New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-01-12
Bryan
to Gage.
The Nebraska Orator Pays his Respects (
the Financial Policy Of the
Banker Secretary.
He Tells the Minister Of Finance Few
Political Truths.

AT. the Jackson day banquet in Chica-
go, William Jennings Bryan was the
guest of honor. During his address he
made the following reference to Score
tary Gage:
cit seems that every generation pre-
sents a combat between the producers Of
wealth and the money changers. The
latter, conducting their campaign in sec
recy, fasten themselves upon the body
polite and prey upon industry until their
hold is broken by an indignant public.
"The present secretary of the treasury,
Mr.. Gage, is eminently fitted to be the
Instrument of the fnanciers in their eff
fort to complete the scheme commenced
twenty -four years ago and continued
without interruption until the present
day. He possesses sublime faith in
the superiority of money over man and
a supreme contempt for the rights, the
interests and the opinions Of the people
at large. ~.,..
"He knows that the gold standard was
adopted in the United States without
any party ever asking for it; he knows
that for twenty three years after its a.
doption no party ever dared to commend
it; he knows that in the campaign of 1896
the party composed of boiling democrats
was the only party which dared to de-
clare the gold standard a blessing; he
knows that at the polls 80 per cent of
the voters registered their opposition to
single gold standard, differing only as to
the means Of securing bimetallism; he
knows that the president, to whose par
TALLY he owes his position, sent a COM
mission to Europe to beg other nations
to help US get rid Of the gold standard;
he knows that the senate and house with
scarcely dissenting voice appropriated
100000 of the peoples money to pay
the expenses of the commission while it
was seeking relief from the gold stand
ard; he knows that France, by joining
in the demand for International bimet-
allism, condemned the gold standard !;
he knows that the farmers, the laborers,
and, to large extent, the manufacturers
of England desire. interternational bimet-
allism; he knows that the maintenance
of the gold standard means unmerited
advantage to the money owning and the
bondholding classes and undeserved pun
ishment to the vast majority of the peo-
pie of this country and of the civilized
world; and yet, IN spite of his knowl-
edge of all these facts, he IS deliberately
planning to fasten the gold standard
permanently upon the people Of the
United States.
>-"Not content with advocating poll
cy which places the destinies of 100000
900 of free men in the hands of foreign
fnanciers and permits a few London
bankers to control or standard money,
he now proposes to give to the national
banks full ana complete control of the
paper money of the nation.
"In November, 1896, 6,5O0,000
electors voted against the retirement of
the greenbacks and 100000 supported
a platform which was silent upon the
subject. --. 'E..":
,'The republican candidate for presi-
dent in his letter of acceptance pledged
the republican party to keep in circula-
ton (and as good as gold) all the silver
and paper monies now included in the
currency of the country, while only one
party advocated the retirement Of the
greenbacks, ana that party polled less
than per cent of the total vote.
"Mr. Gage knows these facts and yet,
in spite Of that knowledge, be is seeking
to organize money trust more danger
Gus, not only to the industries, but to
the liberties of the people, than all the
other trusts combined.
cat such time and under such cir
cumstances, the memory Of the hero of
New Orleans ought to be invoked in ev-
cry state, county and hamlet to arouse
the people to their sense Of danger
There is every reason to believe that
Belgium is on the verge Of revolution,
which threatens the existence of the pres
ent dynasty, and which may he said TO
owe its origin to the persistent efforts of
the King to render military CONSUMPTION
more vigorous and obligatory service in
| the army universal. Anti militarist de-
demonstrations are the order Of the day IN
ali parts Of the kIngdom, and At Brus-
sells, at Liege, at Antwerp, Namur and
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