Sepf. 17, 1896
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
IT
A Brooklyn Man Expresses Himself
Freely on the Question
of the Hoar. .
AND HE GETS A REPLY
The Latter Ooes After Him Hammer
and Tongs Which Makes In
teresting Beading.
. Not Intended for Publication.
The inclosed private letter is written
by a gold standard McKinley supporter
who is a prominent politician of Brook
lyn, N. Y., and is a cousin of our towns
man, S. D. Fitchie, an old settler of over
forty years in Nebraska. The answer
to it is from Mrs. M. F. Davis of Stock
ton, Cal., who is a sister of Mr. Fitch ie-
also a daughter of one of the oldest re
publican respresentatives in this state,
ilrs. S.'D. Fitchie answers the gold Mc
Kinley letter from a silver Bryan stand'
point The writers little dreamed that
these letters would fall under the eye f
the public, but we think they bo strongly
portray both sides of the political situa
tion that they should lbe published side
by side. Presented by the free silver club
of University Place, Neb. W. N. barver,
chairman.
ORIGINAL LETTER.
Brooklyn, N. Y., July 26, 1896.
My Dear Cousin: Yours of the 19th
inst. at hand and in reply would say
"guilty." I was so much interested in
promoting the nomination of "prosper-
" ity's advance agent that I sometimes
forget my own identity. I know during
my trip to bt. Louis and return if any of
my friends had seen me they would not
have recognized me, but that came from
the bituminous coal which all the western
roads use for making steam. If you had
been in Nebraska I would in all
probability have gone there from
St. Louis to have seen you
and your father, but as as there was no
one there with whom I had had any cor
respondence, I concluded not to go, al
though if McKcKinley had been beaten
i out of the nomination I think I should
have journied on to California for the
balance of the season. I suppose you
have been in St. Louis? Certainly, as you
have been all over the west; and it is a
reat country: Notwithstanding the fact
that the silver snake was dragging its
poisonous and slimy form over certain
sections of the broad land, inculcating
the most fallacious ideas about the cur
rency of the country, that was ever ut
tered by any sane people the most in
sane of all being the sixteen 16 to 1 idea.
,1 was reading an article the other day
and it struck me so forcibly that I cut it
out for future reference. I will quote
you one of its plain statements here it
is: "Gold is worth 32 times as much as
silver, weight for weight. There are 25-8-10
grains of gold in a gold dollar. It
takes just one hundred (100) pennies to
buy that much gold. The silver men de
mand that there be issued one gold dol
lar for every 412 grains of silver they
present. Now, 258.1 grains of gold
will bring one hundred (100) pennies in
any market of the world, 100 pennies
will purchase in the same markets 825
grains of silver. 258.1 grains of gold,
the amount the 100 pennies will buy; is
1-32 part of the weight of the 825 grains
grains of silver which the one hundred
100) pennies will buy. Hence, any
weight in gold coin is worth 32 times
that weight in silver coin just the same
in bullion, one Ounce of gold to 32 ounces
of silver; one grain of gold to 32 grains
of silver." .
Now, the silver men demand that the
.government shall coin silver at the rate
of 16 to 1, which would be taking 50
-cents worth of silver and pledging its
honor to guarantee its redemption at
100 cents. Such a monstrous proposi
tion could only emanate from the brain
of a dishonest and selfish cabal of bullion
millionaires, who have been poisioning
the minds of the ignorant, the unfortu
nate and the vicious, developing soc'
ism, populism and anarchy.
The Chicago convention was domin
ated largely by anarchists and populists,
-and the result was the nomination of a
man by accident; he says so himself in
one of his speeches while in company with
Bland. Then the St. Louis populist con
vention caps the climax for the number
of its cranks. Never before in the history
of the country was there two such dan
gerous conventionsand it behooves every
patriotic citizen who loves his home and
his country to rally round the standard
-of national honor, protection and pros
perity, honest money and reciprocity
and you know who represents that.
