Mohave County miner., 1895-04-20
FREE COINAGE,
U. s. sEsAr

U. =. SENATE,
WASHINGTON, ID O., June IL, 1894. {
Ny DEAR SIR: Your invitation come
at = moment when congrsss rean,ree IN
attendance Of Its members. l should b
glad 10 accept IL, for We have entered
troubled time and We need mutual coup
eel and support; but whatever am TO sa
can be laid only in writing.
This is not moment for stimulatin
bitterness or infaming passions. w
need all our powers OF iorbearance an,
self-consrol. Let Us give credi, TO our on
ponrnts q, least for good intentions, eve,
though they give no credit to us. AL
Europe and all America are in trouble
Everyone admits that the world stand
on the edge Of evolution-social and 10
litical; bnt everyone shrinks from 1t
Neither north nor south, neither east no
vest, neither capitalist nor laborer, w,eb
es to create caste or classes or 10 spresc
mifery, oppression, or violence. We nj
see danger before us. We ali desire tc
avoid IL. Our only dispute 10 about the
path.
To those of US who have had chiefly In
mind the struggle between silver and gold
that is The question which, for the mo.
ment, presses hardest. The single vold
standard seems to Us to bs working ruin
with violence that nothing can stand. II
its influence In to continue tor the future
vt the rate Of it's action during the twenty
years since the gold standard took posses.
sion Of the world some generation, not
very remote, will see in the broad cont
nent OF America only half dozen over.
grown cities keeping guard over a mass Of
capital and loaning IL out TO population
VI dependent Isborers on the mortgage of
their growing crops and unfinished handi
work Such sights have been common
enough in the worlds history; but against
It we sll rebel Rich and poor alike; re.
publicsns. democrats. populists; labor
and capital; railways, churches and COL
leges-all alike, and all in solid good
faith, shrink from such future as
that.
This agreement Is the best part Of the
situation. At least we can be sure that
no one is deliberately conspiring sg ,inst
our safety. Even on the burning ground
OF silver and gold W. agree in principle,
No party and no party leader has even
approve Of the single standard. Not
one American in hundred believes in it.
We are more unanimous in hostility to it
than We are on any other question in
politics. A vast majority in all parties
agree that the single gold standard has
been, is, and will be. y national disaster
Of the wors: kind. What is still more
strange, almost the whole world sympa.
thizes with ~. Nine tenths OF mankind
are hostile to the single gold standard.
Our 70,0O0,OO0 people are unanimous
against 1t. Most Of the great European
nations and their governments dislike it.
South America rejects il. The whole of
Asia knows only silver, and India, which
contains ve.sixths Of all the subjects Of |
the British Grown, is as hostile to it as
ourselves. Yet the bankers Of London
have said that we must submit, and we
have submitted.
So strange spectacle has never been
seen in our history. Argument. and even
The compuIsive proof brought by world.
vide ruin, seems to be helpless against
this astonishing power. What is the use
Of argument when We are all convinced,
and when at least nine. tenths OF the civil
ICED and uncivilized world agree? En-.
gland holds us to the single gold standard
by the force Of her capital alone, more
despotically than she could hold US to her
empire in l776 The mere threat of her
dlspleasure peralyses mankind.
The m ost instructive point Of all 10 that
our great majority. consists ofthe interests
in the world which have been from time
immemorisl reckoned ss the safest and
most conservative.
The whole agricultural class; the whole
class or classes of small proprietors, the
farmers that make the bulk and sinew Of
our race; the artisan whose interests are
bound no in the success Of our msnufac.
turers; all these join hands with what is
left Of their old enemies, the landed aris-
tocracy Of Europe. to protest against q
revolution made for the benefit Of money
lenders alone.
On the other hand, that revolution is
more radical than any which has been
by rroiessed revolutionists.
Had all the despotic governments that
have existed for Thousand years united
their intelligence TO set class against class,
10 oreed corruption, to stimulate violence,
and to shatter the foundations Of society. I
hey could have invented no device more {
effective than this decree which at one q
stroke doubled the value OF capital, de- {
,troyed the value Of industry. and swept 8