Show 1 at IF s i 17 1 gs g 11 1 t 4 11 9 te t E ALL AH I 1 AGAINST SILVER monopolists AND TRUSTS LEADING THE FIG FIGHT HT ft TM f silver would injure the aner aa aa aery aw of r abam would be shoo aUoe tar for 1 16 to I 1 when bourke cochran exalted the importance in the social fabric of the men who toll toil he used a common trick of argument to gain for or his side the apparent advantage of the championship of labor but mr bryan in his rhinebeck speech went as far although in fewer fever words worda as mr cochran in pointing out the importance of the toilers boilers as vital factors actors in the well being of the whole e social organism in doing so he merely accepted a practical axiom of political economy that the foundations of all 1 prosperity rest upon the welfare of the men who dig and delve for the product of the soil and mine who turn the raw material into articles of necessity and i use and who perform the task of placing I 1 them where they are needed I 1 agreeing therefore that the welfare of the producers Is the vital concern of I 1 all all the question of the campaign is 1 which party offers the better hope of prosperity to the producers the chief enemies of the toilers boilers are monopoly in all its forms and unjust taxation monopoly may be represented by the power to control production or to corner the products and thus thua reg I 1 TWO conceptions OF COLUMBIA trl are T 3 8 V t I 1 I 1 r piro A 1 I 1 A I 1 Z 0 I 1 I 1 wall street idea liberty enlightening the tb world A few of your financiers would fashion anew figure a figure representing el columbia her hands lound bound fast with of gold and her face turned toward the east appealing for assistance to those who live beyond the sea but this figure can never express your idea of this nation you would rather turn for inspiration to the heroic statue which guards the entrance to your city that figure liberty enlightening the world is emblematic of the mission of our nation among the nations of the earth W J bryan at madison square garden st SL louis post dispatch dis patch al ate priem prices it may operate by controlling laws in its last analysis the evil of the gold standard is the evil of monopoly because it enables the financial magnates to fix the standard and then to corner the money market as they have done monopoly and taxation are often combined as in a protective tariff the candidacy of mckinley is supported by monopolists the tariff barons who made millions from monopolies gained through unjust taxation and the financial magnates who made millions by cornering gold and selling it to the government are am combining comb Liling the power of their wealth and influence to elect him all the interests that plunder the producing toilers boilers by the reduction of wages the increase of prices by trusts the manipulation of corporations and the juggling of the money market are combined in his support on the other side is dryan bryan whose candidacy is a protest against every form of monopoly and who must look for support only from the toilers boilers toi lers can there be any question as to the candidate whose success will represent the welfare of the people the discontented farmer the agricultural department has issued a circular that will help to explain why the farmers barme are not as happy now as aa they used to be it compares the prices of I 1 leading farm products year by year from fro in 1866 1 to 1895 1995 the th e prices P rices are given give in currency but when reduced to a gold basla basis the results are sufficiently striking kinZ inspect these ngum figures ures for instance currency gold 1866 1966 1866 1896 cora COM 8 sa wheat 2 2196 1558 1 08 oats aw an I 1 R bye 11 84 44 barley 1009 1009 JW buckwheat an 59 potatoes a 2681 tobacco per lb M JOSS hay per ton 1458 10 1047 UT it thue tans appears that the farmer in j IM 1865 got more than th three times aa ranch j la 4 gold tar for ins ho wheat as he be 18 getting t now and abe about ut twice as muck much for cv very t mug cise A hui but st ile imort art t PW gage on his tarsi it was reckoned it in cw aad pome y bushel ot 4 wheat loaia clew olearia olear ir it oit ait ais aft s f bv acif 4 OF kaii 1 ft u HL I 1 6 i t aa it 7 dean W J bior i it aha 04 a L I 1 W fialo r IL I 1 16 I 1 gw P j W if I 1 ex I 1 F T 81 A 08 loir the apply ie mortgage and nothing to live or run the farm on or tor expenses and nothing ua for th the e mortgage or tor f interest and for the farm and taints leaving the debt as large as 28 ever in 1866 a man without money could buy a larm lann tn in the west ai on credit dud ana pay for oc it with the proceeds of one crop in 1996 tha same man might receive the same farm without incumbrance as a gift and an d be bankrupt in a year but t mr cochran sees nothing in the discon tent of the western farmer except a desire to cheat his laborers of seventeen S nty ix in a signed communication recently published M J bishop general worthy foreman of the knights of labor wrote as follows comparing the bryan an anarchists archis ts and hayseeds hay seeds with the revolutionary patriots the men of concord lexington bun bunker ker hill BIB and valley forge would possibly not be able to particularly ado adorn rn a fin de at siccle acl e d drawing raw I 1 ng r room high tea musicale or white house reception cep tion their language manners and habiliments very probably would cause the average scribe ol of today to sneer at their inferiority but those ose Patr patriots luts were imbued wilh the same desire for fer independence from british thralldom w which animates their descendants and disciples of this century and they will advance to the goal with the came spirit of determination and self sacrifice as the heroes of the revolution there were no anarchists among these brave fellows fe lows but there was as ae now an abundance of agitators with a definite idea of what to agitate for and but for the shrewd cunning of the silk stocking brigade of that day the phraseology of our present constitution would not need such a wholesale whole salo revision and reconstruction the fearless honest upright hayseed and odo odoro ralus lua as our modern convention critic is ia leased to style them were those who lifted one form of british yoke from the shoulders of columbia colombia and their latter day prototypes will finish what they so well began tary tory newspapers misrepresentation and abuse not even the ever potent gold will save the treacherous crew the p people have seized the lever and have demanded right of way for the poplar reform train and for the man aann or thing putting any obstacle on the track to retard or wreck its progress pro greas will be dealt with in as a a manner as his tory progenitors of the past the benevolent gold gol d nl boe knights of labor journal the th e deep interest which the gold bug bankers are manifesting in the welfare of the workingmen working men in these presidential election times is something truly touching these benevolent arna financiers ciers are am positively panic stricken over the impending danger to the workingmen borki nam e n from free coinage coin age and an increased volume of moneys money lt lat the plate pe plo sl djoe knights of labor jurew journal the tha plain people peoli 6 against agal plutocracy will be the issue of this fight no matter what w hat legend or sarty party name may appear up the standards dArds imd and let oa as hope that the plain people will rise to the dignity of the occasion and once more place america in a position where it will VM be possible at least that tha she fine can be freed erard MOOT and uzza timms tim indianapolis silver anver temi one 4 sentence contains contal ns the afie key to the situation good libia money i ty never made timea hard this thia Is ia au an eternal truth I 1 but bui times are hard and have bave bernaard been hard Aard ever since we uve have had bad the minei cold r old standard stall dard and there isma is no 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