The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-07
He Writes 4 Ringing Letter TO the
Custer County Democratic
Club,
awe Are Reaching = Orisis In the
Administration Of Public
AffAirs."
Congratulations Upon the Growth and
Esaoisnoy 81 the Democratic Clubs
Of tAs Stats.

0Otiu00 SOW AO0Ie tnAs su0 0OSoV1 ~
Toois democratic club Of Custer county
has hssn organized. The governor sent the
following reply 70 ths club;
Dear Sir: lam In receipt Of your favor
Of the Sd inst. informing me Of the organ-
ixation Of q dsmocratic club in you city
bearing my name. 7 I'm highly honorsd by
tho action of your club. l beg Of yon TO
convey TO II my sincere appreciation Of
their compliment. / desire also to con-
graduate you upon the growth and shiciency
Of the democratic clubs within the state.
These organizations represent no favoritss
and have no mission to perform except TO
inculcats and promulgats democratic prin-
cirles. Men from every profession and
calling in life are found amongst the NOM
bsrship. Through ths effort Of these ASSOC
Citations the principles of our party are be-
coming better understood and more fully
appreciated. The democratic party has
always been the party Of ths people. There
il NO reason to believe that II will not con-
tinue 10 be the peoples hope. When it
oomes into power. having both branches OF
congress and the executive, W may conf
IDENTITY expect IL 70 inauRurate and pursue 9
policy in keeping with its professions. We
are tainted with the charge that q demo-
cratic house failed to pass the silver bill.
The republican party with both branches
Of congress and . president In 1873 de-
stroyed tho life and usefulness Of silver -
money, and now howls vooifsrously because
the democratic houss of representatives,
docs not resurreot the financial corpse while
. republican president sits firmly on is
head and q republican senate zee saws
across ito PROSTATE form.
Whatever individual members of our
party may have said or done concerning
the coinage Of silver, everybody conversant
with history knows that tbs great masses
81 the democratic party nave uniformly
and persistently demanded its free and IN
limited coinage. 1t il not, very enoouraR-
ing for the mon who have toilsd so long
and we'll for this result to see tho realiza-
tion Of their hopes 30 long deferred. In
Tho csassless war that has been waRed since
1873 to overthrow and set aside the law of
= republican congress which destroyed the
Just value OF silver, one mar above all
others has stood Arm and true to the pso-
ple's interest. No scheme Of public policy
or false sxpedisnoy could all ire him from
his position. and no idle Rasconads or false
olamor could make him AFRAID or disarm
study and close application have made HIM
an authority on the subject. Thus armed
and equipped his wisdom pointed the way
and his courage and devotion to the public
veal kept him az true az the needle to the
pole. With scarcely a dollar TO his name,
with no mines or stocks TO be affected, with
no motives except to give the debt-paying
people Of Amsrion a chance to ~recupstato
from the devitalizinR Influences of COM
bined wealth, Richard r. Bland has stead
tasty pursued his purpose. While we have
fallen far short OF victory in our last attack.
the lonely eleven republican votes that
ataid with US in the house proclaim louder
than We can that it was a democratic
measure.
The republican party has been prolific of
promises in regard to silver. II has been
The money changer and the mortgage who
have eaten out the substance of the people
are not going to administer this govern
ment much longer. We ARE reaching a
crisis in the administrator Of public at
fairs. Men will no more break into public
The principles OF Robin Hool and Robert
Macaire must be eliminated from the poll
tics of this state and nation. F..
At the very birth of this republic the
wealth of this country conspired to RESTRICT
the volume of money of the American peo-
pIOs Inv dCt - u was VuO Aint COlll0ko
act. II established a mint for the free
coinage of gold and silver, and made both
lsQal tender. This would have been in the
interest of the people if the supply at shat
time of these metals had been sufficient to
have provided the money to best subserve
their interests, but by reason of their
scarcity the act was in the interest of capt.
talists, az it restricted the volume of legal
tender money to coins made of these rare
metals.
They have pulled the people to their own
destruction every time the emergency arose.
In 1853 the gold fields of California were
yielding enormously and the continued free
coinage of that metal was alarming tho
men who had the wealth of the world. This
influence caused Germany, Australia and
other European countries to demonetize
.gold-they wanted a restricted currency.
began to show forth her silver deposits, but
es long a. the products of these mines Was
confined to an amount which, when coined.
did not materially increase the volume OF
money. the free coinage OF both gold and
silver was continued, but by 1873 the pro-
duct of silver was increased to suoh an OK
tent that its free coinage was prohibited by
law. Why? Because it ia axiomRtic that
"interest," upon which mon are enabled to
live upon the industry OF others. is possible
only under a oircumscribed legal circulat-
ing medium.
So it has been and so it will always be to
the interest," of the rich to keep the volume
of moned restricted. II always has been
and always will be to the interest of the
poor or debt paying classes to keep the
volume of money unrestricted. I
For this self imposed burden the people
accepted a measure which the capitalists
grudginply gave them at the Fifty-second
congress. They were told that silver would
rise to 81. %. They have awakened to the
fact that they were buncoed, garroted and
%plundered in the most approved method,
while silver went down to SO. How long
will this thing lastp OF course it will al
ways suit the purposes of sordid wealth and
arbitrary power, but surely it will not longer
abide in the free air of political liberty and
personal freedom. Let Us hope that the
men who have cast their votes against silver,
and again postponed action upon II. will bs
beaten down at the next election by
men of wider vision and higher stateaman-
ship. We know that the power of this ad-
ministrAtion has been exerted against the /
measurs-and We know, Too, that under our
form of government thu few who admins.
tered il are not permanently entrenched be-
hin the rRmparts of privilege, but are aub- |