The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-12-25
WASHINGTON LRTTER.

Senator Stewart on the seventeenth
delivered an able and conclusive argu-
ment showing the necessity for the re-
monetization in full Of silver. senator
Stewards speeches on silver are of the
character that impress themselves upon
the public mind and the delivery Of
this speech has started afresh the
organs Of the gold bugs. The New
York World. which represents the
Democratic side of Wall street, and the
New York Tribune, which represents
the Republican aide, are both out in
long articles, probably both written BY
the same man. in which they tell the
same old story that if we have free
silver coinage the United States will be
the dumping-ground Of all the silver
Of the world and all the gold will take
to itself wings and dy away like that
rich mans property Of which We read
in the Bible. The World says that we
have the choice Of but three plans
which are:
!. To 60 on under the law as it
stands;
2. To substitute some such law as S
now proposed or,
3. To accept absolutely free coinage
without any regulation or restriction
whatever.
This last would make the country
the dump;Dg-ground of all the sur
plus silver in the world and pretty
surely bring US to an exclusively silver
basis. II would be the substitution Of
silver monometalism for gold monomet
alism. The East would look upon tha.
as dire calamity, and the West and
South do not insist upon it if free
coinage can be extended to all Amer
lean silver"
The Tribune reports that same argu.
ment in a little more classic language
| than is used in the World as the Trib-
une is written for the high class Wall
street men and the World for the Sec
ond class fellows. Every effort is being
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made to get Speaker Crisp to stock .
committee that will prevent any legis-
lation upon silver. Mr.. Pst Collins
who was born in County Down in Ire
land and migrated to this country !
few years ago and represented district
from Boston and who is now chairman
OF the Democratic State committee o.
Massachusetts, has been sent to Wash
ington expressly to try to persuade Mr.
Crisp that he ought to stock commit
tee. IF Mr.. Crisp has that feeling
which used to permeate Southern pol
iticians and any one came to him OF
such message as that he would b.
quietly led to the door and given al
impetus through it. The gold bug
are desperate enough to let any one o.
their men, not one Of themselves, risl
being kicked out as Collins ought t
have been kicked out of Speaker
Crisp's room when he made this propo
sition to him.
President Harrison has determined
to reimpose the duty on coffee and sugar
from some Of the Central and South
American States that have refused tc
enter into reciprocal trade arrangements
There will be desperate effort upon
the part Of some Of the leading Chicago
millionaires to get Ave million dollars
of the peoples money out of this Con
gress to help them run the Worlds
Fair. Any Representative or Senator
who votes for such q measure as thai
ought to be retired by his constituency
with remarkable celebrity and allowed
forever after to remain in undisturbed
serenity as q private citizen. It is an
outrage upon the people Of the United
States. When Chicago asked that the
Worlds Fair be located there, . place
where it never ought to have been, the
very men who are now trying to make
the Government give them $5,0OO,00o
pledged themselves that they would put
up s25.OOO,OOO if necessary and three
of them are able to carry out thil
pledge by themselves.
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