The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-01
FOUGHT TO A DRAW
The Bland Bill All But Defeated In
the House Of Represent
atiYes.
A Few Leading Men ON the DemOnetlza'
tlOn OF the White
Metal.

The recent fight on the Bland bill,
in the house Of representatives was q
battle of the gods. 1t was titanic,
and. on one side, satanic. 1t reminds
one of Millions battle of the angels
with the devils. In the titanic battle,
the gods threw rocks; in the angelic
battle, the devils were discounted by
tho angels plucking up whole noun
tains and hurting them on theirdevot
heads. Only this difference--the silver
battle was ''draw game" The fight
is not over, however, and the anti
silver devils will soon or late be hurled
into blacklist Tartarus. This msy
seem strong language.
Robert G. Ingersoll said:
II do ask for the reconciliation Of
silver. Silver was demonitized by
fraud. 1t WAS an imposition upon every
solvent man; q fraud upon every honest
debtor in the United States. 1t assas-
sinated labor. 1t was done in the
interests of avarice. and, should be
undone by honest men,"
Bob Ingorsoll may be an unbeliever.
but he hit the nail on the head here,
and is nearer the moral law on this
subject, than an orthodox preacher.
Abraham purchased the cave OF
Machpelah with silver-"four hundred
sheckles of silver, current money
with the merchant''-and there he
buried Sarah. Fit had been in, 1873,
and A. C.--instead of B. C.-wnen the
.'party of great moral ideas (P) was in
power. he would have found himself
out Of funds.
Che fact is that silver by the side of
gold, and always interchangeable. has
been used as money since the dawn of
history. 1t was SO used from the
foundation of our government to 1873.
II period of eighty-one years, and on
unfavorable effect followed from its
use. When the republican party de-
mOnetizedit by the act of February IL,
ls7S-there followed a financial panic
and debtors were driven to the wall.
In reference to the demonstration
of silver, John j. Ingalls,, in the United
States senate, saidi
"There is, Mr., president, a deep
seated conviction among the people
which l fully share, that the demone-
tization of silver in 1873, was one
element in a great conspiracy tU dc
liver the fiscal system of this country
over to those by whom it has. in ny
opinion, been finally captured. 1t il
impossible to avoid the conviction tina
it was part of deliberate plan ant
conspiracy formed by those who hav,
been called spectators, to still farthe
increase the value Of the standard, b,
which their accumulations were to b.
measured"
Upon the means, by which this wa
accomplished, he said:
Il believe that both houses Of con
gress and the president of the Unite,
States must have been hypnotized. s.
great was the power Of capital; so pro
found was the impulse; so persisten
was the determination; that the pro
motors of the scheme succeeded by tn
operation of mind power and will fore
in capturing and bewildering the in
telligence of men of all parties, q
members of both houses Of congress
and the members Of the cabinet, an
the president Of the United States"
After declaring that he was Of tn
opinion that If submitted to a popula
vote, free coinage would carry by a
overwhelming majority. he said:
They have declared in favor of
for the last fifteen years; and they hav
been juggled with, they have bee
thwarted, they have been paltere
with and dealt with in double sens,
The word of promise, that was mad
to their ears; in the platforms Of poll
ical parties has been broken to the
hope. There was a majority in tn
body at the last session Of congress !
favor Of free coinage of silver II
compromise that was made was nt
what the people expected, nor whit
they had right to demand. The
felt they had been trided with, an
that is one cahse Of the exasperatic
expressed in the verdict of Novembt
4. 1890"
We honor Ingalls, for this truthf
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