The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-24

| declaring that the secretary of the trea-
| sury was, previous to his connection
with Grover Cleveland. and out and out
| silver man of the free coinage stamp.
In the discussion of this silver question
| the Eagle desires to be truthful and
candid. In stating purported facts
we are careful as TO our authority. Until
| very lately it was never denied that Mr..
| Carlisle was very extreme silver
| man. He not only politically talked
| the free coinage of silver but officially
voted for it. He was a silver man
the summer he spent in Wichita. Mr..
| Carlisle has simply changed front as
| everyone can ascertain by Overhauling
| the Congressional Record. As late as
1890 Mr. Carlisle was an enthusiastic
advocate of unlimited free coinage of
silver and in a speech he predicted the
direst results to the values, TO the in
dustrieS and TO the commerce of this
country, in fact limited at revolution
unless the wrong of '13 was righted.
On June 18th, 1890, w. NJ. Smith of
Mayfeld. KY, wrote Mr.. Carlisle for
an authoritative statement of his posi-
ton over his own signature, Mr.. Smith.
being a warm friend and admirer, and
now United States district attorney
on Mr.. Carlisle's recommendation. The
charge had been made during the can
yass of that year that Carlisle had
voted against silver. The following is
the concluding paragraph to Mr.. Car
isles letter of reply, which was pub
lished at the time in the Kentucky
papers:
when the original house bill was under
consideration in the senate l voted to
amend it so as TO provide for the free and
unlimited coinage of the silver dollar, and
that amendment was adoptd. The house,
however, refused to agree to this amend
ment, and then a conference committee
was appointed which struck out free coin
age entirely, and this is the bill / voted
against. l send you by mail all three of
the bills. Yours truly.
81. G. CARLISLE"
But Mr.. Carlisle made some more
silver history, years previous to the
writing of the above letter. On the
floor of he house in 1873, in 4 speech,
he predicted the untold evils to which
We allude in the first paragraph above.
Amonk other things he said, Il know
metals is none too large, and 1 see no
reason to apprehend that it will ever
be So" And again, further along,
mankind will be fortunate, indeed, if
the annual production of gold and sill
yer shall keep pace with the annual
increase of population, commerce and
industry" In the same connection he
charged that conspiracy had been
formed in America and Europe to de-
stroy. by legislation, One-half of the
metallic money Of the world, declaring
that ''the consumation Of such gigan-
tic crime would ultimately entail more
misery upon the human race than all
the wars, peStilences and famines that
ever occurred in the world"
The above is strong language, and
his own, every word Of it. But in
closing his argument he grew more en-
phatic and graphic. In one notable
sentence he declared that ''the absolute
and instantaneous destruction of half
the entire movable property of the
world, including houses, ships and rail
roads, while it would be felt more SEN
sibly at the moment, would not pro-
duce anything like the prolonged dis
tress and disorganization of society
that must inevitably result from the
permanent humiliation of One-half of
the metallic money of the world"
To our critic. and to every subscriber
who read the begging speech delivered
on Monday night last in Covington,
Ky, by Mr.. Carlisle, we submit that
indeed, as he charged, it looks very
much as if a conspiracy had been
formed not only, but that it had sue
cessfully captured him and Golden
Growers entire administration.