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have Insisted at all, times and in oil
places that the money question VIII be.
before the country until bimetalsm is
res stored.
l have repea ted oYertond over again
that this nation must act alone, without
waiting for the aid or consent Of any
other nation, and that 1G to 1 Is the only
have never for one moment thought
Il compromise desirable or possible
w. J. Bryan.
That is true. None but ill-informed,
or very superficial. persons can differ
with Mr.. Bryan In what we quote from
him. But there are many other Issues,
as Mr.. Bryan will readily agree, upon
which no compromise is possible-some
of much more Importance than the re-
storation of silver to Its constitutional
place. No compromise is possible with
the judicial usurpation which attempts
to govern by injunction; none with
monopoly, or the attempt to destroy
free competition; none with corporate
pretensons to be exempt from govern
ment or superior to it; none with the
Vaccinations of the banks TO obtain
control OF the sovereign prerogatlves of
coming, making and issuing money;
none with the militarism that would
abolish the State militia and substitute
large Federal standing army! none
with imperialism and Its negatlon of
republicanism, personal freedom, self
government and home-rule; none with
the colonial system and its policy of
inferior dependencies and provinces;
none with colossal corporations, COM
bines or trusts that defy government,
or attempt. or threaten. TO do so, by
their aggregation and consolidation of
capital, power and influence at home
and abroad; and none with any party,
policy, principle, practice, proposition,
or power that menaces our constitu-
tional government, State or Federal
i'll It's equal popular sovereignty.
With all of these there is no compro-
mise possible; and yet all OF them
every one Of them-confrOnt us as dis
tinctiy, audaciously and dangerously
as the golden mono-metallism behind
which sllulks the money-trust with its
banking monopoly Of currency, credit
and values, and q free and unlimited
and exclusive issue OF unsecured prom
Uses to pay.
or course. this money issue. touching
every mans pocket. and in some re.
spects his life and living. is the most
personal and pressing Issue that forces
itself on attention.; but 1t IS far less
important than other issues. because
we can really get on and prosper with
out any money at all. by reverting to
general credit and barter, as many
millions of people are now forced to do
by the artful and artificial contra cLion
OF the currency and the scarcity OF
money; but would we endure q return
to roots and grubs. like Digger Indians.
on account of laws forbidding the
grinding of corn and the making Of
corn-meal into bread-to thus enable
the engrossers and cornerers Of wheat
to fatten MS we starve?
No, fellow-men! No! The remedy
would be too obvious! We should
smash the law, resume the grinding of
corn and the baking and eating of corn
bread, though the neutrality-suspicious.
went 10 eternal, wreck ana ruin. The
remedy for the money-scarcity is the
same, though not SO obvious: break the
gold monopoly by smashing the anti
silver act OF 1873; restore silver 10 the
currency; and then. with abundant
money once more, we should have
plenty and prosperity in all things for
the people. Try 1t.