Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-07-15

the paper currency at par with and
redeemable in the standard gold and
silver coins. To this object Mr.
Cleveland is pledged, and the Demo
Gratis of the Southwest pledged them
selves in their State platforms before
the Chicago convention met
There are silver hotheads and gold
hotheads. Every individual American
has an unqualified right to hold any
opinion on currency he pleases and to
tell his thought from the house tops
He steps into the councils of the
Democratic party one of many He
will be controlled by the discerning
and impartial conservatism of collect
ed reason. The party is not a gold
party or silver party. 1t is a union
of men who believe that Govern
ment's duty is to provide suitable
money for the people on a sound me-
tallic basis. The business of mining
silver or importing gold is for private
judgment. The Governments part in
the handling of metals properly con-
sists only in keeping on hand enough
to redeem all its notes and to cancel
all its obligations. Hence the Demo
Gratis in the two houses, when they
come together with the responsibility
upon them of action for the nation,
will apply the doctrine of a century
to the conditions of the hour. The
wisdom of the most will direct the
progress Of all.
While the immediate effects of cur
rency laws occupy the largest place
In the public mind, the Democratic
party takes control of the government
again that it may, as it did when JEFF
ferson succeeded Adams, lift up the
hand of paternal Capitalization from
the business of the people. Jefferson
said that people cannot be both free
and ignorant. The Democratic party,
believing IN and addressing itself to
the intelligence of the voters, cannot
and will not adopt a course which IS
Inconsistent with its every platform,
with the essence of its doctrine and
with the present welfare of the coun-
try.
Not even the Force bill is more in
consistent with Democracy than is the
the Sherman act. The Democrat who
raises friendly hand to arrest its
lettering decline only relieves the Re
publicans of tho odlum they have
justly earned and weakens the faith /
of men in the professions of the par.
TVS conventions.
Just as far from Democracy is the
money stringency of a single gold
standard.
Few Senators or Representatives
elected by Democratic votes will be
impelled by puerile resentment to
oppose q suspension or repeal of the
~Yt
Sherman act, Or will be drawn by the
hasty opiniona of Eastern bankers to
assign monopoly of our standard to
gold. Their beliefs and their sense
of the gravity of the situation will
rather teach them that q return to the
sound system of gold and silver coins
and paper currency based upon such
coins is the legislation for Demo
cratic period. Instead Of wasting time
over the organization Of contest in
which the Sherman act will be "held
as a hostage" the Democrats will
obey the Chicago platform and wipe
out that law, in order that they NAV
uninterruptedly study the monetary
conditions Of this and other countries.
examine the relations between gold
and silver and present policy of
bimetallic coinage, supplemented with
redeemable paper, which will satisfy
the business intelligence Of the people
and restore healthy activity to the
distribution of products. This is
Democratic. Anything else is a make. I
shift Of expediency on a par with the
Sherman Republic,