Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-04-08
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 8. 1892
SILVER AND SOUTHERN DEMO-
Gratis.

SILVER AND SOUTHERN DEMO-
Gratis.
We have long advocated the free coinage
of silver because we believe itsound policy,
and because we have not seen single veri-
fled foreboding, Oh convincing argument of
it's opponents to change our belief. We
have not been among those who labor I'm
der the delusion that it would make money
ssplenty' OF would give a high price to pro-
ducts OF labor. 1t is needless to tell any
thinking man that the addition OF about
Thirty Millions of dollars and that is about
all that would be added if the whole silver
output were coined into money-to the Six
Hundred Millions OF currency now in use in
this country, would do either. But we have
the firm conviction that it is the right of
the people to have gold and silver put On
the same basis, and sooner OIL later it will
come. But we have not favored the pas
sage of the free coinage bill by the Demo-
cratic House this winter. We have lived
long enough to know that all great reform
measures must be gotten one at time,
and we have seen too many good political
platforms wrecked simply because they
asked for too many things at once. To add
free silver to our platform for 1892, would
put beyond our reach New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut. and would not
bring single Western State into our line
to fill the vacant places. So, by trying to
carry both Tariff Reform and free silver
we should lose both. Aud the whole coun-
try would lose both, for the Republican
party has set it's face against both. Let us
win Tariff Reform, which Is only another
name for lower Federal taxation, and which
touches every mans pocket, this year, and
silver will take care Of itself IN 1896.
We see that Col Brad Beverley, prom
inent member of the Alliance in Virginia,
and one of its State Lecturers, thinks that
the failure of free silver in the House and
the further failure of the coming DEMOCRATIC
National convention to declare for it, viii
induce some Alliance men ito vote the
Peoples Party ticket" He does not, nor
is it likely he could, point out wherein this
waste of vote in 1892 could help the farm
tI. WuCUllCl llC NC fsO ouC ~ VI VII VI wv SAS
South. If he help to defeat the Democrat
ic party. he helps to defeat the only one OF
the two great political parties that favors
lower taxation and the only one OF the two
great political parties majority OF whose
congressman favor free silver. What pos
sible advantage to him could come from
such a waste, Mr.. Beverley does not at
tempt to point out There are so many
promises for the future gathered around
every new party; its head lights emit such
roseate hues; it's advocates speak so enthu
siastically of the halcyon days in store fol
it, that men are apt to forget the history OF
newparties in this country. When one looks
back at the Greenback, the Labor, and 9th
Ell organizations, and contemplates the brie1
and evanescent life of some, and the slow
and often misdirected progress OF others
it is not hard to be convinced that fol- the
solution of any great economic question II
is better for the man who expects to see
reform accomplished in his day. to cling tt
one of the already existing great politica
organizations. If he cling to the Demo
cratic party which has outlived all others
and in turn destroyed all others, he will moi
go amiss. The Virginia Alliance man who
because he could only see a probability Of
getting one good thing instead of two,
should throw away his vote and thus hell
to lose both, would hardly represent wha
we have taken to be the practical character
of his excellent organization.