I was surprised to learn that your
brother-in-law was such a dyed-in-tbe-wool
folio tter of the democratic-populis-tic
cat di date for president. I formed a
very high opinion of bim from your im
pressions conveyed from time to time,
but after an object lesson for the past
four years of the incapacity of the dem
ocratic party to govern this country,
"for the greatest good for the greatest
number," of its entire inability to form
ulate a policy to make the government
flelfsustaining and of its complete
ability, in time of peace, to run the
country in debt $500,000,000, and
issue gold certificates for
$100,000,000 in order to keep the treas
ury usurers intact, it does seem to me
that men of Mr. Campbell's mould should
gather themselves together and get
out of a party which thirty-flve years
ago tried to shoot the country and gov
ernment to death and are now on the
highway to panicize it or rather assas
sinate it. No lovers of good govern
ment, no Qodloving or Godfearing peo
ple can be safe in the counsel of scoun
drels such as the trio, Altgeld, Tillman
and Coxey, and I hope your kinsman
will see the error of his views, of the sil
ver craze, and throw the weight of his
influence for the right. '
P. S. Since I started this letter I have
been called to the door five times by ped
dlers, twelve times by beggars (whom we
have always with us), three book agents
and one photographer and one looking
for a position. So if it is not correct
you know the cause.
Now if I should not answer your ever
welcome letters during the following
Jthree ninths you will also know that I
THE PRO AND CON OF
am intensely interested in the preserva
tion of our government on honorable
lines, but 1 will try and keep in touch
with you.
You can tell Mr. C that 1 expect
not only California but Nebraska to re
pudiate anarchy from Chicago and pop
ulism from St. Louis, and that both
states willcast their electoral votes for
McKinley and Hobart. Sincerely your
cousin, Tom.
REPLY.
Stockton, Cal., Aug. 12, 1896. My
Dear Cousin: Yours of the 28th of last
month reached me several days ago, and
it is putting it very mild, indeed, when I
tell you that I was "riled" when I read
the second page where you spoke of the
trail of the silver serpent dragging its
poisonous slime over the country. But
when I came to that part where we were
classed with the ignorant, the unfortu
nate and the vicious promulgators of
socialism, populism and anarchy my
Irish blood assumed its moBt ghastly
hue. You seem to forget that only a
short time ago the western farmers and
miners were lauded to the skies as the
bone and sinew of the country; yet as
soon as they begin to think for them
selves they are berated by a gold bug
press as scoundrels, thieves and anarch
ists, because they do not think as Wall
street and Lombard street, London, do.
I believe King George referred to the
rebels in the same terms. Now I am no
apologist for the Cleveland administra
tion, yet every school boy knows that
the republican supreme court, or rather
one man of it, is responsible for the
shortage of the revenue. One judge de
cided that it was unconstitutional, but
it was 0, K. at one time. I have no
doubt that it would have hurt Wall
street.
I have always been under the impres
sion that the most progressive and wide
awake men have moved into the valleys
and mountains of the great west and
are the producers and foundations of
wealth, and are the men who
keep the wheels of commerce mov
ing, therefore it seems strange
to me that you, who claim to be so
greatly interested in the welfare of our
country and advancement of our union
and the principles of a republic, should
not accord this class of men the privilege
of thinking for themselves, and following
the first law of nature; self preservation
as we look at it, without classing us as
thieves, scoundrels and anarchists be
cause we differ with you. Now that is
uncharitiable and unlike you individ
ually. I have always been a republican dyed-in-the-wool
and a yard wide, and am
still a good Abraham Lincoln republican
yet that does not go now. You speak of
the great prosperity under the republi
can rule. You are aware probably that
at the close of the war, that the people
were comparatively out of debt; yet un
der this great prosperity the indebtness
of the people is between forty'-and .fifty
billions and there is not gold enough in
circulation to pay the interest on the
above sum for one year, yet this con
dition of things has come about under a
republican administration assisted by a
few far seeing scoundrels excuse the
abuse that resides in England and
some of them in Wall street, who worked
a bill through congress so disguised that
comparatively no one but the conspiri
tors knew of it for srveral years after,
Who asked for . the demonitization of
silver? I presume it was the people. It
is they who now ask for its remonitiza
tion in no uncertain terms. You will
realize this when the electoral votes are
counted. We expect California to trive
Bryan 40.0U0 and Nebraska 20,000
majority. The gold dollar has so ap
preciated in value that it takes double
of the amount of wheat, corn, oats,
potatoes and all other commodities
to buy one that it did six
years ago, yet salaries, fees, taxes, rail
road fares all remain the same, with
corn in Nebraska at 16 cents, oats 10,
wheat 35 cents a bushel, hogs $2 per
hundred. Yet in the face of all these
starvation prices the people ought to be
happy and quiet and allow a few mil
lionaires of the country to run the 70,-
000,000 to suit themselves. With the
exception of $40,000,000 of our securi
ties there is not a bond or note that
calls for gold, it is coin. With our moun
tains filled with gold and silver I want
to see the mines side by side, and minted
side by side, and circulated side by side,
and see the country, now filled with
hungry, idle men and tramps, once more
prosperous and happy, lou fancy Mc
Kinley and the tariff will do it. We do
not think higher taxes would benefit us
as the Wilson tariff is now higher than
our tariff was in 1883. And under this
low tariff you will observe our imports
are less than they were under the Mc
Kinley tariff. The last year of its exist
ence it was $60,000,000 short of running
the government expenses. I suppose you
remember Secretary Foster at the close
of the Harrison administration had the
plates ready to print bonds and asked
congress to give him permission to issne
three per cent bonds as the reserve was
running low. But they did not give it;
furthermore, when there was a bill intro
duced into the senate against the issue
of bonds without the consent of con
gress, the majority of the republicans
voted against it and so voted with
Cleveland, and I hear that Cleveland will
return the compliments and vote for Mc
Kinley, so I can see very little difference
between them. Yet the republicansclaim
they protected the laborer. How?
