The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1889-12-07
TIE SILVER CONVENTION.

the white metal to its former position
in the monetary system of the country
The South and West were well repre-
sented In the convention and spoke in
no unmistakeable tone of the great
wrong done the debtor class of the
whole country by the infamous de-
monetization act of 1878.
John Thompson, of the Chase Ma
tioual Bank of New York, one of the
few Eastern bankers who is friendly
to silver, said the decentralization of
silver was wicked preference to the
creditor over the debtor class, and it
il that preference that is driving the
middle classes into poverty and en-
aiding the millionaires to multiply
their millions. Nothing in his opin-
ion will save the country from social
revolution so surely as full remon-
etization of silver and giving to it all
the advantages now given gold both
in law and the ruling of the Treasury
Department The mono-gold stand
ard is the stepping stone to anarchy.
Nay, il is more; it is flight of stairs
leading from the Chamber of Com
merce to bankruptcy, panic, suicide,
reputation, agrarianism and univer-
sal poverty among all wealth produc-
ers, for whose welfare the best minds,
best craftsmanship and best represen-
tatives of all legitimate business in
terests should ever be enlisted.
Congressman Bland. the ever true
friend of silver, said that to place a
limit upon the coinage of silver de-
preciates il because the mint under
free coinage is market, for every
man who takes bullion there gets his
dollars for it; then it can be bought |
for no less than the dollar he gets. |
But when any portion of it is denied |
that right, part of it is deprecated.
Notwithstanding the decentralization
of silver by Germany first and the
United States afterward, it did not
lose parity with gold until France,
through the Latin Union, placed a
limit on it. In 1879 it was suspended
in France, but that Limitation broke
the chain, and every limitation con-
tinues to do so. Our mines are rich
in gold and silver. In the name of
reason let them be free at all the
Minis, and let them be treated alike.
Senator Stewart said to the conven-
tien that the farmers of the country,
in consequence of the Vaccinations of
the money kings and gold monometal-
lists, are losing the independence of
character for which they have been
noted. Their mortgages arc making
them towards He would not stop to
explain how this demonstration fraud
was committed. There was no dis
cussion 10 the Senate-not a word, not
a suggestion in the Senate that the
dollar was to be omitted.
A letter from Senator Jones was
read at the convention discussing the
silver question aud the duty of the
Government in the premises. He said
he looked upon the movement for the
demonstration of silver as one OF the
most benefcient that can engage the
attention of men. In the spirit of
hope and aspiration which its success
presages he sees great force for the
better and broader growth of our Re-
public upon the basis of prosperity
and intelligence at once natural and
progressive. With sufficient volume
of money to meet the demands of its
increasing population, our country
will place itself in the vanguard of
the nations for all time to come. No
close observer of public sentiment in
the United States can for a moment
entertain doubt that great major
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