The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-23

perlty. You can tax man into pros
perity. and / don't think any man
would be made prosperous merely by
removing the tax on him. They told
us a few years ago that. if we would
roll the silver cloud away, there would
flow in from the old world a volume of
gold that would overflow our Golfers
Well. we repealed the sherman act and
waited for the tide.
Then those same toople went Lefore
the people last fall and said IL was the
Wilson tariff bill which was blighting
the country. That was the talk that
Mckinley made in my district Yet
Mckinley recently declared that he
would not accept a nomination IL
free silver plank was 10 be in the plat
form, and he would leave the party II
1t dared to insert such a plank Yet he
claimed last fall that the tariff was
TO blame for all the trouble. not sill
yer. And my friend on the other side.
Mcclure, was equally decided in his
language. | made a proposition TO
settle the tariff by a tariff commission.
similar to the civil service commission,
so as TO get the question out of politics
so far as possible. This is the only
country where the tari1f question is
made distinctly a political question.
But the congressman TO whom /
broached the bill, while they said it
| was good thing, would not think of
/ it. They wanted the tariff question to
elect them.
Something is the trouble. and il is
not the tariff. Some people have been
telling us for 20 years that the trouble
is the money question. and we are be-
ginning TO believe II. 1t is a funda-
mental principle of political economy
that the volume Of money i'm a nation.
coupled with the extent of commercial
transactions, fixes the price of pro-
ducts. From this / adduce four axi-
oms:
First-Double the money and you
double the prices.
Second-Divide the money and you
divide the prices.
Third-DoubIe the money and you di-
vide the debt.
Fourth-Divide the money and you
double the debt
We have divided the money and we
have divided the prices. and we have
doubled the debt.
We have had two years of a gold
standard. and we are beginning to
think il is about time for every man
who has been blessed by its operations i
to go over TO the monometallic ranks. 1
| think with them that il is time to .
tear off masks and subterfuges. There /
will be but two parties in lS96-one tho
party Of the single gold standard and
the other the party Of the American
people There are two parties, one rep
resenting the greed. selishness and
aNericiousness, the darker passions of
human hearts. while the other en-
braces humanity and all the essential
stW afnal.
going TO pick your party. Which shall
it be?"
a Noice-"The populist party"
on that subject l refer you to Gen.
eral Warner, who will speak a little
later. feel proud of the populists on
one account-it is the only party that
has thus far declared itself out and out
on the money question. But there are
other parties that will do II. The trou-
Die with the populist party is that Il
needs more votes to elect a president
than the populist party has.
we have a gold standard in this
country. There was one in ancient
days. You read about il i'm the third
chapter Of Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar
made gold image and declared that IL
any failed TO worship IL they would be
cast into burning. fiery furnace
Read Cleveland's letter to Gov Stone ,
OF Missouri If you want a parallel |
Read little further. too. in Daniel
and you see where Nebuchadnezzar got
down to his level ultimately. He got
out and ate grass with other people for
seven years"
The speaker then referred to Car
isles recent utterances and read from ,
the Congressional Record to show ,
what his views were i'm 1878. He said .
at that time the conspiracy which
seems TO have been formed here and in
Europe to destroy one-half Of the [
NwnPlnfG mo Ia h..
gantic crime of this or any other age"
IF II was crime then" continued {
the speaker, is II not less a crime now n
than when he uttered this philippic?' =
THE bill was passed but President
Hayes vetoed IL. Then Carlisle said I 9
the struggle must not cease until the {
country is emancipated from he syn i
iicates, stock exchanges aud other /
Of money grabbers He y
was willing to stop all the wheels Of 7
he government IL he could not get ius- :
ice for silver any other way.
I'VE are bimetallists in the east be '
'ause our factories are idle, our mort a
sages are being fOreclosed and failures s
ire on every hand. and the reason v
yiven by assignees for bank failures Is n
he depreciation in value Of securities. .
( the demonetization OF silver has not
aused the farmer TO lose one-half the q
'alue Of all his wheat then there is
lothing in this silver question" <
The speaker showed at length the "
elation Of the money question 10 the Y
rice Of wheat. He described the pres :,
dents recent financial transaction :,
With the Rothschilds. when ne sold -
onds for l0iia which were worth that el
ay on the market 119i5. Cleveland u
ave as his reason for selling them so cl
heap that he was afraid the country d
rould slip to a silver basis The. u
peaker declared that il you take Eng I,
ind's financial system you must take :,
highlands wage system eventually. -
In concluding, Mr. Sibley said that a 81
w years ago he made a speech In W
.ansas telling the people Of the vari- a
rs kind Of bugs they are afflicted with pl
nd declaring that the goldbug is the al
orst Of all. But we are troubled m
ow," said Mr.. Sibley. with a worse II
lg than the goldbug. That is the .