Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26

fraud and hypocrisy as e rotten egg is
of odor. A blind man with sense
enough to carry feed to a calf through
a straight lane can e this, and hence
they seek by a covert trick to tn row
dust in the peoples eyes in pretend
ing to advocate bimetallism on two
grounds: First. Commercial value.
Second. International agreement.
They are too smart to accept the first
because they know that the difference
in the two metals in the markets
would change at the very moment
any ratio is accepted. If 80 to / should
be adopted to-day before the sun
could rise tomorrow morning it would
fall to 25,if not to 20, or 16, and on this
account Cleveland has neither man.
hood nor craftsmanship to take any
decided stand. If the country should
establish free and unlimited coinage
at the commercial standard would not
that as certainly lead to silver mono
metallism as 16 to 1 ratio? They say
the ratio is not the matter they dread
but that all their dread is of the
thought that silver will be the only
measure of value. But since Cleye-
land and his combine will not accept
the commercial value nor name any
other ratio the conclusion follows that
they are only for the single gold
standard.
On the second ground, international
agreement. Cleveland knows and
has known since 1887 when he sent
Atkinson to Europe to induce Eng
land, France and Germany to adopt a
standard of ratio for bimetallism that
those three powers would agree to
no propositions that this country
could make and that it was time lost
to seek such a thing.
Here again we have positive proof
of hypocritical pretentions of Cleve-
land and that he is pretending to look
for international agreement, when he
has no more hope of it than he has of
supplanting Victoria on the English
throne. Atkinson's report to Cleve-
land on this subject is a manly docu-
ment of several hundred pages and he
states positively to Cleveland that
those powers, England, France and
Germany, will not make any agree
ment for bimetallic coinage.
In pretending TO stand on the COM
mercial value and an international
agreement with all the lights he has
before him, proves that Cleveland is
wholly out of sympathy with nine
tenths of the Democratic party that
twice elected him to the high office of
President. He is another proof that
it is only a step from the sublime to
the ridiculous. In 1892 the people put
him in office by an immense majority
and gave him the entire Congress, on
his pledge to reform the Mckinley
tariff and restore the silver coinage
(which Sherman had destroyed in 1873.
His conduct was such that in two
years the party became SO odious that
NEARLY all the country went Republi-
can by an overwhelming majority and
the debate here alluded to is the out
growth of his conduct. Had Cleve-
land been free to recommend or even
permit Congress to coin silver at any
ratio from 20 to 1 downward, all di-
vision would have been at an end and
that time-honored old party, with a
grand record from the days of Jeffer-
son, would to-day be a unit and the
hope of success would perch upon its
banner. Now it is h~opelessly divided
and its last setting rays fall on forty
five great sovereign states, broken in
to fragments and dying from stabs
received in the house of those who
had solemniy worn to support and
defend it from all its foes.
The entire argument of Hall was g
concentration of the most palpable
sophisms. Here is a sample:
@From 1850 to 1860 a dollar of oul
money was equal to a dollar in any
other country in the world"
1t was during that period that this
entire government was filed with pa
per dollar shinplasters, issued undel
the old state bank system, and to my
certain knowledge the farmers il
Illinois would not receive them OF
their own banks for a nights lodging
One man said they were no bettel
} than the old continental paper dollars
of Revolutionary days and they wer'
not worth a continental. We were
compelled to pay all bills for lodging
, we had $50 mules and hands to driv'
and look after them-in Missouri o.
~ sntucky halik pap i'&f -
all Goods.