Word: bryanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
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