Show WHAT BLAINE FAID AID 1 I believe the struggle st now going goiti on in ill this and country other kotlier co countries un for a single gold standard would if successful produce widespread ide cpr ead disaster in and throughout I 1 the commercial world tile the destruction st of silver as money and establishing gold zi as the sole unit of i va value lue roust mus t have a ruinous effect on all forms of property except those invested which wh ch yield v i el d a fixed return in bonev money those would be enormously en enhanced lanced in value and would gain gail a disproportionate d and unfair advantage over every other species of property pr if I 1 as the most reliable statistics affirm there are nearly of co coin in or bullion in the world very very equally Y divided between gold b and silver it is impossible to strike silver out i of existence as money money aitho without it results that will prove distressing to millions and utterly disastrous diba to tens of thousands 1 4 I believe t gold and silver coin to be the bonev money of the constitution indeed the money of the american people anterior to t the constitution which the great organic law recognized as quite dependent of its own existence no power was conferred on congress to declare either metal etal should not be moriea money congress has therefore in in M my V judgment no power to demonetize either if therefore silver has been demonetized de i am in favor of it if its coinage has been prohibited I 1 am in favor of ordering it to be resumed I 1 am ir in favor of having 0 it enlarged ta ed 1 we ask all admirers of the gallant plumed knight to carefully read the above e words of wisdom from the lips of one of americas greatest statesmen these words w were ere delivered in congress r years ago aaa they chev seem almost prophetic now were james G blaine alive now lie would be a bryan bolter and would be branded by tile the goldbug press and speakers as an a anarchist and a does any of his admirers suppose for a minute that blaine would have bate subscribed to a platform which admits that the united states must obtain the help of great britain defore before we can have silver as an all equal part of our money money blaine was not that sort of ari an american american |