Democratic Campaign Book: Presidential Election of 1896Hartman & Cadick, 1896 - 383 pages |
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Page 32
... believe that several nations , by entering into an agreement to coin at a fixed ratio all the gold and silver presented , can maintain the bullion value of the metals at the mint ratio . When a mint price is thus established , it ...
... believe that several nations , by entering into an agreement to coin at a fixed ratio all the gold and silver presented , can maintain the bullion value of the metals at the mint ratio . When a mint price is thus established , it ...
Page 34
... believe that a silver dollar will be worth as much as a gold dollar . The charge of repudiation comes with poor grace from those who are seeking to add to the weight of existing debts by legislation which makes money dearer , and who ...
... believe that a silver dollar will be worth as much as a gold dollar . The charge of repudiation comes with poor grace from those who are seeking to add to the weight of existing debts by legislation which makes money dearer , and who ...
Page 35
... to specially aid any particular class , yet those who believe that the restoration of silver is needed by the whole people should not be deterred because an incidental benefit will come to the mine BRYAN'S SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE 35.
... to specially aid any particular class , yet those who believe that the restoration of silver is needed by the whole people should not be deterred because an incidental benefit will come to the mine BRYAN'S SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE 35.
Page 38
... believe to be necessary for the preservation of their rights , then a new and vital issue is raised . Whenever it is necessary for the people as a whole to obtain consent from the owners of money and the changers of money before they ...
... believe to be necessary for the preservation of their rights , then a new and vital issue is raised . Whenever it is necessary for the people as a whole to obtain consent from the owners of money and the changers of money before they ...
Page 39
... believe that , in striving to secure the immediate restoration of bimetallism , they are laboring in your behalf as well as in their own behalf . A few of your people may prosper under present conditions , but the per- manent welfare of ...
... believe that , in striving to secure the immediate restoration of bimetallism , they are laboring in your behalf as well as in their own behalf . A few of your people may prosper under present conditions , but the per- manent welfare of ...
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Page 228 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 244 - SEC. 4. The several circuit courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the attorney-general, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 48 - ... the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 48 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 228 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 228 - No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty ; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall be lost.
Page 49 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 245 - State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property Imported into the United States contrary to law.
Page 181 - ... aggression upon its rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela. "In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow.
Page 180 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power,, as a willful aggression upon its rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.