The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-16

The Washington Post, now under the
exclusive control of Hon. Beriah VIII
kins, the brilliant democratic eX-con-
gresham from Ohio, has become the ac-
r1ve and vigorous champion of the re-
Mobilization of silver and of its restora-
ton to its constitutional position of free
coinage.
The influence of The Post is peculiarly
potent, in that it is the leading daily
published at the capital of the nation,
and the friends of bimetallism every
where Will take renewed courage i'll its
determined stand for the peoples money.
In Il recent editorial on the silver ques-
ton and on the disastrous and annlhl-
lating effect of the establishment of the
single gold standard, it says:
1t begins to appear that the country is not
willing to rest upon the mere CONSCIOUSNESS
of having done great and glitterng thing.
Men are beginning to ask whether it pays
To strike attitudes and deliver high-sound-
ing moral sentiments at the cost of business
stagnation and industrial wreck. They are
beginning to wonder whether they can
afford much abstract virtue. We were
told, Il year ago, that the repeal of the
silver purchasing clause of the Sherman
act would heal all our woes; that, by fol-
lowing England and making the disgrace
and degradation of silver universal, we
would translate ourselves to the Hottest
realms of bliss. The cuchOoS came out of
their boxes and called the hour that ushered
In our happiness. The mugwumps and the
holding editors all twanged their Tyres
praise and roseate prophecy. Our well
fare was assured Everything would be
lovely in a few minutes. The air would
blacken with the smoke of re-establshed
factories, commerce would come to life
again. the noise and hum of quickened in
Oustry would make music for the ear of
man. prophet had CONS to Judgment,
and loi the millennium and all its countless
joys awaited us around the corner. But
we say. the manhood and the common
sense of the country are awakening from
the spell that was laid upon them, and
men are asking for something more than
reverberatinG rhetoric and fatuous dogma.
in Ohio, as elsewhere, 1t is q question
whether we have helped ourselves or served
any useful purpose by conserving to the
elimination Of silver from our scheme of
1nance-Whether events have indicated or
discredited the gospel of the single stand
ard.
1t will be well to watch the revelations
Of public sentiment in this connection as
they occur. We are not absolutely sure, as
L.,
the cuckoo and the idoIater is past
This is what The Constitution has
been preaching for nearly year. One
after another the far-sccing newspapers
which have not been tied with the halter
of patronage obligations are awakening
TO the seriousness of the situation, and
are demanding the fultilIment Of the
democratic pledge for the use of both
gold and silver, each to be coined with
out discrimination against the other"
Under the assurance that the uncondi
tionaI repeal of the Sherman law was
the first step to the free coinage of sill
yer, The Post yielded to the pressure,
and during the late 1amented extra SEES
sion urged unconditional repeal ON the
assurance of those who were advOcat-
ing it that it would be Immediately fol
lowed by further legislation restoring
silver to its constitutional position. No
wonder, therefore, that it should now
demand compliance with the obligations
under which silver was dcmonetzed
and the gold standard established.
The truth of the matter is, the people
are now beginning TO fully realize the
desperate condition which has followed
in the wake of the single gold standard,
and the popular demand for restoration
and reform viii soon prove to be such
that it can DO longer be resisted.
The danger now lies in the fact that u
new congress is soon to be elected, and
that if something is not done i'll the
meantime the failure may have a disas-
trous effect in the fall elections.