Show FALLACY MONGERS how like chil children dreu some people are for example here are several able editors insisting that bryan if honest hones twill wi I 1 come out and admit that the bold gold basis and protective tariff are the cause of our prosperity it y if we are so now just juat consider for one moment in ent who was it said man is as a new born little child who I 1 when he sees the sun rise thinks it is for the first time no matter who it was he knew what he was talking about suppose we do have a boom ot oi prosperity have we never ne ver had one before statistics show that the longest 25 era of prosperity pe rity we ever knew was from 1845 to 1861 under free trade low revenue tariff this was interrupted for a few months in 1857 8 by a sudden collapse of all banks under our same sound money sy system a statistics and memories of most living men declare that the era of most excessive booming was from 1865 to 1872 under the highest protective tariff we ever had and the greenback system no sound money in the land only some seventy millions million s of full legal tc tender ader greenbacks green backs passed for gold and ran up in pride price to for of the depreciated green backs again the worst times the country ever endured were from 1842 to 1847 under high tariff and sound money and from 1872 to 1878 under high tariff and sound mone money T again we recovered in 1875 for a few years and flourished under high tariff and sound money and again 0 broke down about 1882 under high ta tariff and sound money and recovered and boomed under high tariff and sound money till 1892 when under the same tariff and money we followed in the wake of all nations natian t by collapsing and suffering years of horrors with mere tariff legislation going on to patch us up and still sound sou nd money no country countr y has had uch a long career of prosperity as england since 1818 1848 under free trade except belgium and holland under the same system both with sound money As to En glands 0 sound money she has a law to make her greenbacks green backs the bank of england notes full fall legal tenders w whenever the high council orders it so why such childish talk there is no need of such upa and downs but the very system so boasted boast edof of creates them auevery as every student of public economy knows post hoe procter hoe is a chelda fallacy fallai 7 how HOLT 1 |