Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-07-07
Hon. Nat Shelton, of Schuy
MISSOURI

FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1S5l.
Hon. Nat Shelton, of Schuy-
ler county, announces that he will
beat Hatch for congress next year.
No doubt Shelton could easily
distance Hatch in the congress
sional race, but then there is Fo-
gle. What will he do with him?
Dick Giles is also being groomed
for the race. He would have made
a record last year, but Hatch man
aged to get him tagged in the
primary and forced his withdrawal
from the field. But Hatch can
depend upon it, Giles wont be
jockeyed next time.
The Sherman silver law is
not the sole cause of the scarcity
of gold and the general financial
depression. 1t may in part be
guilty, as it never was anything
but fraud, but other causes
equally as potent for evil have
been at work, and we are now
feeling the effects. Mr.. Cleve-
land was elected as an enemy of
the silver and the tariff and
as a friend of wildcat money.
Instead of calling an extra
session of Congress at noon
of March 4, as he should have
done, and publicly proclaimed his
policy, he has allowed months to
pass in doubt and uncertainty as
to the future policy of the Demo
cratic party, until the business
world has lost all confidence. No
one is sble to fore-see what Con-
gress will do with the tariff. or
with the currency. All is cor
lecture, doubt, uncertainty. Is it
surprising that men will not loan
money, that manufacturers shut
down their machinery, and men
are refused an extension of credit
when this state of affairs exist? If
MIR. Cleveland will exercise lit
tie common sense, and give the
people an outline of a safe, con-
servative policy, declaring that no
radical or sweeping changes will
be made in the tariff, currency, or
methods Of raising revenue, con-
fidence would be restored in a few
hours, and it would be quickly
seen that the Sherman law has
very little to do with the present
financial and business depress-
ion.
1t is time for the United
States to act independently in re-
gard to money, This country
needs no help from foreign coun-
tries in this matter that it cannot
force them to give. The Unit
ed States is the greatest silver
producing country in the world
and for this reason alone England
Germany and other countries
have combined against the white
metal. When the great gold dis.
covery was made in California
and the United States was pro.
ducing more gold than all other
countries of the world combined
England and Germany seriously
contemplated the demonetizatior
of gold. England knows that tc
put silver on an equality witt
gold is to transfer the money
power of the world from Londor
to the United States. Is i
strange that she bitterly opposes
any measure or movement tha'
gives the slightest recognition tc
silver? A little more patriotism
and less flunkeyism in the capito
and white house would quickly
solve the silver problem. We art
tired of England's attempts to die.
tate the financial and commercial
policies of the United States. Lei
the foreign countries 60. Tel
them as we did Germany wher
she refused to take our pork. Tel
them that they must join with the
United States in giving silver s
proper recognition, or we will
cease to trade with them. We
can live and do business without
the help of any other nation on
earth, and when the United
States takes this Independent
step foreign countries will be