The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-12
COLONIES OF ENGLAND.


Swing had fling at the silver dollar,
which he sneeringly called the 67-cent
dollar. The very next day he could have
"mended his plesdings" and called it a
601&-cent dollar. Perhaps by the time
he resumes business at the old stand in
September it will be o 50-cent dollar.
But it does not follow, as he and so many
other doctrinRires assumed, that the
purchasing power Of the silver dollar is
any leqs than the purchasing power OF
gold dollar. The mint stamp OF the gov
ernment bridges over the gap. We have
three kinds of dollars; one worth 100
cents, one 601s, and one nothing at all,
but the no-oent dollar will buy just as
much and 60 just as far in debt paving
as the 100.cent dollar. This is q fixed
fact in the case and specially important
to bear in mind in connection with the
Indian change Of base.
The simple truth OF the business is
that Great Britain has taken one more
step, and very IMPORTANT one, toward
carrying out it's settled policy Of forcing
the world to gold standard. Early in
the century, as soon, in fact, as its COM
merCial supremacy had given it financial
supremacy, and it became the great cred
itor nation of the globe, England set
about securing the gold standard. 1t
has brought the entire German speaking
world into line, and for twenty years has
been trying to bring the United States
down to it. Unless some great nation
stands like rock against mCno-metal-
lism England will triumph and gold will
be the universal standard OF monetary
measurement, and silver will be relegsted
to the category Of base metals and a
mere commodity.
That states the whole case in nut
shell. The most surprising thing OF all
is, that there are American citizens who
seem to desire the success of England in
her attempt to add the United States Of
America to her list of colonies.
Here is where the battle is to be
fought. If England can control the
financial policy of America, she can con-
troll its tariff policy, it's foreign policy,
and its local, business and social policy.
IE England had silver mines her selfish
ness would dictate o different policy.
The love Of England for the United
States is purely commercial and for the
benefit of English interests. II she can
dictate that silver shall be sold as COM
modify like lead, iron or corn, then she
can say how many grains of gold shall be
placed in a ten-dollsr gold piece, and she
can make money 30 scarce and interest
30 high that she will dictate terms to
every American business enterprise; and
she can say how much shall be paid an
American workman, and what prices
shall be paid for American farm cereals,
cattle and hogs, and can fix the value OF
every yard of American-made cloth, and
name the price for every pound Of wool
and cotton grown in the United States
England has been the robber Ut the
earth for centuries. For long years she
bled the American colonies as a high
wsymsn bleeds his victims. After the
seven years war Of the revolution, Amer
lea became q free and independent ma
tion. But England has never lost an
opportunity to show its crafty and ma
lignsnt spirit toward the American peo-
pie. It has never forgotten Lexington,
Bunker Hill, Saratoga and Yorktown
In 1872 it sought to coerce American
citizens and jnsulted the American flag,
and had to be soundly punished by
American vRlOr before it would mind it's