The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-01-13
PROVO CITY. JAN. 10,
OLD FASHIONED MONEY.

Away back in the morning of civili-
zation, in the days of Moses, the
Ptolemies, down to those of Abraham,
Solomon, Christ, the Roman republic,
in the palmy davs of Greek literature
in the days of the Cid, Bayard, Charles
the V, Joseph the IL, Frederick
the Great, George the III, George
Washington, Andrew Jackson and
Abraham Lincoln, silver was recog-
nized as the full equal of gold at
fixed and definite ratio, as nearly as
can be ascertained now, of l6 to1.
There was no thought of the demone-
tization which startled the world in the
days Of Grant. Thus silver was an old
fashioned, time-honored money of the
people. 1t remained to John Sherman,
the arch -plotter and traitor to the sill
yer west, to smuggle brief demone-
tizing clause into bill before congress
which passed and was signed before
President Grant or any one else, other
than the arbitrator and his Cocoon
spirators engaged in the fell work of
blotting out thus the money of the
ages-the money OF the masses and the
money especially of the poor-was
aware Of the blow struck.
The old-fashioned money was the
money of the constitution and especi.
ally of the democratic party. A dem
ocratic hand penned the constitution
aud that sacred hand did not lose it's
cunning until it had written legibly in
that sacred document the living words
which make 1t treason to destroy the
money functions of the white metal.
Nearly every democratic platform writ
ten since the adoption of the constitu-
ton has explicitly re-stated the demo-
cratic doctrine of hard money, gold
and silver, as the money Of ultimate
redemption. An honest Interpretation
of the constitution reveals the import
ant fact that even the government
itself cannot legally force the citizen
to take any other money than gold
or silver, or paper based upon them
both and redeemable only in gold and
silver. Then what do we see these
latter days? The congress of the United
States coolY passing law-without an
amendment to the constitution first
being had-to wipe out utterly one of
these metals, both of which are given
by that document as the only compet-
ent money of ultimate redemption. 1t
is amazing. 1t is astounding, and
while this act was consumated by
republican house, republican senate
and by a republican president, what
words can fttingly speak our wcnder-
ment when we see this baleful raid
upon the money of the ages and of the
constitution, not to speak of the bible,
continued by democratic national
administration. What mighty al
chemist has changed the democratic
blood of the nation into this weak red
stuff which does not boil when demo-
cratic hands are rudely laid upon the
sacred old democratic principle of the
equality of gold and silver in the
money of the nation?
When the government forces a citi-
zen to accept paper for its indebted
ness to him which is not redeemable
in both gold and silver, either the one
or the other, at certain weight for
each, it simply reYolts against the con-
stitution and basely defrauds him. Re
publican national administrations have
done this; it remains to be seen if a
democratic administration dares to go
out of power or before the people for
reelection having failed to accomplish
the full and perfect restitution of sill
yer to its old time sacred functions.
We must stop piling up mere token
money upon the gold reserve. We
must restore silver and issue notes re-
deemable in gold and silver at the old
ratio of is to /. Our money of ultimate
redemption must be like Cesar g wife, |
above suspicion. Then, and only then,
will the west north and south be salts
fed-and not till then can democratic
victories be won, as of yore.