The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-10-28
FOR FREE COINAGE.
HOW THE HOUSE WILL Or
CANIZE.
some Mckinley Bill Prices-A Party Di-
vide'- Against Itself-Hired Weepcrs Not
Wanted Rich Must Pay Better
Prices for Farmers, Etc.


Wanted Rich Must Pay Better
Prices for Farmers, Etc.
Stand Firm for Sound Currency.
IL Is moral certainty that the Como
cratic House of Representatives will be
organized next December In the interest
Of free co mage. No man can be elected
Speaker without the support OF the free
coinage element, and that element Is
aggressive and will see that its support
is used TO promote the interests OF the
free coinage causn. The House OF Rep
resentatlves of the Fifty-scoond Con
gress will, by its votes, make the Demo
cratic national platform OF 1892. The
conventions platform committee will
build upol the conduct Of the House.
The Democratic party. therefore, is cer-
tain TO go Il the country next year as
the advocate OF free coinage. They
may profess b. double the question II Mr..
Cleveland is their nominee by some such
plank as the silver plank In the New
York Democratic platform OF this year.
but Republicans will see that their
hypocrisy Is exposed. The Democratic
party Is the party OF reckless tfnkerng
with the currency laws as II Is the party
of reckless tinkering with the tariff
curity and of the permanence of leglsla-
ton that is working well
Such being the case, what is the duty
of Republicans? They are not the enc
mics OF the silver industries OF the
country. Ii was a Congress Republican
in both branches that increased the
minimum purchase of silver for currency
purposes from So, 900, 900 month to
"a, 500, 900 in round numbers. But the
Republican party has always been the
party of a safe, healthy and sound cur
rency, and il cannot and will not be any
thing else now. 1t is In favor OF bring
ing about the free coinage Of silver just
as soon as that can be done with the CO.
operation Of other nations, so far as
that cooperation is necessary to pre-
vent those dangerous changes which
foreign influences can work in the char
acter of our currency. But IT is clear
enough from the present attitude OF for
eign nations that the free coinage pro-
gramme as the Western Democrats pro-
pose it, tends TO bring about those
dangerous changes instead of prevent
ing them.
The Democrats admit this, for they
are continually calling the attention of
the advocates OF an international ratio
to the fact that Europe Is shying OF.
Well, why is Europe shying I? Be-
cause of tbs very programme of indie
pendent free coinage. We have over
R400, 600, 0G0 of silver coined now at
ratio that Europe regrets, and not until
Europe knows that we will coin no more
at that ratio will Europe even negotiate
with us. Before she agrees with us she
wants guarantee that we will recon
hat Gill
on her.
Europc's draught or Us for gold last
spring, says the New York Press, was
largely due TO distrust Of our tendencies
in silver legislation. Greater distrust
will mean greater draughts on u and
greater anxiety to get our gold. The
result OF reducing our gold currency and
increasing our currency OF silver by
coming more dollars Of the present
standard will inevitably be an accommo-
dation of prices TO the increased cur
rency, both as to quantity and as to
quality Everything that the wage
worker buys will go up in price, but his
wages will not go up in price, for when
he agrees to work for 81 a day, or SIP
week, he agrees to work for so many
legal tender dollars. legal tender"
means kind of dollar-any kind OF
dollar-which he is Obliged to take in
pay il it is offered him.
1t Is against the traditions and against
the principles of the Republicans party TO
cons mt to any cheating. fuctuatlng,
speculative currency. The time has
come for the Republican party to formu.
late pan for the solutiol of the free
coinage problem In way that will be just
to the wage-workerS and to the people
at large as wei rs to the silv inter, SITS.
IL such plan is made the Republican
silver proposition in the Fifty-second
Congress this winter, and if it cont M
plates guarantee that the present
volume Of coined silver will be taken
care of at home in the event of Repub-
lican success, such guarantee as will
tend to make Europe favor the Repub-
lican partys proposition for an inter-
national ratio, then, with tn assurances
of that favor, so essential for pcrma-
nent and sou d solution CT the currency
question, we can go to the country next
year as the bulwarks and champions of
honest money and good money
There is Republican victory in 1892 In
courageous, aggressive, positive, hon
est treatment of the silver question. We
cannot afford to be mere a party of
ncgation. If there is any demand on
the part of any cons derab'e number of
American citizens for the settlement of
q question we cannot afforl merely to
object t. the Dem )cratic settlement pro-
posed, however bad it may be. We
must meet IT with something defin;t, and
positive.