Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-10-04

sued Declaration OF Independence
and that has been read to more or les.
attentive citizens, and aliens, evel
since, on the Fourth Of July, with
great gusto, by the elocutionary prod
ICY of every village in the United
States. 1t is printed along with the
federal statutes, and the statutes ol
the States. 1t is framed and hung
up and portraits oil their signers, fac
SMILES of their autographs. When
through nearly decade of war, trial
and tribulation those fathers succeeded
at last, in throwing off the CALLING
yoke of British bonding, they declared
in the basic law OF the land that the
silver dollar should be the cunt of
value" in our currency; by it our
other coins and currency should be
measured. But little by little, the
money lenders OF Europe, especially of
Great Britain, the particular power OF
which our forefathers declared this
nation free and independent-little by
little foreign usurers have gathered
this Republic in their gold-plated
tentacles, and octupus-like, are drag
ging us to where they can squeeze the
life out of us. They say: ave
don't care what your fathers declared
should be the unit of value, we declare
that your unit OF value shall be our
gold dollar. We declare that the
gold-bug by Britons in Australia, and
Africa, and elsewhere, shall be your
| money and shall be the standard by
which the American miners silver
shall be gagged and while we now
say that your American dollar is
worth only fifty cents, when we get
the bit in your mouth, and the whip
we'll in your hand, We will drive your
miner and his and your silver cur
rency to perdition, ut whatever gait
suits us best. Your Declaration of
Independence is farce. We control
your currency and by that we will
control you, in every other particular,
and if you think you are independent,
just 60 on thinking it. That won't
hurt us, and may flatter and fool you
little and thereby keep you in good
condition for harder driving. We will
furnish you with statistics proving to
you that you are getting along in
great shape, but we will make you
pay US interest in gold on your bonds
and we will make it harder for you to
pay gold, because we will destroy the
value Of half your money of final pay
ment and thus we will tighten the
tenacles around you and we have
plenty of hired statesmen of your
own to help corral you while we fasten
on to YOU"
No silver man in this country has
any desire to debase gold. The silver
people desire that the two metals
should remain as they have for the
last two hundred years, both standards
at parity OF 16 to THAT is, sixteen
ounces of silver shall be worth one
ounce of gold. The intrinsic value of
the two, based upon the amount OF
production, has thus stood for centur-
les, and when there has been slight
variation il has been in favor of silver
as the more valuable of the two at that
parity. And there is better reason
now that silver should be the more
valuable at that parity because ever
since the discovery of gold in Califor.
mia the percentage of production has
been greater in gold than in silver.
For the last three or four years the
mines OF our west have not produced
any silver to speak Of, and at all times
the gold product of our western mines
has been greater, in value, than the
product in silver. One OF the buga-
boos of the gold-bugs is the "silver
baron" OF Colorado, Nevada, Montana,
etc, who they pretend to fear, will
come in with train-loads OF silver and
', have it coined, while he waits, as boys
who ride sack of corn to mill waits
their turn. Moreover they pretend
that the silver baron" doesn't even
pay toll. Such shameless humbug.
gerry is an insult to the intelligence Of
the American people. The silver
miners of this country are also the
gold miners. Nearly every silver
mine in the great west produces gold
with silver, and the output of gold in
either of the three States named, has
been much greater in value than the
silver output. Besides, if America
should coin all the silver II can pro-
duce, or obtain in any way, outside OF
what is used in the arts, our mints
could not coin in ten years, silver
enough to make for us the same silver
per capita that France has to-day, and
yet France is a gold standard country.
Speaking OF per capita, that of France
is nearer genuine than anywhere else,
for the common people of France are
today the most prosperous peasantry
in the world. The gold standard there
il only in name because France isn't
owned by the usurers OF Lombard
street and she has no intervening Wall
street to help to beggar the producer.
Our gold.bug statisticians tell OF our
great per capita. On the contrary It'll
per capita on the principle that there
might be an acre lot full of us without
q dollar piece in our pockets,