The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-05-31
TRUE N Oh NONE.

The impetus given TO the dissent
nation OF sound money principles by
the convention at Memphis is enough
to cause all opponents OF false money
much rejoicing.
The lucid, logical argument OF Sec
rotary Carlisle, Invested as IL was Of
all metaphor, should strike conviction
to the hearts of all doubling Thorn
asses. We can afford to overlook the
historical Illustrations, the precedent
attempts to force the value of either
metal and the inevitable, invariable
failure of those attempts, and bring
ou rsclves down to a simple question
Of honesty. This is the keynote to
Secretary Carlislc's address. The
U. S. Government mustQuit the bank
ing business, but it must not substl-
tute for it's banking a system Of high
way robbery. Nobody questions, no
body doubts the power OF the govern.
ment to float either tin dollars or
silver dollars at ten times their value,
but where lies the difference between
this policy and that of the foot-pad,
who compels your acquiesence in his
demands simply because his revolver
is in your teeth, or that of the pre-
determined assignOr who buys a mer-
chants goods at a price with a view to
selling out to his wife! We cannot dis
tinguish the invisible line which d.
vides the processes. The government
is honest only so long as II makes no
misrepresentation regarding its as
sets F: it is solvent only when these
assets are so far superior to its liza
bilities that the assets can stand
some shrinklge-and such ~shrinkage,
too, as the assets may be called upon
to encounter by the conditions sur
rounding them. Under no other cir
cumstances is a mercantile firm or an
individual solvent: and the same
laws of business apply to nations as
do to corner grocery stores. They
are laws of truth, and truth is as
jealous of a little lie as it is of a big
one, as intolerant of unfairness in a
king as in a peasant, as stern, and
Sterner too, to national mendacity as
it is to private falsehoOd.
No man dare contrOvert the asser'
ton that IS pounds Of silver are not
worth one pound Of gold, and the bold
effort to meet it by vOtes-it cannot
be met by lOgic-warrants the efforts
Of the true bimetallists in their agita-
tationS of the subject.
Does anybody want the q. 5. GOV.
crnment to stamp our eagle on a lie :
Does any American want the emblem
Of liberty to blush with shame because
her sacred face is used to breed luStre
to a coin that says 81 am a good
coin :" when all the world knows that
1t is a base one? No! No!
In an article of this nature it is not
necessary to cite and recite all the
arguments pro and con to put before
the people all the statistics and his.
torical presidents so luminOusly pre-
sented by Carlisle and others. 1t is
Jul plONlhCC w pOIiu ouh w uuC pco,
pie the dishonesty Of the thing, and
we get at the gist of it with one
query-what would you think Of a
grocer who gave you IS ounces of ba'
con when you had paid him for two
pounds?
Many of the free unlimited (thcst
are mighty words) coinage Of silver
are misguided and not dishonest. Let
these honest men pause IA moment
and think how many times grea1
promises have been fulfilled. 1t i!
not we'll to set upa sign of "Cure al
for everything" and this the mine
owners of the West have done. Sucl
IA sign is not apt to stand long enough
to rot, it is more apt to be torn dowr
by an angry mob whose credulity ha'
been played upon until the dawn o
day put out the lights Of "lgni'
fatnus.n
Follow your Governor, men of Mis-
sissippi, and you will not 60 wrong.