Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-16

that thousands OF people were out OF en-
ployment, would you still say that that
was no evil ut ALP
Al would not say that 1t is no evil,
but It is necessary evil, and on that
would correct itself.
Mr. Curric here means that the difficulty
would correct ITSELF by starving out tho
miners, which is quite true. AS ''ncces-
sary cvil'' 1t Is not n matter with which
people in his class concern themselves. AS
consumers they "ask no questions"
when they find producers starving by rea-
son of the artificial and unnatural fall OF
prices caused by contraction of the
money volumc-a contraction created for
tho very purpose of depressing prices.
Upon Mr. Curric's admitting that tho
fall in the gold price of silver bullion had
been one of the causes of the fall in the
price of wheat he was asked the question:
Then we have arrived at this, on your
own admission-that there is one indus
try which has been injuriously affected by
the fall in the price Of silver?"
To this he answered, There is one COM
modify the price of which has been low
cred by the fall in the price of silver"
Answer of English Bankers to the Demand
Tor Bimetallism.
A few further words from his testimony
will give his summing up of the situa
tion. He said: believe in the inherited
preference for gold l know the
feeling of the class to which l belong and
l know that any change is diamctrically
opposed to our feelings, and that what
over change IS made, to whatever extent
we can, we will be clear of it. If we lend
q man 1,000 VIC will say to him: I'm
derstand, we are not to be paid back in
this new stuff. We must have gold"
The matter l have quoted is sufficient
to show the temper of the gold standard
bankers and their allies, whether in Great
Britain or elsewhere. There is no doubt
that Mr.. Curric thoroughly understands
the feeling of his class and candidly sets
it forth. That the government of Great
Britain was in full accord with the opin
ions expressed by him as above quoted is
evidenced by the fact that it appointed
him a delegate to the Brussels monetary
conference OF 1892. His remarks before
that conference were in line with the tcs
timony he had given before the royal COM
mission, but accompanied by the extraor-
dinary declaration that his monetary ideal
was "a gold standard even without gold
currency" This is the answer of the bank
ing classes to the demand of the producing
masses for bimctallism. 1t is proposition
not to have moro money, but to have less;
o proposition evincing the monstrous and
cold hearted determination to further de-
spoil the masses of mankind under the
forms Of law; proposition to produce a
maximum depression in the prices of prop
erty and a maximum reduction in the
wages of labor in the interest solely of n
small coterie of money lenders; PROPOSE
tion for the weighting down of laborcrs
until, as in former periods of history, they
may receive wages of half penny day,
while the owners of national and other
long time bonds may, for every penny of
debt, receive in wealth, or the products of
labor, the present equivalent of a dollar.
The advocates of the gold standard and
so called international bimetallists arc en-
tirely safe in protesting readiness to leave
to tho arbitrament of European govern
ments the question whether the people Of
the United States shall have and continue
to have a sufficient quantity of money
with which to carry on the processes of in
dustry and enable our people to exchange
the products of their labor among them
selves on equitable terms. Are tho people
of this country willing to wait for the free
sent thereto of the class of persons repre-
sented by Mr.. Currics
If not, the beneficiarics of the standard
of contraction PROFOUND to us the ques-
ton, What are you going to do about
it!"
The Monetary Question Is More Important
Than the Tariff.
A change of party affiliations is not to
be either advised or commended except in
obedience to the imperative demands of
principle. But I submit to my friends
and all who believe with me that in this
great emergency the monetary issue is
and of right ought to be the supreme if
not the sole issue which should now be
deemed to be before the country. That
being so, ask whether, with the princi-
pies which they really entertain, they are
not doing moro violence to their con-
sciences by remaining in the old party Or
ganizations than they would do by join
ing party which, though new, has the
courage of it's convictions, the courage
to treat this great question as it deserves
to be treated-namely, as the leading
question of the age Do not the people of
Nevada and advocates of free coinage in
every state believe that the monetary ques-
ton is more important than the tariff
Is there Republican or Democrat in
the state who does not believe that the
question of money is the most supremely
important of all the questions that can
affect the welfare of the people?
And is it not reversing the natural order
of things for political parties to treat as
subordinate and collateral-to treat as a
mere side issue-a question which, in fact,
towers abOye all others? Both the old
party organizations persist in treating
this most imperious of all questions as
mere tail to party kite. After the pas
sage of the repeating law of 1898, by means
with which the country is familiar, will
the old parties find themselves moro un-
true to their convictions than II they cast
their ballots for political party whose
success would for all time end the silver
discussion by embodying into law what is
now unquestionably the most ardent as
piration of the producing masses Of the
American peoplei
So far as Nevada is concerned, it is not
a question as to who Is friendly or who Is
unfriendly to silver. 1t is we'll known
that all the people Of Nevada, without dis
tinction of party, are advocates Of free
coinage at the old ratio 1t is only ques-
tion as to how most surely and quickly to
accomplish an object the achievement Of
which the people Of Nevada and all other
advocates of free coinage throughout the
country hold to be the most Indispensable
requisite of national prosperity.
The supreme purpose which the benefi-
Charles and advocates OF the gold standard
not only in the United States, but through
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