The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-07-28
no WabbIin. On Free silver.
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Republican party has everything to lose
and nothing to gain by wabbling on the
silver question. Every attemp6 on the
part of Republican politicians and Re-
publican papers to placate the so-called
friends of silver VINO demand free and
coinage at a ratio of 16 to l by
advocating discriminative duties and
free coinage of American silver weakens
the party and gives incentive TO fiatism
The Republican party has stood for
honest moneY--a sound currency convert
lble on demand, dollar for dollar, gold
for silver or paper. From this position
it can not l0nOrably recede. The advo-
Gates of unlimited coinage are either
right or wrong. There is no middle
ground on that issue. II they are right
the Republican party should come down
and admit that it has all along been in
the wrong. III the POpnlists and free
coinage Democrats are wrong then Re-
publicans have no right to recede or
recant. Every man who understands
the A B c Of finance knows enough to
know that greenbacllism is back Of the
entire free coinage craze. Ii the stamp
upon piece of metal makes its value
SO does the stamp upon piece of paper.
The doctrine of the apostles of free sill
yer is Identical with the doctrine of the
greenbackers. If 60 cents worth Of sill
yer can be sold for 100 cents by reason
of the mint stamp why not make dollars
out of dimes or nickels? Aud why coin
any metal money if commercial value
cuts no figure?
Twenty years ago, right latter the panic
Of 1873, the Chicago Inter Ocean innocu-
lated thousands of Republicans in Illi-
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska
with the virus of fatism. Its fallacious
and pernicious teachings swept like a
prairie fire over these states. The great
mass of producers in these states Wore
borrowers and the cry for more green
backs was echoed from the lakes to the
Rocky mountains. Out of the seed which
the Inter Ocean had sown to make itself
popular grew the greenback party, which
for a time, decimated the Republican
ranks and reduced its sweeping ma iori-
ties to pititul pluralitiRs. The Inter
Ocean is now seeking plurality at the
expense of Republican integrity by adyo-
eating catchpenny policy on silver.
This policy every intelligent maj!
must admit cannot be upheld and defend.
ed excepting by course of duplicitv
The talk about forcing European nations
into restoring silver to its present rate
is the veriest buncombe. Silver will
never again be restored to the old ratio
unless great mountains of solid gOl1
turn up somewhere and glut The world's
markets with the yellow metal. Silver
will never again be worth 81 l.29an ounce
either by discriminating tariffs or by
free coinage. Three hundred years ago
silver wasl II to 1, bat by tie beginning
of the present century it had shrunk 81
per cent by reason of increased volume
and cheapened production.
Unlimited coinage of our own outpu
would simply mean silver standard fol
this country. 1t is all the treasury cal
do now TO maintain the parity Of til,
currency by redeeming paper and silver
with gold. A silver standard means
general obstruction of credits and meal
cuIable disaster.
Can the Republican place themselve!
in an equivocal position on this vital issut
at time when its prospects for regainine
supremacy as the party of honest none,
are so promising just because free coin
age fiatism was hold upon fragmen
fits rank and file? Why should til,
party recant or wabbIe just to throwa sol
to the misguided and deluded advocate.
OF deprecated currency or to straightel
the records of some of its foolish leader!
who happened to be entangled in til,
meshes Of the silver liatlsts and imagin,
they can make capital in the coming
campaign by wabbling on this Issue
The true policy of the Republican part.
is to keep in the middle of the road OF
silver and adhere strictly to the decla
ration made by the national convention
at Minneapolis. On that line they cal
meet the Populists, the free silver Demo
Gratis or any other combination.