The Kaunas, the Carnegies and
hundreds of their ilk imported
the scum and riff-raff of Europe by the
hundreds of thousands to enrich them
selves and pauperize American labor.
Why, in only three months there landed
in New York 30,000 Italians with an
average in cash of less than $1 per head,
yet this is called republicnn protection,
(foreign missionary work.)
You speak of Cleveland running the
country $500,000,000 behind. We of
the unset land did not know that it
was that much. We had it $140,000,
000, the last fiscal year $43,000;000 the
previous year and the year previous to
that $60,000,000. You also state that
Cleveland had issued $100,000,000 in
gold certificates. We out here had never
heard of those. We had heard of the
issue at various times in the last two
years of $260,000,000 in coin bonds.and
that those of your patriotic citizens of
Wall street made from ten to twenty
millions out of the operation . they no
doubt will vote early and often for Mc
Kinley. I suppose that you are aware
that during the whole existence of the
McKinley bill thejrevenuejwas short $30,
000,000 of running the government. I
think you are a little off in your state
ment that the silver men want their silver-dollar
redeemed in gold. The gov
ernment does not redeem them in gold
and it redeems silver certificates only in
There is every reason to believe
will be oarried for Bryan.
silver, so you are placing them in an en
tirely wrong light, as silver dollars
are a legal tender out here and
do not require redemption. You
speak of Mr. Campbell not . being
patriotic because he - believes in
Bryan aud the tenets of the silver party,
"Actions speak louder than words;" his
family furnished three sons who ans
wered to the call of their country. I
don't know a Fitchie that did, do you?
If it had been our lot to live where you
do we might think very differently, where
your assessed valuations having in
creased throughout the eastern states-
doubled in ten years the western states
have lost over one-half in values of every
kind.
There are two miners living about
nity miles Irom here. Lane and Hay ward.
who some months take out nearly one
nuiiion dollars in gold and are million
aires, yet they are earnestly for free sil
ver, as they prefer the welfare of the peo
ple to their own when they have all they
need. Am a great admirer of W. J,
Bryan, he is a brilliant and eloquent
gentleman whose character is without a
flaw and is absolutely able to take care
of himself in any company, although he
has not the millions of Wall street and a
Mark Hanna, an oppressor of labor to
help elect him. I hope you have heard
him make his acceptation speech iu New
York and if your old friend Charlie Van-
wyne, was alive today he would cham
pion the cause of Bryan. We expect an
immense audience will hear him and Se-
wall, a man who is a great employer of
1 11 1 1 , -1 n . 1 ,
iuuur uuu una never uaa a siriKe. 01111
we doubt his election with Wall street
against him. We expect him to carry
every state west of the Mississippi and all
south 01 the Mason and Dixon line which
comprises ninty-four per cent of the total
area ol the United States. Thisarea.it
is claimed, produces 100 per cent each of
the cotton, cane, sugar, gold and silver.
and 97 per cent of the corn, 90 per cent
01 the wheat, au per cent ot the barley
and 87 per cent of the oats.
