The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-21
SILVER MOVEMENT.
Speeches in New York in
Favor Of Il.
The s,lvER-TomouED ORATOR.


NV YoRx. Feb IA mass meeting on
the siive- Question was held last night AZ
Cooper Union. under the auspices OF the
committee appointed BY the National Sill
yer Convention q 81 Louis last fall. Gen.
eral Edward Curtis. Of San Francisco. had
the meeting in charge. and With him were
General Warner. Of Ohio. chairman Of the
National Silver Convention. and x-Assem-
hlyman Thomas Fitch Of Nevada
General Curtis called the meeting TO
order and ex-Postmas ter-Generai James
Was exected chairman. James made .
brief address and said he fest honored In
being called 10 preside at the meeting His
leaning, however, has always been In the
opposite direction. but - he Was in favor
Of free speech he wished TO hear 10th sides
Of the silver question
The following gentlemen we're announced
% vice presidents OF the meeting: Edward
Perrepont. ex-Mavor Grace. John Thcmp-
son, H. B. Thurber, ex-senator Warner
Miller. James b Colgate, John Straiton.
c. +. Cox, +. q. Boyd and z. Burns
General Warner said he presumed all
would concede as fact not to be disputed
that the present range OF staple commodi-
ties in the world was rs low now rs in
1870. or before the gold discoveries In
California and Australia. To-day TO get a
dollar the farmer must give three meas
ures Of wheat. and the manufactures three
tons OF iron to ret rs much gold as Two
measures would exehsnge for in 1879 In
the change in goods OF measure there are
the same number of grains in gold dollar
as in 1873 Change in money may come
by increasing or decreasing its value or IN
creasing or decreasing its weight.
Take tie period Of twenty-one years pre-
vious t. 1873 when the production of gold
and silver was at the rat OF SIS. 00l 600.
Duriue that period wealth increased as it
never did before. There was an outhurst
of phenomenal prosperity. In 1873 prices
began TO fall and they continued to fall and
became less thah when gold Vas discovered.
From lS7S down 10 nov, Germany, Italy
and the United State, not only absorbed
all the gold that had gene into use during
that period. bat have compelled redistrihu-
ton OF gold in other countries. In three
decades the population will be greatly in
creased. Where Is the money to come
from to supply the increased demands
But this is . prospect the gold magnates
hold out to rs. Are we 10 stand this7 Are
the debts Of the world to be discharged at
prices of products Of the fourteenth GEN.
fury?
No congress will be called upon to right
wrong done In 1873 by restoring the COIN
age OF silver. Why, that act Of demoni,is-
inw silver was no more justifiable than
piracy. Where Is the right Of one class TO
change the measure of anotherf Why, IL
it had been proposed to add another metal
to gold and silver to cheapen money peo-
pie would cry out against the fraud. Is Il
any more justfablc 10 change the measure
in slch way so that il would not be found
out? It was done. not for ihs benelit Of
the world. but for small minority.
Elk Congressrs an Fitch followed General
Warner. He aid there was no longer any
problem Of honest finance, but IL was only
rascality that seems to tangle up the multi
plication table. IL Il the truth. be said,
that the value Of ali things should be meas-
ured by money and money by its quantity.
Whatever might be said OF paper money
mutations no instance could BE- recorded In
Ill the history OF the civilized world where
injury to industries VAS done by increased
coinage Of gold and silver. This Is because
il is an imitation which. in the nature oil
things. would bc . benefit to its produc-
tons.
In 1855, at the conclusion Of the civil war,
the industries Of the South were Frustrated
and the industries of the North unsettled
and perturbed. From 1865 to 1873 we were
busy knitting up industries that the war
had unIavelied. creating and recreating
homes Ill over the country. There was no
reason for interference in this work. There
was no excuse for the demonstration Of
81 yer. Expianstisns had been offered. but
the truth il gold monomesalism was jock
eyed into the federal statutes. IL was in
serted therein by fraud.
II has been stated that the emission o.
mention Of the silver dollar in the oct OF
1873 WAS the rusult Of accident. The ma
not Of the bill, but Of the engross.
ing clerks In 1879. was IN adroit and far
seeing scoundrel, Who was probably acting
under The direction and influence OF Bis
msrck and the German government.
The Ryowth Of this nation might seem
phenomenal, but the industries had been
captured by few o. fast a they had been
created by the many. Ii Is . slavery We
have today in the North. O. well as In the
South. IL IL created and sustained by 4
machine more powerful and complex than
that which our armies overthrow. Labor
runs the earth and hammers IL into nom
derous forms and giitiering beads II IL
the toll OF labor alone that guards the ma
ton from poverty and want
Some one IN the audience at one portion
OF Fisch's speech asked how President Har-
rison stood or the question.
Fitch. in replying. stid Harrison had dis
regarded the silver plank in the platform
on which he WAS elected. He might, how
ever. in time give the people justice.
II would be well. said Fitch, for future
presidents OF both parties to turn their
eyes 10 the West The new states would
soon turn the tables on New York a. q piv-
otal state. While New York misht con.
time to deaf the cards. the new states
would take prominent part IN the shuttle.
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