Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-07-26
OAMERON's LETTER.
To1EKA, KAs.

UOtoranOes OF the Pennsylvanla Statesman
that Attract Worldwide Attention.
The following letter was sent to the ma
tiOnal convention Of the republican league,
al Denver, in response to an invitation to
be preg9ntI
MI DEAN SIR--Y0ur invitation comes
OF moment when Congress requires the
attention Of its members. ! should be
glad to aOoOpt IL, for we have entered a
troubled time and we need mutual counsel
and support, but whatever am to say can
be said only in writing.
This is not moment for stimulating
bitterness or inAaming passions. We need
all our powers of fOrbearance and self
control. Let us give credit TO our Oppo-
nents at least for good intentions, even
though they give no credit To, us.
ON THE EDGE OF REVOLUTION.
All Europe and all America are in
trouble. Everyone admits that the world
stands on the edge of a revolution-social
and politiOsl-but every one shrinks from
il. Neither North nor South, East nor
West, neither capitalist nor labOrer, wants
to create caste or classes, or to spread
misery, oppression, or violence. We all
see danger before US. We all want to
avoid it. Our only dispute is about the
path.
To those of US who have had chiefly in
mind the struggle between silver and gold,
this is the question which for the moment
presses hardest. The single, gold stand
ard seems to us to be working ruin and
violence. If its influence is to continue
for the future, at the rate of it's action
during the 20 years since the gold stand
ard took possession of the world, some
generation not very remote will see in the
broad continent of America only half a
dozen overgrOwn cities, keeping guard
over mass of capital, and lending 1t out
to a population of dependent laborers on
the mortgage of their growing crops and
handiwork.
Such sights have been common enough
In the worlds history, but against it we all
rebel. Rich and poor alike, republicans,
democrats, populists, labor and capital,
railways, churches, and colleges all alike,
and all in solid good faith, dread such q
future as that.
Nine-tenths of mankind are hostile to
the single, gold standard Our 10 million
people are unanimous against it. Most
Of the great European countries and their
governments are againstit. South Amer.
ica rejects il. The whole of Asia knows
only silver, and India, which contains FIVE
sixths Of the subjects of the British crown
is as hostile to it as ourselves. Yet The
London bankers say we must submit, snd
we have submitted.
AN ASTONISHING POWER.
So strange a spectacle has never beer
seen in our history, and the argument, anC
even the compulsive proof brought by
worldwide ruin, seems to be helpless
against such an astonishing power. Wha
is the use of argument when we are con
WINGED, and when at least nine-tenths Of
the civilized world agree, that England
holds us to the single, gold standard b.
the force of capital alone more despot
ically than she could hold us to her en-
pire In 17769 The mere threat of hel
displeasure paralySes mankind.
We want real money -- coin - carrying
intrinsic value. Yet If England succeeds
In her obstinate effort to destroy the valu'
of silver for coinage, nothing can save III
from paper. England may we'll succeed
she seems already to be on the point o.
success greater than her government
wanted; and, In that case, irredeemabl
Daper-hat mOney-stares us in the face
Something, thon, must be decided, ant
quickly, for delay itself Is likely to be de
cision. The republican party must eithe
AZ the single standard of the nation o
reject It, This time We can no longer 90
cape the issue, and whatever we do mus
be done openly When great policy i
TO be entered upon, the straightforward
path is the best.
The republican party held power for
whole generation, and during all that sim
made only one fatal mistake. Under tn
influence of the banking interests, actin
In what was then believed the true interea
Of the country, the party fell into the fol
Sign conspiracy of making q single gOl