Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-10-18
WINDOW AND SILVER.

| the interest Sdlicis oNC' VIZ
weight dollar, ai;er all the edo Is
OF "a mighty subsidized press, and
alter all the influence that three
ad minis, .ations could bring to
bieak down silver; all Of the metal
tuat has been coined IS substance
oi though &c ticates in actUai car
cula ion except a pitiful $1,000
600. 1t is just as clear, too, mat
lad lie Government but have
heen decent and given the people
what they wanted, they would
gladly have accepted as much
more.
The Salt Lake Tribune in COM
ment;ug on this state of affairs
ssvs:
Did ever a deep-laid conspiracy
have a more Illuminating ending?
Did ever The falshoods of officials,
betIaying their t,ust, have more
pointed exposure? And had COM
mon honesty controlled in the
Treasury Department had the sill
yer cert ficates been issued to the
people as fast as they would gladly
have taken them, the full sum OF
81 900, 900 per month, under the
Bland law, wound have been coined
every month during the past five
years. That would have absorbed
all our product. What would the
effect have been? England could
not, from all the world, have OBJ
tanned the silver to meet her India
drafts, and to-day there would
have been no silver question, tor
silver would have been at par.
With it wheat and cotton and com
and tobacco would also have been
back to par, and the men who till
| the soil would have been receiving
a reasonable compensation for their
labor. All this Is as plain as an
| absolute mathematical demonstra-
ton. Still the wires inform US
that Secretary Window will make
no change and will add no further
coinage until directed to by Con-
gress. He has fallen entirely into
the goldite groove and there is some
string on him which makes his
continuance in his present place a
calamity to the country. He can
not lack the Intelligence to see
/ what is right, but he has not the
strength to do this duty. The
money kings of the East have in
some way cowed him, and so he
simply permits matters in his de-
partment to drift.
On the lead question he has been
at least a coward on the silver
question he seems to pursue the
same timid, halting policy. He
should be relieved from further re-
sponsibility on both questions, be-
cause a Secretary of the Treasury
who is unwilling or unab e to com
prehend and perform his duty, is
one of the most expensive orna-
ments that a country like our own
ever INDUCED in. He knew when
he assumed his office, by the report
oil Mr.. Manning two years ago, and
the report of Mr.. Fairchild a year
ago, that the country was ready and
anxious to receive as many silver
certificates as the Government could
print; he knew that were he to pro-
coed to coin four instead OF two
million monthly, it wonld all be alb
sorbed by the people, and that the
mere act OF ordering the coinage OF
the maximum amount of silver I'M
the law would cause not only silver
| hut every other orm of property to
be greatly enhauced that IN lew
weeks England would find il diff
cult to obtain the silver to meet her
orders, and that the effect would
be III enhanced prices a gain OF at
least $50 900, 900 to the farmers
of the United States for this year
alone. Still he would not do it.,
though the law left the matter en-
tirely within his discretion. Hence
we say there is either string on
the man or he fails utterly to COM
prehend the situation. In either
case he is not the man for a Treas
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