The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-08
RiToH, THE sILvE-RrONeUED
The Substance Of His silver speech
IN New York.


IN New York.
At a mass meeting held In New
York city last week, under the aus
pices of q committee appointed by the
National Silver Convention held in
St. Louis, Hon. Thomas Fitch of Ne
vada said In substance
In this republic nature hasl given
us the grandest heritage of the ages,
and we are misusing the gift. We
are breathing an American atmos-
phere that God has filled with health
full and invigorating ozone, but the
ships that bring the commerce of
Europe here have also brought along
its allen and baneful finance, and our
Congressional Health Officers neglect
ed the quarantine, and as result, the
gold "grippe'-more dangerous TO
our solyency than is the Russian In
f1uenza TO our health-has seized
upon this land. We come before you
tonight to consider the best means
Of averting the evils which threaten
az. It is rot within The power Of any
OF the subsidized essayists OF gold
recommendation to answer the argu-
ments or dispute the conclusions of
Stewart Mill. Values must be meas
ured by money, and money must be
measured by its own quantity In re-
lation to values Extreme imitation
Of the currency of country may In
dnce wild speculation and result In a
panic, disastrous mainly 10 the spec
ulators.
THE OUTRAGE OF 1873.
Never was there less occasion for
Legislative Interference with natural
economic laws than in 1873. For eight
years the people of this country had
been enjoying natural prosperity.
There was no excuse for the anti
silver legislation. Germany inaugu-
rated the movement in order to in
crease the value of the vast sums of
gold which she extorted from France
~ war indemnity. England parti-
pated In silver demo letizasi III In or
der to stimulate the production of
wheat and cotton in India and de-
crease the price OF food and raw
material in Liverpool, and check the
growth OF her American rival. France
and Italy acquiesced from necessity,
and the United States joined Europe
in closing the mints of the world 10
silver and so aided to reduce the ex-
port value of American products, for
y reason which Is like unto Cain bu-
rial place in that mo man knoweth
it to this day"
It Is claimed by those OF charitable
tendencies and judgment that the sill
yer dollar was omitted from the coin
age law of 1873 by accident. A an
alagous explanation was offered by
the army Lieutenant, who was court
inarshaled for conduct unbecoming
an officer and gentleman, because
while playing with his comrades In
the "great American game" he held
sequence Pushes for three consecu-
tive hands. The Court decided that
such accidents never happen.
EFFECT OF MoNoMErALLIsM.
Gold mometallism has produced
unnatural and disastrous conditions.
II IL the kraken of civization with its
DEVILS beak in London and its sneak
ing anterae ever reaching for the
throat OF American labor. 1t is The
pitiless and undiscriminating larcen-
Its OF the age. In seventeen years it
has plundered the industry of the
United Statet OF thousands of millions
OF dollars. 1t has robbed with unsec-
tional impartiality the cotton grower
OF the South and the wheat farmer of
the North. It has filched from the
earnings Of mechanics and the saw
iugs Of the clerk. 1t has sweated the
wages OF the laborer and and choked
the debtor with the garrote of double
usnry.
Gold monometallists have for six
teen years been driving the produc-
tive industry Of the country into cul
de sac. We desire no new nor un-
just revolutionary measure. We in.
tend only that this nation shall return
10 the honest money and safe policy
OF our fathers. We hope only to re-
store the bi-metallism under which
the civilized world prospered for hum
dreds OF years. We desire to walk
out Of the deadfall into which Europe
eutrapped US seventeen years ago,
and II Europe refuses to follow US in
restoring the free coinage OF silver,
we expect nevertheless TO establish it
~ our American system of finance
best suited to our American civiliza-
ton, and to be strong enough and
self-rAliaut enough to say to the world
With the proud ScoLohman of old /:
wherever the McGreggor sits, there
is the head Of the table,"