Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-15
RIA MONEY IN 1900 {
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the FREE slLvERiTEa.

u II b0t o 010p From ouvsf Ostooo01y
- T1as Moasy-Blaad Shows His IsaA-
ias-scrsseh Bryanits and Yoa 1in6
\. : 0rssnbasksr UnAsr His Skin. "
Mr.. Bland, too, u showing that TO-
the orthodox silverite the descent to the
Avernus Of greenbackim u easy. II
am in favor Of largo volume of'
money declared this free coinage
apostle In Labor day speech at Paris,
Mo. ~ would first have silver and
Rold coined, free and unlimited, at the.
ratio Of l {, to l. II that does not furniah
{ sufficient circulating mediupb I would
Issue paper money, and 1would have
/ that paper money like the old green
backs-.re deemable in nothing and good
legal tender for all debts, public and
private. Z s.: "
It will he noticed that Mr.. Bland In
time of peace would 60 farther In the
way Of note issue than the Republicans
did in time Of war, when the wealth Of
the country was only q quarter what it
is at present, when expenditures were
far greater than they are now. and when
only small amounts Of gold and silver
were in the country The Republ icanA
under the stress of those adverse oondi-
tions, issued greepbackA which were to
be q legal tender for all obligations ex-s
oept duties on imports and interest on
the public debt, but the intention was to
redeem them in gold at the earliest
practicable moment, q purpose which
the Republicans made good by the re-
sumption act Of 1875. which went into
operation In 1879. Bland, however,
would make the greenbacks legal tender
for all sorts ef debts whatever, and
would have them 'redeemable In moth
ing''-that is, he would have no col h
Of any sort behind them, not even 50
cent dollar silver: They would be sim
ply and absolutely fat money and moth
ing elsa .s5 FL. y ;12.:@ 4
Heretofore Mr.. Bland has been con-
ddered an honest money man to the ex-
tent that he would pay 80 cents or 40
cents on the dollar. Almost all the 9TH
er Popocratic chieftains have, at one
time and another, ranged themselves
with the fatists. Bryan, for example,
did this when he supported Weaver in
1899, and nobody took any especial mo-
tice Of it, for Bryan has always been q
Populist and nothing else. Bland, how
ever, despite his affiliations with the
Populists in 1896, was considered TO-
have a little Of the old Democratic in
stincts and traditions still in him. As
was popularity supposed. he was In the
Populists, but not Of them. His Labor
day speech, however, shows that be.
too, has gone over to the rag money
men, The change Of base was natural,
Of course, for the difference between
money which 10 three fifths fat and that
which is all fiat Is one ofs degree onlH
salsd - u -
shift Of ground completes the metamor-
phosis Of the Popocratio party. 4 Scratch
. Bryanite Of any part Of the country
and greenbacker win be found under,
his akin. There will be no silver issue in
1900. The difference between 30 cent
dollar-the Bland coin will probably be-
down to 80, cents before the next nation
al conventions meet-and no cent dol
lar is too slight to ''count." The old
rag money party which Republican gold
resumption smashed in the early eighties
will be resurrected in 1900 by the
elements which. put up the Chicago
ticket of 1896. This folly will be crush
cd easier than was last years lunacy.--
st. Louis Globe Democrat },.5. &25'2 :.