Richard Parks Bland Quotes

Richard Parks Bland — American Politician born on August 19, 1835, died on June 15, 1899

Richard Parks Bland was an American politician, lawyer, and educator from Missouri. A Democrat, Bland served in the United States Congress a total of twenty-four years between 1873 and 1899, representing at various times the Missouri 5th, 8th and 11th congressional districts. Nicknamed "Silver Dick" for his efforts to promote a United States return to bimetallism and an advocate of the free silver movement, Bland is best known for the Bland–Allison Act. The act, passed over President Rutherford B. Hayes veto in 1878, required the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. Bland was a U.S. Presidential candidate in 1896, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination but lost to William Jennings Bryan... (wikipedia)

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.

We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.

Richard Parks Bland Quotes

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