The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-19

| OF this whole country that could afford
| 10 be absolutely monOmetallists. and gold
monOmetallists at that. the south is that
section Have you any silver mines
Have 70 anything 10 sell that you cannot
get gold for2 And has the amount OF
gold which you have heretofore gotten
for what YOU sold ever been out OF pro-
portion 70 the quantity OF other cOmmodi-
ties which you could buy with that gold
Is there any section Of the country that
raises any single product that viii COM
mand as much gold even IN the most de-
pressed times, as the cotton crop Of the
sOuth2 DO you not know that had il not
been for this fact. the credit Of the United
States government could not have been
maintained after the war. And yet there
Is all this talk about alliance with the
west in OF Ter TO secure free silver. Well,
If you are going abroad to make any sec
tiOnal alliance. in the name OF heaven let's
make one in which there is some posi-
bility of profit 10 you. You. the south.
with all your traditions, all your sacred
memories. all your treasured stories, all
your time-honored chivalry and herOism.
all your blue-bloOded aristocracy, with
a past so rich that the history of Il reads
like romance. and memory Of it makes
the blood quicken with pride. You, with
this character, and with this record, to
talk about allying yourself to a people
who have no past, no history, no tradi-
ton, only a mushroom present and an
unassured future. YOU who boast the
most homogeneous people on the Ameri-
can continent, 10 join yourselves and
your fortunes with section that is the
stronghold of anarchy and social
ism: you to ally yourselves to
people that have not much bet
ter sense Of home and home-ties
than the Arab in his tent, which he folds
I'm the night and steals away. mol If
there is TO be any alliance, let us make
a marriage worthy of our bride. All this
silver twaddle is the veriest humbuggery
Do you know any process by which you
are TO Immediately become enriched by
the reOpening Of the minis for unrestrict-
ed coinage of silver2 Has IL never occurred
to you that you cannot get any of those
new silver dollars without giving a quid
pro quo in exchange for them; and then,
who is advising you 20 adopt this propa-
ganda as your financial deliverance? Find
me the strongest and best, the most in
telligent and wisest six silver advocates
that you know OF in the south, and 1 viii
furnish you six names as worthy of trust
as these and yet who vigorously dispute
the wisdom of the silver policy.
Il don't ask you to believe that free
silver coinage is unwise, because l say
so. but let US test the question by the tes-
timony of witnesses. ! can name six men
who would be enough TO convert me, II
had never thought on the subject, or talked
with any other man living but them l
point you to six shining lights in the ranks
of democracy. with whom there has never
been any variableness nor shadow OF
turning I give you six men, all OF whom
have proven themselves competent in all
respects, TO comprehend and judge any
question Of finance. They are not all
northerners nor all southerners, but belong
in equal numbers TO the respective sec
tions.
"Do YOU know any better democrats
than Abram S. Hewitt, expert man OF
affairs and profoundly learned statesman?
He SAYS: Unrestricted coinage of silver
would be ruinous.'
Do you know any sounder democrat
than William c. Whitney, able in the
counsels of the nation, wide in his expert
ence on all economic questions, and learn
ed in the mysteries of money? He says:
Free coinage of silver other than by fair
international agreement would be fatal to
our national credit
Has not ]. Edward Simmons, for twen-
ty years one of the leading democrats OF
New York city, and president of the
Fourth National Bank, one of the largest
financial institutions Of the metropolis.
has he no claim upon your respectful
attention? He says Unrestricted coin
age of silver would put a check upon the
wheels of this country's progress and re.
suit I'm such shock to public credit that
the consequences to all the material In
terests of the nation would be appalling.
These are all northerners.'
do you know any better democrat any
more conspicuously successful man, any
more prominent figure in the field of fl
nances than r. T. Wilson? He says: In
restricted coinage of silver would bligh,
all enterprises in the south, and be a re-
lentless hindrance to the development of
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perity.
do you know anybody who doubts the
democracy of John H. Inman? He says:
That the free silver craze has been insti-
gated by a few political tricksters and Il
few western miners. the former greedy
for Office and the latter greedy for gain.
DO you know why Samuel Spencer,
born and reared in Columbus, Ga. and
graduated from this very institution, a
man standing to-day abreast with the
foremost men of his profession, and man.
aging the largest single property in the
whole south; do you know why he should
not be trusted as a man of truth, honesty
and intelligence? He says: This silver
mania, if allowed TO prevail, win prove
the greatest engine for harm in the south.
that has ploughed that section since the
war between the states devastated it
Now. there you have three northerners
and three southerners, all prominent, all
successful, ana each ana every single one
of them having more pecuniary interests
in the south to-day than any two silver
ties in the whole section. Is this worth
nothing? All! But some fellow who is
joined to his idol cries back at me, yes
but they are all bondholders. they are
rich, they are gold bugs. Well, suppose
they are; does that argue them incompe-
tent to discuss monetary propositions OF
currency systems?
would you employ a man who had
gone barefooted all his life to make your
shoes. or engage Zulu fresh from his ma
tive land to be your tailor. The truth of the
hagitation in the south comes from an op
position to the administration, and that
in itself, ought to be enough to kill 1t
The man at the head of the government
to-day is the foremost living American
and the only one the democrats have evel
been able to elect President since th'
war and 1 surely fail to see where he hai
shown any lack of consideration, or giveI
any evidence of prejudice against tn
southern people. The presence of thre
southerners in his cabinet should be denia
enough of any such insinuation."
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