The total depreciation in the value of
lands in these states and of the agncul
tural products and other products.
mainly caused by the demonetization of
silver, is almost equal to the cost of the
late civil war. 1 think this dose lsenough
to pay you for calling us names-, but to
tell you the truth, I fell pretty bitter at
the demonetization of silver; that is what
makes me a pauper today. I might have
been a gold bug if our silver mines. had
not been shut down. Truly your indig
nant cousin, M. i iTcmE Davis.
Only Twelve for McKinley.
Beatrice, Neb., "Sept. 10. Congress
man Hainer spoke at Ellis last night to
a crowd of sixty voters, only twelve of
whom' are McKinley supporters, this
being the full number in Lincoln town
ship that is opposing Bryan. This is
authentic in the face of the report of the
republican committeeman from that pre
cinct last week to the Beatrice McKinley
club that there were ninety-six for Mc
Kinley out of a total of 100 votes m the
township.
,
J udge Cooler Acquitted.
Omaha, Sept. 10. "Judge" Cooley,
who was arrested several weeks - ago in
company with Miss A Hie Chambers of
arragut, la., on charge of disturbing
the peace, has been acquitted.
THEY WILL VOTE FOR BRYAN.
One of "Old Truthful's" Yarns Promptly
Refuted.
To the Editor: I see by the Journal
that I picked up at one of my neighbor's
that there were no populists left in west
ern Nebraska, and because we were dried
out here and had to buy our stuff, we
would support McKinley and the gold
standard, so our money would buy
more. When the vote is counted this
fall they will see where the populists are.
We are going to carry this county, Dun
dy, for Bryan this fall. There was a
meeting in my precinct Saturday night,
September 5, addressed by a former re
publican, J. W. Shurtleft, who is now a
free silver populist, and if the editor of
the Journal had been at that meeting
and seen how he drove what few repub
licans there are left in this county to
their holes he would never publish an
other editorial in regard to no populists
in western Nebraska. I polled my pre
cinct, which has always been republican
by about two to one, and it now stands
25 to 14 for Bryan, and several of our
boys have left us to seek work, but thev
can easily get back. Jas. Burham.
The work of coercion taken ud bv the
republican party is being vigorously
pushed. At the Havelock shops yester
day eight men were laid off every one
of them Bryan men. Wednesday four
Bryan men were called up and told to
hunt an employer whose interests thev
could look after in politics as well as
mechanics. There is no doubt about the
course the B. & M. has taken in regard
to its employes. The master mechanic
at the Havelock shops, Ed Greusel,
simply calls the men up and tells them
they are not serving the interests of the
road when they entertain a disposition
to support cryan, and that they can go.
Every man who favors silver expects
spies to ferret out his inclinations sooner
or later and report him for dismissal.
that the city of Cleveland, Hanna's
Dispatch From Cleveland.
St. Louis BepoUla
A VOICE TI1AT CRIED.
Whers the people cat In council In the city ol the
west.
Came the strong ion ol the prairie with the plain
Are In his breast;
The Are that slumbers on the hills. In every hill
ing morn,
And awakens when its fury smites upon the
crested corn.
And the tribune's place was empty where the
nation's children come,
For the tolling hands were fettered and the
weary lips were dumb.
Then the fire that burns the hill tops flashed its
lightning on bis luce,
Aud he sent the challenge ringing Irom the empty
tribune's place. : ' ,
We have come to lilt our voices for the weak or
for the strong,
For the spoiler or the guiltless one who sutlers
others' wrongs.
They have asked and we hare answered, and onr
judgment cry shall be
Let the strong Barrabus suiter, and the Innocent
go free. , '
"Let the strong Barrabus suffer!" and the light
ning of the plain
On the white and straining laces ol the council
flashed again.
Flashed and showed the black OolgothaTand
fired and ghastly three ;
Who shall never cry to heaven In the country ot
the free.
Who shall never cry to hearen while the silver
Rockies rise,
While the broad Santee Is flowing on beneath the
southern skies. - -
While there walk beneath our silent stars men
strong and true and bold,
Who will nof, crucify mankind upon a cross of
gold.
That judgment cry is echoing from sounding
shore to shore,
"On our heads the blood ot guiltless ones be laid,
a enrse, no more."
It shall rise, a nation's anthem, till the nation's
chosen stand.
With the new unsullied sceptre of the people in
his hand.
For the slave no more shall bend his neck be
neath the emperor's car.
But the king of men shall serve them, and the
helot is the Cxar.
So Irom out the night ot sorrow comes the dawn
ing with a rolce,
That cries unto the morning stars and bids the
earth rejoice.
