The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-10
MORE LIES.
Feeding the Babies On Poison.
The Chicago Tribune of April 9Th.

he SUd U0menU GQdG Gne UcrTlDlo
condition" ETC., is caused by the al
legged decentralization of silver" is a
bald headed lie. There were-no silver
dollars in circulation in 1924, while
in 1893, there was 900 million dollars
coins, the amount of silver exceeding
by 100 millions the total gold in the
United States last year. And all that
silver is legal tender money. Why
then do they call the present bimetal-
lie standard the ''single gold stand
ard?" Is it because they are barbar-
Ously ignorant or actuated by lying
malice? It must be one or the other,
for no honest man in his sober senses
would make such an assertion. And
how do they know that three fourths
of the people are in favor of abandon
ing this bi-metallism for silver mono
metallism on the basis of a Accent
dollar? They do not know it, for the
assertion is untrue.
Why do these currency-deb asing
debt-repudiators lie about the plat
forms OF both the great political par
ties. which pledged those parties to
maintain silver at parity with gold?
Neither of those platforms contains
any pledge or promise of free coinage
i
low the commercial one of respective
values of the two metals. Both the
Republican and the Democra tic plat
forms of 1892, make the maintenance
of the parity sine qua non, which
could not be affected with free coinage
on the ratio of Is to l when the actual
commercial ratio is more than 80 to l,
and those fellows who assembled at
DeS MOineS know this as we'll as they
know anything"
''There were no silver dollars in
1874"
Why? Because the N. Y. bankers
had persuaded Congress to put an ex-
ception on the back of the U. s. green
backs, which disqualified them for the
payment of duties on imports and in
terest on the public debt: and they
thus put gold and silver to premium
and drove them out of circulation.
But what has that got to do with the
characterization of silver? Not a
thing; and the knave that wrote that
article knows it. He simply throws
dust in the eyes of his fool-sub-
scribers
while in 1898. there are 900 million
dollars of silver money, including sub
sidiary coins, the amount of silver ex-
ceedlng by 100 millions the total gold
in the United States last year. And
all that silver is legal tender money,
Why then do they call the present BIZ
metallic standard the single gold
standard? 1t is because they are bar
bariously ignorant, or actuated by ly-
ing malice?"
Oh thou shameful knave to put
forth such trash!
Turn to the report of the Director of
the Mint of U. S. (See the N. Y.
World Almanac, p. 142), and there it is
stated that the amount of gold in the
U. S. is 1854, 900, 900, and of silver $685.
100000. So that instead of silver ex-
ceeding gold $100,OOO,OOO, as you allege,
it falls below it $40, 100000 This is
your first prodigious lie.
And then you dodge the whole great
worldwide question Of the demonetiz-
alton OF silver and it's disqualification
by referring to the fact that before
your friends got in their perfect work
there were 5000, 100000 of silver money
put forth, and given legal tender func-
tions. But what has that got to do
with it? Every mint in civilized
Europe, in India and the United
States, is now closed against silver:
and that closure it is proposed shall
Stand forever, and the white metal be
eternally prescribed and outlawed.
Suppose the governments of Europe
decreed the murder of all red. headed
people in the world; and when we pro-
tested against the brutality of the act,
the Chicago Tribune would reply:
what nonsense-there are 10000, 900
red-headed people in the U. S. to-day!
The thing is all right" And the muir.
ders would 90 on.
Is not the world to-day on a single
gold-standard basis, and has not that
broken down the price of all property
in Europe, America, the United States
and the world? And is not that max.
ing the debtor pay 81, where he con.
tracted to pay 81; and has not that
crushed all business and closed most
of the factories, and caused the land
to swarm with the unemployed, pass.
ing through wretchedness to turbu.
lence and anarchy? And you know it
STAINLESS one;-and you try to dodge
the issue with your cunning, little.
plausible lies; so that the ruin may &c
on; and this country be converted
from a. republic into an aristocracy
and despotism. And q vast army of
fools believe in you.
And you deny that the platforms of
the great parties pledged them to
maintain our governmental relation
ship Of Is to l for silver and gold.
This may be true. The resolutions on
the subject in both conventions, were
made, like your editorials, with intent
to deceive. They were cunningly con-
structed tricks of words to be read
either way or any way. The Repub.
licans said:
"The American people from tradi.
tlon and interest favor -metallism,
and the Republican party demands
the use of both gold and silver as
standard money"
The bimetallic Republican read this
with delight. "Why," said he. THAT
is all right. '"Tradition" that means
16 to 1,-''interest," that means that
the product of our mines is to be
coined at our mints. as they were be-
fore 1873"
But the bankers winked at each 9th.
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