Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-29
MoNsIEuR roNsoN COME AGAIN.

Mephistopheles of the United States.
He is man who, from his associations,
ought to be respectable. Notwithstand-
ing his calculating misdeeds, this Ohio
man has the respectability, more's the
pity, which large, ill-gotten wealth can
impart, and the social position, which
important station, added to great wealth
and good family, guarantee in this tuft-
hunting United States.
Sherman has thrown himself into the
Ohio campaign with all the vigor of
which he is capable, and that is saying
not little, even in his misguided old
age. He and Benny Harrison are going
around the country blathering about an
honest dollar, and deprecated dollar
which the poor workingman is in dam
ger of receiving should silver be rehabil-
itated.
Oh, how tender is the sympathy Of
those two public functionaries-Chad-
bands both--with the man who earns
his bread in the sweat OF his face! The
effusive tenderness Of the alligator on the
banks Of the Mississippi, who brings
down his jaws when his maw is full of
flies, is as nothing to the tender concern
which these noble political brethren feel
for the toiler both of the sea and the
land. The very sight Of John Sherrnan's
set and acquisitive face lie equivalent to
boreal blast from Iceland, or frozen
zephyr from Adelialand. in the Antarc-
tic continent. When unripe persim-
mons lose their power to twist a mans
mouth, and EPSON salts their peristaltic
influence on the human stomach, Sher-
man and Harrison will feel real SYM
pathy with the poor man or the laborer.
An unusual conjuncture OF circum-
stances favorable to the United States
and disastrous to Europe-a conjuncture
which looks almost like Providential
interposition-ahd which has taken the
shape of unprecedentedly large crops in
the new world, and unprecedentediy
scant ones in the old, has enabled the
government OF the United States to take
the initiative in a movement which
would easily restore gold and silver to
their old relationship. It is at
this critical moment that these men
again eagerly avail themselves Of the
exigencies of campaign to attempt to
befog the popular intelligence in the
interest of the gold bugs of Wall street
in New York and Change in London.
They both know that this year the vol
ume of exchange will be overwhelm-
ingly in favor of this country. The
telegraph. the other day, contained the
declaration of the president Of the bank
Of France to the effect that he was
gathering a special fund of 500, 200, 900
in gold, which the French people alone
must pay to the United States for
breadstuffs. Germany, England, Rus
sia, and even Portugal, must buy Amer
ican wheat and other breadstuffs in
immense quantities. Even the English
newspapers admit that, this year, we
possess the gpurse-strings of the world.
Z 1t is at this stage that John Sherman
casts his lugubrious shadow across the
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silver circulation of the world amounts
to $500, 100000. Very we'll. 1t
amounted to nearly that sum when
Sherman and his fellow conspirators de-
monetized silver in 1873. 1t is an his
torical fact that silver was at premium
over gold when this crime was consum-
mated in that year. Within month
after this infamous legislation was &C.
complished by'a trick, silver started on
that down hill course that was not ar
rested until the passage of the Bland
bill, and the price OF wheat went with
it, and 80 went the price of everything
the farmer raises, with the lamentable
difference that, as the value of his pro-
ducts went down, the weight of the
farmers mortgage became heavier.
This hoar old demagogue, John Sher-
man, represents the entire world as
standing ready to cast this $3, ,SOO, ,00O, 900,
of minted money into this country the
moment the United States shall pass a
free coinage measure. Nobody knows
better than he that this vast sum is the
money OF nine-tenths of the people of
the globe. He knows very well that
England needs prodigious sums of silver
yearly in her transactions with India;
and that, instead of having immense
totals of it to throw into the United
States she is obliged to buy it in the
open market. The only country, that
possesses large sums Of the white metal,
France, is thoroughly in sympathy with
the double standard Of gold and silver,
and would readily cooperate with the
United States in its reconciliation.
Baron Anselm de Rothechild solemnly
placed himself on record to the effect
that the monetary affairs Of the world
would never regain their equilibrium