The weekly tribune., 1893-08-25
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE
FRIDAY AUGUST 2j. 1893.
THE RECORDERS STAND FOR SILL
YER.

1t is many day since an American
newspaper has made a hit like tina
which the New York Recorder made il
its last Sundays issue by coming ou
tlat-footed for the free coinage of silver
At the head of the Recorders edlto
rial columns stands this notice in black
type:
The Recorder Always Fights Fair.
1t is the sincerest friend the rea
working people have. 1t espouses every
deserving cause, whether republicans OF
democrats as individuals are the gain
ers
Justly enough it decided that free
coinage is deserving cause and hav
ing so decided it made it's announce.
ment loud and clear. Instead Of con-
filming it to one column it spread the
heading, Give Us Free Coinage in
bold type across two columns, and in
this double measure blew blast for
free coinage the like of which has not
been heard before in this republic.
As it would take three solid columns
of The TRIBUNE to print this article in
full we can only give an outline Of it
this morning. 1t opens as follows:
The Recorder believes that the time
mas come when the will of the people
must be enforced alike upon congress
and the president. and the mints Of the
United States thrown open to the free
coinage of silver. The financial and
business situation is admittedly bad.
There is no need to exaggerate it. 1t
might be worse. 1t will become worse,
much worse, unless congress aud Pres
dent Cleveland can get together and re-
iieve the existing commercial congestion
by prompt AMI adequate legislation.
Then the article goes on to show that
the business of the country cannot be
carried on with single gold standard
as there is too much business and too
little gold. That the desires of the gold
monometalists have been followed too
long, and it is time to demand that sill
yer shall be put back where il was prior
1873, so thai it may become again ole
of the two main pillars Of the American
system of currency and coinage. The
president is not justified in demanding
the unconditional repeal of the Sherman
law, and the situation is greatly com
plicated by his becoming the sworn
champion of the single gold standard in
stead of standing ready to cooperate
with the people. To send this point
home the Recorder quotes the following
words uttered by General Grant: Il
have no policy to enforce against the will
Of the people
The following might have been ut
tered by one of the so-caled "siver
cranks' of Montana. Says the Re-
cOrder:
The clamor of the money changers,
tie usurers. and the stock gamblers. in
9pired by the British influences that ra-
late from Lombard street, and which
-epresent the organized rapacity of the
world. has not shaken the faith of the
American masses one iota in the hon
esty, the justice, the fairness, and. above
all. the vital necessity of mantaing sill
yer side by side with gold in their ma
tional money system.
When our speakers and writer's in the
west have warned the country of the
pending dangers and evils they have
been scorned and laughed at by many,
But hear what the Recorder says:
To make g3.i toe so. standard and
the oG.y currency is q diminish the
volume q o.. r-oley by oCe-half, That
is contractIyr. and contraction means
the complete paralysis Of all enterprises,
the utter collapse Of credit. the prostra-
tion Of trade from New York to Califor-
MIA. and the consignment Of myriads Of
work king people in every city and state
of the union to idleness and starvation.
1t then calls on congress to repeal
the act Of 1850, and restore to sill
yer its free right to the mints, closing
with the words: If this is not done and ,
the anti-silver madness prevail, the pros
1erity of the country cannot be recalled,
and its peace will soon be in serious
peril"