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A False Statement

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
October
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tli busiiiPRs .f iliis enutitry is itoire on silver, siiv i' eet linea Hinl lunik Imite. (inM ;'.:! gncuÍKicks ulv Hut tl i circulation, The jiovernuipul pays olf congress, the nriiir, umi is v irí iiuuibi r di other employé, inontlily, n -üvcr, or rather sil ver Cf-rtificat'-s. Silver, ' witli the ail of bunk notea, is now doing the business of I iiis country, while I the gold aud grecnl:icks ;i re Iving iille under the miser'8 litiirtli and in ihe vuults of the specnlator. It is only the bond holder Ihat demnml or c:in obhiin liold. - Congressman .1. C. Bell in The 1 1 1 ustratetl American. 'Plint statement lacks Ihe important element of truth. Congressman Bell knows that any man can go to any bank in the United States and exchange his silver, silver certiñeates or greenbacka for gold if he so desires, and that anj man doing business can secure nl! the gold he needs to do business with. The Bryan-Towne straiu of the i Silver Sliorthorn Herd have been excluded trom the rich pastures oí the Ohio and Maryland reservations. The Bank of Englaud is becoming alarmed at the outflow of gjld from its coffers to tbis covmtry, and various ineasu res are beingattempted tostopït. Bat it still continúes to come. The leaders of the calamity party are overjoyed at the blight fall in wheat lately. They are expectantly watehing quotations, in the Tiope that soinethiug will conduce to a further depreciatfon of its valué, so that they can say "We told yon so"' to the farmers. The fact that au ounce of silver a year ago was equal in valué to a bushei of wheat, bat now buya only hall' a bushei, bas knocked the wind out of their specious arguments. Mud has supplauted silver in Ohio. It wou ld seem impossible that silver could have, in the short time since the adoption of the Ohio Democratie platform, when it was made the plank, depreciated to the va-lúe of ordiuary mud as a campaign issue, but this appears to be the case in Ohio. The McLean men are, however, exercising their in;enuity in attempting to discover a particularly adhesive quality of that article for use in the McLean machine. There is no longer any doubt that the "money power" of Europe dominates this country. The "power" has been sending gold into the United States, through New York, S.)ii Francisco, New Orleans, and other ports, until we now have a gold circulation of $50,000,000 in excess of that of a year ago, with a total circulation nearly $100,000,000 larger than a year ago. This foreign "power" is evidently determined to ruin us, if possible, by dumping a lot of gold in on us in exchange for our wheat, corn, uieat, and other producís. The business men of the country are agatn exerting themselves in those States where the silver issue has come into prominence in the fall's campaign. The remarkable aligniug of the business forces of the country against the campaign of anarchy and repudiation of last year showed that business men were fully alive to the death blow whicli was being aimedatthem by the Bryanites, and their present activity in certain States attests that they are determined' to lend their active efforts to campaigns as long. as there is any vitality lei't in the freesilver fallacy.

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