People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-08


In order that this tribute OF press
todayism to political turnooatism
may be appreciated by the people at
It's proper value. am going to let
The John G. Carlisle of other and
honester days answer the John G.
Carlisle Of last Tuesday night
1t is a saddenirg, well-nigh dis
heartening reflection on the standard
of sincerity prevailing among our
later statesmen that a leader Of Mr..
Carlisle's caliber and rank should be
found willing to stand up before a
company of representative bankers
and merchants of the city of New
York, "all honorable men," and
make a meal of all bis utterances
and professions on this great ques-
ton prior to his acceptance Of the
treasury portfolio under Mr.. Cleve-
land.
| Invite both the orator and the
auditors Of Tuesday to gaze a mo-
ment into the looking glass of history
and see the cOntrasted faces of the
}wo Carlisles:
CARLISLE NO. /. CARLISLE No. 2.
1878. 1893.
Il know that the sit is enough to
worlds stock of pre- say at present that
Cious metals is none we ave already
too large, and I seeon hand stock of
no reason to appre- silver coined and
bend that It VIII everIuncoined, sufficient
~ : 81. n4oAAIl4u .ylnilJ me ali Uh6
be fortunate indeedIprobable require
lf the annual produc- ments of the coun-
lion of gold and sill try for many years
yer coin shall keepto come.
pace with the annual
Increase of popula- G. oil d is t h @
ton, commerce and only international
industry. According m Oney, and all
to my views of the trade balances are
subject the conspi- settled in gold, or
racy which seems towhich is the same
have been formed,thing, on a gold
here and In Europe'basis, all Of b Ell
TO destroy by legisla- forms of currency
ton and otherwise being adjusted to
from three seventies that standard. 1t
to one half the me- is useless for the
tallic money of theIadvocates of a diff
world is the most'ferent system to
gigantic crime of thisi sis t that this
or any other age ought not to be So;
The consummation Oft is so, and we
such scheme would cannot change the
ultimately entail fact, But the gold
more misery upon theIeagle and double
human race than allIeagle are not aC-
the wars, pestilencesIc pit Q d at a par
and famines thatIticular valuation
ever occurred in thelin tn e g settle
history Of the world Iments simply be-
'The absolute andIcause the United
Instant neous de- States of America
structiOn Of half thejhave declared by
entire movable prop law that they shall
erty of the world, in be legal tender at
Guiding houses, ships, their nominal val
railroads and otherlue, but solely be-
appliances for carry cause the bullion
ing on commerce, contained in them,
while it would be feltIif uncoined, would
more sensibly at thebe W ort h every
moment would notiwhere the S m g
PRO due anything amount"
Xix the prolonged
distress and d is or
ganization of society
that must inevitably
result from the per-
manent humiliation
OF one half the me
tallC money OF the
world"
The Mr.. Carlisle who made the
Wall street welkln ring the other
night, and put the dinner at Del
monico's into such a frenzy of en-
thusiasm that they made the cutlery
on their twenty-dollar-a- plate tables
fairly dance with delight, is the same
Mr.. Carlisle who was among the
loudest-lunged leaders of the Con-
gress that passed the Bland silver
reconciliation act of 1873 over
President Hayes veto.
In his speech on that measure he
declared its passage to be "the first
victory won by the people during
many years Of warfare with the
consolidated wealth of this and other
countries"
"The consolidated wealth"-the
twenty dollar a plate banqueters
were the people he had in mind
thep-may well applaud the Ken
lucky convert to its gold-standard
conspiracy.
But "the consolidated wealth" IN
loubtedly despises and bushes for
him even while it applauds.