Los Angeles herald., 1890-03-29
is IT TO BE THE WINDOW FRAuDq


cheat the debtor classes of the country
for the benefit of the creditor classes,
the poor man for the rich, the farmer
for the banker, the West for the East.
1t was made to look like the error OF an
engrossing clerk, but the error was in
spired; and for five years it was impos-
sible to get silver back into the statutes
as coin on any terms, and it has up to
this time been impossible to get the
metal restored to its rightful place in
the economy of the nation after a
lapse OF nearly twenty years of continu-
Gus contention. If it was merely an err
ror, why is it that the people who have
been always suspected OF suggesting it,
have persistently opposed the righting
OF the wrong, correcting the error?
The only thing that has been possible
to accomplish in all this period is what
the Bland act has. done, to provide for
limited coinage of white metal, the
amount being set at from $2,0OO,OOO to
$4,OOO,0O0 per month. The animus OF
the clique behind the fraud has been too
plainly evident during every month of
the twelve years since the Bland act was
passed. If there had been no con-
spiracy to demonetize silver and degrade
it from its rightful place, why has not
the highest limit provided by
the new law not been reached
for single month in all
these years, or if it has, then seemingly
only by accident? The coinage of silver
has hugged as closely to the lowest limit
OF the law, as some timorous land-lubber
in command OF shaky craft would hug
the shore in heavy sea.
And now, when after eighteen wears of
endured injustice, the people have be-
come impatient to the verge of madness,
a new fraud is about to be perpetrated in
the hope that the wool can be pulled
over their eyes, and silver held in a posi-
ton subordinate to gold Secretary
Windom's scheme is that fraud-no
more, no less. 1t is an insid-
lous scheme concocted for the
purpose of getting the Bland act out of
the way. That plan for the relief of the
debtor classes was working admirably
so far as it was allowed to work bv the
Secretaries OF the Treasury, who have all
been tools of the Wall-street pawn-brok-
ers for many years. There was no dis
turbance to our finances wrought by the
coinage of silver. All that coin, and all
the certificates of that metal were being
readily absorbed, and there was no drain
OF gold going on because of this use of
silver. The people were justified by
the facts before them in demand
ing larger relief than was
being given them in this respect. and
the goldbugs had no answer to make.
Their mouths were closed by the irrefut-
able logic of the situation. The West.
with her mortgaged farms, with the ru-
inous prices being paid for her products,
and with her great resources calling
aloud for development, demanded a lar
ger supply OF monz to meet the exigen-
cies of the situation. There was no wav
to refuse this request, no grounds ON
which tosdeny the demand,
"a Senator Jones, Western man and
a thorough fnancier and econo-
mist, knowing the wants of the
section he SO ably represents, and the
impetus all business must receive from a
more adequate circulating medium, in
troduced bill in the Senate which was
perfectly satisfactory to the West in
general. 1t was a step forward, and a
long one, towards the free coinage of
silver. We have all hoped that it would
have passed the Senate, and in the
event of its so doing, all felt sure of It's
being received with acclaim in the no.
ular branch OF the National La~;a 3 r.
But it seems that all t',oso hennsSaro
been Of the Sort that makes the heart sick.
The cloven foot OF the devil Of greed has
gotten admission to the Lower House,
and is leaving its devious tracks all over
that place, where the peoples repre-
sentatives have been wheedled or
bought to betray their constituents.
1t is very evident that the Window
scheme is to be passed through the
House, and pressed upon the Senate as
a substitute for the Jones bill. The re-
suits of such thing will be disastrous.
The Bland act will be repealed by it.
Silver will be a mere commodity, meas
ured in its value by gold. 1t can be
bought and sold, dealt in, cornered,
made ''long" and Short" knocked
about like a shuttlecock and degraded
totally from its position as noble
metal to the rank of lead
iron or coal. Ii is all very
well to provide for the free coinage of
the white metal when its value reaches
certain ratio with gold. The schemers
who have invented this "cunninglv
devised fable" know well that time will
never come. This provision is the
syringe of deceit to catch the woodcocks
of Congress who do not see the effect of
this bill. Some "high-reaching Buck
ingham" in the House is being used bv
the gold conspirators of Wall street to
give silver the coup de grace and knock
the financial life out of it for years to
come. Window is Wall streets tool, and
the Western Congressman who vote for
his bill are the gudgeons Of legislation