Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-03
OUR INTERNAL AFFAIRS PARA.
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Inc American people have not mr.
eepted the gold standard MS final. II
mas wrought more injustice in our
country during the last twenty-five
years than Spain has wrought in all
her colonies. and opposition to II will
grow until the gold and silver coinage
Oh Oh the constitution is fully restored
Inc trusts which now flourish In def
ance Oh law are more merciIess than
WeyleT was, and the NEW TRUST-
THE PAPER MONEY TRUST, which
is SEEKING TO OBTAIN CONTROL,
OF ALL THE PAPER MONEY OF
THE NATION-is a greater menace to
the country's welfare than any foreign
zoe. 1 have spoken to you often upon
these subjects, and shall have occasion
10 discuss them In your presence here
after"
So said William Jennings Bryan, the
standard bearer of the Democratic
party. to his people at home, on his
return there after reslgning his Colo
nelcy in the army. A man of and for
the people. the moment the demands
of war ceased. he returned to the bosom
of the people. resigning a post of honor
for private station. Neither he, nor
his party. nor the people. are for stand
ing armies in time Of peace, nor for dis
tant. repugnant and unassimilable ac-
QUESTIONS, nor for consular or vice royal
colonies, nor for the imperial mood
and manners, or methods, that wreck
ed the Roman Republic and its liber-
ties, when Rome was at the height of
her power. wealth and glory. A JEFF
fersonian Democrat in the simplicity
and unpretentious modesty and virtue
of his daily private life, he favors
nothing that is not in accord with the
plain Democracy of popular self-gov-
eminent which Thomas Jefferson
taught as the only legitimate product
OF our Declaration of Independence,
and the Constitution which formed this
more perfect Union of the Unitel States
of America, not of Europe, Africa, or
Asla-but of America
OF and for the people himself, Mr..
Bryan wants nothing that Is not also
by the people-that which Is by others
being justly regarded as of and for
others, as our national politics has par
ticularly revealed within the last quar-
ter-century. Within that period. at
least, the people have initiated nothing
demanded nothing-that our national
legislation or administration has heed
ed or responded to as representative
public agencies should: nor has any
thing done in our public affairs been
eeferred to the people, for their appro-
val or rejection. There have been So
called elections by the people, to be
sure, but these have been so supervised
and managed by Hannas and their bar
rels as to make them cut-throat three
card monte games, on gold-brlck swim
dies. or bunco frauds-no more repre-
sentative of the will of the people than
Congresses subjected to the rule OF the
Lobby, or administrations run by a
telephone connection with the Wall
street. banco-bunco Trust.
From this internal condition OF
things. Mr.. Bryan is not to be diverted
by external devices. cunn!ngly contriv-
ed to draw the attention of the peo-
pie away from their domestic con-
Germs. Spain. Cuba, Porto Rico. the
Philippine Islands. Hawaii and all the
rest of the foreign world are but as
Dust III the balance, COlnl)dTCu Will our
own home and its affairs. Here are
our chief evils, our most menacng dan
gers, our first and highest duties; and,
while not neglecting others. we must
not forget these, nor postpone them on
any account whatever Our people are
TO be restored to their rightful place
in American autonomy, no matter what
becomes of Cubans. Philippines and
their autonomies; our corporations, the
creatures of our government, must be
taught proper subordination and SER
vice; banks and capital must recog-
nize and respect the prerogatives of
government--of the sovereign people
In relation. coin, money, currency and
all public finance: we must restore and
reform our banking and currency to
what they were before 1873. If not to
what they were before the present sys-
TEN OF banks was authoriZed; silver,
the peoples money and the only posi-
BILE coin that can be made r. real me-
dunn of circulation and exchange and
q practical. legel- tender, must be re-
stored to free and unlimited coinage,
on full equality with gold, so as to de-
liver both government and people from
THE BONDAGE TO GOLD. and it's
monopoly, eAlortion and insolence; our
judicial department., as well as every
other must .anrn what tho virginia