Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-08-27
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MCKINLEY AND SILVEiS.

building up of every American ir-
dustry thus delivers himself on the
silver question::
"Tho platfor Of the two parties,
which constitute their official declar-
ations, are singularly free from am
biguity and confusion. The Dem.
ocratic platform declares for the free
and unlimited coinage OF the silver of
the world, to be coined as freely as
gold is now, upon the same terms and
under existing ratio. The platform
of the Republican party stands in
opposition to anything short OF full
and complete dollar and approves of
the legislation of the last Congress
touching silver. That
legislation is a mighty bulwark for
the protection Of silver. The ley ;sla-
ton Of the last Congress is the
strongest evidence which can be fur
nished IF the purpose of the Repubi-
can party to maintain silver as
money and Of its resolution to keep
it, ard the whole of it, in use rs "a
part of our circulating medium equa.
with gold.
The silver. question is business
one, in which all the people, whatever
may be their political affiliations, have
deepinterest. If we could have an
international ratio, which all the
leading nations Of the world would
adopt and the true relation be fixed
between the two metals, and all agree
upon the quantity Of silver which
should constitute a lollar, then sill ,
Yer should be as free and unlimited
in its privileges Of coinage as is gold
to-day. X
am in favor OF the double stand
nrd, but I an not tn favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of silUer in
the Uaite1 States until the nations
OF the world shall join us in guuran-
teeing to .lver status which their
laws now accord to gold"
hh'o oiouo 10 lollO"eu up OV luf-
ther references tn silver rs "debased
currency" 'clipped" dollars, etc.
His peroration contains the asser-
tion that the Republican party will
not pause in its course "while the
advocates of debased dollar threaten
the country with ITS financial here
sizes" Will the Republican press of
Nevada still plead for the SUCCESS OF
Mckinley even though he brands
every man in our State rs a financial
hereto, even though every word this
cpnsummate politician and advocate
Of the rich may utter, sounds the
death knell Of nll silver producing
countries? To be sure it will. The
political hide is too thick to allow
this question OF business"
Our State may go on in it's course
to ruin, every furnace may become
smokeless, every miners cabin do.
sorted, yet the Republican press of
Nevada will ROMAN uDmoved.
frotectlon TO pig iron, let silver take
care Of Itself will be the motto forever.
In the very same speech, almost
ere his dununeiation OF silver and of
silver advocates had ceased to ring in
the ears Of his hearers, this wise man
who has just risen from his blind
Alteration OF English gold, has the
efrontery to declare that "we neither
tIke our patriotism our political
economy from other natioas.". Tow
grandly he talks when pleading the
causo Of monopolists.
Rsverently, we must bow to Eng.
land ere we dare think Of silver. but
dedantly we should jerk tho lions tail
with every mention OF coal and iron.
Lofty Amoricanism for the eastern
minsr anything is good enough for
Novadal
30 Will tho manhood OF our State
. sleep on under theso goading insults