The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-08
THE CAUSE GAINING.
A Plan Suggested for Bringing Engla


A Plan Suggested for Bringing England
to Terms.
We woAder if the miIlionaires are afraid
that their securities are going to the dogs,
or if they begin to have a little suspicion
that possibly the desperate men of this
country who are out of work have designs
both upon their persons and their boarded
wealth which are dangerous. 1t is astoni
shing to see how many of them have re-
Gently become ardent bimetalliSts. The
last manifestation comes from Chicago.
That is very much more hopeful than any
former news telegraphed except that from
London last week. because those Chicago
men are in closer rapport with the poor
than are the Boston or New 7 ork million
aires. The most of them are men who
made their money, at least their first
money, by hard work. Again, when Chi
cago moves on any lines it moves in
earnest, and we expect good work from
that organization just started in the lake
city. 1t is true they still insist that before
anything else can be done we must have
the consent of Great Britain to bimetallism.
If their minds are once bent on the subject
they will grow out of that though after
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England being the great creditor nation,
and being the headquarters of the mighty
Semitic banking houses of the world, the
government will be influenced to cling to
the gold standard, though her colonies are
perishing, and though her own merchants
and manufactures are being made paupers.
We wonder that the manhood of this ma
ton bows down, when it comes to discuss
financial affairs, bows down in the dust
before those mOney-changers of Lombard
street. If men would but stop and think
how foolish it is for our great country to
stand waiting on the good will of Great
Britain to do certain thing! Why cannot
our country say to Russia, to Germany and
to France, ''COme now, we Fave suffered
enough. Property values are going to the
dogs. Fifty per cent of the property of
this country has been destroyed simply by
legislation. You are in no better fix be-
yond the sea, and while we are all debtor
nations to Great Britain, at least all but
France. it is a clear case that we never
shall extricate ourselves until the material
through which we pay debts can be made
valuable enough to bring to the producers
some profit, and to make some impression
when that value is Endorsed upon what we
owe beyond the sea-" Our judgment is
that the wise thing would be to say moth
ing to England or to Germany, but for our
government to call a conference in Wash
ington; call to it representatives of all the
states of North America; also ask for COM
missioners from India, China and Japan,
and urge also to join with the rest France
and Russia. If those powers would all
agree upon common ratio, and if possible
on a common currency, then some effect
would be had on Great Britain. Then she
would see that the center of the CONNER
cial world would be moved away from
London inside of 20 years unless she ac-
cepted the inevitable. That is the way to
influence Great Britain. We can coax at
her doors year after year and get the same
reply that we have for the last 20 years. If
we could do something on the other hand
that would demonstrate at a glance to her
statesmen that unless she joins the process
sion their trade will be gone in 10 years,
then she viii be like those Chicago and
Boston men. Within two minutes she
would be insisting that she has always
been in favor of bimetalIism. Salt Lake
Tribune.