Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-06-06
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contract W pay In either money he chooses.
The law Of trade, the law Of fairness, the
law Of justice, requires that that right Of
option shall belong 10 the debtor and not the
creditor. II owe you thousand dollars,
II Is | who should have the option, II Is
who should have the right To say whether
will pay you In one or the other Of the law
ful moneys u this country. If the option
IL given IL pay debt either In silver or
gold. who should hold and who should en-
ercise that option? DO you say that the
creditor i entitled 10 ~ II so, Il Is no op.
ton nj all.
IL owe you thousand dollars and both
gold aud silver are good money under the
law Of the land, should not have the right
" discharge that debt or meet that obliga'
ton with either thousand dollars Of gold |
Or silyer2 No. says the gold advocate, the
right II option belongs Ia the creditor, and /
when you come ~ pay him thousand dol
lars he says give II 10 me In gold, and say |
| have not got Il, but have II In silver. |
You refuse 10 take that and send me OF ~ |
hnd n thousand dollars Ia gold. One Is as
much money ~ the other under the law.
hnd but one man who has thousand doll |
lars Ia gold, aud | am bound TO get II, 80 ]
am bound ~ take Il on his terms. am
bound 10 pay him what rate OF Interest he
sees ht 10 charge me, for under your right OF
option II is the only coin In which you are
willing 10 accept payment That Is unfair,
but the right Of option by the gold advocate
/, claimed b. tslOng ~ the debtor, and then
they say you must keep the silver and gold
al an equality Of value How CAT | when
YOU give the RICH, Of option b. the man "
whom the aebl Is due who demands the
dearer metal That increases the demand
for gold aud sends the price of gold up. Re
fusing 10 take silver lessons the demand for
silver aud sends the price Of silver down
lower. aud you force still wider apart In
value the two moacy metals In the country
But when you give the right Of option ~ the
man who pays the debt, either one nswers
bic purpose. lie At once says give me =
thousand dollars Ia silver. 1t pays my debt
~ we'll A. gold and IL Is easier money u get
control Of BY giving that right u option
IN favor 81 the debtor you maintain the
eauality in value between the metals by
increasing the demand for the cheaper
metal and lesscning the demand for the
dcarcr metal About proposition ~ plain
~ that there can he no controversy.
Hut II does not stop there. lie says BIT
metAlhsm never was maintained by any
people ! challenge the statement for lack
Of correctness. IL 10 not true. lie slaps
history ia the face who makes the state
lnent The history Of the world shows that
from SOB ~ 1879 France did maintain
successfully bimetAllism In it, truest and
hrosdcst sense. la that French realm sill
Yer and gold for seventy odd years hosted
on even terms Of value. History Of our
own country rcfates his statement, The
history of this people shows that from 1892
down ~ 1873 when the Republican Con
~ han Ia
lean majority IN both houses, Al the dead
hour u midnight. without warning ~ the
American people. without notice ~ this
contemplated assassination, killed silver.
For eighty-onc years the two metals IN
this land % ours with minis open 30 both
alike on even terms. had hoAted both ~ the
fuAl redemption money of the American
people. Who struck silver down have
told you. A Republican Congress, Re
publicsn by t~o-thirds majority In both
branches How wAs IL stricken down
Not openly aud IN the bright light Of day.
but Al the witching houruf Nottingham hour
dusi G,r 81 dsstsriilv AdSsi@v J..ih Stlast
crime 81 this or any other age by the pre-
ent Secretary Of the Treasury. OF whoever
Il was that made that speech ia the Fed.
eral Congress, was contaminated The
uttercr u that speech said the passage Of
that bill WAS the greatest crime Of that OF
any other age. aud that II was the culmins.
ton DIS conspiracy formed in this country
aud IN kuroPe 10 bring upon the human
family more suffering, more torture and
poverty than all the wars and pestilences
aud fsmines thst the world had ever known.
why was silver stricken down by these
peoplei Had Il ever been demanded No.
sir defy the man who lives TO put his
finger upon u single political platform,
state or national any party, Republican,
Democratic. Populist Nomsns suffrage.
Prohibition. Farmers Alliance, or any
other platform that ever demanded the
decentralization Of the silver metal. No
body had ever asked tor IL
Was u because the metal was not a good |
money metal You know better. The |
very day that Il was deinonetized IL com. |
manded premium over gold over the |
counters OF every bank within the limits |
of your land. IL commanded = premium |
OF per cent. over gold over the counters /
OF your bank here in this State and town
IL was more popular with the people than
gold. Ii always had been the money Of the |
people. The people had never demanded
it, taking oh. The people had never eH-
pressed dissatisfaction with II. For four
thousand years 1t had breasted in the van.
guard Of humanitys progress. Ia times Of
both peace and war il had been the faithful,
tried and trusted friend Of the toiler. You
had sen, 1t forth in times Of carnage and
from 1861 10 1855 1t armed and fed and
clothed the soldiers Of your army. 1t
passed through that fiery ordeal and at the
conclusion Of hostilities it came back u
you with its shining face unblottcd and I'M
furnished. In peace it had been your main
stay and in war II WAS the metal upon
which you relied for gold is a cowardly
money. When the first shot ratified from
the forts Of Charleston against the walls of
RI. Sumter this cowardly, craven golden
metal took its flight from among the moneys
OF the country and hid itself away. ZAP
plsuse,)