The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1895-08-29
GOLD BUGS IN A PANIC
Restore The Silupr Of Our DaddieS,
Is fhe CRY.
GOfd Theorists Frightened by ThiS
Popular CE.y OF the People for H2i-
Nrtnii-m-fsOid Mono VI ctaltsts
EnSolcnt Toward Free Conn
age of SILVER Advocates.

Exchange editors Of all newspapers
that is, those of the staff charged with
the delicate duties of daily examining
the whole press of the Union and clip
ping from journals of all shades the
tone of public sentiment regarding poll
tics, finance, education and topics Of
passing inte1est-agree that not the old
slavery question nor the tariff question
has so aroused public attention in all
sections Of the country as the pending
questions concerning the future of sill
yer coinage and the restoration Of a
joint metallic standard.
1t was the action of President Pierce
and his cabinet toward territorial slav-
cry that really intensified the feeling
which six years later resulted in the
election Of Lincoln, and it is the action
of President Cleveland in regard ogold
1nonometallism that has intensified pub
lie attention to the great national wrong
which was perpetrated by the demon
etization Of silver and by the fresh at
tempt to still further discredit that
metal for coin. Like as the rising feel
ing Of the north in favor of antislavery
excited the southern press and orators
to angry recrimination and threats, SO
the rising feeling i'll favor Of the con-
stitutional rights Of silver currency
seems to excite the alarm and threats Of
the advocates of the Cleveland gold
standard. So that of late newspaper
organs of gold monometallism have
turned their original insolent and con-
temptuous tone used toward silver ad-
vocates into threats and some pretense
of argument, which demonstrates that
they begin to appreciate the courage,
logic and precedents Of their silverite
opponents, and to be alarmed at the in
creasing opposition among the electoral
masses to the specious plans Of the gold
interest for "sound money"
Already political banners at the west
echo the popular cry, if homely, yet elo-
quent, "Restore the silver dollars Of our
daddies" There are yet living mer-
chants and tradesmen who knew the
financial times preceding 1878, when sill
yer coin stood on equal terms with gold
coin, and yet scarcely one of those vet
erans is follower of President Cleve-
land and his foreign allies i'll promotion
of the single gold standard and single
affirmation of legal tender money.
In the revolutions of the whirligig of
time the Republican party has gone back
upon the financial plank of the last Har-
rison platform. That plank is now re-
turning to plague the Republicans. And
it will do no harm at the threshold of
a new political campaign for Democrats
to remind their opponents of that plank,
which was stolen from Jeffersonian and
Jacksonian books, and which constituted
the only popular leaf that the Republic
an campaign book Of 1892 had. It was
as follows:
The American people, from tradition
and interest, favor bimetallis1n and de-
mand the use of both gold and silver as
standard money, with snch restrictions
and under such provision, to be deter
mined by legislation, as will secure the
maintenance Of the parity Of values of
the two metals, SO that the purchasing
and debt paying power of the dollar,
whether of silver, gold or paper, shall
be at all times equal. New York
Mercury.