. Review of reviews and world's work. es. Hitherto,such a period of hard times has invariably led, inthe United States, to a demand for money infla-tion on one plan or another ; and the cheap-silverdollar would undoubtedly be the method of in-flation that would now come into fresh the election of a strong-willed free-silvercandidate for the Presidency in a period of pros-perous times, when the country, for all practicalpurposes, is well enough satisfied with the exist-ing sound-money basis, would almost inevitablyresult in a new agitation which in its turn wouldproduce those condit
. Review of reviews and world's work. es. Hitherto,such a period of hard times has invariably led, inthe United States, to a demand for money infla-tion on one plan or another ; and the cheap-silverdollar would undoubtedly be the method of in-flation that would now come into fresh the election of a strong-willed free-silvercandidate for the Presidency in a period of pros-perous times, when the country, for all practicalpurposes, is well enough satisfied with the exist-ing sound-money basis, would almost inevitablyresult in a new agitation which in its turn wouldproduce those conditions of doubt and fear thatbreed panic in times of extended credit, with re-sulting bad times and a new demand on the partof many victims of the collapse for cheap moneyin the form of free silver. The pretense ofsome of the Eastern sound-money men, who aresupporting him on other grounds, that the pres-ent Congress can fix the law in such a waythat Mr. Bryan could not break down the goldstandard, wholly misses what is really the vital. Alchemists may doubtThe shining gold their crucibles give faith, fanatic faith once wedded fastTo some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.— the Journal (Detroit). point. The thing to be concerned about is notso much what Mr. Bryan might or might not doin the executive office as the way in which hiselection would react, first, upon business condi-tions; and, second, upon the political resurrectionof a question that ought not to be brought upagain for many years. «, ^ X There should be put on record, for the Two Notes for .. „ i- i j> ?, ? ? ^ i • the Future beneut ot the luture historian of thisstudent, political scason, the undeniable factthat the country as a whole had become so w^ellreconciled to the decision on the money question,as made in 1896, that if David B. Hill and theothers who urged the omission of the silver plankhad prevailed at Kansas City the free - silverphase of the money question would have droppedou
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