The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-20
THE WOMEN'SDEBAT
Silver has Some Solid Friends Among
lS the Butte Ladies.
THEY FAVOR FREE COINAGE
Historyof the MetaiAbly Reviewed
BY Member OF the Chau-
tauqua Circle - Some
Valuable Pointers.


Butte May 19.-At the last meeting
of the women's Chautauqua circle OF
Butte the silver question was discuss
ed ard an able paper on 'Bimetallism
read by one of the members who Is
too modest to be known as its author.
The circle. however, considers IL worth
publishing, as going to show that the
women. too. are giving learned atten-
ton to the great question. The pa
per is as follows:
We favor free coinage of silver be-
cause IL is and always has been the
peoples money. Because the history
Of the world shows us that scarcity
OF money always brings low prices for
all manufactured and agricultural
commodities, as well as low wages 10
the faborer. In fact, always a serious
detriment to the masses of the people.
and added wealth to the few already
very wealthy men of the world. II
increases the debt not only OF the sin
gle standard nation, but the debts OF
individuals of the single standard ma
| lions as well. And every individual ex-
cept he who owns the gold to lend Is
| in debt, IL not personally, his state.
| county or city is in debt. and he owes
his part of the debt.
The cry OF too much money can only
| come from those benefited by a single
standard. or those who are ignorant OF
| The Rothschilds own nearly one-haf
| the gold in the world (s3. 800 .000. 000).
| w. H. Harvey says all the gold In
| the world could be placed in a room
% feet long. % feet high and p feet
| square
go among the population of the
| world. 400, 000, 900 people?
And the terrible flood OF silver we
hear so much about. and with which
the treasury vaults are said TO be
grooming, IL made into solid block
of pure silver would be but ee-foot
| cube.
Would that amount of silver. divid-
| ed among the population of the world,
| be burdensome? Even the coin alone.
IL there were no bank notes or credit
money to take Its place.
We favor free coinage of silver be-
cause i'm 1892, after our revolutionary
ancestors had fought eight long years
| for independence and began to estab-
fish permanent government. one OF
their first acts was TO make SIlA
grains of silver one unit dollar. Gold
was made money, but its value was
counted from the silver dollar.
The ratio was fixed at Is to i, and
when in 1884, IL was changed to 16 to
!, the gold dollar was changed from
24.7 grains to 2s.2 grains pure gold. the
silver dollar being left the same size.
The country remained on n bimctallic
basis itfhtiI 1873. when. on the nth day
| Of january, Senator Sherman, who was
chairman of the finance committee.
was ,epared to urge the passage of
the bill to demonetfze silver, and by
strategy and the aidfof English money
Senator sherman. with a few col
Ieagus, hurried the bill through, and
but few of the senators knew the pur-
| / port tfetheabill they were voting for
J And president Grant. IL Is said. signed
/ taff rr ,xsrff
ing it, and knew nothing Of the de
monetizing clause. All the telegraphit
information sent out by the Associated
Press was that 1.-The mint and coinag'
| bill has passed the senate and Is cod
r | ificatior OF all existing statutes on th'
subiect~7 And IL was not until 1877
, | that It was discovered by the public
i | that silver had been demonetized. II
/ | not such a bill passed by fraud, ignor
ance and the influence Of English gol'
, an Everlasting disgrace to the annal
l of our country?
! And TO those members of congress
q who allowed 1t TO pass either throug
' Ignorance or bribery?
Z Wefavor independent free coinage 9
! silver df other nations will not agre
: TO a bimetallic standard) because tn
? United States is tor was before the re
!, peal OF the Sherman acO producin
more silver than IL ever did. But tn
balance of the world much less.
. | They are fixing the price on our 81
: yer and taking IL at that price.
We favor IL because the gold stand
ard will make England owning. a
!. | that country does. most of the gold
" more wealthy and 'grasping. The b
X metallic standard will make the Unite
5, States the most prosperous nation o
/. earth. If France. Belgium, Italy an
Greece maintained a premium on 81
;. yer for 40 years by opening their mini
TO free.coinage. why cannot the Unite
r, States do the same. with more wealt
and population?
? o. w. Holmes says:
T. Thou. o. my country. hast thy FOOLS
l. ~ ways,
I. Too, apt to purr at every stranger
p praise,
J. But II the stranger touch thy mode
i, or laws.
5 or goes the velvet and out come Il
n, 90 clraws
The FIRST two lines are only too tru
but the United States has Above
foreign moneyed power to NEEDLE wit
le her laws too long, showing nothir
NJ but the velvet. and the sooner 81
IN shows that power her claws and b
J. comes independent OF II. the better
30 will be for her people.
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