The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-08
MR. RATTRAY WRITES OPEN
 LETTER TO MR. TONLLNSON

I nn~ I ceiye, as was Coins Financial School and other pamphlets issued by tf,s sil- yer league of which you were mem
 During the life of Hsrvey's book . friend of mine asked me the question. isahnn,,. aays you seen seen Coins Financial
 "wiil you read 1t If I give it to youT' and said yes. I wanted iight--wii-
 ling to learn. read and re-read.
 opnon sad # contains ssd asked not lssy %y
 there to deceive and I challenge you You My challenge was never accepted. What is the meaning of 16 to IF Does 1t mean. as was preached and be- paigns, the coinage of sixteen silver dollars for every one gold dollar? Or | does 1t mean that there must be six the silver dollar than there Is of gold
 In the gold dollar?
 When Mr. Bryan delivered his &C., ceptance speech in 1sss he asserted his belief that free coinage would ad-
 vance the price of silver all over the
 world to l2s cents per fine ounce of | worth ss cents per fine ounce, and the 37i IA grains of silver in the dol
 lar was worth in bullion 52 I-2 cents.
 dollar was VS worth % ieo % cents, ' with it 'os os without the Government stamp. Will
 you tell me. MT. TomIinson. how bi-
 inition. as . ss. % forth 01su aSove is s corrsct rect
 100 cents in the other dollar? If you
 for R Bryan yG1e Gr yGn tST aslssgas have never voted for him.
 | If the Government could advance the
 why not 1so cents and make it even
 stump as elector for Palmer and Buck
 s e M BrysH sSer knsw sut rss sss
 silent as clam. If silver was worth 12s cents per fine ounce of 4so. grains
 sorth aas nsnts n tHs asea S0ss .s would would have bimetallisn pure and simple.
 | A party cannot thrive by doubtful
 methods Disaster has followed his I At Mobile Mir. Bryan said suppose the United States opens the hints for 1 free coinage and silver don't go to
 Then we would have good dollar and a poor dollar. Now, give the op-
 ton to the debtor and he will pay in
 itor to take 1t and by that means we
 bring the poor dollar to the standard
 of the good dollar. '"
 ant, the unwary, and the demagogus
 After speaking in Mobile. .I: what did
 didn't demonetize sllyer-it simply
 changed the ratio" Why change the
 ratio? the difference between the two Why didn't President Jackson. after calling the attention of Congress to the discrepancy urge the passage of as President Bryan would have done? i The ratio was changed from IS to 1
 to i6 to 1. and bimetaIlism was pro-
 the two dollars was only about cents, the ratio had to be changed In order to produce bimetallisul. how could bi-
 enee was lIi-2 cents. as was the ease when Mfr. Bryan gave birth to his
 financial logic?
 during the past twelve years of your devotion to Brvanism you have been prompted by no other aspiration than to see this nation flooded with 50-cent doiiars--the railroads owned by the Federal Government, the initiative and referendum, the seating of both races
 white conductors taking up the tickets? This nation can't discriminate as be- tween its seitizens, though done by po- l Can you. with the lights before, with ldefeat, disaster and Humiliation, (the results of the cowardlv sycophaney ane minority in the face and no hope witf Bryan as . leader, can you. as an Ala.
 bafnlan. still persist in trying to foisi this Nebraska revolutionist upon the voters of the South?
 I what is the inducement held out te
 you by this seeker after the White l have been in Alabama forty years !. have spent the best part Of my life I and manhood in the interest of my 1aRafnst the reconstruction infanhy than 1 possibly any man in Alabama AS that time have never cast a vote Tor Became citizen of this commonwealth.
 There never has been heresy hoated by Bryan and his plastic tools in Twelve years without making Thonas Jefferson it's wet nurse. No greater I islander was ever perpetrated against 4 great national statesman. He was | a Republican in the broadest nationl
 sense. He believed fin a Republican
 form of government in contradistinc- I advocated by Hamilton. He believed in a government where all power was Ederived from the. consent Of the goy-
 erned; where all laws were to De made
 and executed by representatives chosen
 O' It '" was through the investigations
 son and Hamilton in the Cabinet at Washington. that the hints were es.
 abolished in i7s5 for the coinage of
 thA bullion value of silver per ounce 1 being fifteen times less than an ounce oS gold. This ratio continued forty
 one years. until 1884 1t was chanseo
 10 From % " 17ss until 1873. a period of 1 eighty years, the silver dollars coined l at the hints amounted to 10 cents per head of our present population, while inc hints coined during the same pc l riod nearly si, ,0O0. .O0o, 900 of gold. Yet the Silver League in 1898 published s book, the twin of Coins Financlal School, claiming the wealth and popu- l iafion tip to Jackson's time were preG. icsted upon the free coinage Of gold
 anI there is any hope for the Demo- | cratic Party in 1908 that. hope can be | realized only in the adoption or a conssrvative platform shorn of all the l wild heresies of 1896 and 1900. It bould urge harmony between the State rirhts and Federal rights; 1t should l atarnp out any effort to enSraft the heresy that State Legislatures have the | right to penaiiEe corporations that seek l reyiew in Federal courts.
 l revision of tariff schedules ana | improvement in our banking system l with Governor Johnson as the nomihee | viii arouEe more confidence in voters | of inc United States than any man oe- fore the people. o,... pet+rav
 For certain statistics herein Set | forth see map of Bryanism issue oy l New York World, which l. send you | under another cover. C' r' Colonel Wiley.
 Greenville Advocate.