Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-06-25
EDITOR AND rsorsrEros.


The gold bond men say IF tn,
free coinage bill becomes law IL &
country will be flooded with silver
But that is sn assertion, and thty
cannot tell where the food of silver
il to come from. Nonsense.
THE Republican platform on which
President Harrison was elected says
The Republican party is in favor
of the use of both gold and silver as
money and condemns the policy OF
the Democratic Administration in its
efforts to deaonetize silver.
GoLD is the dearest money, and if
the men who control the bonded in
debtedness of the world can get nd
of silver, gold will be made dsarsr
than it now Is, and as a natural ICON
sequence land values, town property
values, will shrink TO such a degree,
that men who have comparatively
small bonded or mortgaged indebt-
edness will be bankrupted.
SECRETARY BLAISE is in favor Of
full exchange OF such products, be-
tween the South American States
and the United States "a the people
of the respective governments may
need and do not largely produce
themselves. For example If the
South American States produce ssy,ne
thing that needs not protection here,
receive it FREQ in the United States,
in exchange for something that we
produce aud they need
L4sg week the Senate by vote of
43 yeas e. "a nays, passed the free
c'iuagr L3l, which restores the sill
YER dollar to the position it held
previous to 1873, when the single
standard or gold bug men. or in 9th
er words the men who control the !
bonded indebtedness Of America had |
silver denonitized, orits free coinage
stopped. Tho men who shaped the |
legislation Of Congress SO that the
free coinage Of silver was stopped,
thought the act would cause silver
TO be iguored as money entirely and
thereby they would be immensely
benefited by the shrinking Of values
in everything but the bonds payable
IN gold, but the people generally
without bong fnancisrs had conf
dsnco in silver, hence it held its own !
value remarkably well, in the face of
the efforts Of American, German and
English gold bugs to rule it out rs &
and now that the Senate has I
come to the rescue of the debtor !
class, and passed the free coinage }
bill, It Is hoped that Speaker Reed :
viii not ss some predict, put himself S
IN the -av IL the house and prevent q
the 6ual passage Of the act Presi- :
dent Harrison 1t is said is not in IA =
vOr of the free coinage bill. If he b
could have the expression of the peo- il
Pile who elected him to the Presi- c
tsncy whispered IN his ear on ths
subject Of frse coinage there could be
no doubt Of his position. Should
Speaker Reed aud the President C
AXE a stand against the free coinage u
Dill, there is no telling how the Con
sressional elections the coming fall +
may go. a
The silver bill when sent over from
the Senate to the House was referred :
by speaker Reed to the Committee O
on Coinage. The free coinage men s
objected to that method of disposing !:
Of the bill They wanted to vote on !
il immediately, and "a a consequence =
Thursday and Friday and Saturday 5
in Congress, were battle days in the q
Lower House to put the bill on its
passage. However on Saturday the :
Speakers rule prevailed aud the bill 4
-smains in the hands of the Commit L
zee on Coinage. a