New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-07

would surely be.
THE MAN AND THE DOLLAR.
Mr. Bryans p statement hat he wanted 10 put the
man before the dollar and not the dollar De bfs
the man." There certain conditions TO Wnch
such statement might apply, but it cannot posi-
now sR L can t best 6e oomPaTsd with Mr. Bryan
other statement Of September - leye IN %hl 5 ne
one statement means just as much as the other.
the man is ahead Of the dollar or the dollar e
ahead Of the man or whether the soq anvtbin
else PrePosterous let us fix our attention on me
years has resulted in bringing the man and the
dollar together That is what man u, nea any r6
OF fancy to whether he Is behind or in front o.
fe sefs hold Of Van" Il he 70 wants to find worth m
cents and not IS cents When man can b ger m0
get hold OF fl then he cannot master H. Al pTeseIC
M mat s he sne paid fS Saae Tor his work That
the ony practical way TO bring han th n'
the advantage and the fact OF having aS f bI
ing done the deeds which produced these con- lj
eiiions is worth to the laboring man ten Thousand
In uttered as TO some wholly imaginary precedence
OF position between the man ana the oo"'' Ne
In his speeches Mr. Bryan kept insisting upon the
under gold standard it bound to continue 70
grow sGsrGST nr Me aS there is more money
circulation per capita IN the Cnste cd o,11rT on
july last the circulation per capita ia was TsEg rs 30 mann an
increase N SiTuS S country as compared with
vcfaf # was on July l. 1896. So Mr.. Bryans prom
as in every other The present year Is the rst IN
which 900 m mark in eTG% Te or Of ans oo eHeT
been passed. In other words ne hctfase ~
in circulation has kept pace WIN .tT and This
increase has been predominatey due to the e9ndi
ton Of pEsp sn m Mnneapos Speech OF
years ago predicted that commerce would oe al a
try and that the issuing of bonds would be neces-
Fye ~ single prediction he has made has been
flashed by the event. On October Is ne , Saia;
These are hard ae Sont,ngss on September q
he said: If you ask how the gotd ana standard
lovers the price of products of him who sens w b
the gold standard affects the laboring men We re
ply that it destroys the 9Pp9rtgS and o mis- our
streets with those anxious for Work %n9 G 6
reaxne idieness brings poverty those who ought
10 have enoggha and 70 means dearer dollar
and falling prices and falling 9 prices Es haye god
taSard nrices are as certain to fan a stone
which is thrown in the air" do not have to com
is patent TO every farmer, every business man.
every wageworker.
GOLD STANDARD AND SAVINGS BANKS
Sometimes MI Bryan would go into into more Gsr sRs
S speech he insisted that savings bank deposors
their deposits and if the gold standard continued
indefinitely would have TO withdraW, lnSI go
ss9 there were in the United States 56S79Oo say
ngs bank depositors as aSaihSt SVsyvy M Of their
DEPOSITS had increased by S323 100000. Evidently Mr
s6 an tba f nof the a E6d sandard continued the
positors would lose their deposits or "ouid nave "
hgoin in his speech at New-Haven he dwet upon
the that II shs s sGG base5s Would in
crease Well in 1899 as compared to 1926 the num-
far of failures he'd shrunk from over l5O90 70 less
~ less thsn so 600 ooa Again Mr.. Bryan's prophecy
In mis- Chicago speech he dwelt upon the faet
that if the gold standard continued it meant hall
time in the factories and double time on the farms:
You have only to look al any factory you ~, ho ~
20 appreciate the unconscIously humorous side %
II was on September "a, among other occasions;
that he dwelt upon his doctrine that wheat and
silver went up or down together. and prophesed
Mexican dollars. and also about two bushels of
wheat at The SANE ner Mould bT only ms one Mclean
dollar and then an American dollar would puy
rhen an American dollar will buy three Mexican
dollars then it Will buy three bushels or wheat.
occasions had dollar wheat, and. on the whole,
wheat has risen while ne o sVeT o aTs viii pnrchase
NOR than two Mexican dollars. but IT will only
course as any child who had studied the subject
would know the price OF wheat arg me pt1ce no
In his speech at Tammany Hall he said: You
war we would suspend gold payments anu go
Well since then we have had the. Spanish war
We fought II to success1ul cohelusioh anu III
human being ever thought Of the gold STANDARD
NJ & 9WaF Of Sac STATES nsn Thought as
20 what is hest for the country from an economical
blame II It invites disaster by giving him chance
put his theories into effect. Remember that AN
lutely without qualification. Our opponents were
Ss @ sb2gt ,eo sOf heE o are ab6 what t
are pleased to term "n1ilitaTism and imperialism
at the present day. and their utterances mean no
more now than they meant then
ENTITLED TO no CONSIDERATION.
Mr. BRYAN seems Al tho moment uneasily con-
scious that there is something very wrong with his
about n: but he has definitely committed himself
10 81. and TIE various conventions that nominated
and EXPLODED theories which he championed four
years ago Unless our opponents are guilty OF the
Trive them Of the right to appeal to any straight
forward and sincere men, they must II they carry
the election. Immediately start in 20 reyoutonlze
our whole financial system and begin series OF
could only result ia the widespread disaster.
NJ body of who have made such prophecies
them fsislfed signaly by the result. have
right to appeal to the public. to be put in any
foolish heresies they ought TO apprentice
snP I sheg do 5n % and not merely by
att mpts at evasionno singe promise they make
any problem which confronts US, is entitled to the
cratic q BoGie sr anG eon ar g PROPHECIES
10 economical and financial matters. once or twice
one ne , oSeason Show me these people who now call
US Anarchists and viii sR od you ss GAS is t OF
'front.': and at Indianapolis: The men who insist
npon doing our legislation in times of peace never
right any battles in times Of war. They are the
people who call Anarchists when you insist on
they would come you and say: Oh. Anarchists,
sac sford our d, VII good many men in this
audience must have had friends or neighbors, or
10 Inc front ia the Spanish war and l WIN leave
10 th2se men 10 say Wne'ned an GOOD An l
social standing. aid not eagerly leap forward when
shoulder 20 shoulder with one another, forgetting