The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-21
Wattersnn,s Warming.


is applicable also to the southern newspa-
pers that are supporting them-is timely.
/ 1t will not do to say that right is wrong
/ because John Sherman says ii is right,
and those newspapers that advise the
/ southern senator's to persevere in their
attempts to subvert constitutional gov
eminent and discredit the Democratic
/ party have no proper conception of their
/ duty to the people they claim to and are
/ supposed to represent.
/ The issue in the Senate is not be-
/ tween gold monometallism and bimet-
allism, as there is an effort on the
part of the selfish silverites to make it
appear. BimetalIism is not at stake in the
| repeal of the silver purchase law. The
Democratic party is unalterably commit
ted in its platform to the use of both met
ais, and there is not the shadow of a doubt
that it is the purpose of the party to
carry out the promises of the platform to
the letter.
Nobody has proposed to destroy the
value of silver money. The purchase
law which is sought to be repealed does
not treat silver as a precious metal but
as a commodity. 1t compels the govern
ment to buy silver and store it away, is
suing against this eyer-increasing mass
what are known as silver certif-
Gates. 1t might with equal
propriety be forced to purchase
cotton or corn upon the same terms. The
purpose of the silver fanatics is to force
the government to continue this purchase
of tho natal not raoarca .iI,r for cOipara
but for storage. The silver producers do
notcare a rap whether one dollar of silver
is ever coined ornot, so that they are pro
vided by the government with market
n which they can get higher price than
the open market price for their product
In order to force the government to pro-
vide a market for silver at a fixed rate,
above its open market value, the senators
from the silver states, nearly every one
of whom is interested in silver producing,
aided and abetted by certain southern
senator's, have set themselves up to block
legislation until their demands shall have
been acceded to.
The issue, therefore, is between the sill
yer mine owners and mining interests
the only people and interests in the coun-
try that would be benefited by free coin
age under any arrangement yet proposed
and all the other business men and all
the other business interests of the United
States. In such a contest it is necessarily
the fact that the overwhelming majority
of the people are against the mine owners.
And as the Democratic party is the party
of the people, its representatives in con-
gress should be against the mine owners
also, as a logical sequence.
But it appears that democratic sena-
tors to the number of twenty-most of
them southern men-are arrayed in this
silver matter against the carrying out of
the promises of the Chicago platform in
satisfactory and business-like way,
against the opinion and advice of the
chief executive whom the people swept
into office upon the crest of tidal wave,
against the relief of the stringency that
has prevailed in the markets and in
money for nine months, against a revival
of trade and a resumption of material de-
velopments, against the rule of the ma
jority and a continuance of a constitu-
tional form of government.
Opposed to these peculiar democrats
and a smattering of republicans and
populists stand twenty-four other demo
Gratis and twenty four republicans solidly
for repeal and an honest dollar. But
they are powerless to act, for reasons
that have been explained daily in the
Washington dispatches.
Comparatively speaking, the repub-
licans are on the side of honest money.
They are en6eavoring to help in putting
into force democratic promise whichthey
recognize as good and correct. And the
pOpulists are as unit in their belief. But
the democrats-th people in power, upon
whom deyolyes the government for the
current two years, at least-are divided
against themselves. Those of them true
to their party are endeavoring to give the
people what they want and demand, while
the others, some of whom apparently are
more or less tainted with populism, prefer
to follow PETER, of Kansas, and Emma
Mine Stewart, the shameless Nebraskan
who in common decency ought to hide his
record from honest men.
Under such circumstances is it not
proper to warn the flibustering southern
senator's that they are threatening the
Democratic party, and, it may be included,
of themselves as well?