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MR. JHIYAN'S PKKDICTIONS IN 180(1 (
AND WHAT HAS HAPPENKD.
If silver is eliminated
The Gold
Democrats. nated from the
platform this year ,
will Mr. Bryan receive the support of
those democrats who declined , in 1896 ,
to accept the Chicago platform ? 10 to 1
is but one of the many heresies of
Bryanarchy. As the whole is greater
than any of its parts , Bryauarchy is
infinitely more dangerous than any one
of its dogmas.
Bryan's speeches in 1890 were clothed in
verbiage demagogic , dangerously anar
chistic. In his speech at the Colosseum ,
he used the following language in dis
cussing the issues of moment before
that convention :
"Wo do not come as aggressors. Our
war is not a war of conquest. We are
fighting in the defence of our homes ,
our families and posterity. We have
petitioned , and our petitions have been
scorned. We have entreated , and our
entreaties have been disregarded. We
have begged and they have mocked and
our calamity came. We beg no longer ;
wo entreat no more ; we defy them. "
Whom has Mr. Bryan "petitioned ? "
Whom has he "entreated ? " Whom has
he "begged ? " And
TVho.
by whom has he
" " " " and
been "scorned , "disregarded ,
"mocked ? " Who are those whom he
' 'defies ? ' ' He must have meant those to
whom were entrusted the responsibility
of our government and the formulation
of our policies. He must have referred to
Washington , Madison , Jefferson , Jack
son , Lincoln , Cleveland and a host of
others whose names are honored and
revered by the American people. Can
these be the ones whom he would indict
with conspiring to destroy the "homes"
and the "liberties" of the American
people ? Is it because of the malevolent
acts of these that' 'our future is written
in blood crushed out of the people by
cold ? "
If in 1890 the gold standard was a
"conspiracy against the human race , "
_ if it was then so
Conspiracy.
vicious as to merit
such denunciation , it is equally deserving
of condemnation in 1900. If the words
Mr. Bryan uttered in 1890 , in portraying
the iniquities of this gold standard , were
the expression of honest conviction , it
would be an act of infamy for him to
now compromise with those whom he
once charged with conspiring to destroy
our "homes" and "firesides. " Thogold
democrats would not support one who
would thus knowingly identify himself
with those whom he believes are seek
ing the ruin of the country. If his was
not the language of soberness and truth ,
if he was only plying the arts of the
demagogue and appealing to the preju
dices and passions of the people , he is
dishonest and unfit for the presidency.
If he was honest and sincere in 1896 , but
is now willing to acknowledge himself
in error , ho is so lacking in judgment
and so deficient in reasoning powers as
to be utterly incompetent to be the chief
executive of this great republic. The
gold democrats of the United States will
not support Bryanarchy with or without
silver.
. In his speech at
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Columbus , Ohio ,
Sept 1,1890 , Mr. Bryan gives us the test
by which we are to arrive at the good
ness or badness of a thing :
"I call your attention to the fact that
no party in the history of this country
has ever in a national convention com
mended the gold standard. Its effects
are so bad that no party has ever dared
uphold it. "
What an awfully "bad" thing Mr.
Bryan must believe the declaration of
independence to be , as no political party
in the history of our country ever dared
declare for it ! Is there nothing "good"
unless it receive the endorsement of the
majority in a political convention ?
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York , August 25 ,
1890 , Mr. Bryan thus declared his un
dying fealty to the 1C to 1 fallacy :
"We have then to consider this ques
tion : ought the American people submit
longer to a gold standard ? The demo
cratic party has begun a war of exter
mination against the gold standard. We
ask no quarter , we give no quarter. We
shall prosecute our warfare until there
is not an American citizen that dares to
advocate a gold standard policy. You
ask why ? We reply that the gold stand
ard is a conspiracy against the human
race. And that we should , no more join
it than we would an army to destroy
our homes and to destroy our families. "
Will the distinguished warrior , who
declared such undying and never-ending
hostility to the gold standard , who
would neither give nor receive quarter ,
accept , at Kansas City , a nomin
ation for the presidency if the conven
tion intermits its fight upon the gold
standard and declares war upon some
thing else ? Will he thus become a
party to "a conspiracy against the hu
man race ? " Will he join or comprom
ise with that , which in 1890 ho said he
would no sooner join than he would "an
army to destroy our homes and to des
troy our families ? " Will he openly
confess himself to be such a fiendish
enemy to society ?
, . In his speech at
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Columbus , Ohio ,
Sept 1 , 1890 , Mr. Bryan thus trifled with
facts :
"The advocates of the gold standard
have never dared to submit the arbitra
tion of the gold standard to the ballot.
Every step that has been taken has been
by stealth and without the approval of
the American people. "
Mr. Bryan forgot to mention that
Jefferson , in 1800 , ordered the closing of
the mints to silver dollars. The Ameri
can people approved the act and they
remained closed for thirty years. The
act of 1884 , placing us upon the gold
standard which we have maintained to
the present time was signed by Jackson
and approved by the American people.
The act of 1853 demonetized $75,000,000
of silver and was endorsed by the Am
erican people.
The act of 1873 , dropping the silver
dollar from the coinage , was not enacted
by stealth but was pending before the
American congress for three years , was
printed thirteen times as a bill and its
amendments , and the dropping of the
dollar from the list of coins caused no
objection from any source. Senator *
Stewart even voted for the bill. I
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Artist Bryan thus painted , in gloomy I
tints , the future under a gold standard :
"My friends , the conspiracy which we
have to meet is a conspiracy which lias j
for its ultimate object the striking down j
of silver as one of the standard moneys
of the world. And that can only mean I
a gradual and continual increase in the \
purchasing power of the dollar , and that (
means an indefinite season during which
the holders of fixed investments gather
more than they loan and during which
those who owe debts will pay more than
they agreed to pay an indefinite season
during which it will be more profitable
to hoard money or loan it than to invest
it in enterprise or property. "
As if he had not painted the future
dark enough in this gloomy sketch he
added the following next day in an ad
dress at Erie , Pa. :
"Do not let the republicans beguile
you about the future. The future is
written in blood , crushed out of you by
gold. "
These calamitous predictions can be
best controverted by appealing to each
individual voter and let him use his own
personal experience as a basis upon
which to judge. He knows that there
has not been an increase in the purchas
ing power of the dollar because of the
continuance of the gold standard. He
knows that the maintenance of the gold
standard instead of making the hoarding
of money more profitable has encouraged -
aged beyond all precedent its investment
in enterprise and property and has promoted
meted the development of the country.
The only blood THE CONSERVATIVE
knows anything about is that which so
painfully oozes from the brow of a dis
credited prophet and doomed president
ial aspirant.
In 1893 , when
Holting. , . , , .
the democratic
state convention of Nebraska endorsed
the action of President Cleveland in
asking for the repeal of the Sherman
law , Mr. Bryan thus stated his position
upon the question of bolting :
"Gentlemen , I know not what others
may do , but duty to country is above
duty to party. * * * If the democratic
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