Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-07-20
GOLDSBORO. N. c.. THURSDAY. JULY 20 1893.
SOME SILVER POINTERS.


The assertion was made at one
time that the farmers of the country
were in favor of the free silver
policy. It was never SO, though
there were many who were moment
arily caught by the d. lusion.
Recent events. however, have Gre
ated as great a revolution among the
farmers as among any other class.
The Deer Creek Farmers Club, of
Hartford county, Md, has just
adopted the following
"Resozued, That, in the opinion
of the Deer Greek Farmers Club, of
Hartford county, Md, the existing
depression in the business interests
of our country, and especially the
languishing condition Of agricul~
ture, is almost entirely due to the
present financial system of our Gov-
ernment.
"Therefore, this club, without
regard to the political affiliations of
individual members, unanimously
approves the recent letter of Presi-
dent Cleveland upon the financial
question and urges upon him to
convene Congress at once and to
recommend to that body the i'm
mediate repeal of the Sherman silver
law and the enactment of such
wise legislation as would tend to
restore public confidence at home
and abroad in our monetary system.
bringing Herewith, as we believe 1t
would, a restoration of prosperity to
the entire country"
That is the voice of the solid cons
servative farming class of the coun-
try. It is sensible and to the point.
The Charlottesville, Va. Progress
has lengthy and able phenomenon
enclosed within it's editorial columns
handed out, we might say, upon a
liver service. That is, it has a
readable editorial upon ''silyer." +"
The newspaper readers of the conn
try have been kicking against the
ovel flow of useless silver as we'll as
the overplus of newspaper articles
on oliver. hence, when such a reads
abe one as that IN the Progress ap-
pears it is phenomenal. It's text IS !:
"He that loveth silver shall not be-
satisfied with silver."-Eec. $40.
The Progress pointedly asks when
India has just demontized silver,
"Shalt We try to fight the whole
world with our theories and prac-
tices and make bad worse :"
The fight against the silver lun-
acy suggests the fight made against
the S'protection of American labor"
fraud. The phrase, "protection of
labor" caught at once and held a
temporary and large constin uency.
Men were ready to die for it. until
they learned that it meant nothing.
So the idea of s'free money" caught
until the sledge-hammer logic of dis
aster has battered sense into the av-
erage head, though it has broken
bones and smeared gore in its swipe.
The Progress says neatly
'Gold is the standard guage rail-
way which enoircles the eartA, and
on whose track all raen may ride
everywhere ana anywhere. Silver
is the homely scarry-all,' which. if
Eof the right size, accommodates the
family and is in constant use. To
iIdrop the metaphor. We believe tha
a wise study of the capacities of sill
yer money will lead to tie irresist-
fable conclusion that any attempt to
force 1t to parity With gold, unless
tthe whole civilized world unites in
the movement, will lead to fnans
cial trouble, a disarrangement of
values, the locking up Of money,
and the brant of the ruin falling
on the debtor Glass;
And now, brethren, we leave the
subject with yen for calm thought
till we come again.