The Caucasian., 1895-11-21
VS..
FREE SILVER
Why Free Coinage Of Silver Can
not Be Secured Through the
Democratic Party.
RECORDS, FACTS, OPINIONS
Which show the FAlsity and Hypoerisy
forms-The Views Of the People on the
Question OF the Day-what They Know
and What They think.

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the best article On why the Free
and Unlimited Coinage of Silver
Cannot Be Obtained Through the
Democratic Party."I
The first and foremost reason
why free coinage cannot be secured
through the Democratic party, is
that the New England element of
the Democratic party, are opposed
to the principles of protection of one
of the most essential productions of
Americas products-siloer
And this New England element,
are the Democratic party of the ma
ton. since the pivotal power of the
party is centered and
FIXED FOR ALL TIME TO COME
In that element aud location. This
being admittedly true, there will be no
laws placed on the statute books
of the United States that are in any
very material way Objectionable to
this supreme faction of the Demo-
cratic party, should they again re-
gain control of the legislative halls
of Congress "a thing | am skeptical
enough
TO THINK THEY NEVER WILL DO.
These conclusions are more or
less proved by the past actions of the
Democratic party when upon numer-
Gus occasions, having a majority in
both branches of Congress, they coted
do~n free coinage Of sitrer, when as q
party they were committed to it..
The Republican Senate, on one oc-
casion during Harrison's administra-
ton, to prove to the public the ut
ter insincerity and fallacy of the
claim that the Democratic party
were for FREE COINAGE OF SILVER,
passed a SIMPLE FREE COINAGE bill,
and sent it to the Democratic House,
AND THEY VOTED IT DOWN
killed it, as they had every other
free coinage bill that had come
before them.
Then in the last Congress, of which
the DEMOCRATS had COMPLETE CON-
troll of both branches of Congress
and of the executives in every de-
partment of the government, they
went forward on their prophet Cleve-
land policy and proved themselves
worse enemies to SILVER (and the
masses) than ever the Republican
party had. For when Popinjay
Cleveland and his Democracy went
into power, they found the Sherman
purchasing clause and coinage ac,
in force, that the REPUBLICANS
had left as ''her1tage to the peo
ple." This act provided for the
purchasing, by the government, OF
fifty-three million ounces of SILVER
YEARLY, and provided that COIN
CERTIFICATES should be ISSUED to
pay for such SILVER BULLION-these
coin certificates added.
FORTY TO FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR!
| YEARLY,
at a stage IN our existence when ad
ditional currency issue was mos
sorely needed. This law the Demo
Gratis hastened to repeal straight ou
and LEFT NO SUBSTITUTE, doing
worse THAN THE REPUBLICANS did
They repealed the only law that ad
ded anything more to our currency
depriving the people of forty t
fifty million dollars additional eacl
year;
DESTROYED THE ONLY STATUTE
that required ADDITIONAL ISSUE O.
SILVER AS MONEY, when they as
party and each Congressman as al
Individual were pledged to coinag
: of silver; while the Republicans il
! 1873 were not pledged to silver, bu
were avowed enemies of silver.
The Democratic party whll
pledged to coinage of silver kille
the Sherman purchasing act an
left no substitute, and in doing thi
violated the sacred right of the cor
stitution of the people, which DE-
clares that
GOLD AND SILL YER SHALL BE
the coin of the government.
Then when charged with destro,
. ing ALL COINAGE of SILVER, the
+ pop up their heads and look wis
' out of their eyes, feel in their pocl
S cts and pull out some silver BEAI
t ING DATE 1895, saying, "why. it
e not SO; you Pops can't tell the trut
: unless it is like you want it to be-
u here is silver coined in 1895 by Clev'
= lands administration
o Now the truth and fact is, tt
s Democrats "can't tell the truth VI
r less it is like they "want it to be
y These silver coins bearing date Is!
IS and 1895 that are IN circulation WEI
} put there practically before tt
), Sherman act was repealed, becau
= every grain of silver bulliu
d bought by the government, W,
3 paid for by coin certificates issue
j. for that express purpose, so that Il
o representative of all silver bullit
Is went into circulation when it W
: purchased, and the act provide
~ that so much of the silver bullion
20 was necessary to redeem these co
certificates, when demanded to
redeemed by the holders,
SHOULD BE COINED
10 and the same redeemed with su
D. coinage. Hence all the silver you s
m coined by Cleveland's crowd is coin
r, under the Sherman act, (Which tn
K: repealed the purchasing clause I
~ to redeem the coin certificates th
60 represent every dollar of silver bu
ne ne ion in the United States treasu
he that they can coin-thus the silv
III coinage of 1894 and 1895 was pr,
'e- tica)ly in circulation by the cert
mt cate representative long before it
lis WAS ACTUALLY COINED,
n
so they simply COINED the BULL
to exchange for the CERTIF1CA
n DOLLARS that were in circulate
"a on demand of the holders. and
not add oN1 penny to the circulate