The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-01-15

given them one chance to play the
game successfully. Too much stress
has been placed on the value of free
coinage of silver. A minor issue,
which. if enacted into law, could give
but little relief, has been given too
prominent a place in the demands for
reform. While if we must have metal
money. still, the advocates of free
coinage can hardly explain how any
great benefit will come to anyone. ex-
cept it be to create a market for the
product of a monopoly that, given the
power, would quickly establish mono
metalism on strictly silver basis.
Given free coinage and we can ex-
pect to coin but very little more than
the output of American silver mines, or
between $50, 900, 900 and $50, ZOO, 900 an
nually, or an increase in the money
volume of perhaps 70 cents per capita.
But little foreign silver can be ex-
pected to come to us while the value of
silver for coinage purposes is higher in
other countries. So free coinage OF
silver, if given to us. will hardly offer
any perceptible relief. Yet the demo-
cratic party, true to its instincts of
trucking to Wall street interests, is
preparing to give us pretended free
coinage measure as compromise for
more important demands, while alli-
ance leaders, like Livingston, of
Georgia, will be advising the people to
vote the democratic ticket, with the
specious plea that 1--WE can only do one
thing at a time"
The democrats, having an under
standing with Wall street, can easily
give the country a free coinage meas
ure and supplement it by something
else that will leave financial conditions
unimproved Reforms are questions
BILE when coming from the party that
has the moneyed support of the enc
mics of reform. The game now is to
dupe the people into the support of q
Wall street candidate at the coming
presidential election. trusting that an
other four years will witness the disco
luton of the alliance.
Ahalf dozen measures could be named
of far more Importance than the silver
question, measures which the democrat
ic party wouldn't touch with pair Of
tongs. We need a vastdeal more money
than free coinage of silver would give
us We need the establishment of q
banking system that will secure safety
to all depositors, and that will foster.
not bleed. the industrial and business in
terests of the nation. We need strict
control of the transportation lines Of the
country, until the earning capacity is
limited to fair dividend ON actual In
vestment and not cent on watered
stock. We need the restoration to the
public domain of all land held by rail-
roads of right forfeited by non-fulfll-
ment of contracts, and also all lands
held by syndicates Will the demo-
cratic party give us these things? No.
Would they offer us free coinage if it
would give us the desired relief? No.
Tariff and silver are to be the issues Of
the next campaign as far as the old
parties are concerned. The two par
ties are but slight per cent. apart on
the tariff, and free coinage would give
us at the best a moiety of the relief
sought. The game won't work. The
people demand something more. This
is not the time to compromise by &C.
cepting minor issues. The democrats
will have to show THAR hands, and then
they'll be found not in the game
Cincinnati Herald.
If it should appear that there was
real danger of the peoples party
holding together long enough to do any
great mischief, the democrats would