The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-24

that way; nor did they dream that a
future Democratic administration
would attempt any such folly az
that.
On, but Judge Clark says the
Democratic party, in its Official ut
terances, has never demanded either
free or unlimited coinage of silver.
He further says: Democracy is
not involved in silver coinage one
way or the other. / cite you to the
record. 1t has never been made a
Democratic test. 1t never was in
the Damocraticparty" "Oh, shame,
where is thy b.ush?" Then state
Democratic platforms mean moth.
ing and the Chicago national plat.
form means nothing. The de.
bates of the Chicago convention show
that the word "free" was sought
to be injected, but it was rejected.
However, the platform declares for
the coinage of both gold and silver
on a pariety, without discrimination
against either metal, if it means the
RIGHT to the free and unlimited
coinage of gold, as the gold advo-
Gates must admit, then it must in
clude the right of silver to free and
unlimited coinage. Every intelli.
gent economist knows that the word
free" means no more than the
words fright to have coined" 1t
is always understood that the alloy
in gold and silver coin constitutes
the toll or seigniorage of the gov,
erpment, which "free and unlimited
coinage" does not effect.
In truth can the Judge point to a
time in the history of this govern.
ment, from 1892 to 1873, when sill
yer was not coined free and unlim.
tied, in the sense that all owners OF
silver bullion had the right to have
it coined on demand9 They do not
now have that right. Who is Judge
Clark, that he should introduce into
the Democratic temple this strange
god and make it contradict all OF
the oraeles and traditions of the
party by making it say, ''silver was
never party test; it was never il
the party"
"You cannot regulate the price
of silver or any commodity by Law
or by the fiat OF the government,
says Judge Clark. Does he no
know that the legal tender money O
a country is not commodity? Tn
value of money is fixed by tn
"tiat" of the government. Nor i
it property in the sense of al
article of mercbaudise. 1t i
the -representative.<of all val
ues. Gold is legal tende
in this country, therefore gold coil
is not commodity. Silver wa
once a legal tender, then it was a
good as gold-its demonetiz ,tiol
reduced it to commodity. D.
monetize gold and it, too, become
a commodity" No one know
better than Judge Clark that the
law authorities treat money as tn
representative of values, and yet h
talks about it as commodity, or al
article of merchandise He ha
much to say agains. "tiat" money
Neither gold, silver or paper can b
money until the government stamp
it with its fiat. Why, then, SHOULD
Judge Clark attempt to play on tn
credulity of the ignorant in thi
way?
And now comes an argument un
der the weight of which even tn
Little Giant" staggers. He says
"Solomon himself demonetized sill
yer. He demonetizad it because i
became as plentiful as stones in tn
streets of Jerusalem. He did, hey
What was the result?. Israel wa
rent in twain and in time ten of tn
twelve tribes were 30 completed,
lost that history fails to give an,
trace of them. This vas the resul
of King Solomon's attempt to ral
his kingdom on ga gold basis.
Rather a sad preceden
. which Mr.. Clark asks u
to initiate. Aaron once made
golden calf and commanded tn
people to worship it, Result
Nasssx tito ashes, mingle