The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-21
The Head of the Treasury.

Judged by Mr.. Carlisle's oratorical
effort of last night in the hearing or
his neighbors, the advocates OF free
coinage can meet the secretary of the
treasury at every turn of the road ana
throw him down; his speech. confessed
ly long In preparation. is a disappoint-
ment.
Mr.. Carlisle announces that he is not
a candidate for any office. That Is SIM
ply his recognition OF Mr.. Biackburn's
challenged is neither here nor there
to the larger public.
For a starter, Mr.. Carlisle denies that
there was anything surreptitious about
demonstration in 1873. Yet the charge
has been made. time and again on
the floor of the senate that the original
documents from the committee room
are and have been missing, and no
man has ever been able to account for
n manifest error in the proceedings.
| There was no thought of discussion OF
the proposed action in the press Of the
country. Sherman has never been able
to tell how 1t all happened. The people
| didn't know a thing about 1t. yet this
was one of the most important con-
| gressional transactions of modern
times. Senator after senator who was
| in office In 1873 has risen to the floor to
say that he voted for the measure un-
| der a misapprehension of its sweeping
| provisions. President Grant said that
he never would have signed the bill
had he realized it's import.
That old straw about the absence OF
silver from the currency for several
years following 1850 Is threshed by Mr..
Carlisle. 1t is John Sherman's stock
talk. He has been held up for it once
and again in the senate by men who
know that during those years silver
was at a premium to gold as the result
| of notorious events which every reader
of the Standard knows about, and that
IL was therefore out Of circulation.
Mr.. Carlisle goes squarely on record
as a gold monometallist. That Is can
did. he belongs In that class-his re-
| marks are consonant with recent an.
nouncements from administration cir
cles. President Cleveland was about
the first OF public men to admit as
much as does Mr.. Carlisle. and he did
that long ago. President Harrison
lodged, as did Thomas b. Reed and
Voorhees, and Mckinley and Hill anc
plenty of them. So have the nationa
platforms lodged. When a few NOR
of these lurking politicians get smoked
out, the silver men will know wha
they have to face. and this II am I
bimetaliist" subterfuge will have ha'
its run.
Mr.. Carlisle warns US that gold viii
go flying out OF the country IL fire.
coinage is decreed. because a cheape
currency always drives out n better
That is a phrase from the college text
. books-it states the truth. This poin
isn't original with Mr.. Carlisle. Blu
, the secretary begs the question. N
advocate of free coinage admits tina
silver is the cheaper currency
never was when It was left unhindere
IN this country to perform it's sovel
eirn money function and do IL In
sovereign way. OF course. silver car
not trot in the same class with gol
, as long as silver. by legislative actor
! "a made TO trot three-legged while gol
|. goes free. Take the embargo on of 81
. yer: remove the restraint that was ~
; upon Il by legislation which. let I
: say. was designedly wrong. II Mr.. Ca
: isle doesn't want TO admit that
|. was grossly dishonest.
our opinion Is that there would be
E bit OF a fiutter on the proclamation
Z the free coinage OF silver at the rat