Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-08-16
Silver Converts.

the Washington Post which repud-
lated all its uncomfortable utterances
and came out for silver, and to-day
it is the New York Record, which fol
weeks has printed alleged humorous
cartoons 5elittling silver. The Re-
cord has Incontinently Topped. The
secession of two well-known news
papers, taken with the absence of
the President and the indifference
of the Cabinet, has put the gold men
in furry, and if this sort of thing
continues they will soon be ready for
any kind of a compromise.
The Record was not satisfied with
making its announcement of change
of heart in the ordinary way. but
must needs double lead it and set it
in double column measure under the
head: "Give Us Free Silver. y
Among the reasons it advances for
its conversion are the following:
THE business of this country canno
be done upon a purely gold
basis. There is too much business
to be done and too little gold to do it
with to justify the experiment of a
currency based wholly on one metal,
and that one the scarcer and dearer
of the two.
1.-The total acknowledgements of sill
yer as a money metal, which seems
to be the aim of the gold extremists
at Washington, means a violent and
ruinous contraction of values. The
mere threat of it has already given
the first sharp twist to the screws of
contraction, and to persist in the
total elimination of silver from our
currency is madness.
THE lead of the geld monomet-
allists has been followed far enough
to postpone the definite readjust-
ment of our currency laws, leaving
silver demonetized, and it's use as
standard money metal, wholly pro-
hibited, would precipitate financial
and business castastrophes compared
with which all past pauics would
seem to have been mere bugaboos.
Absolute gold nonometallism spells
ruin, universal and unsparing ruin,
for the people of this country.
England is reported to be at this
moment exchanging her gold for
Indian silver ore, on a baais of % to
l, showing that even the leading
gold standard country recognizes that
silver possesses sxchangeable values
with gold at some ratio that can be
fixed. And we may be sure that the
Bank of England, fixing it at 20 to /,
has been as unfair to silver and as
partial to gold as it has dared to
be-"
A leaning silver man who is to
speak in the House in q few days,
said tonight that an overwhelming
revulsion in feeling is setting in
throughout the East aid he thought
that before the present discussion in
the House was concluded there
would go up such loud cry for BIZ
that free coinage bill of
some kind would be passed. and that |
President Cleveland would be forced
to sign it, The gold men in Wash |
lngton first took alarm when they
learned that just as the time the |
President was sending his message to
Congress three big New York bankers
were reading as many cable messages
rom London bankers, one being from
he Rothschids, setting forth most |
the proposition that in
Ease the United States Treasury |
would continue to purchase silver,
either by the manner commanded by |
,he so called Sherman law or IN some
'ther way, by which the govern
mental market for silver bullion
Gould be secured, then there would |
De no doubt that by an agreement
'r understanding as a consequence of
favorable action by the present Con-
,ress the British Government would
lee to it that the minis of India were
,eopened tc free coinage at ratio of
lbout "a to 1.
The advocates of silver have spent
sunday in assuring everybody that
hey are in fine fettle and that they
will easily bear away the spoils of
1ictery.
Notwithstanding the apparent lack