Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-13
BRYAN'S CREED.
The Gist Of His Long Argument In
Few Short Para
graphs.

I believe 1T will be a blessing to the
United States to lose five hundred mil
lions of geld.
| United States to take half The purchas-
| ing power out of it's hive hundred mllllOns
| of silver dollars.
| believe it will be blessing for the
United States to take half the purchas-
| ing power out of it's billion dollars worth
| of paper money.
/ believe that to cut a dssllur i'll two is
| to double its value.
| believe that so cents is twice as much
as 100 cents.
I believe that the farmer will be better
| off when he sells half as much of his
produce as he does now at the same rate.
| believe the farmer will be benefited
| by having to pay twice as much as he
| does now for everything he does not raise
and must buy.
| Since | hold that the farmer wOnid be
| better off if he sold half as much as he
| does now at the same rate, it follows
| that hold the farmer will be still Bet
| ter off if he sold quarter as much as he
does now at the same rate.
Therefore, lit follows that hold it
would be better for the farmer it he sold
nothing at all, but let his produce rot on
| his farm.
| hold that the city workingman would
! be better off if he earned half as much
as he does now.
l believe that all the widows and or
phans whose means of support is invest
| ed in loans will be blessed by getting
| back so cents on the dollar their bread
| winners toiled for at 100 cents in the
dollar. and that they would be still bet
ter off if they hsld to go to the pOorhouse.
[ believe it would be a blessing for o.
100000 depositors in savings banks who
have laid up $2,OOO,OOO,OOO by toll ut
| 100 cents to the dollar to get back half
the amount of their savings instead of
| the whole.
/ hold that the country would be bet
| ter off if half the value of the capital
| of the 1000 national banks, amounting to
nearly $7OO,OOOOOO, were extinguished.
| 1t would help business all over the coun-
| try.
l Believe it would be blessing on the
states of the American union if the $780,
| 100000 deposited by private persons in
| 1000 state banks were reduced to SO
| cents ON the dollar or largely lost alto
gether. This would encourage thrift and
| animate enterprise
l hold that the states would be fur
Their blessed if half of the $25O,OOO,OOO
| capital in state banks were shrunken to
half their debt-paying power. This
would help the farmer
l believe it would be a blessing to
towns if the fire insurance companies
were so crippled that they could pay only
half the face value of risks.
l believe that it would fall like bene-
diction upon the holders of thirteen bill
lion dollars worth of life insurance. on
which they had paid 100 cents to the dol
lar, to learn that they can realize only
80 cents on the dollar of their policies.
[ believe that it would be an en-
couragement to home makers to know
that the four hundred and fifty million
dollars in building association shares
were to shrlvel to half their value.
| believe that, although owners of
silver would not permit the metal to he
coined into dollars for Americans when
it was worth more to export than to
coin, although coinage was free and I'M
limited, owners of silver are unselfsh
patriots in desiring to coin unlimited sill
yer into dollars now when they can get
a chance to do so at twice the worth of
the silver at the market price and half
| hold it to be Il solemn duty to the
100000 invalids and the 100000 widows
and orphans on the pension roll of the
nation to deprive them of half the
amount paid each monthly. It will be
especially heroic for those who get along
now on $40 month to contrive to live
on So month.
believe that it is better for the United
States to grade down with China and
Mexico than up with Great Britain
Germany, France, Austria Hungary
Holland, Belgium.
I hold that expulsion of all our gold
and contraction of half our silver and
paper is expansion of our currency.
| hold that the law of gravitation can
be suspended by act of Congress.
/ believe financial quicksand is rock
bottom for a nation.
l believe that the best way to build IN
country is to destroy it.
1 believe my wife has more political
sense than all the politicians in the coun-
try. God bless both of us. Amen
Chicago Times-Herald.