The advocate., 1891-07-01

fast and loose on the money question,
and they will blow hot and cold on the
coinage of silver, "just as they can de-
celve chaps" even denouncing their po-
lltical opponents, in their last national
convention, for not having given the
country free coinage of silver.
On February 2S, 1873, both branches
of Congress passed a bill, over the veto
of Rutherford B. Hayes, by considerable
more than twO-thirds vote, which par
tally remonetized silver, and the only
Congressman in the central states that
stood by the Hayes veto were James A.
Garfield of Ohio, Lucius Q. G. Lamar of
Mississippi, Jacob Fl. Stewart of Min
nesota, and Alpheus s. Williams OF Mich
igan.
And now, to show the friendship of
the Republican party for any system OF
money that is not controlled and en-
gineered by a domestic and foreign
plousiocracy, let the following matter be
pondered, which is entitled, the "History
of the Republican Party"
In 1877 Richard P. Bland, Democrat, of
Missouri, introduced into the House bill
providing for the free coinage of silver dol
lars of 41216 grains (then worth about 81
cents) at the rate of not less than two mil
lions nor more than four millions per month.
Although the free coinage clause was elimi-
mated, President Hayes promptly vetoed
the measure, which was practically one to
set the government up in the counterfeit
business on a vast scale; but the Democrats
rallied, as in war times, and with the aid of
few Republicans, passed the bill over his
head.
Is not the foregoing beautiful com
mentary on the party Of Hayes, Ingalls,,
Garfield, Sherman, Foraker, Foster, Har
rison, Morton and Mckinley? But listen
to this charming author Of the "History
of the Republican Party" in these dulcet
strains:
Under that act an obnoxious dollar, not
actually worth its face in any spot on the
globe, Stunned by all foreign brokers,
hated by bankers and despised by COM
merce, has been steadily put forth at the
rate of two millions or more month for
many years. II is the drift-wood of COM
merce, an indigestible lump in the great
financial system of the country. There
fore, as the mints could not cease putting it
out, and the people did not want it, the
government was compelled to provide extra
vault room for it and pay men to watch it
night and day, until the light weight dollar
has become a public burden. Bills have
been introduced providing for additional
vault room in the Mississippi valley in
which to store the "buzzard dollars" as
they are called, but no relief, either from
the coinage or the overflowing cellars, has
yet been afforded. At the present moment
these shrunken dollars are driving our gold
to Europe-a doplorable and dangerous cir
cumstance. Amongst the free trade,
free fraud, free whisky and other
free notions of the Democrats and their al
lies, that the Republicans have bad to
fight, is the fanciful idea of free coinage of
silver. And another favorite ''idea" of the
financial thinkers is the "double standard
that is, that both gold and silver shall be
the standard of value in money.
What nice political daguerreotype of
the financial doctrines of Sherman, Nc
Kinley, Foster and Foraker the forego-
ing language exhibitsl But this his