The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-07-17
pfsnd and the U. S. senate propose

Bland and the U. s. senate propose
shall b. done. While my good fdrm-
or friends are figuring that out l watit
to submit ANOTHER query in the form
of a suppositioL': Rothschilds gets
together one million ounces OF silver
costing him 81 zoos 900 in our money
and ships it to one Of cur MINIS.
Under the law, as Mr.. Blan,. wou'u
have it, the mint has to take IT ah"
give him q coin certificate for 81 ,292,-
600. Baron R%othschilds takes his
certificate to the U. S. treasury and
draws out 1892, 900 in gold, which
he ships to Europe; with il he buys
1,2S1,74 ounces more Of silver, re-
turns to the U. S. mint, leaves it and
takes his coin certificate for 50 $780,
OO8, cashes it at the treasury and
sails back to Europe with the gold
ready TO purchase another cargo Of
silver, all within one months time!
A nice profit of $685. COS for Baron
R%othschiIds to make out Of this gov
eminent WITHIN 30 days. A nice
thing for Mr.. Bland to contemplate,
perhaps! But wherein will 1t help
the western farmer? How will he be
benefited by that craftsmanship
which would enable the European
bankers, or the New York bankers
for that matter, for they have already
been shipping their gold to Europe
ready to buy silver with-to grab
such enormous handfuls from the
white and yellow heaps piled up by
the national tax gathercrs?
My good farmer friends, having
answered the former query, will
please keep On figuring until they are
able to point out where the benefit?
the craftsmanship? the III
sense the horse sense? the mule
senseE even the donkey sense comes
in in this proposition! Where is the
, ~1O-year.old school boy but who will
observe the absurdity of the whole
thing when once the facts are placed
before him; Is it not time for the
, farmers to stop the jingle Of free sill,
yer bills of the whirligig in which
, certain would-be-statesmen are at
!, tempting TO rock-a-by them to q con-
tented sleep over a financial preci"
, picc, long enough, at least, to cast
= about them and ascertain what the
facts of the case are:
As / showed before, the house bill
, proposes to coin and throw into cir
culation every ounce of American
silver; it is not pretended that the
| Bland bill could 10 any more in this
, direction, but what it could and most
assuredly would do, would be as
SuUWn duONC, W SIoDlC ltOSNJ uiOuil-
tain, New York, London and Paris
millionaires to rob the nation TO an
extent that is simply startling 10 n
template.
For two days last week, Mr.. Bland
held the helm and had the power, as
he certainly manifested the will, if he
had only had the tact and judgment,
to have run the ship of state right on
to the breakers with the first result Of
: splitting the republican party wide
open, to be followed by all the after
: wild consequences delineated.
For the narrow escape of and
nation we can offer no thanks to 4
= republican senate; whether we W
the greater gratitude to the marvel
Gus i~ncapacity of Mr.. Bland to take
advantage of the wonderful opportu-
nifty thrust upon HIM, or to the in
domitable scourgcd lirmness and sa-
gacity of Speaker Reed is a question
over which future historians will
philisophizc much. T. II. NJ.