The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-07
THE POPULARITY OF SILVER AS
MONEY.

THE POPULARITY UF SILFER IA
MONEY.
Although the house OF representa-
tives of the present congress has un
conditionally repealed the purchasing
clause of the silver act of 1890, and al
though the senate Is now debating
whether to follow in the footsteps o
such large majority of the house
there Is no doubt of the fact that bi
metallism would at any time receive
a large majority vote If submitted tc
the people. This fact was recognized
and provided for by both the platform
of the Democratic convention at Chi
cago and by the Republican conven-
tion at Minneapolis. More than this,
the Populists and Prohibitionists bow
ed before its shrine, and it may we'll
exclaim with Caesar: "Veni
vidl, vlci," came, saw,
l conquered. Many members
of congress who voted for the uncon-
ditional repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act would not
have dared to do so If they had be-
lieved as some of our Texas Democ-
racy seem to believe and az the Popu.
lists are very busy in proclaiming,
that the repeal of this clause struck a
death blow at silver as money of the
country. These dissatisfied Demo-
Gratis and deluded Popullsts are doing
all they can to produce the impression
on the country that the Democrats
who stand on the national platform
and support the administration of
Mr.. Cleveland are monometallists. In
point of fact they charge that Mr..
Cleveland Is a monometallist and that
his object lie to strike down silver
as money and part of
the circulating medium of the coun-
try. We have heretofore challenged
those who make such assertions to
point out one daily paper in Texas
which is supporting MIR. Cleveland, or
one Democrat standing on the plat
form who has declared in favor of
monometalli m, and no one has had
the temerity to pick up the glove.
Now, gentlemen, permit us again to
appeal to your good sense, you Demo-
Gratis who still refuse to support the
administration and who still refuse to
abandon the unconditional repeal
plank in the Hogg platform at the
present ratio OF 16 to /. Do you be-
leve that the Democrats in congress
who openly declare their allegiance to
bimetallism would have voted for this
unconditional repeal If they be.
lived it would tie fatal 10
bimetallism? With every platform
declaring for bimetallism, with a vast
majority of the people from sea to sea
unalterably in favor of bimetallism,
would they have dared to outrage
public sentiment by taking such
risk, risklng too their own reelection,
If they were not certain that it did
not mean to impair or destroy the
money quality of silver? Never in the
history of the country have the people
been more in accord than on this one
subject of bimetallism. 1t has been
the Penticost of silver, "Parthenians
and Modes and Elamites, and the
jewellers in Mesopotamia and in Ju.
dea, Cappodocia and in Pontus, and
Asia, Phrygia and Pamphalia, in
Egypt and in the parts of Ly-
bia about Cyrene, and strangers
of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Cretes and Arabians," all with one
united voice den and both metals.
Think of it, gentlemen, would any
of congress have dared to dis
obey the voice of the whole people, if
their actions meant a destruction of
silver as money of the country ? |
Then why are you keeping open the
wounds OF the Democratic party in
Texas by cauterizing them with your
little carshed plank, and refusing to
align yourselves with the Democracy
If Texas, who stand upon the national
platform and support Mr.. Cleveland
Just exercise your good sense and
eason upon these suggestions, and
hen inquire Of yourselves the result
( divided Democracy in Texas in