The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-03-03

llcan party always 1Ought ana Workeu III
the dark. He said in 1896 the Republic
cans dared not fight for the goldbugism
which they have since fastened upon the
people, and yet he declared that the lead
ers never had any other idea, despite the
pronunciamento in favor of international
bimetallism. He maintained that that
plank in the platform vas a fraud, and
yet, he said, after his Inauguration, Mr..
Mckinley was responsible for spending
500, 600 of the peoples money to defray
the expenses of the commission which
went abroad to beg other nations to give
us international bimetallisr, at a time
when he wa holding TO the position
that the gold standard was a good thing.
He had noted that those Republicans
who claimed to favor this character OF BIZ
metallism always voted tor everything
which tended to the gold standard, and,
while they could not pass the goldbug bill
in 1896, and in 1898, the patriots held
up the hands of the President to restrain
him from having such a measure put
through then, while the leaders were pre-
pairing to hold the people up and make
them swallow such a bill in 1000.
In this Congress the bill--now pending,
by the wagon this subject, passed the
lower house, and everything went smooth
ly until about three weeks ago, when the
storm began to rage and the leaders saw
that an amendment providing that the
operation OF the measure should not mean
an obstacle to international bimetallism.
The speaker declared that TO be a fraud,
and concluded the peroration with the
statement that the gold standard had
never won an open victory; that it fights
behind the burglars mask and with the
assassin's knife.
Boer War Object Lesson.
He then called attention to an object
lesson from the Boer wal as to the effect
such troubles have upon the finance of a
country on a gold standard. He referred
to the recent furry and fall in stocks in
England because of British reverses, and
said if that was the effect when the fight
was with a little country like the Trans
vaal, what would it be with q country her
own size. He asked if that experience
suggested that the gold standard was a
'safe policy"
1--WE want a safe system OF finance
said Mr.. Bryan, but we can have it by
ourselves, and that without waiting for
the consent of any other nation on the
face of the earth" This sentiment was
literally applauded.
The speaker told a story of a Western
banker in a section where the Swedes
were in the majority. They were for him
1.-THE speaker for President, and when
they went to their banker the president
of the institution argued with them on
+ the subject of the gold standard, telling
them that if free silver won their deposit.
, would be cut half in two. They thought
i Mr.. Bryan was going to be elected, conse
quently they commenced withdrawing
: their money from the bank. Finally the
Withdrawals got to be a serious matter
with the bank, and the president asked
one man who went to the office of the in
6 stitution for the purpose of taking hi
money out, why it was that he was taking
! such a step.
well" replied the customer, you tole
one of us that if Bryan was elected ouI
: deposits would be cut half in two, and a
we think he's going to win we want on!
money first"
. Go tell that man. said the banker
:" "that | lied"
Mr.. Bryan charged that the Republic
ans not only wanted to saddle the golt
standard on the country, but to turn tin
= paper currency over to the national banks
This they claimed would give the peopl
4 an elastic currency, but the money lender
and the money holders wanted to hav
hold OF both ends of the elastic. He the
i paid his respects to Secretary of tn
= Treasury Gage in a rather caustic mamie
on account of that officials suggestions a
- m fho national harlc 1ospv ..-., aba,.
of the paper currency. He said it was tn
party to keep up the fight for bimetallisn
and he is confident of ultimate victory.
r., The Trusts.
e. The next part OF his address was d.
t, voted to the trusts. He said since lS9
tie more trusts had been organized in thi
r. country than altogether before in the hi
n tory OF the United States. He said i
learned in Florida that the mosquito prol
lem was just as much of a problem
a only one was on a man as if a millioi
r. but he found that the more there were til
n more serious the problem. The same wa
as true as to trusts. They were dangeror
IS to the government, and he proposed a !
id cense on them under Federal ~regulatio
ID which would make a trust, a monopof
he impossible. The Republicans claimed thi
he trusts were bad things, but they are IL
OF ing nothing to stop them, despite the fa'
of that they have the President, Congre,
he and the United States Senate. lie laid
50. down as a general proposition that whe
to ever a State could be found where Il
ne Republicans were in power, he woul
oh show a State in which no attempt
hit thwart the trusts was being made.
ID, "One banker in Chicago said that in Il
". long run trusts can do no harm. Tha
ri however" continued Col. Bryan, sis n
&C. much of a consolation to the man who
rs not equal to a long run"
to Col. Bryan's idea was that a licen
ey should be issued by the government
"A every corporation before it could have Il
,ly right to do business; a license the conc
lsy tions OF which would make monopoIi
M impossible. The Federal goyernme
ial should squeeze the water from the sto,
and give the affairs of corporations pu
nd licity.
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