Mohave County miner., 1895-06-15

The basis of the circulating medium can not be increased by gold Both metals would not be too much, and besides the output Of gold is substantially consumed in the arts. The increase of population and business is constantly drawing the cords of contraction tighter and tighter around the limbs of enterprise.
 Four-6fths of the American people, yea, nine.tenths, have been at heart m favor of restoring silver ever since the crime of 1873 was discovered, but the gold combination has seized every avenue of communication. The press and the telegraph belong to it. Four thousand national banks are it's agents, 5000 other banks and trust companies do it's bid ding Merchants and boar ds of trade are dependent upon the banks for accommo- dation and are clamorous in their praise of gold monopoly. Politicians and peo- pie high and low are in the money pow. CT, with the press and the millions of banks tor political purposes. The Presi- dent of the United States places 300, 0,000 offices at the service of the money power for political or other favor he receives Before such force any other people would he powerless, but the American people for more than hundred years have met and conquered every foe. They have always been equal to the emer gency.
 "Silver was demonetized by the republi. can party and the leaders of that party have labored in season and out of season to keep it demonetized. Tho great mass of the democratic party previous to the advent of President Cleveland was in favor of the famous act of 1873 demone. tizIng silver, as is shown by their uni form votes in both houses of congress But when the money powers discovered Cleveland they found an instrument to ,hwart the will of the democratic masses, and they lined valuable alley for sher. man and Harrison and other executive agents of the gold standard. The alarm and distress caused by the raid of the gold combinati on on the treasury in 1893 created forore which amounted to a political cyclone, which was directed by the firm hand of the executive against the two houses of congress. Many dem- ocrats fell before the blast, but the re- publcans sailed with the wind and the democrats, who were stranded by the violence of the storm, were swept back into the arms of the republicans of the two houses. Together they made a ma. jority to do the bidding of the money powers and to wipe from the statute book every law which recognized silver as money metal.
 "fhe people have at last taken this mat ter into their own hands. They now know that those who say they are friend- ly to silver, but want it restored without doing it them, elves, are enemies and cannot be trusted. No man is bi. metaliist who does not advocate bimet- allsm as 1t existed for thousands Of years before Sherman visited England in 1867, and before he carried out the purpose of an English syndicate to strike down silver in 1873.
 Conventions and the party lash have tn warted the will of the people for twen- ty years. Public plunder, venal press and ten thousand banks have dominated the conventions of all parties since the man from Buffalo took charge of the Democratic party. A majority to do the will of the gold monopolists has eas. fly been secured in the convention of both the old parties and multiplicity of issues bars the success of the Popu- lists. What are parties name without party principles? What is the Democra- tic party when it repudiciates Jefferson and Jackson and follows John Sherman? The Democratic masses are in favor of restoring the money of the Constitution. They are speaking out in every State and their voice is heard with dread by the enemies of the republic. A very large percentage of the Republican masses are equally true to the principles of free government with the Democratic masses, but the Republican leaders who worship at the shrine of gold monopoly are more numerous and powerful than the Demo. cratic leaders who work with them to maintain the gold standard. There are more Harrisons than Clevelands and more Shermans than Carlisles