Oh, garden in the desert land, the west wind lores
tby morn,
The golden sunlight lingers long npon thy
yellow corn;
The heavens hare smiled upon thee and they wait
with rlctory
Thy son who comes In triumph now to lead a
nation free.
KlNOBLET MOOBE.
TEXAS FEVER.
Governor Holcomb May Have to Ap
point a State Veterinarian.
It has reached the notice of the gover
nor through a letter which is given be
low that a disease similar to Texas fever
had broken out among a herd of cattle
near Germantown, Seward county. The
letter, which is written by County Attor
ney J. J. Thomas, is as follows:
Seward. Sent. 9. 1896. Hon. Silna a
Holcomb, Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir: It
has been reported to me that a. nnmhor
of cattle in a pasture east of German-
town, latnis county, are infected with
what is supposed to be Texas fever. The
pasture contains several Hpntinnn nf land
and a large number of cattle. Some steps
suouia do taKen to ascertain the nature
of the disease and prevent its spreading.
Our statute nrnvidps. for a stnta vs.!.
... - . u a w O VV . V LVI
narian, but I understand that there is
no one acting in that capacity by reason
of our legislature not making an appro
priation tor mat purpose, uur local
veterinarian. Dr. .T. S. A ndarann will
make an examination this afternoon,
ana wnne ne is eminently qualified we
feel that the state should tnc
steps in the matter. Kindly refer this to
the oroDer authorities at, ohm nd nh.
lige, yours respectfully,
J. J. Thomas.
In response to the above the governor
has authorized Dr. A. T. Peters of the
agricultural college experiment station
to proceed to Germantown at once, and
in case he finds there is need for one a
state veterinarian will be appointed at
once to look after the matter.
PROPOSES A SCHOOL.
H. W. Hardy Would Like to Have the
Issues Discussed Systematically.
Lincoln, Nebr., Sept. 11. To the
Editor: The present campaign has been
styled one of the education and I would
like to join some good republican and
onen a school. I invito th
of Lancaster county to choose a man to
neipme. nan, w hedon, Ualdwell, Bush
nell. Bixbv or anv nthnr man will ho
satisfactory. Wn will onan Tiurf Rof.
. - - - - uwf
day afternoon at 3 o'clock in silver
I 1 A TS1 . -
ueauqaariers, Lincoln notei. Each
teacher to have twntv minntaa uni
-- -" u w.. u
then ten in order. Any question per
taining t o our coming election can be
discussed. The places for holding re
citations can be chanced from Aav n
- - c - vua whj vr
day.ifitbe the wish of those taking
Yours for free education,
H. W. Habdv.
0
ONE
BANNER
If
Chairman Oroot Presents in s
Logical Manner the Issues
of the Day.
OHIO WILL GO FOR BEYAN
By At Least a Vote of 50,000 The
Cause and Cure of the Flnan
cial Depression.
Addressed the People.
The Lansing theatre was well filled
last night. The occasion was a political
rally under the auspices of the silver re
publicans and from the size of the
audience they are quite numerous in
Lincoln. ,
Hon. Geo. A. Groot of Ohio was in
troduced by Col. Tace, as the speaker ot
the evening. Mr. Groot said that be
was pleased to meet with the people of
Lincoln and discuss the great question
of the campaign.
ne compared the present political
situation to that of 1860. The candid
ate of the silver forces has opposing him
today, the great dally press of the
country and the other forces that were
so hostile to Mr. Lincoln. He refered to
the breaking up of parties at that time
and the' union of men who were working
for a common purpose, under a new
party name. ..
As in 18G0 Abraham Lincoln was
abused in the most shameful manner, so
today the same villiflcation is hurled at
Mr. Bryan. But as in I860 Mr. Lincoln
came outtriumpbant qver all opposition
so will W. J. Bryan triumph.
The people today are inspired as they
never were before to again take posses
sion of this government, and to judge
from the present splendid assemblage
and similar meetings all over the coun
try they will succeed.
The only motive in political conflicts
as carried on by the two great parties
for the last 25 yrs, was to get possession
of the offices. At last the people are now
arrayed against each other on a principle,
and if we do not succeed this time, we
will years hence.
We are in this fight to free the people
from financial ruin, and we will do this
by giving the people more money.
