Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-25
NUMBER 81.
A Blast from a Silver Bugle.
70 the Editor of The Herald.

Il N~'S c~Sb q ACd0Ct VI tuC l1EhALD
for more than thirty years and have
usually agreed with what have found
in IFS editorial columns. But cannot
agree with Its article last week on the
silver question. That article intimates
that the standard silver dollar is a Idol
lar of eighty cents and that it does
not circulate on an equality of gold. :"
Now, everybody who has ever had &C.
casion to spend any money knows that
the silver dollar is dollar of exactly
one hundred cents; that it will buy ex-
actly as much of anything as a gold
dollar; that it does now and has for
eight years circulated on an equality
with gold, in spite of the Shylock cry
OF eighty cents and the powerful
effort of the money-jobbing and note
shaving class from the Wall Street
banker to the village usurer. Those
who count their money by millions and
tliveby coupon-clipping ami railroad
wrecking may not want silver dollars,
but the vastly more numerous and
quite as important and useful class of
farmers, mechanics and laborers do
want them, not only as change. but to
prevent the amount of full legal tender
money in the country from ever being
reduced to the comparatively small
| Qn1nnnf nf arot.t in ha
amount of legal tender coin of vol
ume too great to be clutched and hid
den in the hands of a Shylock.
AS for the threat of the Eastern mon
ey-lenders that they will not loan mon
ey except on an express stipulation of
repayment in gold-that threat was
heard loud and long in 1873. but it
didn't scare the Western farm ers then
and / don't think it will now.
Instead of saying 1.-The amount of
silver in a dollar should be as near as
possible to the value of gold dollar"
why not say 1.-The amount gold in a
dollar should be as near as possible
the value of silver dollars for the
silver dollar of 412I CRANES is now and
always has been the true legal standard
of this country ever since our revolu-
tionary fathers instituted that dollar
or unit" in 1892. That statute is still
unrepealed and in force. No man can
show statute making the gold dollar
the standard of value. The silver dol
lar was the standard when our war
debt was created-although the Wall
Street fellows have long tried to make
the people believe that the war debt
was payable, principal and interest, in
gold, in spite of the plain language of
the law, which says the interest of
the public debt shall be paid in coin
(not gold) and does not say that the
principal shall be paid in gold.
The millionaire bankers are predicting
ruin if silver money is not suppressed
right away, and this bugaboo has fright
ened many well-meaning people. But
there is no more in it now than there
was in 1873. Then that Pharasaic
Mugwump Cleveland glorifer-H
per's Weehly-had a picture showing the
commercial crash which would immedi
ately follow the silver coinage bill, and
especially how U. S. bonds would tum-
bic. The paper was issued several
days ahead of its date, and before that
date arrived the silver coinage bill was
law, but there was no sign OF a CON-
mercial crash and u s. bonds had act
ually risen.
am no Greenback lunatic, nor no
advocate of .'the free and unlimited
coinage of silver nor the free and I'M
limited coinage of anything else. do
not believe bullion-holder should be
allowed to take his bullion TO the mint
and demand its coinage free of charge
to him, any more than 4 man ought to
be allowed to take a ream of paper to
the treasury and have it printed into
government and not the bullion-holders
ought to control the amount of money
issued, and the present law not only
gives the government that control, but
also all the profits of the coinage The
present law was passed at the demand
of an overwhelming majority of the
people, by an overwhelming majority
of Congress.
CleI Glands administration is now
engaged in trying to Dullify this law
which was demanded by The people.
Because Cleveland has done this-be-
cause he has turned over the treasury
to Manning and Jordan, two New York
bankers, whose interests are all with
Wall Street, and given the Interior de-
partment, whose vast Interests touch
the great mass of the people in so
many places, into the charge of Sem
ator who, in defiance of the expressed
wishes of vast majority of the people
of his tate and country, voted and
spoke against the silver cleveland
can be defeated in 1888 by John A.
Logan, not only in Indiana, but in some
of the Southern states and every Wcs-
tern state. REPUBLICAN.