<p>explain the whole free silver thing
confused in the hizzle</p>
<p>slow night</p>
<p>lets do it get it jizzeled</p>
<p>speed up the night</p>
<p>into the night</p>
<p>the wind will come down</p>
<p>we can make it if we try</p>
<p>and the mountains will go about creating JRT’s</p>
<p>and we can paint things in our minds</p>
<p>we will do it</p>
<p>for our own pride</p>
<p>key
JRT equals jack russell terriers</p>
<p>do it up</p>
<p>CALI</p>
<p>This is an extremely cursory description, but, basically, the U.S. was still on the gold standard between the 1870s and the 1890s. During the 1890s, a deflation occured that severly hurt farmers (as well as everyone else, not including big business/monopolies) financially. Those hurt by the deflation blamed it on the gold standard, and began advocating the free and ulimited coinage of silver. William Jennings Bryan became the leading proponent of this, and became particularly famous after his “cross of gold speech.” <em>REMEMBER THIS</em> This whole advocation of silver is characteristic of the Populist Party. Hope this helps. I’m just spewing whatever remains in my memory from AP review.</p>