The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-07-15
BOTH AGAINST SILVER
The Democratic and Republican Both
Against the Free Coinage Of the
White Metal.
THEIR PLATFORMS ON THE QUESTION.
Silver Men CnannOt Expect Any Relief
From the Old Partles.--GOld Is
Their God.

If resolutions and platforms mean
anything, the democratic party goes
into the coming presidential campaign
much more distinctly aud decidedly
committed against the unrestricted
coinage OF silver than the republicans.
Here is the republican utterance on
the subject made at Minneapolis;
The American people, from tradi-
ton and interest, favor bimetalism,
and the republican party demands the
use of both gold and silver as standard
money, with such restrictions and I'M
der such provisions, to be determined
by legislation, as will secure the
maintenance of the parity of values of
the two metals, so that the purchasing
and debt-paying power of the dollar,
whether of silver, gold or paper, shall
be at all times equal. The interests
of the producers of the country-its
farmers and its workingmen-demand
that every dollar, paper or coin, ISIS
ued by the government shall be as
good as any other dollar. We COM
mend the wise and patriotic steps al
aeady taken be our government to Sc
cure such an international conference
to adopt such measures as will insure
parity of value between gold and
silver for use as money throughout the
world.
And here is what the democrats have
just said at Chicago
We denounce the republican legisla-
ton known as the Sherman act of 1890
as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with
possibilities of danger in the future,
which should make all of its support
ets, rs well as its author, anxious for
its speedy repeal. We hold to the use
of both gold and silver as the stan
dard money of the country, and to the
coinage Of both gold and silver with
out discrimination against either men
tai or charge for mintage. but the dol
lar unit Of coinage of both metals
must be of equal intrinsic and ex-
changoable value, or be adjusted by
international agreement, or by such
safeguards Of legislation as shall in
sure the maintenance Of the parity of
the two metals and the equal power of
any dollar at all times in the market,
and in the pay ment of debts; and we
demand that all paper currency shall
be kept at par with and redeemable
in such coin. We insist upon this
policy as especially necessary for the
protection of the farmers and laboring
classes, the first and the most de-
fenseless victims of unstable money
and fuctuating currency.
1t will be observed that while both
parties agree in demanding the use of
silver as money together with gold,
both likewise demand the maintenance
of the purchasing and debt paying
power of the silver dollar at an
equality with the purchasing and the
debt paying power Of the gold dollar.
This inferentially forbids the unre-
strcted coinage of the silver dollar,
because such coinage would immedi-
ately reduce the purchasing and debt
paying power of the silver dollar very
much below that of the gold dollar.
The republicans, furthermore, ex-
plicitlY ask that silver shall be coined
''with such restrictions and under
such provisions, to be determined by
legislation, as will secure the main
tenance of the parity of value of the
two metals" while the democrats in
sist upon such Safeguards of legisla-
tom as will insure the same result.
Both parties, likewise, favor an inter-
national agreement upon a par ratio
of value between silver and gold.
The democratic party, in addition
to all this, goes further, and demands
the repeal of the Sherman act of July
IA, 1890, under which 4,500. 900
ounces of silver are added each month
at their bullion value, to the currency,
and asserts that "the dollar unit of
value of both metals must be OF equal
intrinsic and exchangeable value" as
the first means of insuring the equality
OF the power of the silver dollar with
that Of the gold dollar.
Both parties are thus precluded
from any legislation which will lower
the unit of value below that of the
gold dollar, but the democrats affirma-
lively promise, besides, a repeal of
he act of .Iulv IA 1901 which ;e