The Van Buren press., 1895-06-08
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Col NJ g. Gaflowsy. OF
Memphis hzving been invited to
address the Bim<tsliie League ss
Memphis next week and not feel
ing able 10 speak addressed .
letter 10 the committee from
which We extract - fellows:
Fortunately, the negro eses-
ton no longer me1zees the Soath-
AL parties and the people Of ali
sections have at Lzss learned that
when tie good Lora created the
little planet Ee IEkz5is and sent
il revolving sr01zd the saa- be
wrote across the sky with his
uaerriHx fingers II letters Of ire.
that the negro eoald never rule
the Csaeassza race. aud thas il l.
utterly impossible for any
sectional or parsisza legislation TO
change she Timetable DEGREES OF
the eternal God AT the saDe
tine. the Alnigksy stored away in
His espae5ozs vzElis-tke eegeis
al the exsh-gold aud silver for
the use Of His creatures For
nix thousand years both metals
have been ELnEsseRiug TO the
van;s Of the people They are =
part Of 0ar civilization. With
the circulation Of gold and silver
af the ratio of I6 to l for nore
than half . century, the country
prospered. eaistripped all other
uasiOns In the race to greatness.
None of the Presidents. from
Washinx.oa down to Benjamin
Harrison, ever seat . message TO
Congress recommending = single
standard or proposing to disturb
tie ss:;e under which the country
had prospered- Without warning
and at . time when not . single
voice had been lifted for the
demonstration of silver, the
disastrous act Of 1878 was sur.
reptitiously passed. Party leaders
endeavored to wash their hands
Of all responsibility for the crime,
and from that day to the conven-
ling Of the extraordinary session
| Of Congress in 1895, all parties
declared that gold and silver
should constitute the primary
money Of the country withou.
discriminating against either. Ii
has been only . few months since,
that the gold bags announced tha;
they we're in favor Of nonometai.
Iisn. They reached this position
| by SLOW degrees and With all the
caution that an elephant feels his
ssy over . fril bridge; and nov
having unfarled the single gold
standard, they are trying to
sustain their position by repeating
every day the ssupeadous false
hood that they we're driven to
gold nononetAllisn because We
hvorrd silver uoaometzIlisn.
The friends of silver are doing no
saeh thing They SIMPLY insist
spon the restoration Of silver to
that place in our money system
which It oceaPsed for nearly .
century prior 70 It's denoBesiEa-
ton We did not have silver
mcnometallisn prior TO 1878. and
the restoration of silver 10 its
former place viii not give Is
silver noeouesAIEsm now. We
are unesuivoeally bimetaIlisss- jus,
~ mach opposed to silver
monometalIism rs We are to gold
Mouo1etaIfisl- We 90 before
the eoantry with the gold bugs
sdvocAsing the single gold
standard and the friends of silver
insisting upon the use Of both
gold and silver as the reden p.ion
money of the country In avord.
the issue is immediate restoration
or perpetual characterization. The
people are ready for the struggle.
The SKY is nov cleared, the issue
ID plain The gold standard
advocates are for gold monnetal-
lism straight out, against silver
strzight out, and the lines are
dissin ely drawn
There il much talk about
educating the people They have
already been educated in the
bleak and desolate school of
adversely. In the South and
West they are solid for the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver as the ratio of 16 to 1. and
We must see to il that silver
delegates be sent from every
county TO our state conventions.
and that only silver delegates be
seat 10 the national Democratic
convention There il no hope
for silver ogsside Of the Organized
De@ocrxey- The life ofthe party
based On = single issue rould
DC epAeaseral ~ the life Of the
six woru- Thiea, after spinning
its task Ays Ia ezxs aud dies }
PARTY wIth . s5sgse issae Is
pgspazssEozz and aosGrd. and
would be regarded a. a side saos
in the struggle between the two
great political parties which
have eonfruztssi each other for
forty years and xko I'll stTEl
eoafroas each other IN the nex-
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