Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-10-08

and the Latin Union. men SILVER
bullion fell in the market, and the
| struggle for free-coinage has contin-
ued ever since. It,has been resisted
ibv the gold men and so far they have
! been victorious. The gold trust is
all powerful. It controls the rail-
roads, bankers, merchants and press
and by fraud, intimidation, and all
sorts Of devices they have prevented
the restoration of silver and kept the
people in ignorance. The demone-
tization of silver reduced the volume
of real money one-half, doubled the
obligations of contracts, deprecated
the price Of property and reduced
the wages of labor. The price of
commodities has fallen fully 80 per
cent. since 1878. Silver is used only
as credit money and is not consid-
cred by bankers and financiers as fit
for reserves. Only gold is used for
that purpose.
The gold trust manages to nomi-
nate the candidates of the Demo
cratic and Republican party. 1t
has also fixed the platforms on the
financial question to suit themselves.
The planks of the two parties on
the silver question are about the
same. They are both opposed to
free-coinage, and it makes no differ
ence to them whether Harrison or
Cleveland is elected. Either of them
will do their bidding and they are
satisfied. The silver States can get
no relief as long as the gold trust
elect their candidates. When both
parties combine in a wicked cause,
then it is necessary for third party
to come iuto existence. The Silver
party is the outcome of the action
of the two great parties and it will
show considerable strength and give
warning to the old parties that they
must recognize the chief industry of
the West or take the consequences.
Independent action is now necessary
in order to secure recognition. The
protest of Nevada, Colorado, Idaho
and Montana that they will submit
no longer to the rule of the gold
rings to the detriment and ruin of
the Silver States will be protest, and
to secure our votes and power they
will be compelled to give us free
coinage.
The Force Bill was a scheme de-
vised by the gold men to divide the
West from the South and to secure
complete control of the government.
The friends of silver are in the South
and West. The cotton planter suf-
fers as much by the demonstration
of silver as the miner in the west.
Cotton is below the cost of produc-
ton, and the competition created by
the productions from India leaves
but a small market in which to sell
that staple.
The people of the South were un-
alterably opposed to the force bill.
1t was chiefly aimed at them and
the plea for it was that the negro
was denied the right to vote. 1t
would have negro supremacy in the
South. 1t was monstrous bill and
would have changed our form of
government. Local self-government
could not have existed under it's
operation. The bill provided for
Federal control of all elections. 1t
gave the President power to appoint
an unlimited number ofsupervisors
of elections to be paid out of an I'M
limited standing appropriation.
Under such a law the President
could have a million heelers at the
polls. These officers were to be a
returning board and their returns
were prima facie evidence, and the
Clerk Of the House of Representa-
tives was required to place name of
members Of Congress on the roll of
the House which were returned by
these officers. Uuder these circum-
stances the President would have
had control of election Of members
of Congress. This bill was very
odious to everybody who understood
its effects, and especially to the
friends of silver in the South. In
the House of Representatives all
the gold men on the Republican side
voted for it, including ten silver Re
publicans. 1t passed by six major
ity. Now if three of the silver Re-
publicans had voted against it it
would have defeated the bill and
formed strong union between the
silver men in the South and West.
But these votes could not be saved.
and the bill was passed. In the
Senate the silver men from the west
joined their friends of the south and
defeated the bill. The result was
the formation of a silver party, and
a free-coinage bill can always be
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