Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-25

locked up in the vaults OF a few
great treasures and banking firms,
ought to be enough in itself to arouse
the people to a sense of danger that
threatens them. No other question
is of equal importance. 1tinvolves
the very existence Of the institu-
tons on which the republic was
founded, if not of civilization itself.
. The contentious of the silver men
in the great debate that has gone on
in both houses of Congress during
the extra session have not been an
swered, nor can they be. No such
debate was ever before heard in any
legislative body. Nothing more
could be done by the friends of free
bimetallic coinage than has been
done, especially in the Senate.
The question now goes back to
the people; it is for them to say
whether they will succumb to the
demands of power alien to the
Constitution and subversive of their
rights; whether they will permit
their property to be filched from
them by being scaled down to con-
form to an altered money standard,
while debts and taxes are cores
pondingly increased, or whether
they will rise in their might and
defend their right and interests as
becomes free people.
The power to right the wrong is in
the hands of the people if they will
but use it. The lines are clearly
drawn. Shall the money power or
the people control this government?
Shall this country control its own
financial policy or shall it be sub
ject to the dictations of foreign ma
tions or of home and foreign COM
binations of capital? Shall the
money standard be gold alone, or
the Constitutional standard of gold
and silver jointly? Shall our paper
currency be issued by innumerable
banks and subject to no regulation
but such as their own interests die
tate, or shall it be issued and regu-
lated by the general government?
This issue is pre-eminent above
all others and rises above all mere
party considerations. There can be
no issue but this until this has been
finally settled and settled rightly.
1t requires no prophet to foresee that
under the single gold standard, and
with the last source of supply of
other money cut off prices must
continue to fall, industries stagnate,
and idleness, want and misery fill
the land. No country ever did
flourish and no country ever can
flourish with shrinking volume of
money and falling prices; and with
debts counted only by thousands OF
millions, the robbery of an increas-
ing money standard becomes i'm.
measurable; and the longer the
remedy is postponed, the greater
the injustice and the more difficult
it becomes to right the wrong. The
remedy must be sought at the bal
lot box. Vote for no candidate for
no candidate tor Cangress, or for
your State Legislature, who cannot
be relied upon to work and vote for
the restoration of the Constitutions
al standard of money, with the coin
age of both metals without discrim-
ination against either, and the issue
and control of paper money by the
government of the United States.
Retire every Representative who
has been unfaithful to his trust,
and elect only true and tried men
to represent your interest in the
great struggle now before us.
A. J. WARNER,
President American Bimetallic
League. Washington, D. c., Nov
ember 3, 1898.
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