The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-03-24
CHANGE FOR SILVER.
Attitude of the New English Prem
ier Toward the White
Metal.
What Archbishop Walsh and Vari-
Gus Irish Sons May Have
To Do With 1t.
From the Salt Lake Tribune :

Lord Rosebery is canny Scotch
man. Those who know him well
declare that he is the most subtle
man in Great Britain. He is as
close mouthed as was Parnell
He is never taken by surprise, or if
he is, no one ever discovers it. He
is immensely rich. He admits that
his ambition is for the very highest.
Despite all that may be said, the
Irish in parliament trust him and
want to work for him. His wife,
when alive, was a Rothschild. Put
ting all these things together, we
believe that if the silver men of this
country would make concerted eff
fort in the right way they could gain
greater point, indeed the first real
point in twenty years. Our reasons
are these: 1t will be remembered
that at the Brussels conference Bar
on Rothschilds openly declared that
unless a very much enlarged use Of
silver be adopted there was danger
of universal bankruptcy. That is
one point. 1t will be remembered
that about the same time Archbishop
Walsh issued pamphlet which, con-
sidering it's source, we consider the
most extraordinary work ever laid
before the nations. One would think
that prelate of the church would
be so immersed in church affairs
that all his time and thoughts would
be absorbed. But when such a
man from such place reasoning,
solely from the needs of his people,
made, in few pages, an unanswer
able arguement, not only affecting
his own people, but the masses of
the whole world, it is not strange
that the work produced profound
impression. After tracing the effects
of demonetization and showing the
appreciation of gold, after tersely
stating that the ''difference between
monometallism and bimetallism is
that bimetallists have practical
remedy to suggest, their suggestion
being that certain currency arrange
ments which were abandoned in
| 1878 should now be revived, while
the monometallists have no practical
remedy to suggest" he proceeds to
state that tenant farmers of Ireland
''are at present placed in position
of grievous and increasing hardship -
that "they are bound by legal OBJ
legation to make certain fixed annual
payments, the amounts of which are
fixed by state authority, but which
have now become notably more
burdensome than they were when
the state authority imposed them.'
In that he stated in fact, and after
ward elaborated it, that while the
rents running through certain
series of years in Ireland were fixed
at a certain amount, the precise
amount being fixed, with falling
prices the burden was steadily in.
creasing until bankruptcy was
threatened. In a day or two we
propose to refer more fully to this
pamphlet, but today the above re-
ference is sufficient. Now, as it will
be remembered, while that pamphlet
was still fresh in thoughts of the
Irish members Of parliament ant
while every one of them was in favol
of free silver and full reconciliation
while this fact was so we'll knowr
that it was believed that the whole
vote of the commons would be ;
majority for silver, these Irish mem
bers, faithful to Gladstone and anx
ious to back him in every particula
because he stood for them the Evang
ell of home rule, all voted agains
. silver. Now if the proper inhuenc
could be brought to bear on Lor'
! Rosebery, it seems to us that wit
Archbishop Walsh on the one sid
and Baron Rothschild on the Other
it would be easy for him, lookin,
over the sorrows of his countr,
anxious to signalize his advent t
power by something which the pee
pie would hail with pleasure,
seems to us it would be easy t
cause him to celebrate his accessio
to po ower by issuing invitations for