Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-10-20
Harrison All Right on Silver.

Now let's briefly consider what cause
the Republican miner has to complain
of President Harrison. He was elected
on platform that declared in favor
of gold and silver as money. Has he
in any way shown a disposition to
disregard the silver plank? To the
contrary he has shown positively by
his official work that he has given it
his hearty support. Within five
months after he was inaugurated he
signed the Sherman silver bill, which
sent silver almost up to par and
would have done so and kept it there,
had it not been for one defect in the
bill and that was in permitting the
speculators to throw surplus of sill
yer on our market-it was not Harri-
son S fault if the bill was not perfect,
he did not make it, but he did en-
deavor to enforce the provisions of
the bill honestly and faithfully and
they that say to the contrary, if they
are informed of what has occurred,
willfully misstate what they know to
be facts.
Fifteen months later we find him
urging the increase of the monthly
purchase from four and a half millions
to six million ounces per month, and
buying up the surplus silver on the
New York market, which was from
ten to fifteen million ounces. Permit
me to say right here, if the friends of
silver had accepted what they could
hav, got at that time, silver today
would have been so near par that no
| miner would have had any complaint
to make About six months later We
find the president working up the in
| ternational silver conference; giving it
his personal attention; writing letters
of investigation to foreign countries,
and advising with his cabinet and
others as to what was best to do to
check the decline in silver. There has
not yet been time to determine what
| will be the result of his last effort, but
| we have every reason to believe that
much good will come out of it, and nc
man can say but what it is good work
and in the right direction. He has
given us the Hon. Charles Foster fol
secretary of the treasury strong
advocate of bi-metallism, and whose
remarks before the chamber of com
merce in New York city November II
1891, define his position. He said:
believing that the good sense of thu
business world must soon be brought
into harmony with us in the PROPOSE
ton that gold alone is too narrow 6
base upon which to build the world,
financial structure" etc. He gave vi
f. o. Leach as director of the United
States m int-a bright, capable man
who is doing all in his power to ad
vance the interests of all classes o
mining and holds the same views oil
silver as the president and Secretar,
Foster.
1t is true that the president doe
not believe that the United States col
alone maintain a free coinage bill with
out injury to the business of the coun
try. The same opinion can be freel,
met with in every state and territor,
in the union.
hope all miners will go to the poll
and cast their votes for one of tn
great national parties and continu
the record that you have made in tn
past. Do not permit yourselves t.
be known as men without gratitude
fit only to be made asses of and riG
: den by political Jockeys. 1t is throug
your vote that you will demonstrat
> whether the great mining industr
shall be preserved and the liberal sy'
tenn of wages continued, or whethe
the industry shall 60 down and til
laborer's reward reduced to the lev
of peon Mexicans, worse than slay
labor, for after all that is the final r
suit when labor is brought into con
petition and everything being equa
wages must be equal or industri'
cease.-Wm. f. James in Salt Lal
n Tribune.