The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-08-31

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WE are unable to discern why it
is that the Commercial Appeal has
become so situated as to be depend
ent upon some one, who it seems is
not connected with that paper, to
write an article in accord with its
sentiments concerning Col. Patter-
son. Saturdays issue of that pa
per contains a communication from
one who subscribed himself constit-
uent, and purports to be an humble
democrat of the Tenth COngressiOn-
al District. So far, the CONNER
cial Appeal has refrained from oppO-
sing or advocating directly either
of the candidates for congress in the
Tenth District, but it is very evident
that paper would not have permit
ted the communication referred to,
TO have followed the editorials, had
it not been opposed to Col. Patter'
son. That paper was once noted for
its frankness and candor and it is
to be lamented that it is now so sit
uated as to depend upon mouth
piece to express its sentiments in re-
gard to a candidate for congress.
1t is not the purpose of the BULLETIN
to reply to all the queries propOunded
to Col. Patterson by the Commercial
Appeals mouthpiece, but only those
which misrepresent persons and OPP
pose democratic principles. The
first interrogatory is as follows:
'NOw do you know that England,
Holland and Germany are the three
great creditor nations on the earth,
and do you believe it possible for
any man of ordinary sense, who has
so exhaustively studied this question
as YOU claim to have done, to hope
for any cooperation in the interest
of silver from these cOuntriesf
Don't you know that the proposition
for an international conference look
| ing to the reconciliation of silver
was met with jeers in the British
parliament? And is it possible
that you are ignorant of the fact
that Mr.. Gladstone ridiculed the
idea and was cheered to the echo?
eff you lived in a little country
like Holland, not bigger than Tex
as county, composed largely of re
claimed seas, knowing that her eiti
zens owned enough American securt
ties from which One-half of the cur.
rent interest coupons were sufficient
to pay for all the American exports
she wanted, and a rich and power
full nation like the United States,
with a princely domain stretching
|, from ocean to ocean, and almost
covering continent, was willing to
let this little insignificant country
dictate its financial policy, would
you ever agree to any step which
would have the tendency to make
money cheaper or debts easier to
pay?
''If you were an Englishman, and
lived on little island in the bosom
of the Atlantic Ocean not bigger
than the state of Tennessee, and the
people of that island owned enough
mortgages, bonds and other incum'
brances in the United States to Vir-
tually make poems of the producing
and laboring classes of America,
would you ever consent to any prop
osition which would reduce the
purchasing power of the English
mans gold, and alleviate the bur-
den of the American PeoPle?'
Now, mouthpiece, do you know
that the nations you have referred
to as being so prosperous have gold
and not silver as their standard
And do you know that if being on a
gold standard would produce misery,
want and penGFy, those little nations
would not be able to purchase Amer
lean securities? Do you not know
that the very fact of their having
purchased securities proves that the
nations which havs gold as
their standard are prosperous?
IL you have any judgment, you
ought to know, and if you do, to
use your own language, "what do
you want to raise hell again with us
fOr?" Furthermore, do you not
know that England, one of the ma
tions you referred to as being so
prosperous, has had an experience
with cheap money, and that Mr.. Me-
Cauly, who was one Of the greatest