Show natt OUR aun TIC VID vcr I 1 fur for president WILLIAM VILLIAM J BRYAN OF NEBRASKA 1 for vice president ARTHUR SEWALL OP OF MAINE CAN WE MAINTAIN FREE SILVER THE question is often asked by honest and intelligent voters can the ibe I 1 united cited states maintain a bimetallic standard in fact the 1 issue in in the present campaign is on the very very lines suggested by the question mr mckinley and his adherents are now insisting that the answer to the inquiry should be 0 no o while mr bryan and his I 1 followers answer yes the republican platform assumes that bimetallism is a e good thing but that we cannot expect to have it except through an international are agreement ement which means we will uever never 15 brer it or i if we do the time will be so far off that the youngest child now livin living will never be old I 1 enough 0 to the consummation so devoutly to be wished it lubans that we will never get the tree free coinage of silver until all the leading commercial mercial nations of europe agree tu to a sort of monetary pentecost aud and which they will never do su so long as it is to the interest of the money power to perpetuate pett lute the el gold old standard i tile the common people of these countries have little or nothing to say say about the financial policy of of their own countries they are go governed goer arned ned by kings lords and dukes duke who so shape the money matters matter that they get the greatest benefit and they get it at the expense of the producer and wage I 1 earner in this land of ours where 1 I 1 liberty liberta and progress are the pillars I 1 of our civilization the c conditions I 1 are re or should be different here in columbian Colum bias happy land the people are supposed to govern and they are presumed to guard with a 1 1 zealous haud hand the rights and interests ests of the common people now it t is conceded by all parties that thai to have hare the free coinage of silver I 1 with 1 gold gohl at a ratio of 16 to 1 in this country would be a very desirable i condition but one party says says nvart wait until all the commercial nations of europe agree and then we can have it the other party says we believe we can have it now oto and maintain it by ourselves selves s aud force the other nations to tollow follow our lead we ve are a nation of seventy millions icons of people we are in possession of su superior natural addan tag in the cha character of the people in our natural resources re and in our geographical and climatic surroundings roun dings and hence the united states is fully folly equal iu in productive capacity and ana financial power to any of people that can be grouped together by other uati nations ons what at difference will it make to us ns if england and nd the other eil european nations donot consent cons dt lint but object to us having the ae bimetallic standard Is it lj that ahat we are would run short 0 wont y the ilie withdrawal of 10 capital F there is no danger am on tha tore Ls we are one of the greatest gold and ad silver diver brodu producers cherms SS 4 foreign count carmor Us ua tor for th the axnas S iss i s S have our wheat corn beef cotton and hundreds hundred of other products of the soil the factory and workshop but bat we are told that ar all the foreign I 1 creditors will demand immediate 1 payment of our obligations t public and private and thereby crush out our life by lawsuits and foreclosures fore closures not a bit of dandri because the foreign creditor would have to receive his pay in the legal tender money of the country countr either silver or gold and we certainly could pay them in silver then easier than we now can in gold and these money sharks of europe are too shrewd to force a condition which would depreciate the value of the silver dollar when this would be the very kind of money they would I 1 get on their demands would they not rather unite with us to keep silver on a par with gold so as not to injure their own interests we think the they y would the ver very y fact that the people of I 1 other nations are our creditors is I 1 a strong reason why we can maintain 1 bimetallism in this count country ry I 1 they will never do anything to 11 injure the kind of money with which they may be paid if a man W was as to loan his neighbor 1000 bushels of yellow corn to be paid back in one or two years and on payday pay day if he knew he had to take 1000 bushels of white corn n payment he would be a pretty fool to go on the market and try to bear the price of white corn he would be far more likely to bull the market a few cents it should be remembered that we are not indebted to england as a nation or to any other nation whatever we owe we owe to ind i n f not to any government therefore we are masters of the situation and the united states can coina co oa pel el all the other nations of europe to quietly acquis acquiste ce in our action in restoring silver as a money metal and can also force them to do the same and thus force the bimetallic standard upon the whole world the only question remaining is will they do it and thus use the advantage for the benefit of our people the result of the election in november will answer the question |