The only way by which money can be
legally made is by theimints of the gov
ernment and not by private institutions,
and if the mints of the government are
closed business houses fail, and the farm
ers are driven into bankruptcy. Money
is an essential to the carrying on of
business in a civilized community. -
Today we are all suffering from a want
of money. The one who said that "money
was the root of all evil" was wrong, for
it is the lack of money that is the root of
all evil. People today are not afraid of
money. There is not a lack of confidence
in money but a lack of confidence in
prices. People lose confidence in proper
ty and retain their money because they
know it is going up all the time.
We want the mints of the government
thrown open to give the people money
with which to do business.
Banks are feeling the result of a lack of
money and the intelligent bankers are in
favor of more money because they see
their securities shrinking and being
wiped out.
While we have been building up our
factories and developing our country we
have not been watchful of our interests
and have let foreign influences slip in and
cut down the volume of money, and as a
result have depressed values and impov
erished farms.
When the farmer borrows money and
gives a mortgage on his farm he feels the
contraction when he goes to pay off the
mortgage, and being compelled to pay
in a dollar that has taken more and more
of his commodities to obtain.
Prices of all property have constantly
depreciated during the last twenty-three
years. Yet the goldbugs tell us the vol
ume of money has nothing to do with
prices, notwithstanding the fact that up
to the time of the demonetization of sil
ver when money was plenty no com
plaint was made as to prices. But when
the money barons of Kurope saw the ef
fect of this increased money supply they
immediately set to work to devise ways
and means to wipe out the silver coinage
by legislation, and they used John Sher
man to accomplish that result. Sher
man first attempted openly to do so, but
failed. He then attempted to effect the
desired result in an underhanded man
ner, and was successful in secretly re
moving from the coinage act of 1873
the provision for the free coinage of sil
ver. The exact manner in which this
was done nobody knows.
"Mr. Allison in his speech said: 'This
war on silver began in 1867 and culmin
ated in 1873. The money lending and
speculating classes are for gold, and the
producing classes for bimetallism.
That ia what Mr. Allison said then.
If it was true then, it is true now."
The speaker then referred to the tes
timony of Allen G. Thurman of Ohio.
"than whom there never was a braver or
more noble man," Senator Conkling of
JNew lork, henator Allison ol lowo, Sen
ator Voorhees of Indiana, James G.
Blaine of Maine, Senator Beck, Senator
Howe, James A. Garfield, Bright, Hol
man, Cannon, Berkhart, Kelley of Penn
sylvania, William Stewart and Jones of
Nevada. These men all tesfied on the
floor of congress that the silver dollar
was dropped from coinage without de
bate. Does it not look as if there
was something suspicious about
it? Why was it done? For
the purpose of cutting down
the silver money, and hence cause a de
preciation of prices.
Immediately after the passage of this
act prices began to go down and con
tinued to go down with alarming rapidi
ty. As a result business houses failed
and general depression followed.
As a result of this downward tendency
citizens took the bit in their teeth and
gave us an increase in the volume of
money by passing the coinage - act cf
1878. This was allowed by favorable
results as all will testify. But the act of
1878 in time did not prove to provide
for sufficient money Hot the growing
demands 01 the county. . Hence the ?(
of 1890 which made a still further
crease in the volume of money. -
Id 1893 Mr. Cleveland called a sp-.t
session of congreea to repeal the 8
Men in congress united for and
the free coinage of silver. A repeal of I
free coinage act passed the house. :":
the senate, Dan Vorbees, who for yej
had been the champion ot free coin 3
then went back upon his former recc
and as a result accomplished the re;$
of the Sherman act. I
As a result of the repeal of this r
prices again began to fall and will c j
tinue until some remedial legislation'
passed. i
The republicans tell us there is plen4
ot money in the banks but how mcr
they do not tell us. You cannot g
money from the banks unless yon hat
money on deposit and often not then t
you well know. I say there is litt1
money in the banks of this country. : ,
The gold standard means an everlas; '
ing fall in prices in this country.
i hey say that free coinage means 0
cent dollars. I am in- a syndicate whio;
will buy every silver dollar in the count?;
at 90 cents and pay for it in gold. El
nobody will sell. There is not surt ;
thing as a 50 cent dollar. Every dol'a
is a 100 cent dollar. i
Why should the government borroi
money when it has the power to make it
i here is no more reason why the got
eminent should borrow money thai
there is for an individual to horror
bread instead ot making it. If he were 4
"financier" he would borrow bread anc;
give the other fellow Interest by taking i
slice out ot the next loaf. Are you no;
tired of this kind of a policy? ,1
Why maintain the gold reserve? Mere!
