Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1900 — Must Stand Back. [ARTICLE]

Must Stand Back.

“If it is jisserted, as it is constantly asserted,” said Bryan in his 1896 notification speech, “that the gold standard will enable us to borrow more money from abroad, I reply that the restoration of bimetallism will restore the parity between money and property which will enable the American people to become loaners of money instead of perpetual borrowers.” Having become loaners of money abroad under the gold standard, being now the creditor instead of the debtor nation, do you see how wide of the mark Bryan was shooting then. There is nothing to confirm a single one of his old prophecies. Why put faith in his new ones?