Word: bryanism
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...Like Stealing." Echoing the Republican arguments of 1896 against Bryanism, Pennsylvania's Senator Reed bitterly flayed the Wheeler silver amendment: "It would be giving a great cash bonus to India and perhaps China. . . . Panic and crisis would be precipitated. . . . We'd see a flight of capital that would take our breath away. . . . There would be such a catastrophic overturn of American business that all the benefits would be obviated. . . . It's like stealing from one class to help another. ... I don't believe that the people of the United States have gone dishonest overnight because...
...Today it is 27¾ per oz. To up its value is the aim of a noisy segment of political Washington, representing States with silver mines or interested in Chinese trade. Such upping would be effected by tying silver to gold (the old 16-to-1 Bryanism which few seriously espouse), or by international agreement to buy silver for coinage and not to sell it below a fixed price...
Dean James E. Lough of New York University, the project's father, hopes to make the cruise an annual affair productive of "antidotes to Bryanism" in business men and politicians of the next decade...
...leadership of President Coolidge, has taken its stand firmly upon the Constitution of the United States, and all know where it stands. Opposed to it, and in reality its chief opponent, though the result of the effort may be to deadlock the contest for the Presidency and make Bryanism succeed the Coolidge policy, is a movement of untried and dangerous radicalism...
...Sound Money Parade next Monday night will be particularly interesting as the only one in the campaign composed exclusively of college men. There will be transparencies expressive of allegiance to the cause of sound money and contempt for Bryanism. Other features will be Old John on a dray, the enormous machine manufactured by the Vim Tire Company, the bicycle brigade and a quantity of red fire. The same costumes used in the Republican parade will be worn. All who have not costumes for the parade tonight and who intend to wrlk Monday night must sing the bluebook in Leavitt...
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