Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-23
ma suver-Men Appressive.

Inc NullOua1 f<ActuttNo DiAfcA
tee sounds an alarm in tones which in-
dictate that the people are no longer to be
put of with fine promises and ambiguous
pledges. That committee declines TO
speak with bated breath and whispering
huskiness." Its members know that
they have the people Of the United states
st their back, and they feel no apprehen-
sions rs 10 what may be done or can be
done by the monometallists in the interest
of the yellow metal. General WARSKR' Oh
Ohio. a distinguished ex-Congressman,
the chairman of the committee, Is one OF
the most ACKNOWLEDGMENT men IN the
United States on the silver question.
what he does not know about IL Is not
worth knowing. He has followed it up In
all its windings until for him there are no
intricacies in that question.
The alarm which we have mentioned
comes in the form Of an address TO the peo-
pie. It's principal points were stated IN
our telegraphic columns OF Sunday. we
ask the voters of Virginia to ponder those
points and decide as intelligent, patriotic
men whether they will or will not by their
silence allow the country to DO ruined IN
order that the Federal Government may
be- continued under the control OF the Re-
publican party--the worst party IN some
respects which ever held the reins OF
power on this side of the Atlantic-the
only sectional party which has ever sue
ceeded in raidiDg the country as II 1t were
a national party.
How absurd seem the predictions OF
the monometallists in the sight OF the
facts set forth by the National Executive
Silver Committee year after year. From
1878 until now we have been told that the
silver net was going to drive all the gold
out Of this country, cause all business 10
drop 10 the silver basis, initiate prices and
play destruction generally. But, strange
20 say, not one of these predictions OF the
Wall-street spectators has been fulfilled.
And as il to make the monometallists
ashamed Of themselves, the United States
has recently sent millions and millions OF
gold 10 Europe. and yet found the price OF
silver relatively TO gold rising day after
dAy-rising at the very moment when'
according TO monometallist vaccinations,
il ought 10 have been falling.
When General WARNER shakes his head
IL Is very apt to be because there is some
thing in il. In the address before usshe
warns the monometallists that they may
go so far in their opposition to the full re-
monetization of silver as to cause the peo-
nile In their indignation TO throw aside
both gold and silyer-the only real money
and food the country with irredeemable
ereenbacks. Oh, We blind guides, why is
Il that We canno. read Alright the signs of
the times? The antediluvians were not
more deaf to the preachings of righteous
Moan" than are the gold-bugs of our day
10 the sound teachings of the only con-
sistent friends of good money.
We have in this country the best cur
rency in the world. The silverites or BIZ
metallists desire to perpetuate this cur
rency with its incalculable benefits. But,
as General WARSER says. they cannot &C
complish this purpose unless Congress al
lows them tree trade in real money. They
are determined to have more of this cur
rency. They will not consent 10 be tritied
with another twelye-month. They will
compel the money-sharks to choose as be.
tween real money and irredeemable green
backs. They know, or think they know
which Is in effect the same thing-that
there is a scarcity of the circulating me-
dunn, and they are bent upon having more
of it-enough OF it. They feel that it is
an insult 10 their intelligence TO talk to
them about gold, as if that metal ever
clinked in their purses. There is not halt
enough gold to serve as currency and
otherwise. SilverI silverl silver! is the
only money the masses ever see; and OF
silver they know that there is not enough.
The cry has gone forth for more real
money, and this real money must be forth
coming, or
"Forty thousand Cornish men
WIN know the reason Why"
Why even Director LEACH, of the Mint
Bureau, speaks good word for silver. He
expects its price TO co up rather than
down, and admits that the Government
purchases are making an impression upon
the stock Of silver as we'll as upon Its price.
The National Executive Silver Commit
tee takes the position, first assumed by this
paper 80 far as we know. that 70 purchase
silver is to disc-edit it. Nothing else than
the free coinage of that metal can put it
upon an equality with gold. That CON-
mittee also takes precisely the same ground
we took the other day in regard TO the ut
terancs Of the Ohio Republican State Con-
yention Of last week on the silver question
namely. that that utterance was intended
10 deceive the voters OF Ohio, and TO ena-
BILE the raseally Republicans Of that State
topre.end 10 hold with the hare and yetrun
with the hounds. Mr.. LxAcH may 60 on
with his purchases, as perhapshe oughtto,
but it ID certain that gold and silver can
never be brought to travel in company so
long Is gold Is used to purchase silver, for
TO do this Is TO declare by law that gold Is
money whilst silver is only commodity.