San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-23
THE GREAT FIGHT
FOR SOUND MONEY is NOT WON
YET.
Chairman Schwab Says the Silver
Poison ID Distilled by Agitat-
ors and Demagogues.

tav Ill. Schwab, who has been d.
recting the Cham Der of Commerce
crusade against the silver agita.
ton sailed for Europe on the 2lst.
Mr.. Schwab thus outlined the pres
emit status Of the silver situation:
"The outlook for the ultimate
triumph Of sound money ideas is
encouraging, but we have a great
deal of work yet to do before sue
cess is assured. The free silver
people have changed their tactics,
and instead of holding conventions
and expanding all their energy in
talk and noise, they are quietly
forming clubs and organizations In
ever city and hamlet in the hope
OF capturing the next Con-
gress and President. Hereaf-
ter, instead of using their lungs,
they will try to secure legislation.
Here in the east the general opinion
Is held that the silver craze is a
thing of the past. This opinion 1
believe to be entirely wrong, for
although the business men in the
cities and towns OF the west and
south on the whole can now be re-
garded as sound on the question
(the silver states, of course, except
ed, the farming population, the
factory operatives and working
classes have become so imbued
with the false doctrines circulated
through silver publications and ex-
plotted by politicians and dema-
gogues that vote taken, for ex-
ample in the manufacturing dis
tricts of Ohio, would undoubtedly
show formidable majority in IA
vor of the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to l by this
country, without reference to in
ternational action. The condition in
the manufacturing towns of Ohio
is paralleled by many cities and
towns in other states, and as for
the farming population it is only
necessary to refer to the over
whelming defeat of sound money
in Mississippi. Missouri is about
as bad, and the sentiment among
the farmers in other states in the
south and west is the same.
SAT our very door, in Pennsyl-
vania, we find the leading states
men in that State working for free
silver, and the senior Senator will
ing to jeopardize the ind ustrial in
terests in his State in order to be-
come a presidential candidate on
the free silver ticket. The dema.
goguds and politicians are using
the craze for their own selfish per-
sonal advantage and notoriety, and
even many honest men Of supposed
character and reputation who are
candidates for State and local off,
ces do not hesitate to bow to the
silver idol and to sacrifice their
own conscience in order to secure
their immediate political future.
Not only are secret societies being
formed In various parts of the
country under the name of "Silver
Knights" the idea being to
propagate free silver fallacies
through regularly constituted
lodges, but the silver craze is bud
ding in other quarters, in the for
nation Of bimetallic leagues,
which are passing the hat for con-
tributions to foster the free silver
cause. At the bottom Of this free
silver agitation there Ia nothing
else but the socialistic hatred Of
capital and individual property,
and disguise 1t as they may, the
leaders, know that it is through
appealing to the ignorant preju-
dices of the uneducdted that they
have gained so many converts.
1.-THE struggle against these
powers OF darkness Is not over, and
the friends Of sound money in this
country must make up their minds
to organize for determined effort
to put down once for all the socia-
listic spirit Of fiatism that Is being
appealed to by the silver men
through campaign of enlighten-
ment and education that will
show our misguided fellow citizens
where their true interests lie."