ly for the purpose of accommodating tbtf
money tenderer 1 hey first get the gold (
then call for the bonds. , i 1
There is no authority for it in law. ' Iff
is ostensibly to bold up the greenbacks
But they not only hold up the gold but!
also the greenback that they may con
tract the currency, depreciate prices, and
cause general depression. j
we propose to wipe out this gold re-i
serve and coin more silver dollars. Co-!
der free coinage the price of silver would!
be fl.29, ' It would be this price the!
nunu uvci. xv ia iue ibw tnac gives 15
value.
"The price of our present silver dollar
proves this. Thurston says it is the leg
islation of the country that gives value
to both gold and Bilver. If all the na
tions ot the world demonetized gold Its
price would go down one-half, yet these
men say that law has no effect in givis?
value to money, and the value of every
dolllar depends upon the number ot then
in circnlation. Every goldbugaays that
if you double the supply of money price)
will go up.
"1 hey propose to appreciate the dol
lar and depreciate prices. This proposi
tion is clearly understood.
"1 trust that the end of the i7nittl
States government's borrowing money
and voting bonds Is at band; and it is
11 American patriotism is not extinct.
The interest of the bondholder is not thm
interest ot the producer. One is a cred
itor, the other a debtor; one is interested
in an appreciating dollar, the other in
an appreciation of commodities.
They charge us silver republicans with
inconsistency. I have been in favor of
free coinage since 1876 and have voted
with the republican party, because I be
lieved that party would restore silver to
where it was prior to 1878. I relied on
its platforms and pledges, but I was de
ceived and determined to leave my party.
I proposed to affiliate with that party
that advocated my principles. We have
secured a union of all the forces interest
ed in this movement and selected a lead
er that is the bravest man, the most in
telligent man there is in all the nation.
We have a rebellion in this country in-
spired by the anarchists of Wall Btreet.
We propose to put down this anarchy of
the bond holders. We propose to defend
ourselves from the gang on Wall street
neaaed oy lierr Most.
When asked about McKinlev ha amd
he lives at Canton, and will continue to
live there for four years longer, and like
Napoleon will have an opportunity to
contemplate the causes of his defeat. It
is 10 to 1 that Ohio will go for Brvan hv
50,000. In my trip to your state, if my
observation is correct, the farmers all
along the route are almost a unit for
our standard bearer, W. J Bryan. He
was welcomed by the biggest crowd t-
Cleveland that ever welcomed any man.
1 ten you tnat eucu meetings mean some
thing as the result on Nov. 3, will testify.
They say the silver craze is dying out.
But show me a man who has left the sil
ver party.
Mrs. Cropper of Chicago now sang the
"Silver King of the West." dedicated to
Mr. Bryan, which was thoroughly ap
preciated by the audience.
Colonel Pace then suggested that tha
audience extend to the lady a vote of
thanks by raising the right hand.
judge Broad v was then introduced
as the next congressman.
He said that local pride ' should be
enough to induce our citizens to support
Mr. Bryan and if that were not sufficient
the great principle in the campaign
should influence them to vote for him.
This is a contest between the producer
and the money lender. It has been going
on for some time and it will continue
until the cause represented by Mr. W. J.
Bryan shall triumph. The constant con
traction has depreciated prices and
destroyed values. This is a fight of prin
ciple and not of party. It is a fight of
the common people and old party lines
are disregarded. McKinley said: "Let
down the party barriers and let in the
Cleveland democrats," and that grand
leader, W. J. Bryan, took up the gaunt
let and'' said, "Let all who believe in
American independence and liberty unite
under a single banner."
The meeting closed with three rousing
cheers for Bryan and Broady.
JESSE GRANT A POPULIST.
Son of the Dead Soldier Renounces the
Republican Party.
Sax Diego, Cal., Sept 11. Jesse R.
Grant, son of Gen. Grant, has renounced
the republican party and joined the pop
ulists. In a letter to Judge J. Wade McDon
ald, read in the populist county conven
tion recently, he says:
"The financial plank In the republican
platform must drive from that party
anyone who believes as I do. The plat
form of the people's party has no ob
jectionable features and seems to offer a
political home which any American can
proudly enter." -
In clubs of ten or more campaign
subscriptions lOo txch. ITo com
mlinn h-m
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