The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-10-18
HON. A. v. SKINNER
Writes Again About Demo cracy
and Free Silver.
His Last Article Was Convinc.
ing; But the Populites are
SO Windy That lie
prefers to stop the Air Holes In the Pop
niit Barrel, and Exclu lie Forever
the Polluted Wind That
Escapes Therefrom.

EDITOR OlAR--l IL IOpullSt
speakers who are now making the
canvass for their party in the coun-
~ still contend, with rare perversi-
ty. that the Democratic party
demonetized silver in 1893, and in
their speeches vigorously attack
an article which appeared III re-
cent issue of the stan wherein
your correspondent showed that
This charge against Democracy is
false.
TO nv mind the Popullte speak
ers in Attala who are now attempt
ing joint discussions with the
nominees of the Democratic party,
would have big job on their
hands to meet the arguments of
our speakers without turning aside
TO make an attack upon a man
who is not in the canvass, and that
in his absence. The Pops argu-
ment are something like this: IAN
assassin waylays and strikes dag
ger to the heart of his victim, who
dies because he ceases to breathe.
And Notwithstanding the fact that
he is dead he still exhibits signs of
life at intervals, and after twenty
years another party comes along
and -assassinates the same VIC
tim. who has been twenty years
dead, the party No. thereby be-
coming as guilty as the first ass
ASSN" TO foster this idea they
contend that the act Of demonetl.
zation was only the enactment of
law stopping the coinage OF sill
yer bullion. The effect OF demon
etzation was to measurably stop
silver coinage, but the act of 1873
passed by Republican Congress
did great deal more than that.
That act changed the unit of value
and destroyed the monetary tunc'
tons and uses OF silver by taking
ii out of our monetary system as
money metal out of which could
be coined a money OF final pay
ment enjoying equal privileges anc
being of equal value with the golC
dollar.
Thus the law OF 1873 3discretited
debased, and subordinated silve
to the gold standard of value Sc
up by the Republican Congress a
the dictation of the bond holding
money lords of Europe and he
Wall Street allies. Thus it ha
come about through the operation
OF that law and the financial polio.
inaugurated by it that silver is de
Ried the tree coinage recognizes
by the constitution and malntane
by the democratic party through
all the past history of the country
and was thrown upon the market
Of the world as commodity, tn
United States government becon
ing purchaser. The only ette'
Of the law Of 1893 was to stop tn
purchase Of silver bullion by o,
government, and did not in an
wise affect the status of silver as
money metal, as before pointe
out The Pops reason backwal
from effect to cause, ,sfrom sequent
to logic (such logic as they have
and their conclusions are equal
faulty.
The above explanation, it seen
to ME is so plain that waytarir
man though a Populite need n
err in understanding it. The re
ord of the Democratic party upt
the silver question is invulnerabl
its platforms through all its pa
history declaring: for the use
both gold and silver as the stan
ard money OF the country up'
equal terms OF coinage, whenev
there was any reference to the c'
rency.
And | challenge any Popuhte
Attala county to point to one 81
gle declaration OF the party 10 Q