The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-01-04
cONFINE THE QUESTION

The following is from the Raymond
Gazette aud expresses our sentiments
so completely that we reproduce 1t:
Elsewhere appears n communica-
ton In which the writer undertakes
to combat the position assumed last
week by the Gazette In urging that
the silver question be not allowed TO
cut any figure In the personal canvass
OF the gentlemen who will next year
appear before the people as candi-
dates for governor.
In the editorial alluded to the Ga
zctte made it plain that Mississippi
had no gold mines or silver mines,
coined no metal into money and was
empowered to issue no currency, not
even simple warrants on her treasury,
except under certain conditions;
therefore 1t would be sheer folly to in
ject the question OF national finance
into the canvass for governor that
the Governor of Mississippi, or any
other State, for that matter, might
use the combined power OF his Office
and be totally unable 10 do either the
advocates OF silver or those who clam
4 or for gold alone one iOta Of service or
harm. 1t is something he has abso-
lutely nothing to do with. 1t Is as
foreign to his duties as Is the Behring
Sea fishery matter.
But, says our correspondent, ''either
Of u Senators Is likely to die, and
would II be right for Mississippi, a
doHble-standard State, to be repre-
sented by a gOld-standard SENATOR"
True, one or both our Senators might
succumb to the inevitable at an mop
perfume moment, but the chances are
just about equal that the blind
frenzy Of those who nov seek to make
!, the silver question the One and only
issue before the American people, will
sooner die and be forgotten, and when
it does, and reason is restored, the
practical sensible business men and
trained ~financlers Of the country cal
get together, leaving passion and
! prejudice and envy in the background
, and study out a cOmmOn-sense s0lu'
tiOn to the perplexing difficulties that
, now present themselves.
: The financial question Is one OF
great intricacy and complication. 1t
has bafied the integrity OF the wlses,
statesmen and philosophers OF al
ages and all countries ; and to-da" NJ
!, two men are perfectly agreed on thu
Z subject. In times pas numerous
=. plans have been devised and tried,
! some atfOrding temporary relief b,
restoring business confidence anC
) quickening the channels of trade
! Others bringing disaster and ruin In
their wake. No living man. no mar
who ever lived, can or could foretel
5 with certainty the ultimate effect o
e any proposed financial scheme. 1t II
Z altogether an experiment-based on
e business principles, it is a true. bu'
none the less an experimentation
must be tried by the crucial test o
time before its success or failure Cal
, be recorded.
j Then what folly is it for men whit
understand only the rude details o
such a complex system to try an(
persuade their less informed brother.
that the free coinage of silver is para
mount to every other question /; that
1t alone will bring the blessings al
men desire, aud that the governor
even OF "A small State like our own,
can issue his cdict, stamp his foot,
and thus compel congress and the
president to do his bidding.
If those who are so crazy on the
subject of silver are in earnest, and
want to see a test vote to settle the
attitude of The party in this State,
let n be taken next year, separate
AMI apart from the primaries wherein
candidates for the various offices are
nominated. Or, let the Senator to be
' e'n'ted no next legislature be
et for the sake
1T a free
nor,
ca