The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-09-28

TO the day Of Judgment. Several at
Temps have been made to come to
some basis of international agreement
but all have failed. Senator Morgan,
who was member of the last none
tary conference, says international
agreement is wholly an impossibility
and all hopes of which must be aban-
doned.
The only way toresume specie pay
ments, said Horace Greeley, is to re-
sume.n We apply his epigram to sill
yer. Its parity at its present ratio has
be- n maintained for about hundred
years and the United States is more
capable ofmaintaining it now than at
any time in its history for its popula
ton is greater; its wealth is greater;
| its resources are greater, and its inven-
tons and manufacturing industries
are greater. Are these not abundant
safeguards?n
Mr.. Cooper employed figure of
speech by saying that the house was
on fire 2 and the thing to be done was
"to put out the flames.p In the repeal
of thepurchasing clause ofthe Sherman
bill he claims this was done. But why
are there no plans and specifications
for the rebuilding of better struc-
ture? A year has passed and nothing
has been done in that direction. To
the Times Unions Washington cor
respondent Mr.. Cooper said almost a
year ago: .There is no question but
that some general legislation on the
question of finance will follow very
soon after the re-assembling of Con-
gress.n Congress re-assembled and re-
manned in session for nearly nine
months but no general financial legis-
lation followed.
What benefits would the restoration
of the free coinage bring about? The
mines would give employment to at
least 300 900 men and this amount of
labor would not only relieve labor but
would have a tendency to maintain
wages, if it did not increase them. 1t
would increase the volume of the cur
rency and open the way for millions
of dollars to be put into permanent
investments 1t would stimulate the
! manufacture of cotton into goods and
enable the south to supply all the sill
yer producing countries: Mexico, South
AM tsio nd hi will "a T.
RIGS and would be worth millions
and millions of dollars to southern
cotton growers.
To the ignorant pig-headed dolts in
these benighted regions who believe
that person must of necessity be a
populist who advocates the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to /, we have only to quote from
a recent letter from Congressman NAL
lory to the Florida Citizen on this
subject. Congressman Mallory says:
An overwhelming majority of our southern
and western democratic members of congress
and many southern aud western democratic
senators favored and advocated the coinage of
dertake to make the advocacy of that policy
badge of populism must be very insincere or
very ignorant of some of the most conspicuous
facts in the recent political history Of this coun
try. 1t could with as much justice be argued
that because the republicans were almost unani-
mousy opposed to the coinage of silver at that
ratio, therefore every man who opposed it
republican
The platform adopted by the repub-
licans of New York tells where the
republicans stand on this measure.
The financial declaration of their plat
form is as follows:
We favor an honest dollar and oppose any eff
fort, whether by the repeal of the tax on state
bank issues or the free coinage of silver, to low
er our currency standard and we favor in
ternational agreement which shall result in the
use of both gold and silver as a circulating me-
dunn
On the contrary the democrats of
Ohio and Missouri and Arkansas and
South Carolina and North Carolina
and Georgia and Mississippi and near
ly every state where they have spoken
are declaring for the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver and as there
may be no mistake as to their mean
ing they are low naming the ratio at
16 to |. 1t is the democratic policy
has been for a hundred years and all
democrats must co me to it in the end