Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-04
HONEST DOLLARS.
Hon. W. ]. Bryan Gives Plain
Statement Of Conditions. /
Under which we Must Continue To
Labor If the Gold Standard Is to Be
Maintained.

The gold standard has never been
indersed by the producers of wealth
in any nation that ever had it, from
the time it was first introduced upon
earth down to the present date. The
gold standard has never commended
itself to the producers of wealth. The
gold standard would not stand today
in any nation under the sun but for
the support of the financial element of
the country in which the gold stand
ard exists. 1 say that no system that
was ever tried can be indicted so
strongly and so truthfully as the gold
standard. The gold standard was
conceived in avarice. 1t was fastened
upon this country without the knowl-
edge of the people and, as many be-
heve, by fraud. 1t has been continued
| for . years by deception and never
fought an open battle in any country
in all the history of the world. You
may think The indictment severe, but
I say.the indictment is true, and you
tcannot answer count in it.
The world does not want the gold
Standard; there are people who dc, and
intend to show you now who they
are and why they want 1t. When
money goes up, property goes down.
A dollar cannot buy more unless prop
erty sells for less. When you say you
want dollar of the largest purcllas-
ing power, you say you want the low
est possible prices, Suppose you
istart with wheat at a dollar a bushel.
If a dollar rises till a dollar will buy
1.-Two bushels of wheat, then wheat has
Ifallen until it takes two bushels to
lbuy a dollar, Is that difficult to un-
iderstand? If rising dollars means
failing property, then can't you ur-
tderstand that the man who owns dol :
lars will be Interested in having them
rise, but that the person who owns
property will be injured by having it
fall. Do you understand that if a
man owes a debt the man who holds
his note viii profit when dollars rise,
because he gets the same number of
dollars and each do1larwiu buy more
But don't you know that the man who
must sell his property to get money to
pay the debt must sell more and more
property to get the same amount of
money? Is it difficult to understand?
Let me illustrate it in another way
Suppose we could imagine ourselves
walled in with just enough of wheat
to last the year, and suppose the
wheat was divided into two piles, one
pile owned by one man, and the other
pile owned by another man. Now
suppose some night one pile of wheat
should be burned, every bushe1 of it
destroyed. What would be the re-
: suit? Why, every bushel in the pile
{ that did not burn would sell for more
money. The supply of wheat cut in
two, demand of wheat remaining
. the same, every bushel of wheat would
E bring more money. What else? Why
: the man who owned the wheat would
: profit by the rise, and he would say te
: his wife Chow fortunate it is that the
other mans wheat burned instead Of
ours.s -@ a
The report sent out that Compan,
E, at Hutchinson, burned Governo
e Leedy in effigy on account of his re
$ fusal to permit them to dictate to hin
f is now said to be fake, but the off
t GERS of the Company are having ;
: hard time-trying to smooth the ruffie
e of some people who saw their actions
Newton's Company of the K. N. g.
which started out to run the gorerno
r as well as the government, and wa
promptly disbanded for its pains, ha
shipped to Fopeka all the telits an,
I camp equipment. svhieh belong ed 4.
d the state, in obedience to orders from