable
dollar, a deprecated and huctuating
dollar, whose value would have been
| fixed in a foreign market, have met their
Waterloo.
That wretched currency which would
have cursed the country had Bryan been
elected, would have been succeeded by
an avalanche of inconvertible scrip.
That is another affection the people
have escaped
The gold standard is to be retained
and the 100000 people of the United
States will keep monetary company
with the civilized nations of the earth,
and will not herd with Asiatics and
Greasers-
| The fears of a change having been
dispelled by Tuesdays triumphant
vote, prosperity will return to bless the
country. Capital, no longer timid. viii