The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-10-19

welfare of banks is hostile to the interests
of the community. You are too intelli,
gent to lend your efforts to stir up prcju-
dice among classes of the people whose
interests are identical therefore, it is not
entirely worthy of yon even to intimate
that Il banker cannot now be trusted in
this campaign because he is fighting for
sound money.
WHO WILL BE HURT By FREE
SILVER?
The banks will be hurt, all business
men will be hurt, but you know perfectly
we'll that those who will be hart the most
are the persons employed. Their wages
will be reduced to one half in purchasing
power. The banker and merchant have
the chance of rapidly adjusting themselves
to the new order of things after the panic
which you know would undoubtedly re
suit from free silver. But how about the
wage Garner? All experience shows that
he would feel the blow more heavily than
anyone else, and be the last class in the
community to recover from its disastrous
effects. The mass of the people ought to
be thankful that the interests of the
bankers and merchants are the same as
theirs in this campaign, and that in fight
ing the workingman's battle.
WHAT WILL BRYAN DO?
You claim to be Gold Democrat and
yet you think we are eXtravagant in say
ing that Bryan would force free silver on
the community through free Sec
rotary of the Treasury and free silver
Attorney General.
Are we not right? Our reasons are as
follows:
l. BRYAN forced free silver on the Kan
sas City Convention against the wishes of
one-half the Democratic party, and that
the better. wiser and more conservative
half. He threatened not to tax" the nom
in: ton unless the free sive. ..I..A was
eX Jressly insert in the plat foIm.
>. He accepted Il nomination from the
PopuliSts and FIee-Silver Republicans
3. He is known to be fanatically welded
to the 16 to-1 doctrine and has always per-
sisted in it,
He has expressly said:
IF there is anyone who believes that
the gold standard is a good thing or that
ii must be maintained, warn him not tn
va q for me. because | promise him tn It
it not be maintained in this cnu TRY
Longer lh..., am able to get rid of IL
This he said in 1896.
Just the other day he said (September,
1900 at Milwavkee:
The position 81 the Democratic party
on tue money question has undergone no
change
In answer t. this overwhelming testi-
mony you simply say that he won't d. it.
Bryan says that he will you say that he
will MT. Do you think the position you
take is reasonable? Don't you think that
Bryan knows better what he will try to
accomplish than you do? And do you
really think that Richard Oney. William
L. Wilson, Carl Schurz, Governor Bout
well, Bourke Cochran or Charles Marshall
could persuade him to be conservative,
stultify his whole political career and
break his reiterated promises to the people?
If half of his party could not bend him or
swerve him from his settled purpose, you
know that the men you mention could not
influence him in the slightest degree.
WHAT CAN BRYAN DO.
You entirely ignore the possibility of a
Democratic majority in the two houses,
and yet you expect Democratic antitrust
legislation. But suppose that Bryan were
elected and the Senate remains Republi
| can; you simply say that Mr.. Bryan could
at Il" effect upon the financial policy of
The country during his Administration.
You present no argument to support your
contention, though the contrary has fire.
quently been demonstrated. Without re-
peating the arguments already known to
| the people, allow us to confront you with
the opinion of the leader whom you are
now following, the Baltimore Sun:
THE SUN ANSWERS ALVEY.
The Baltimore Sun of August 3, 1896,
declares as follows:
If unfortunately Mr. Bryan should be
elected, even though the Republican party
have clear majority in Congress, he
| would no doubt no what his party prom
ised to do, pay the obligations of the
Government in silver-that would settle
the matter without any Free Coinage Act
by Congress.
The Sherman Act Of 1890 and the re-
peal of the act of 1898 would make it the
duty of the President to keep all forms of
currency at par with gold; but elected on
a revolutionary platform and himself an
extremist, Mr.. Bryan would hardly show
zeal in keeping all forms of currency up
| to the present gold standards: he would
let gold reserve vanish, which Of itself
would probably bring us t. the silver
basis without the enactment of free
coinage law. Hence the I'M
portance of elccting a man whose prnci-
piles will secure the payment of sound
money in all relations, public and pr
vate.'
Now, Mr. Alvey, do you not fell your
position somewhat shaky when on one
important point you are contradicted by
the Baltimore Sun and on the other by
Mr.. Bryan himself?
GOLD AND THE REPUBLICAN
You object that the gold standard will
not be safe under Republican rule. 1t is
sufficient answer to call your attention to
the fact that in 1896, in one of the most
intense campaigns ever fought in this
country, the Republican party stemmed
the free-silver craze; that without its ex-
ertions we would now be on free silver
basis.
We hope that il careful consideration of
this letter will cause you and the other
Gold Democrats of Hagerstown who were
with us in 1856 to reconsider your position
and to stand firm as rock on the side of
honest money.
Very respectfully,
HONEST MONEY DEMOCRATIC
LEAGUE OF MARYLAND
October 10Th, 1900-1t.