Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-22
REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY:

ton, has been so deity conducted by him
| and his co~nspirators that the va'ue OF sill
| yer during that time has decreased with
greater rapidity than it ever did before
art. 1920, OF Sec. 800, Jumbo Platform.
If this article had been amended so as to
read: His administration, since his in
auguration, has been so deity conducted
by him and his conspirators that Prince
Alexander was forced to abdicate the
throne OF Bulgaria; that pale Death fol
lowed the ravages OF cholera in Corea, and
weekly gathered 10000 soul in its cold
embrace; that the earth trembled and
shook in the delirium OF its rage, and
brought down the great brick blocks OF
Charleston upon the heads OF its defenceless
citizens, and carried untold sufferings and
woe in it's train. and that the cool noun
tain springs OF Montana dried up with
greater rapidity than they ever did before,
thus threatening our people with a water
famine as dire in its consequences as dia-
bolical in it's conception" the amended az
ticle would be quite as near the truth az
the original.
The fact is, President Ceveland's admin.
istration had nc more to do with the rapid
decline in the market value OF silver than
it had to do with an eclipse OF the sun and
moon, or with the matters above named.
The market value OF silver is determined
by London spectators in the metal, and
being a ma rketabie commodity, like other
| staple articles, it is subject to the iitrtna-
tions consequent upon the inequality OF
,,,r1, o~I rlan,nr1 NpIar fhn Good old
days OF Democratic rule silver was the
measure of value and gold was subject to
| the fluctuations named. BY IL trick OF Il
| Republican Congress silver was demon
| cited and the royal metal thrown upon
the market as any other article OF com
merce.
In 1878 Mr.. Bland introduced a bill in
the House of Representatives providing
for its recoinage by the. United States mints
to an amount not less than S2,GOO,OOO
per month. The measure also provided
| for the retirement of all one and two dol
lar United States legal tender notes. The
bill was bitterly fought by the Republicans
| OF the House under the leadership OF Mr..
Blaine, but the sentiment OF the people OF
I the South and West was 30 unanimous in
favor of the measure that III spite OF Re-
publican opposition it became a law. Butte
owes its existence and prosperity to Mr..
BANDS bill.
The measure became a law Dun Ing the ad-
mi%nistration OF his fraudulency, Ruther-
ford +. Hayes. But every Republican
Secretary OF the Treasury has since the
passage OF the bill thrown every obstacle
in the way OF its successful operation. In
stead OF calling in the one ard
two dollar legal t~enGernotes, which ut that
time constituted nearly 5000, 600, 600 CT
our paper currency, and thus making room
for standard silrer dollars; they were per-
,nitted to circulate as usual. Secretaries
OF the Treasury Sherman, Winiom and
Mccullough played into the hands Oh Wall
street, and holders Of United States bonds
and did their level best to degrade silver
and d~epreciateits market value. President
Arthur in his message, even went SO far as
to recommend the repeal OF the Bland law
and failing in this, recommended its sus-
pension. The cry was taken up by the gold
bug papers OF the East, suspend the opera
ton OF the Bland law, the country is be-
coming flooded with standard silver dol
lars; suspend the operation OF the Bland
law"
The cry found an echo in Il iew-a very
few-papers in the West, and to its shame
it may lie said, among them was found the
Inter Mountain, a paper deriving its sup
port from the silver industry OF Butte and
vicinity, decryins the standard silver dol
lar and endorsing President Arthur's rec
ommendation for the suspension Of iis
coinage. Against this continued hostility
by those who should be the friends OF the
mattel the market was kept excited and fe,
verish, and instead OF permitting the metal
to work out its salvation according to the
natural law OF supply and demand, ii was
constantly fought. forced to the wall and
| degraded by every means the gold bugs
could bring to bear against IL.
| ii WAS in this condition the present all
ninistration found the metal. From l.lG
to LIS in 1850, the price had been forced
down to 1.O4 and LOS in 1854. Mr..
l NtCNtliul o1t WI. AhdhilII. IVI II
views concerning silver, and they started in
to follow Republican prece,ents. Mr..
Cleveland soon discovered HIS mistake and
avoided the error into which his
predecessor fell. Mr.. Manning has
also had his eyes opened to the de-
ince OF silver. He is now doing what no
Republican Secretary OF the Treasury
could be made to do-caIling in nnd des-
troying all legal tender notes OF the de
nomination OF one dollar and two dollars
and will issue on the first OF next November
silver certificates OF corresponding denom-
nations. thus virtually making room for
over 500. 900 900 OF silver in the none
tary circulation OF the country. We owe
this much to q Democratic administra-
ton.
And had it not been for that inbred hos
tility to silver which characterizes Repub-
lican legislators the hill introduced in the
House OF Representatives, last writer by
Mr.. Bland providing for the free coinage OF
silver, thus placing the metal upon a foot
ing with gold, would have become a law OF
the land. There is little need to pursue
this question further. The history OF the
Republican party is a history OF the war
against silver. 1t was the royal metal be-
fore that party came into power. The
severest and only blows it ever received
came from the Republican party. 1t was
dethroned from the high position it occll.
pied by the Republican party. 1t has
been degraded by the Republican party.
The only enemy it has is the Republican
~party-its only friend the Democratic
party.
In view OF these facts-and they are facts
which cannot be gijnsaid-the twitter and
twaddle alb Tut silver in the Jumbo plat
form is the quintssence OF nonsense, sl-
preme hypocracy ard the acme of gall.
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