The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-18
-DEMoNETIzE GOLD.
Another Suggestion as to What Ought
to be Done-The Great Con-
spiracy on Foot.
RALEIGH. N. @.

RALEIGH, N. @.
A time at which there can exist some
excuse for being a crank" seems to
have arrived. A ''crank" is an indi-
vidual who has an idea or an opinion.
Every ought to express his idea
or opinion now with reference to the
existing condition of things. One of
them might accidentally suggest the
remedy for the present financial crisis.
l anticipate no such good luck, butmy
opinion is offered.
Congress will meet on August 9TH.
Now that body ought to go to work
and demonetize gold, but l know it will
not. Then open the mintst to silver and
let every ounce be coined into lawful
and full legal tender United States
money. This will also not be done.
All this "silver scare" and Sherman
law" rot is the result of a great CON
spiracy among the money spectators
of the world. The smallest amount of
study that could be dignified as an in
vestigation" will demonstrate this fact
to any ordinary intelligent mind. Read
the Bankers Magazine New York; of
1873 and see how Ernest Seyd, an agent
of the R~othschilds, came here with
$500, 900, and made our bonds payable
in gold instead of 'coin - and this after
the Rosthchilds had bought millions of
the bonds. Read the Hazard" and
''Buell" circulars. Read and study
the proceeding of Congress from Janu-
airy 18th to February 9Th, 1878. Read
Congressional Record, 5Oth Congress,
pages 2OO1-2OO2, also of 51st Congress,
page 5438 first SESSION. See speeches
in Congress by Holman, July 18th,
1876, and August 5th, 1876; by Cannon,
July 18th, 1876; Bogy, June q, 1875;
Allison, February 18th, 1878; Voorhees,
and Blaine, February 18th, 1878; Beck,
January 10th, 1878; President Chant,
in McPherson's Handbook of Politics
for 1874, pages 1874 and 185. Then
study the proceedings of the farcical
international Monetary Conference"
recently held in Berlin, at which time
the Rothschilds made a proposition,
the audacity of which dwarfed Ma
hornets command to the mountain.
Then study the more recent action of
India (Which is ruled by England on
silver, and any kind of a sensible mar
will plainly see the conspiracy.
This country will become one of the
conspirators against "the people" if it
adopts the system being hOwled for by
the money spectators. To deE1onetize
gold would be to throw a bomb among
them that would shatter their gigantic
world embracing scheme. Law made
our obligations payable in ''coin."
Then law made them payable in gold
10y construction and law can again
make them payable in ''coin," If any
one thinks that demonstration of gold
is a new idea let him read up on Ger
man finance. This would give us a
good money. Other countries want to
trade with us. We could say Well
give our money for your goods. If you
don'twantit, you can keepyour goods"
The other countries would willingly
take all of this money they could get.
In the last campaign the people of
this section adopted platforms favoring
free coinage of silver, and voted for a
nan opposed to that very principle,
They put party above principle.
In his recent lecture here, Henry
Watterson said that to put party above
principle was crime. Our practice has
been to approve anything done by
party, and there is danger that this
practice will be resumed next August.
Every man who wants to bear his
part in this time ought to do something
now and take a stand which means
something, and about which there can
be no mistake.
Will you inform me who has ad,
vanced any sensible argument to show
that silver coinage, such as we have,
is responsible for the present ''strin-
gency9" Simply sayingso doesn't make
it so.
A circular reached here to day from
Harvey, Fisk and Sons, dealers in
United States bonds" New York. 1t
says the silver act must be repealed
and that the value of our silver dollar
is but SO cents. Do you think that
firm will send me down some of those
silver dollars at Is cents each, to be
paid for in gold.-H. ". Ayer, IN NeuUt
and Observer, July 9th.
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