Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-04-27
Silver.

bllFeT.
1t is high time that our people take
bold stand and give notice TO those
who oppose them upon this great
question TO stand from under OF take
the consequences.
Silver has truly been made foot
ball of for n long time. By legislation
it has been degraded. and by legisls-
tion on y can il he restored to its prop
er place. Tho argument that free
coinage means the debasemeHt of the
currency il shallow and without foun-
daiion. AS well say that tho issuance
OF paper Nancy by the Government -
debasemert Of the currency flor the
paper cests comparatively nothing).
The further argument, that free cain-
age ia uangeroua on the ground that ii
would drive cut gold presents No ele-
lnens TO appeal to the people generally.
The argument Is based upon M
Hypothesis, and NO advocate OF it can
or mas presented any facts 10 prove his
statement; but granting that their con-
clusion is correct, does it occur to any
one thai that fact would make the
slightest difference with our people !?
One half of the pespe of tho United
States never see gold piece. They
do their business with silver and Gov
ernment notes. and given plenty OF
these the business Of the country would
proceed as usual. Again, We produce
about one-third Of all the gold pro-
ducsd in the world, and in addition tn
that the balance Of trade is largely in
eur favor, rendering it necessary tor
foreign governments to send us gold to
settle their balances. And SO with
every argument advanced against free
coinage. They are make-shifis, in
tended to deceive the people and thus
continue them In the bonds of ths
slavery lhoy have been put into by un-
principled and villainous Legislators.
The people Of The silver States have
been slow to act upon this great ques-
ton. While they were the first To feel
the i'll effects oil the dem cancellations of
silver directly, they were so bound up
III the traditions of party and party
allegiance that through party seemed
the only way to obtain redress.
Experience has shown that they
were wrong The Eastern wing Of
neither party 10 in favor Of silver.
They arc controlled by the gold ring of
New York az absolutely as if they
| had csllars of steel about their necks
The Democratic Representatives from
the South and West favsr free coinage
Why? Because they have awakened
10 the fact that 1t means higher prices
! for wheat and cotton. Do they favor
it because it will help the silver miner ,
Not much, but it will raise prices OF
wheat and cotton, and consequently
they must stand In.
The people of the East, North and
South are in favor of anything that
will help them or their industries, but
when the silver States ask for some
assistance it is haughuly refused and
thrown in our teeth that our only rea-
son for asking it is To get 100 cents for
| 20 cents. Even Mr. Bland of Missouri,
an able advocate of free coinage, is OPP
| posed 10 the coipsge of The American
| product, as he fears it will not be far
reaching enough TO affect prices of
wheat and cotton in India, although
granting that it would put silver at par
in the United States. All these various
thiags go to shew that we must stand
on our own ground aud make the fight
straight for the reconciliation of sill
yer, asd fight everything that opposes
1t. First, because it helps us in our
leading Industry. Second, because II
cpens the door for all growers st wheat
and cotton to assist us, aad third, be-
cause it will help aud assist every
poor, struggling man in the country to
get more for bis product or his labor
than he otherwise could, and thus our
fight, which primarily is fight Ia
help ourselves, becomes ennebled and
expanded, until it becomes a fight in
the interest of humanity.
So, locking over the whole situation
we are forced TO the conclusion that
We must cut loose from all party
allegiance upon this question, and in.
sist apou the same line of action by
our representatives; let them hght
every measure presented which favars
any particular locality or State unless
the representative of these States ION