Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-19
Pulitzer VS.. Jones.
CHARLES HENRY JONES HEARS
FROM THE OWNER OF THE
POST-DISPATCH.
One of the Hottest RoastS Ever WRIT
ten in Reference TO an Editor
Pulitzer Hopes That Jones
WilI"See His Error"

Col. Pulitzer owns the New YORK
World and the st. Louis Post D'spdtcH'
| Col. Charles Henry Jones, who mas
been editor of the Post Dispatch iale-
". has Il personal grievance against
Ex-Governor ID. r. Francis. Jones
has been fighting Francis ana MS
friends and everything he thinks they
favor. His attempt to disrupt ana
ruin the Democratic party III MISSOURI
has been the outgrowth of his hatred OF
Francis. The following is an editorial
| published in Pulitzer's New fork
World in reference to Charles Henry
Jones, editor of P~ulitzer's st. Louls
| Post Dispatch. 1t breaks the bubble
and takes the wind ont of the balloon.
The ~worshipers of c. II. Jones' man
arement of the Post Dispatch should
now call a convention and pass reso-
lHtious:
SAM Us. INSANE BIMETALLISM.
Mr.. C. IL. Jones, editor of the st.
| Louis Post Dispatch, was chairman OF
the committee that framed the DEM
ocratic platform of 1892.
He has written to the World to re-
mind us of that interesting fact and to
instruct us as to the Democratic plat
form on bimetallism.
Unfortunately Mr.. Jones does not
know what bimetallism means. Either
that or he seeks to mIslead his read
crs. Tho free silver craze, of which
he noses as a champion, is certainly
not b%imetallism or i'll any way akin to
it.. 1t is indeed the exact opposite of
bimetallism. 1t is either n foolish or
dishonest monometallism. Its purpose
is and its effect would be to abolish
the use of gold as American money
and to r~epudiate about one-half of all
American debts.
In that mischievous behalf, we re-
greet to say, Mr.. Jones has changed
the traditional character of the St.
Louis Post Dispatch and abandoned its
principles.
Very nearly all Americans are BIZ
metallists. Both political parties are
pledged to that policy. The Govern
ment itself, both in its laws and in its
practice, stands squarely on that doc
trine. All its bonds and all it's cireu-
lating notes, other than certificates OF
specific gold or silver deposits, are
deliberately and carefully made pay
,apTe IN -cofu.~ It max no dfscrtu-
nation between different kinds Of
promises to pay a have either meta
he prefers for it on demand.
The foolish programme advocated by
Mr.. Jones would do quite another
thing. Sane bimetallism in any of its
forms ecure the use of both metal:
on an exact equality of purchase ns
power. The insane 1G to craze looks
to the use of but one metal, and that
at about double its actual value. The
one secures honest money. The Other
could give us none but dishonest
money. The one offers every pros
pect of prosperity. The other invites
chaos.
Our present bimetallism is main
tanned by limiting the amount of sill
yer coined. But Messrs. Jones, Bland
Altgeld ct nj protest against this limi'
tation. They demand the "free ant
unlimited coinage of silver" That
too is possible and desirable under
proper conditions. II might be safely
secured, as the Democratic platform
suggests, if we can arrange to pu'
enough silver into a dollar to give j
equal "intrinsic and exchangeablt
value" with q gold dollar. Or, as the
platform further suggests, it might bt
done if it be possible to secure an in
ternational agreement upon free coin
age at an agreed ratio.
In either of these conditions We
should have bimetallism with "fret
and unlimited coinage of silver
Under the Bland-Jones plan W. should
have free and unlimited coinage o
silver indeed, but we should not have
bimetallism. What they demand il
that we shall give free and unlimited
coinage to silver at the ratio of Is to
without an international agreement
and without any other Safeguard
whatever against a lapse to cheal
money. They would reduce the valu,
OF the dollar mark to half a dollar OF
every American promise to pay.