The Forrest City times., 1895-07-19

redeemed;'f we cannot get AN actual
gold dollar fur each token silver or
paper dollar. the latter two would 90
to discount and fall below par with
the actual dollar.
The fact Is we have not gold enough
10 serve as this reserve fund to redeem
the token money now In circulation.
Let us cast ourselves loose from this
delusion of parity. let US make silver
as primary money Of rrdrmptiou.
Make II legal tender for all debts. pub.
nc and private, include interest upon
bonds aud in payment OF customs.
Let gold have an equal chance il
circulate side by side with silver. but il
" leaves us. let II go.and JOY he with IL.
The time creditor becoInes most inn
Fortunate. and wants his money worse
IL when he thinks his debtor j. run.
ming scarce of funds. hut " the debtor
has plenty, the creditor smiles and
says paw a, your own convenience, but
let US sell you another bin of goods
today. just so with ruld. the credit
ors know We have not got u. and that
makes them want II very badly. In
our silver dollar is guod money for the
piowholder IL Is honest money for
the bondholder. for after thorough
search through all IN. last thirty wears
of unNise and experimental legislation
and tinkering with our bnances | can
find no case wherein this government
obligates itself TO pay any contract in
gold and gold only. aud IL II only by "A
false construction Of the laws that our
government pays ont gold In an nm
ending and hopeless struggle to perms-
nently maintain "A parity or equal value
OF the silver, and gold dollars.
III our gold goes to other lands. il
Will become more plentiful with them,
the element Of scarcity will not be so
great. its value will decrease. some Of
1t will return tn this country and be
received only at par with silver.
Ihis Is not monometallism, for we
shall have the tive metals upon an
equal footing. We shall make no pref
erence of one over the other. But
whether gold will circulate AS freely
with us AS silver. we do not know. nor
To tell the truth do we care dem
nltion.bow-wOw. Like the young lover
who, being refused the privilege of see
ing the young lady home from church.
comforted himself with the thought
that he could sit upon the fence and
Gee ner as she passed by.
The fact is simply this that the
money shylocks Of England have guild
ed the chief magnates OF the Repub j.
can party in their thirty years Of mis-
rnle, in fois.ing upon us u studied and
well planned contraction Of the cur
rency. and the original draft of the
outrageous Sherman act Of 1878 WAS
written by the hand of an English
capitalist. Ernest Seyd. who came over
to this country for the express purpose
OF having silver demonetized. aud well
he accomplished his purpose. Since
then additional rivets have been driven
IN the shackies Of the plOwholder. by
English financiers. and our own arts.
tocracy OF National Bankers and Bond.
holders. an aristocracy whose fortunes
have been built up by thr most odious
OF class legislation, at the expense Of
Gods Common People.
II yonder monied lordiing's slave
am by natures law designed,
Why was an Independent thought
Ere planted In my mind.
1t was the illustrious Jefferson who
proclaimed the doctrine Equal rights
to all, special privileges to nUne." Let
the plowholder answer whether or not
the legislation of the last thirty years
has been upon that line? 1T was ,,lain.
hOmely Abe Lincoln that in hH i'm.
mortal speech at Gettysburg used the
phrase "A government Of the people.
by the people and for the people" let
the plOwholders answer il this precept
has been lived up to? contend and
admit that this repeated legislation for
the bOndliolders at the expense of the
plowholdert, was forced upon us by the
Republican party, not with an evil in
tention to ruin this great Republic. but
because their principles were founded
upon wrong premises, because too.
their desire was to perpetuate them
selves in power, and they cOurted the
favor OF the money kings and did their
bidding. And now too, we are come
to position where so-caled demo-
cratic president views the situation
through the bOadholders spectacles.
Since the formation Of this govern
ment some twenty-three men have &C.
cupied the presidential chair Of tins
great nation. and had been appointed
two years ago to choose my lot from
among them all. would have selected
that of Grover Cleveland. when on
March 4. 1898. he rode through the
streets of Washington amid the boom
ing of cannon, the music OF MANY
bands and the hnrrahs of thousands Of
his cOuntrymen. and assembled the mar
bic steps of the capitol, and for the
second time took the oath Of Inaugural
ton as president of this great union.
and as leader of the great Democratic
party which after thirty-three years Of