Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-16
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s4A4eaa Nv A.7 AAI.& 1SOUeElS preferred TO
make his debut in some OF the small
towns In Iowa. and 80 the republican
state committee has placed him in
towns OF less than 5000 inhabitants
during the most Of the first week.
Mr.. Roberts was accompanied by NJ.
D. O'Conneli, solicitor OF the treasury,
q well-known campaigner In Iowa,
whose home is also In Fort Dodge. The
director of the mint had prepared q
speech full of pertinent facts, homely
illustrations and striking comparisons,
which he delivered effectively. In part
he said:
The first lesson to be learned on the
money question Is that all classes OF
people are interested in good money.
All business is obstructed and embar-
rassed by bad money, and whatever is
an impeachment to business is an injury
to all. You might as well poison the
water supply OF q great city to punish
the rich as to depase our currency that
is the common medium OF exchange.
you vote on the rich, the poor
will have to take. Whatever loss the
rich man must suffer from his album
dance, the poor man must endure from
his necessities
Mr.. Bryan staked his standing as
an economist and statesman In the
Of 1895, and lost. All the
prosperity that has come to the untry
since has come in opposition to his the-
cries. It has come under conditions that
he said made prosperity impossible.
HE said that the farmer could never
pay his debts under the gold standard.
He said that the burden OF the farm
would become heavier and
heavier until the mortgage took the
farm. Since 1896 the value Of the farm
er's product has increased. the value Of
his farm has increased and the inter-
est rate on his mortgage has declined.
Mr.. Bryan said that the gold stand
sal OF England Instead OF that En-
gland is selling her bonds in this coun-
try and obligating herself to pay what
Mr.. Bryan used to call annual NIB
ute" Five foreign governments
England. Russia, Sweden, Germany
and Mexico-have borrowed money at
our counter in the past year. Mr.. Bry-
an had no conception that such things
were possible. They were never
dreamed OF in his philosophy.
-Four years ago he said 1t was ruin
Gus for us to be borrowing money
abroad. Now he says it Is a bad sign
for US to be loaning money abroad.
There is no disputing what that sign
means. It means that this country has
become the cheapest money market in
the world. 1s that something to be de-
plored? It means that our position is
changing from debtor to creditor ma
ton. Is that occasion for grief?
But We have got to get this money
question out OF politics. and the only
way to get it out il to smash any pollti-
cal party that threatens to overthrow
the existing system.
The free coinage Of silver at 16 to !
means that any one may bring to the
United States mints an amount OF silver
worth-now 48 centR-and have it coined
into dollar and returned to him for his
personal use and benefit. All the silver
in the world and all that could be mined
could be brought on those terms. The
government would have no responsibili-
ty for the new dollars
Our opponents have a favorite saying
that this country is big enough and rich
enough 10 have a financial system Of Its
own. But what do all our resources
count for when we pledge them to moth
ing? Not one Of these gentlemen would
have the government guarantee the par
lily OF our money. They propose that we
shall coin dollars out Of private bullion
for parties to pay out. I believe in the
greatness OF this country fit were to
raise armiee or navier or fight battles,
or raise money, or do any Of the things
to which our resources may be actually
applied, my faith in the ability Of this
government would go as far as any
Ibody's. But this is not proposition Of
that sort. This is a proposition to put
out two different measures OF value and
call them by the same name.
1T is recorded that Satan once took
the Saviour OF the world up on high
mountain and promised him all the
world II me would fall down
and worship him. The prospect was a
snare, a fraud. He did not own the
world. He could not have delivered the
goods. And 90 Mr.. Bryan in much the
same grandiloauent phrase offers BIZ
metallism to the American people. HE
promise is snare.
They say they don't care what the
comparative values Of gold and silver
are in the other parts OF the world-that
We will have an. independent system OF
our own. That is the language OF a
stump speech. not the language Of the
market place.
You never heard anyone claim that
the price OF wheat could be made In
dependent In this country Of ita price
in any other country. The value Of
everything that can be shipped Is at
fected in every country by its value in
every country. We might az well talk
OF an independent multiplication table
of our own. We might aa well claim
that two and two shall make Ave In this
country, whatever they are in Europe.
as that sixteen ounces of silver ehall
equal an ounce Of god in this country
whatever they are In Europe.
HAU5RN sPE AXIS At ROLAND