The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-17
THE MINERS CRAZE.
Rev. Mr.. Halleron's Discourse on the
Silver Question.

Preceding the service entitled "An
Evening with Isaiah" at the Simpson NJ.
E. Church last evening. the Rev. D.
Eslteron bad this 10 say concerning the
mucn talked OF demon alization Of silver:
"The minsrs' crazel Early last week a
convention of miners Was held in one of
the Rocky Mountain States TO consider
the decentralization Of sill yer snent the
session of Congress called for next month.
Speakers of national fame were heard.
Men fh high political Office led tue assem-
bly,. Great clsims were made and much
b~rauadocia INDUCED in. But as portions
of the West have always been given TO
wild vapOrings on economic questions.
as witness the Populist craze, we make
due allowance, remembering that per-
haps the preponderence of ozone in that
airy atmosphere causes lightness of the
head, which unshackles the tongue and
sets it agoing. An address to the people
of this country has been issued and Il fund
of $5O, GOO subscribed with which to equip
speakers for the enlightenment of their
bewildered or b eniGhted Eastern fellow
citizens.
"Within a few days we shall hear In
seabeard oenters Rien of fine presence
and large mining lers who will dilate on
the benefcenee of q double monetary
standard. Governor Waite at that con-
vention must have lost his head, for he
threatened the arming of the West
against the plutocracy Of the East, and
the founding of a Western empire which
shall be bounded by the silver walls of
the great mining States, one which shall
forever maintain the parity of silver
with gold. 1t is singular hat men still
sound the tocsin OF war when their pet
ideas fail of general acceptance. We
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which will not be bound by sumDtuary
legislation. But these miners demand
our attention. In looking at that conven-
ton whom do we find as its composite
element largely Why, parties who
are millionaires themselves. Few, If
any of the hoIney-handed men who dig
in the bowels of the earth had anything to
say. They were not asked to speak, nor are
they wanted either. Surely these mill
iionaires have despoiled the nation sufi-
GENTLY. AT their behest we are now coin
ing the greatest falsehood of civilization,
namely, go cents worth of silver, aud call
ing it 100 cents, n then adding the
almost nlasphemous legend. IN GOD We
Trust
we nave arrived at a remarkable crisis
in our economic history when we can
thus poise before the world. and when we
ind men Of the stamp of Mr.. Tellar, who
IN II former administration was the Sec
Rotary of the Treasury, claiming tina t the
world is q unit, in despoling the West of
It's rightful heritage in debasing silver
We may well pause.
But there men are themselves to
blame. The law of supply and demand
rules in metals as in gInghams and bread
stufTs. and ii they a not been so avar-
fcious In pouring into our treasury vaults
4, 500, COO Of silver every month for
which we had nc earthly use, the white
1890 -@,1 ..-A H. l..- = 49, .l-A
now. We ask what right have these
men To claim government purchase for
their waresf The government uses it as
coin. Well. what Of that? Why not the
paper manufacturers den1and the same;
for is net paper money In use among US?
The iron manufacturers may claim the
same, for do we not need iron in the
shooting of government houses and the
manufacture of ordnancef The cry of
BoDulists is no more extreme in demand
Ing national storage for cereals and issue
o. government script thereon. This Is
pa fernalism with a vengeance. The
claim that Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Cleve-
land are as one in sapping the interest
of the silver mining States by the stop
page of silver coinage in India and the
repeal of the Sherman law here, is
twaddle. and but for the general intelli-
gence of some of the men now making
the claim, would not be worthy of pass
ing notice. We cannot separate our
selves from the rest CT mankind il we
would, We sell our goods in The worlds
marts, we take the coin the world uses,
and that world can demand OF us In the
came coin when we purchase OF them.
The sooner we cease living a national
falsehood the better. We must come to
the one metal gold as the standard of
values, unless we are willing to pose as
the taliest in1ationists the world has ever
known. Hard pan is hard pan. Hard ia
getting there, but the sooner We reach it
the sooner will we stand on terra frma,
and the sooner build up on solid founda-
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