The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-09-01
THE MONEY QUESTION:.

| enee for bringing IN a funeral su0JecG-
But I must dwell q little time on q
dead issue-the money question.
/ (Laughter.) Did you ever see anything
/ that had so many lives as the money
question? In 1892 they said it was
dead. But in 1893 the president had to
call congress together TO bury it. Again
they buried it in 1894, and once more
! in 1895, and you may remember that it
was up again in 1896, and had to be bur
J led again. Iaugther). Then they said
that would settle it. But again it was
up in 1897 and in 1898. 1t is here now
and they are burying it again But 1
have examined the corpse and find it
in such a good state Of preservation
that 1 believe it will last till 1900.
Why is it? Why is it that they find
it so hard to bury the silver cause?
Because no tomb was ever made 50
strong that it could imprison a right
eous cause.
! Why Is it that our opponents cOntin-
ne to bury the silver cause? Because
they would rather 90 to q funeral than
a debating society. Laughter.)
! Farmers, how can you believe that
the gold standard is good for you in
the United States when the English
farmers decided it was bad for them in
| England, which is the home Of the
/ gold standard? You tell me that Eng
land did not join with Us to get rid of
the gold standard; that Europe did not
/ join. Why? Because In September,
/ 1897, some bankers met, few IN number,
and with closed doors, and pledged
| themselves to secrecy, and adopted
resolutions that the gold standard was
all right Those bankers controlled
/ the English government, and the Eng
Iish controlled Europe, and Europe,
through the English government, con
trolled the policy Of the United States.
You tell me that the gold standard is
gold? No party ever won an election
on it. You tell me that the money
question is dead? No handful Of Eng
glish bankers can ever settle a ques-
ton for an American people. ZAP
/ plaUse.) They say we can't use the
| same arguments now as in 1896. There
| is a difference in a goIdbug and a silver
man. In Ohio, in 1897, when I went
there to make speeches they said:
There comes Mr.. Bryan, singing the
| same song as in in in 1896" The silver
man could sing the same song over and
over again and the more he sings it the
more the people like it. The goldbug
never sings the same song twice. They
said in 1896 "What you need is con-
fdence."
They can't play the confidence game
HpOn Us any more. Four days before
the election the papers said that in
four days confidence would be restored.
The day before election: Tomorrow
confidence will be restored" The day
after election they said: Confidence
is restored"
More banks failed the first six
months after the election than ever in
the history Of the country. If L had
been elected It would have been laid
at my door. More business houses
failed the first six months after the
election than ever in the same period
Of time before. If had been elected
all this would haYe been my fault.
Times got so bad that some people
thought that I had been elected, and
one man from Texas wrote and con
graduated me. But I have not been
drawing a salary nor have 1 been an
pointing new cabinet officers to fill the
places Of those who have resigned.
Times got better and the goIdbug
came out and said: aSee; didn't I tell
you what would happen if the gold
ticket was elected? Didn't 1 tell YOU
that gold would be discovered in Brit
ISL Columbian" And did not every
man who discovered gold in the KIon-
dixie admit that be had been Mistaken
The people who said in 1896 that we
had enough gold were the ones to do
the most rejoicing when that was dis
covered.
1t the quantitative theory Of money
IS wrong, what difference does it make
If We have more? You admit that the
quantitatiYe theory is correct when
you rejoice over the gold discoveries in
the KlOndike and the importations of
gold from Europe. If increase Of gold
makes times better, Why not open our
mints and get more Of it and Of our
own money? Money, like food, mus.
be considered both as to its quality
and its Quantity.
What's the use Of telling me about
the splendid quality Of your fooCi if YOU
have not any for me when am hungrvg
Prosperity comes from the people.