Bryan told the westerners that the East was the "enemy's country" and that the gold standard was a game by which the East was robbing the West, and the only way the people of the West could save themselves was to move East and clip bonds or else change the color of the money! This is the way it looked to me as a working man, and I hope my good friend Bryan will pardon me for writing of his "great paramount issue" in a joking way.

For after all it was a joke, a harmless joke--because we didn't adopt it.

I got excited by the threatened "remedy" and went into politics.

While the tin trade was on strike, crazy propagandists from everywhere poured into Elwood and began teaching the men bi-metalism, communism, bolshevism and anarchy.

A communist propagandist is like a disease germ; he doesn't belong in healthy bodies.