Show read and repeat these truths to your neighbors DANIEL WEBSTER SAMUEL J TILDEN CO constitutional I 1 lawyer and states statesman maD sa said id 1 I am clearly of the opinion that sold gold and silver at ratios fixed by congress 91 constitute the legal standard of value in this country and that neither congress nor any state has authority to establish any other standard or to displace this sta standard edard A STATES MANS WISE WORDS james G blaine in the united states senate feb 7 1878 the responsibility for reestablishing establishing re silver in its ancient and honorable and in america place as money in europe devolves res really liv upon the congress of the united states if we act here with wisdom and firmness we shall not only su successfully silver and bring it into general use as money but the influence country in our own of our example will be potential among nations with the possible european indeed our annual exception of england nual indebtedness edness to europe is so great that it if we have the right to pay in silver we necessarily coerce those nations the strongest of all forces by self interest to aid us in upholding tb the value of silver as money the exclusively gold nation show the most massive england may imay but it ruling classes in the fortunes and hopeless also the most helpless shows of walks humbler poverty in the and silver nation like gold tile the life exhibit no such JA france can as abound in england but it fortunes whose silver savings has a peasantry indemnity that would can pay a war of bankers gold the be beggared glared have london and t to which the peasantry of have contributed a could not england in gold or even a shilling pound sterl sterling ing in silver the eternal we will see which is by or the people power money to rule the andrew jackson i controls the volume of whoever moever Is absolutely country of any money industries and commerce master of all garfield jame ep A bismarck said sad in 18 1 I 1 prince leen been in fa favor of an international have always agreement for the restoration if it metia metal and of sam silver all aa bad a without money t glands En help cannot be ought to restore BUT silver then we ner ben man a stat statesman esmart whose that can they slightest pulsation catch the toned d to tone ear is and denounce bo ok Pocket of a t who dares to any on one e i as a de demagogue gooe beart beata bf humanity listen u sten to the W J bryan to farmers mechanics and working men A powerful money corporation en in a death struggle with the gov eminent to which it owes its exist ence assails the fidelity of our representatives senta tives and the freedom of our election and by this control of the cur rency spread far and wide dismay misery and ruin in order to extort a renewal of its privileges and powei from the fear and necessities of the community comm unity 1 I believe the struggle now going on in this country and in other countries for a single gold standard will if sue suc cess ful produce widespread disaster in the end throughout the world james G blaine can disaster be more widespread than it is now As a result of the war corporation have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money mo ney power will endeavor to prolong 10 ng its reign by working upon the brej prejudices of the people until all wealth to is aggregated in a few hands bands and the republic is destroyed I 1 feel fee at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before even in the midst of war god grant that my suspicions may prove groundless abraham lincoln 1 I am for the largest use of silver in the currency of the country I 1 would not dishonor it I 1 would make no dis crimination I 1 would utilize both metals as money and discredit neither I 1 want the double standard candidate INIc mckinley Kinley in the house of representatives june 24 1890 james G blame blaine 1 I believe gold and silver coin to be the money of the constitution no power was conferred on congress to declare either metal should not be money congress has in my judgment no power to demonetize silver any more than to demonetize gold I 1 john sherman wrote in 1878 98 1 I 1 was strongly in favor of the single standard of gold but bot other arguments show ing the dang dangerous erous effect upon industry by dropping one of the precious metals from the standard of value outweigh tn in my mind all theoretical objections to the bimetallic sy system ste the first act passed in relation to coinage was in it was prepared by alexan alexander ader hamilton Ea milton endorsed by thomas jefferson approved by george washington a and nd provided for the tree free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio 0 of fifteen parts of silver allver to one of gold coinage co inage laws ot of the united states page 4 |