The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-26
and able, and scanned its provisions
closely; that as their organ | reported it:

closely; JnaJ as their organ reported 1t:
that lit contained provisions for both the
standard silver dollar and the trade dol
lar Never having heard till a long time
after its enactment into a law of the sub
stitution in the senate of the section
which dropped the standard dollar,
profess to know nothing of its history,
but ] am prepared to say that in all the
legislation of this country there is no
mystery equal to the characterization of
the standard silver dollar of the United
States. have never found man who
could tell how it came about or why"
President Grant did not know that the
bill would demonetize silver. He signed
the act as chief executive of the nation,
and at the same time sent a special mes-
sage to congress advisii.S the establish
ment of two or more niints at Chicago,
st. Louis and Omaha to eoil silver dol
lars, when by the lawhe aad Just signed
it was provided that no more silver do]-
lars should be coined.
Il
This is amply sufficiGr,t to siiow that
there has been some cro,aed work some
where, but while the crea.sedness is fully
apparent it has never aeen shown to
whom ttfhe crime atttae 81 il si,is Wa,
made known and discrased in the senate
last year, but there wls a resort to
"muddling" work, and the scheners
managed in some way have the mat
ter passed over.
The bill as passed he house pro-
vlded for the coinage the standard
silver dollar It then " to the senate,
| where it was 'sdector. while in the
hands of the senate ii lce committee,
| of which Senator Job Sherman was
chairman, and when tha bill became a
law silver was demonef; d.
After the fact was tablished that
there had been a ma -e or an outra-
geo,s fraud the Repub15 party refused
TO rectlfy it. In fact It party strug-
! gled successfully f" the robbery
! and fraud in oper he leaders and
/ organs of the Dc,G Jalty are max.
ing 4 great furor IT IS fact. They
! point to the fact 1'':tt . members Of
their party in congress hit to re-estab.
! lish the free and urlj ed coinage of
silver, and point to t.. fact that their
state platforms have Er Coinage planks.
All this sounds very p ,tty. But just
listen q moment. There IS not one scin
tiiia of sincerity or hons 5y in these rep.
| resentations and appeal. In the first
place, past records show that the plat.
form planlls of the old parties prove tc
be rotten when the people stand or
them. Yes, they break, vanish, disap
pear. After serving cau,paign purposes
not a splinter of them ca! be found. The
same Democratic leaders and organs arc
pleading with the people to support
Grover Cleveland for the presidency
and Grover Cleveland has openly de
clared himself opposed to the free ant
unlimited coinage of silver. Now wher
is the consistency of these Democratic
organs?
One of the principal demands of tn
industrial organizations of the conntr
and of the people generally is tho fre
and unlimited coinage Of silver. Unde
the circumstances above given, whic
one of the old political parties is ikel
to first establish it? Already scheme
and tricks are being planned by oil
party leaders solely for the purpose G
deception. It has not been week sine
a bureau reporter heard some of tn
southern leaders talking. One of the1
said, Yes, we had to incorporate tn
Alliance demands in our platform las
year to please the Alliance, and l CUES
we'll have to do the same thing mex
year"
That's their scheme They want t.
do something by which they can hood
wink the people. They want to kee
them quiet and will make any kind Q
promise or pledge to do it, but with n
more intention of carrying cut thos
pledges than they have Of going to tn
moon. The entire Alliance platfor1
was incorporated into Democratic stat
platform last year, but during the Who'll
campaign not a single speaker, not
single paper uttered oue word in supper
or advocacy of those special demands
How long, how long will the people b
deceived? L. ". AVER,
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