LAD/Blog #26: William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech

William Bryan's speech "Cross of Gold" uses the arguments of the common man to depict why the gold standard is unjust. He believes that the government should represent everybody, and not just the big businessmen like Ford, Rockefeller, and Morgan. He defends the governments right to control currency, taxes, and inflation while saying that doing so through bimetallism. He points out that many of the proponents of the gold standard a few months before his speech are now trying to replace it, but they do not know what reliable system to replace it with. He agrees with the growing national sentiment that the gold standard values money too high and only empowers the rich money holders, and the banks loaning out the money. He is a proponent of devaluing the currency to help the middle and lower class.

People then were trying to repeal the gold standard but did not know what to replace it with, today the same is true of Obamacare:
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LAD/Blog #35: Home was a Horse Stall

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