New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-24
uONOUI TILLISTS AGTTIiING.

The Reform club now proposes 10 join the
President and he large body ~ oitcc-hodcrS in
concerted and systematic movement against
free coinage Of silver This club. 1t will be- re-
mcmbcr,d started ont TO reform the tariff, and
The net result # It's Efforts ana The efforts Of
President cleveland was tn" Ell Of sale AMI
Surrender the tariff of "pcrtidy and diShonor.
hacked from end To end with corrupt jobs and
fayors 20 monopolicS, dictated Ivy spectators IN
SUGAR and whiSkcy and for American labor about
the worst tariff known for half century. This
sucrimcn Of the Reform Clubs handiWork does
not encourage anybody 10 expect useful results
from its efforts in the monetary field ON the
contrary. il might be- expected that the club
would shout for gold monomctallism and then
sell out 10 the owners If silver mines. But hope
springs eternal. and the friends OF honest cur
rcncy will cling 10 the idea that some good may
vet be- done even by an organization many Of
whose members holly advocated The State bank
scheme ana The abolition Of grccnbackS.
Agitation on the coinage question is 10 be well
coined 4 great deal of II Will be- laundering and
mistaken Some Of 1t will BE- insinccrc and in
tended only to help III" party of Free Trade by
diyrrting public opinion from It's betrayal or
American industries. But the working millions
will not be- diverted much from question which
directly affects their employment AMI their
wares Moreover. agitation Of the coinage qucs-
tion viii only make ii less possible for the party
which elected Mr. Cleveland 10 support untcdly
any candidate for the Presidency next year. If
IFS frrc-conagc men control its conventions. as
* probablc Il will be made impossible 10 com
n,uI the votes of many of It's members for Il
condidntr 50 nominated. Or II the Adminstra-
tion and lis officers control The party conventions
bv thc 'pcrniclous activity" led lay the President
and not In this ease rcbuked. large share OF
fine former Democrats will be found o. the next
election supporting a Popullst candidate.
The Republican party Is not N present
troubling itself about the question OF coinage.
II stands. as party, nnyicldlngly opposed TO the
attempt to Mcxicanzc our currency, hostile To
every scheme by which the cost and loss result
inc from the decline Of silver would be unloadcd
ON thc United States. but unfnchlngly IN favor
Of international agreement for the largest prac-
ticabr use Of silver ~ money The language
which THE Ncw-Nork Herald" quotes from Pres
idcot UarrIson's speech mt la .Iunta last year
closely represents the feeling Of the republican
party ON this subject:
| say to you today what | said when / was fresI-
dent and what have always believed Ula' ''ibc'
rsn Of silver for money and free coinage Of silver
upon "A basis 10 b. agreed upon that would MAINTAIN
it's parity with god good for t'e "hoe "o'..i
do not believe that we could run ffee coinage our
selves when the European Governments were pun
ing the policy they have been pursui"s WIN S,,''''
But my fellow citizens. there are clear '"ueat,o'
now In England and IN Germany thA' 'ne' are 'se''