The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-01
THE nousE-rLY AND FREE SILVER.


Observations OF the career of the or
binary house-ny will furnish good Illus
tratiom of the course Of tnfse popular
crazes which take posses sion Of the puohc
mind from time 10 time. In the early
summer. the fly is growing 10 his career.
Cold nights, long spells Of wet weather
are poworlcss TO arrest his course. lie
comes cut OF each with renewed life and
energy. still more persistent, pestiferous
everywhere. But as September APP
breaches his career is run and he is slow
IS but surely descending to the grave.
7 he last week was one Of the hottest
Richmond ever know, but its heat brought
nc renewal of life 10 the housc-iiy. We
were oppressed All distressed by most
oxhausting weather. but we had the salts
faction Of enduring orr lot without the
attentions OF the fly.
The nys career is entirely typical OF
that Of free silver. a few Yeas back IL
was upon ;ts upward marca. and nothing
seemed able to impede thai mat 4. Re
verses went for nothing. ava obstacles
we're pushed aside Free silver spread
itself rosisiIcssly out amongst the peo-
pie and wherever there was .. head with
a soft spot upon IT. free silver found mat
lead and settled upon that spot. But
free silver has now run its course and
come TO its decline There may be Pubic
meetings, there may he shouts, there may
be resolutions that cover the whole field
cf human action. but free silver Is dying.
and this and the rest can no more tut
new life into It than the hot sun OF last
week could revive The fly.
These are thoughts that the people q
Virginia would do we'll 70 occupy item
selves with now. The Legislature that is
elected in November, 1897, will select the
successor to Senator Daniel In the United
States Senate But twenty senators arc
to be elected this fall, and they will hold
over and form part of the Legislature
elected in 1891 Constituencies IN some
of the senatorial districts are passing
resolutions calling upon their Senatorial
Conventions to instruct their nominees TO
vote for Senator Daniel as his o"n cue
cessor These constituencies are really
instructing for free silver in passing these
resolutions.
But they should remember that 1897 is
a long way off and that a presidential
election will come on in the mean time
in November, 1ss6-which will stamp free
silver out of existence. They should re-
member the case OF the house-iiy and
bear in mind that free silver is now in
the ny's condition as September ap-
proaches The recent action of various
state conventions should teach them that
as far as the nation is concerned. while
the protest at King William Courthouse
anG the article published on Friday from
the stanton News shoull teach them
that free silver's descent to the silent
tomb has set in in Virginia also.
Free silver will 20 on. down, down,
down, from this time forward, in Viz
einia, in spite of all the resolutions that
all the public meetings can pass, ami
VIXEN November 1897, arrives. it will Re
a naked carcass upon the hifh road OF
life that all mankind will look on with
horror and disgust. wondering how IT
ever could have established that sway
over weak minds even, that it once held.
We suggest to our country friends, there
fore, to call a halt with their resolutions.
Let them wait until 1891 to Instruct their
senators. If they then desire Senator Dan
lei to say en- the 1oor of the United
States Senate that they favor coming iif-
ty cents worth OF silver into dollar
Il will then be time enough for them TO
instruct their senators and representa-
tives to vote for him to succeed himself
But when November. 1897, comes, they
VII be ashamed of ever having been VIC
tins of the free-siver delusion and those
now passing free silver resolutions WI
devoutly wish there was no such record
to rise up and confront them.
Cease these untimely resolutions. there
fore. II will be time enough to pass
them in November, 1897. If you still wish
to pass them.
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THE STAR SEEMS TO APPROVE.