The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-02
IF BRYAN is ELECTED-WHAT------?

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If Mr.. Bryan is elected, have you
weighed what the results will be?
Perhaps some one replies that un-
der the gold law he can't seriously
hurt business.
ds this so?
True, it is claimed the Senate,
even if Bryan is elected, will still
contain a majority of sound money
men, and free silver coinage bill
cod,,ll not be passed Immediately.
When Mckinley was inaugurated
there was free silver majority in
the Senate, and he, too, was unable
TO pass gold bill Immediately; but
when the terms of those free silver
Senators expired in 1899, the Re-
publican legislatures (returned to
power with Mckinley in IS96) re-
placed enough outgoing Democratic
Senators with sound money Repub-
licans to make a majority, and pass
the bill in 1900.
In like manner, if Bryan is elect
ed and the Democratic party return
ed to power in majority of the
States, why will not Democratic
legislatures send Democratic Sena-
tors to the United States Senate to
replace outgoing Republicans when
their terms expire in 1903, and thus
give the Democrats ajority there?
just as the Republican legislatures
did. And then what is to prevent
them from repeating the gold act
and passing a free silver coinage
bill?-just as Mckinley and the Re-
publicans passed the gold bill.
And don't they stand pledged to
do this2
Their Kansas City platform de-
mands s'the rec and unlimited Gcin-
age of silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of I6 to I, without wait
ing for the aid or consent of any
other nation"
William ]. Bryan on Sept. 4 last,
at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, announced:
"THE PARTY STANDS WHERE IT
DID IN 1896 ON THE MONEY oUEs-
TIoN."
And at Paterson, N. J., on Sept.
aS, 1896:
s'I SAY TO YOU NOW MY ELECTION
MEANS THAT THIS NATION SHALL
OPEN IT'S MINTS TO THE FREE COIN
AGE OF BOTH METALS AT THE EARLI-
EST POSSIBLE MOMENT"
And at Knoxville, Tenn. on Sep
tember 6, 1896:
"IF THERE is ANY ONE WHO BE-
LIEvES THE GOLD STANDARD is A
GOOD THING, OR THAT IT MUST BE
MAINTAINED, | WARN HIM MOI TO
CAST HIS VOTE FOR ME, BECAUSE l
PROMISE HIM IT WILL NOT BE MAIN
TAINED IN THIS COUNTRY LONGER
THAN | AM ABLE TO GET RID OF IT,"
Is it not perfectly clear that if
they are returned to power, they
will repeal the gold law and pass
free silver coinage bill cat the ear
liest possible moment?"
And is it not equally clear, that
if we elect them to power on the 9th
of next November, one great result
will be that we must face the pas
sage Of free silver coinage bill
about three years hence, in 1904?
RESULTS OF SUCH A BILL.
What will the effects be of such
lawP And what will the immediate
effects be of having TO face its pass
age three years from now1
The present value of silver bull
lion is about Csc per ounce. There
are, in the silver dollar, ara u grains
of silver o-ro fine, or 3I7A grains
of pure silver. AS an ounce of sill
yer contains 48o grains, 37IZ
grains is worth about 5oAc, so that
silver dollars today are worth, in
trinsically, less than 81 cents; and
when every owner or silver bullion
can take it 20 the mint and have 1t
coined free into silver dollars, each
such dollar will be worth just what
the silver costs that it takes to make
n for IL they were worth any more,