The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 39, September 30, 2007, Article 27

FEATURED WEB PAGE: BRYAN MONEY

This week's featured web page is on Bryan Money, from the
PoliticalBadges.com web site.

"At the time of the financial panic of 1893, the US money supply
was backed by gold.  The Populist party wanted more money minted
and turned to the concept of a dual money standard -- gold and
silver -- as a way of increasing the available money supply.  The
US had vast silver deposits.  Generally, the "working man" and
the West favored the dual standard, while the industrialists and
easterners favored the single gold standard.   William Jennings
Bryan chose the dual standard as a principal platform issue for
both the 1896 and 1900 elections.  Most Bryan Money was produced
for the 1896 election.  Bryan, a Democrat from Nebraska, ran
unsuccessfully against William McKinley of Ohio in both elections."

bryan_money.htm

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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