The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-12-12
HILLS PLAIN TALK.
Free Coinage of Both the yellow and
White Metals His Platform.
COUNSEL TO THE DEMOCRACY
Issues OF the Campaign of 1892 Plain
ly Set Forth as They are Viewed
at Albany-Address to the
Elmira Democracy.

about an hour and Il half on "The
Issues for 1892
Gov. Hill said in part as follows:
ssThe democrats of New York stand
fast for sound finance They demand
that every dollar coined in the United
States shall be the equal of every other
dollar so coined. They demand more.
They demand that every silver dollar
coined hitherto or hereafter shall be
the equal of the present gold dollar,
our present rnit of value, weighing
25Sl0 Troy grains of standard gold, and
not one cent-not one mill worth less
than that gold dollar.
s.The democrats of New York can
not accept the lead of the silver state
senators. Free silver coinage would
satisfy them. But free bimetallic coin
age is the one thing needful. The
democrats of New York, in their plat
form, condemn the shifting from one
monOmetallism to the other mono
metalllsm; we firmly mark the in
sufficiency of either gold monometal-
lism or silver monometallism; we pro-
nounce for the free coinage of gold,
coupled with the free coinage of silver;
we denounce the Sherman law rs
false pretence and artful hindrance of
Il return to free bimetallic coinage.
"Throughout the last session of the
last congress the republicans conducted
their whole policy with a view to sepa-
rate the democrats of New York on
the free bimetallic coinage question
from the democrats of all the other
democratic states in the west and
south, and so snatch republican saliva
ton in next years elections and save
the presidency, though all else were
lost, including honor. But our demo-
cratic convention crushed that crafty
scheme and crushed the budding hopes
of its cOntrivers.
"No greater misfortune has befalen
the whole people of the United States
since they were defrauded in 1876 than
the loss of the federal elections of 1888.
The Billion congress and all its
wrongdoings became possible through
that misadventure.
sln 1890, two years later, new issues
had been raised by the revolutionary
procedures and acts of the republican
party, then for the first time IN many
years controlling every branch of the
federal government. Upon these new
still living, still dominant issues, raised
by republican misrule, forebodine
further revolution in the structure
and spirit of our federal government
a great popular uprising one year ago
converted the fraudulently distendeC
republican majority of twenty-foul
representatives in the Fifty-first con
gress into democratic majority of 23i
out of 332 in the present or FIfty-secont
congress.
THE PEOPLES WILL BALKED.
"The energy of that indignant de
cision was tremendous yet the people
will was baked. 1t did not chang,
the executive; it did not rescue tn,
senate from the control of the rebuket
revolutionists. The peoples verdic
upon that congress, which in tive
years appropriated away one thousant
million dollars of the peoples earning
taken by taxation, must be renewed
next fall at the ballot box before il car
have full execution.
1.-The democratic party is now a uni
for free b-metallic coinage, and New
York has refused to be disjoined from
the hard money doctrine professed by
the democratic senatorial body ant
supported by the democratic party il
all the great states of the west ant
south.
"What is the test of intrinsic value
in dollar? That melting shall max
no less.
1.-The silver dollar of Allison, tn
silver dollar of Sherman, cannot nov
abide the test of intrinsic value.
cannot pass the ordeal of fire.
"What is the test of equality betwee
the dollar coined of gold and the dOlla
coined of silver? That both alike, afte
being coined at the mint and the
melted in the crucible, shall equal
! make no loss,
"Free coinage given to gold, Will
i free coinage was Withdrawn from silve
in 1873, established the varying il
equality of the dollar in silver to til
: collar in gold. Free coinage given
both, free bimetallic coinage, will II
I establish their ancient and unvaryin
!. equality, attested by the mint, til
: market and the crucible.
"Did ever anything but free bimeta
lic coinage down to 1873 make OF
> gold and silver dollars equal by ever
test? Did ever free bimetallic cOinas
down to 1873 for one hour fail to mai
the silver dollar equal to the gold do
lar, whether at mint or crucible or
: any market in the wide world?
e, "Secretary Fosters one word in h
n Chamber of Commerce speech W;
: parity, as President Harrison's ol
y word was equality of all dollars.
Il "But to maintain parity impli
: the existence of Il parity. No pari
:, exists between the two. Melt the 90
- coin and il can be recOined again al
y again a gold dollar for its priva
}; owner, because gold has free coina!
q and twenty-five and eight-tenths Tr'
N grains are the fixed weight of the go
lie dollar
:" "Melt the silver coin and il cann
be recoined for ITS private owner.
Sc can be sold to the treasury but +
he seventy-five cents or less, because 5
x yer has not tree coinage, though 4l2
u Troy grains of silver are, indeed, t
er present weight of the silver dolls
The so-called parity of the Sherm
e, silver law is mendacious parity, a
the crucible mocks the false pretenC
J. of equality, by President Harrison a
~ of parity by Secretary Foster.
FREE COINAGE THE REMEDY.
ID s.The two metals cO-eXist and 8
8. somewhere current and coinable il
$, full legal tender money, about as mu
o. of one as of the other. Neither
capable of imitation, as every otl
y sort of currency is, the annual p,
centage of increase to the exist
aggregate being extremely small, II
of course diminishing with every yea
increase of that great aggregate. Fl
bimetallic coinage practically uni
the two money metals into one mon
- metal with the utilities of both. -
In speaking of the issues for Il