Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-08-01

it about. They intended to pro-
duce just the condition Of affairs
that now exists. The other class
saw what was coming and raised q
werning cry. For years they told
the people that our financial sys-
tenn was a pyramid standing on
its apex, that our credit system
was a row Of cards and hat when
one went down the whole row
would fall. Ten thousand times
have General Warmers words been
reprinted: "What is wanted is
more primary money with which
to redeem paper promises and to
pay debts, and not more promises
to pay gold" Both of these
classes Of men have been students
of political ecoonmy. Both per-
fectly understand money and its
functions. One class used its
knowledge to rob the masses and
accumulate fortunes which run
far up into the millions. The
other class used its knowledge in
trying to defend the people from
this spoliation. Now, at last, has
come the day when every man
must decide for himself whether
he will throw in his lot with the
robbers or the patriots; whether
he will try to save this land to be
the home of free and Independent
men or whether he will try to
make it an Ireland of tenant farm
ers and miserable, half paid wage
workers, ruled by twenty thous-
and millionaires. There is no
lodging this issue any longer.
Tariffs, negro supremacy, religious
strifes can no longer divide the
attention of the public. The great
est battle of civilization is to be
fought. The fate of the nation
hangs upon the result. Even now
the bugle sounds and the long
roll is beating. Fall in, boys,
fall in. Your country expects
every man to do his duty."-The
American Nonconformist.
Few senators or representatives
elected by democratic votes will
be impelled by purile resentment
to oppose a suspension or repeal
of the Sherman act, or will be
drawn by the hasty opinions of
eastern bankers to assign a mo-
nopoly of our standard to gold.
Their beliefs and their sense of
the gravity of the situation will
rather teach them that a return to
the sound system of gold and sill
yer coins and a paper currency
based upon such coins is the legis-
lation for a democratic period
st. Louis Republic.
The ounce of silver buys as
much when degraded and disgrace
ed of every other product of the
earth except gold as it did when
it stood at a premium over gold,
and when this fact gets through
the minds of the people of the
country they will be stronger than
the President and stronger than
his subservient secretary. They
will be pretty nearly omnipotent
Salt Lake Tribune.
1t ought to be clear to the gold
bugs by this time that the coun-
try is suffering from a lack of cur
rency, and that the only remedy
which will cure the existing de-
preston is a large increase of Cir
culation.-Denver Republican.
A correspondent asks the Con
stitution: "What do you think OF
state banks of issue as a substitute
for the free coinage of silverP'
We have seen the proposition sci
forth in some of the shady places
of the northeast, but we have no.
thought about it for the simple
reason that it is not a thinkablC
proposition. 1t does not go en- all
fours with the democratic plat.
form; it does not fit itself to com.
mon sense and reason; and it does
not meet the views of those who
are in favor of a sound and stable
currency, redeemable in gold and
silver-the money of the Constitu.
ton. In short, the proposition
has nothing whatever to go upon.
1t is the crazy suggestion of those
who are interested in destroying
the greater part of our money Of
final payment. Whatever inter
mediate basis State banks might
have for their promissory notes,