The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-30
Contemporaneous Opinions

John G. Carlisle and the late James
G. Blaine were each in his day recog-
nizsd as the foremost leader of his
party in the house Of representatives.
Both have served in the senate and in
presidential cabinets. Blaine, now
dead and his memory honored by both
friends and political foes, left record
of his opinion quite similar to an opinion
contemporaneously made by Carlisle.
Carlisle, still living, and cabinet
officer, has gone back on his record,
has turned from opinions doubtless
honestly expressed. Is he honest as a
iurncoat? We doubt If his honesty is
believed by his sincersst friends.
Mr.. Carlisle, now Secretary of the
Treasury, and Mr.. Carlisle, leader in
the House of Representatives, are in
stances of the same individual actuated
by different motives. We leave it to
our readers to decide which Mr.. Car
Isle was the honest man.
Here are the two opinions referred
to:
HON. JOHN G. CARLISLE.
know the worlds stock of precious
metals is none too large, and l see no
reason to apprehend that it will ever
become 80. Mankind will be fortunate
indeed, if the annual production of
gold and silver coin shall keep pace
with the annual increase of population,
commerce and industry.
According to my view on the subject
the conspiracy which seems to have
been formed here and in Europe to de-
stroy by legislation and otherwise from
three-seyenths to one-half of the metal
lie money of the world is the most
gigantic crime Of this or any other age.
The contamination of such scheme
would ultimately. entail more misery
upon the human face than all the wars,
pestilence and famine that ever occurred
in the'history of the world. The abso-
lutte and instantaneous destruction of
half the entire movable property of the
world, including houses, ships railroads
and all other appliances for carrying on
commerce, while it would be felt more
sensibly at the same moment, would |
not produce anything like the prolonged |
distress and Reorganization of society
that must inevitably result from the
permanent humiliation of one-half of !
the metallic money of the world.
HON. JAS. C. BLAINE.
believe the struggle now going on in
this country and in other countries for
a single gold standard would, if success
full, produce widespread disaster in and
the commercial world
The destruction of silver as money and
gold as the sole unit of
value must have ruinous effect on all
forms of property except those invest
ments which yield a fixed return in
These would be enormously
enhanced in value and would gain a
1isproportionate and unfair advantage
over every other species of property.
If, as the most reliable statistics affirm,
here are nearly $1,000, 900, 900 of coin
Or bullion in the world, not very un-
equally divided between gold and sil-
yer, it is impossible to strike,silver out
If existence as money without results
which will prove distressing to millions
ind utterly disastrous to tens of
thousands.
believe that gold and silver coin to
,e the money of the constitution, which
he great organic law recognized as
quite Independent of it's existence. Nc
,ower was conferred on congress TO de-
lare either metal should not be money.
Congress has, therefore, in my judg-
nent, no power to demonetize
ither any more than to demonetize
10Th. If, therefore, silver has been
1 am in favor of re-mone-
izing it. If it's coinage has been pro-
ibited, l am in favor of having it
esumed. If it has been restricted, I
On in favor of having it enlarged.
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