The herald., 1893-07-28
A LESSON In INTERN .ArIoNAL MATTERS

| n LR0SVN AN MA hho
In all modern nations 1t is q curious
circumstance that III is only the republi
can countries that .sem to be bereft o
the lust of conquest. Even France,
with her tin soldier war in prospect In
Siam, is only praJtling about war o
boundaries. 1t is quite likely thai
France has no right whatsoever to Ton
quin, or Siam, or Amman, bat the the
ater of these wars is so infinitessimally
small it is hard to interest large masses
of mankind in their issue. The incident
at best, only admits of some grim ear
castle play of humor on the part oil
England. John Bull has precisely as
much right to finger in the affairs o.
India as the Afghanistans have to par
ticipate in the controversy between
Pope Leo and King Humberto. Eng
land main rtains her rule in India on
precisely the same grounds upon which
the great Mirabsau grounded eratory,
which hp founded upon paudace,
Paudace, foujouS Paudace. II France
shall start a lively fight in the Gulf of
Siam, we are certainly not without hope
that the contagion will spread to other
countries. Whatever may bb evolved
through intricate mathemat ical pro.
cesses running back to Adam Smith and
Nautilus, and notwithstan dirlg the in.
genious calcul ations Of Hen ~ George,
thora io Anrhk hok h,,t bok
at the present conjuncture, there are
too marry people in the world. This
acts as to mankind what a ,nstriction
in mans veins acts with the individ-
ual. With the latter good, vigorous
biff on the nose, inducing t,opious flow
of claret, produces great relief and
high health.
For now these many ye lrs England
has undertaken to be the g.eat bully of
the high seas. The work of her fleet
off the coast of Tripoli has shown that
her cumbrous iron-clads amount to
nothing, or to less than rsothing. II,
with her own favorite irorl-clads, under
Admiral Tryon, she can ,nly hope to
send her armaments to Davy Jones's
locker, where will she stand when the
real and not the mimicry of war shall
hold the boards?
For the last four years the principal
nations of Europe have bsen engaged in
locking up coin, with view to war, as
to most of them. England and Ger.
many have been busy in this game sim.
ply for selfish consid srations. The
statesmen of Germany have succeeded
in enlisting the chuckle heads OF Austria
in the same boat. Enormously over
sized armies, with great naval arma-
ments, have companied thic unnatu-
raj, oppressive and fsu ialistic propagan-
da. 1t is heartily to be hoped that the
time will shortly arrive when the whole
topheavy edi6ce shall topple over.
Mean while, the United States will has
ten the regeneration Of all mankind by
placing her seventy thousand million
dollars OF wealth behind the immemori-
al coinage OF the mo sey OF the constitu-
tion-gold and silver, in the proportion
of 16 to one. By doing 30 the congress
OF the United States will not only sd-
here to our own traditions, but will ad-
here to those of tho Prophet Abraham,
who, more than four thousand years ago,
paid for the field oi Macpelah in talents
of silver.
The so-called arguments Of the gold
bugs are sometimes even farcically wild.
In fact, they themselves we'll know that
they have no argument. They have at
tempted to replace the old time feudsl-
ism of force by the modern feudalism of
financial fnesse. They have now re-
duced the purchasing power OF wheat,
barley and everything that enters into
the necessary consumption CO of mankind,
20 a value OF about fifty-three cents on
the silver dollar. They have increased
the value OF cid dollar to the neigh.
borhood of $1.e5.
In this brief proposition the farmer
has his argument. So has the southern
planter. Do his best, neither the west
ern farmer moi. the southern planter can
get away from these ratios. Does he de-
sire to increa ,s or to diminish them
in his own in terest or in that of his en-.
envy? There lies the point of the corr
troversy.
The man who owns wheat, barley or
cotton has reitos of the depreciation OF
his product furnished ready to his hard
AS goes dow silver, 80 goes down eve ry-
thing that he sells. If silver at seve nty
cents an ouIice is only worth fifty-tflree
cents, silver. bullion, in standard dol
lar, how mich will it be worth when
silver has declined to twenty cen ts an
ounce? Amy boy can work out, the
problem.
That tn, dsclension will be ra pid if
the people surrender their demalid for
the twin moneys of the constitution let
no man f,r moment doubt. Tie well
fare of tile United States now hinges on
the action of this American con sress.
THE world we are ashamed to say,