The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18
GOV. ROBINsON's LETTER.
The GOldites viii Not Attempt to Answer
His Arguments.


his letter to the governor OF Georgia
makes this statement:
81 will not knowingly be implicated In
q condition that will justly make me in
the least degree snswerable to any ls'
borsr or farmer in the United States FOR
the shrinkage in the purchasing power
OF the dollar he has received for full
dollars worth Of work, or for good dol
lars worth Of the product Of his toll"
1t is to be presumed that the president
makes this statement in good faith. II
10. it shows to be true what many have
feared, that he does not understand the
difficulties Of the present situation.
Every money dealer in Wall street or
elsewhere will reiterste his statement.
The farmer is not so much concerned for
the "shrinksgs in the purchasing power
Of the dollar" as he 10 in the shrinksge Of
the purchasing power OF his products
While the amount Of the taxes he has to
Day, and the principal and interest OF
bis debts, remain the same, he is vitality
interested that his bushels Of wheat and
other grain shall buy as many dollars
az when the taxes were levied, and the
debts incurred. Whoever will knowingly
reduce the purchasing power OF the pro-
ducts Of the land by enhancing the pur-
chasing power Of the dollar, commits q
crime. That this crime 10 being COM
mitted at the present time, all farmers
have good reason to know. The attempt
to destroy the use Of silver as money is
well understood, ss it is undisguised.
The demand from Wall street, seconded
by the president, is that the Sherman
law. 80 called, shall be unconditionRlly
repealed. No compromise will be list
ensd to. With the law repealed, silver is
dead, and it is requiring too much OF the
people to ask them to believe that any
honest resumption of this metal ss
money is contemplated or will be permit
ted. Even the president in this letter
says he is opposed to the free and un-
limited coinage OF silver, while he is in
favor Of the immediate and unooudi-
tional repeal Of the purchasing clause OF
the so-called Sherman law. This he
says, while the platform upon which he
was elected pledged the government to
make no distinction in its treatment OF
gold and silver as money. According to
the platform, il the president opposes
free and unlimited coinage Of silver, he
should oppose the free and unlimited
coinage OF gold. But on this question ne
Ia silent, and as he suggests no plan for
the use of silver, the presumption is he
favors it's dsmonetization and the single
gold standard. He should know that it
is the fear Of such possibility, and NOT
the so-called Sherman law, that has
frightened the people and caused them
to hoard such dollars as they may
chance to have in their possession. To
change from a double to q single stand
ard requires all the currency Of the peo.
pie to be redeemed in gold, and as the
law has placed this redemption with the
government, and as it has only 100000
600 of free gold, there Is surely cause fol
alarm. Should this pittanCe of gold b'
demanded for the redemption Of the cur
rency, then would come the necessity fol
the government to go into the market
and purchase gold or suspend specie