Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-06-23
John Sherman as a Friend
of Silver.
WHAT AN OHIO PAPER SAYS.
Claims His Position as Being
Friendly to the White Me-
tai is a False One.

|
ONO republican state convention, re-
piled.
81 can only say that | irdorse 1t heart
; lily. 1t is In line with the views L have
always held on this question. L am a
friend Of silver, and believe 10 its use as
u spey; but it must be used in such a
; way that its parity will be maintained
with god. The United States Is today
J using more SILVER than ever before IN
, It's history, and that kind of money e
as good here AS any other. Such COLI
ditIon would not exist if we did not
maintain the parity of the two metals
and make the purchasing power of the
silver equal TO that Of gold. L believe,
and the people of my state believe, 10
SILVER money, and when we can get the
International agreement on t4is impor-
taDt ubject legislation will follow that
, Will make silver mere important factor
10 our circulating medium"
Mr.. Sherman is the gold King in Amer
ica. His word is Law with all the god
monometailists Of The world. He is the
father of the demonetZgt.On OF silver.
He worked at it SIX years before it was
ac ompished. A letter from IN,
earnestly urging the single gold stand
ard, undou btedIy turned the scale at the
great international conference on coin-
age, weights and measures held In Paris
lie 1867. The Franco-PrussIan war had
not ,hen been dreamed Of. Germany
had no incentive to advance the value OF
gold, as she had afterwsrd, hen France
vas to pay her thousand million thai
ers war iGemuity. Sherman has hunted
silver as the terrier hunts the lat 1t
has set med the bane Of his existence.
He caused tia decentralization OF silver
In this country in 1878. lie caused the
veto by President Hayes of the bill to
restore limited silver coinage in 1878.
which was passed over the veto. He
defeated the bill for free coinage N 1S9 ,,
and substituted for it the dishonest
trick known as the Sherman purchase
clause, under which silver bullion was
nougnt and never cCi1ed, ard paid for
the notes which. uLder his advice, have
Oezn redee med n god, when III y
were redeemable in silver. Hav-
ing thus delivered TO he people scCr-
pioD, which he assured them MS a fish,
ne then joined President Cleveland IN ii
rad upon the scorpion and took II away
without substituting any ia at all.
Well knowing that his gold policy is
hateful to he people because 1T gives
all the fruits of their enterprise and
labor to the sm II class Of usuTers whom
he represents, be schools himself 10 the
task of deceiving ana misleading them.
AS they grope about looking for reli
from their taskmasters, and looking for
leaders who will give them back the
mocey o. the ccrstltut on, ne holds out
false lights and calls To them to come to-
ward hin, and sees them 60 down into
| = ho e fol- do
by false leaders like himself. All these
are reasons why be heartily indorses the
juggling resolution of the republican
state convention, which it is quite likely
he wrote himself. He says the resolu-
ton is in line with the views hs has
always had on his question. Every
human beng in tie United States over
The age of twelve years and of sound
mind and who can read knows what bl
views have always been. But there is
to be an election in Ohio, ard this re-
m"seless enemy destroyer Of the right of
silver to be cOiued, is afraid the repu bli-
can party may be beaten unless hs can
fool the friends OF silver within is ranks.
The absurd mass of contradictions
which Mr.. Shermen poured into the ear
OF the reporter is SIS confusing, and in
tentionally so, as the explanation made
b. MephlstopheIes to the student in
Goethe's Faust" He explained his pro-
position:
'.The first was so, the second so.
And therefore third and fourth are so;
We know the first aud second then,
On the third and fourth had never been"
The effect Of this upon the student is
shown as follows:
II feel as stupid from all you've said,
As if a mill wht ell whirled in my mind"
Equally edifylng to whoever reads
| them are the words of Senator Sherman.
Tney may be thus summarized: He Is
friend of silver when Its ''psritJ " is main
tanned with gold. Silver money is as
good as any because We maintain the
parity of the two metals" We make
''the purchasing power of silver equal
to that of gold" If we can get IAN in
| ternational agreement for silver money"
legislation will follow favorable to silver.
| That is to say. we could get what we al
ready have if England would agree to
| it.
Does anyone believe that Senator
| Sherman could tell what he meant when
| he said thst we were maintaining the
parity between the two metals! IL Is
true that the purchasing power or the
silver dollar is equal to that OF the gold
dollar. 1t is true that the silver COLLAR
is just as good here as any other. But
it % not true that the two metals are at
parity. The purchasing power of
| pig silver" as the Sherman school OF
| 6nancie.s delight to call 1t, is not equal.
| at the coinage ratio, to the purchasing
power of pig gold. That is to say, pig
silver sold by the ounce viii only bring
| Ia. h.
coined from it. while pig gold is worth
| ihe whole number Of dollars that can be
| coined from it. Mr.. Sherman knows
that the parity o. the coins of the two
metals comes from the fiat OF the gov
erument, and there is no much hing as
parity between the two metals. He
knows that gold bullion is worth the
no mber of dollars that it can be coined
into, b. cause the mints of the world are
| open to its free coinage. He kD0ws
| that if the mint Of the world would be
| be closed to it and opened to silver the
silver bullion would be worth immediate
| ly the number of dollars into which 1t
| could be coined, While gold bullion
would depreciate iE value just as silver
| bullion has done since it was discrowned.
| He also knows that however low the
price OF gold should fall under such
changed conditions, when coined by the
government and made full legal tender
the coins would be of the value pescrib-
ed by law. All of Mr.. Shermen's talk
about parity" is mere parrota. 1t is a
transparent fraud, and It's sole object
is to confuse the public mind, and make
thoughtless people believe that he is
saying something. 10 short, it is simply
Mephi tophers bewildering the stu
dent.-CincInUati Enquirer.
A Household Treasure
| ID. W. Fuller, of Canal Oharie, n. Y,
says that be always keeps DR.. Kings