The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30
Tbat ALLEGED roroo nm Barrain.

That Alleged Force Bill Bargain.
THE weakness Of the cause 0f the silver
. producers is shown bv their claim shat
the silver states had an understanding
with southern states 70 the effect that IL
the silver states would assist the south
eru states u defeating the force bin the
southern states would assist the silver
states in getting whatever legislation
they wanted for silver. This claim was
put forth ga the address which was is
sued 10y the recent silver convention at
Denver. and is now receiving considerable
attention in various parts of the country.
10 can he stated without fear Of sue
ccssful contradiction that there never
was such an understanding. IL is true
that the Colorado and Nevada senators
voted against the force bill, but they did
SO because, as they said at the time, they
considered IL the most outrageous bill
that had ever been introduced into con
gress The whole country remembers
the strong language that Senator Teller,
of Colorado, used in condemuing it. Aud
that senator has denied most emphatically
that there was any such understanding
as the silver states claim there was.
Neither the senators and representatives
of the silver states nor those Of the south
ern states would enter into an agreement
TO vote for or against certain measures
without regard TO their convictions rela-
tive 10 the wisdom of such measures. 1t
is safe to say that neither southern
senator nor a southern representative
olr h. he 1r,,it I,at he
agreed TO force a debased currency on
thecountry if the congressman from the
silver states would help the south defeat
the force bill. Such an agreement would
expose the parties to it to the severest
condemnation
The southern congressman have helped
the silver states as much as they reason
ably could to keep up the price of the
product Of their silver mines, but they
are not prepared to bring overwhelming
ruin on the country simply that the sill
yer states may have a chance to see
whether free silver coinage at the ratio
of 10 to l would not have the effect of rails
ing the price of the product of their
mines.
When the Sherman law was pending in
the Senate, Senator John p. Jones, one of
the leading silver senator's, said, if he
was reported correctly, that the silver
producers would be satisfied with a law
requiring the government to purchase
100000 ounces of silver monthly, and
that if such a law did not keep up the
price of silver they would have nothing
more to say They got that law, but the eff
feet of it was not what they expected, and
they are now clamOring for free silver
coinage at the existing ratio. They will
clamOr in vain. The government has lost
many millions of dollars in trying to keep
up the price of silver, and the majority
of the people are now clearly of the opin-
ion that the wisest thing to do is to let
silver take care of itself for awhile.
Wien it finds its natural level it will be
time enough to legislate in respect to it.
There is just as much reason why the
government should purchase the cotton
and rice crops, for the purpose of keeping
up the prices of cotton and rice, as there
is why it should purchase the product of
the mines of the silver men.
The silver states will find when the
silver question comes before congress for
action, that they have no political mort
gage on the southern states. The sena-
tors from the silver states voted against
the force bill because they regarded it as
an extremely bad bill, and southern sena-
tors will vote for the repeal of the silver
purchase clause of the Sherman act be-
cause they believe it is largely response
BILE for the present financial disturbances.