The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-06
Local Gold Bug on Coins school.

/ To the Editor of the Eagle.
| We hurriedly admit the cogency, the
| logical potency and even the piquancy
I Of the efforts of all our esteemed con-
! tenporaries who are trying from the
most worthy, disinterested and pa
1 triotic motives TO put silver in the place
! of gold Nothing can be more affecting
than their position and we could al
most grant their prayers, considering
: the nations almost ineXhaustible re-
/ Operative powers, and permit them,
! for their own dear sakes alone, 10
] blink a fact and to place the United
! States temporarily among the debtor.
silver nations OF the world. Grant our
reasona bleness and desire TO please,
we pray, but kindly remember from
time TO time that gold is gold and not
silver, that gold is money and not sill
yer. brass copper, paper, or govern
ment fats. Depend upon it, it has been
so designed. 1t will ever measure
things that must be so measured, Sc
| renely and complacently. in spite OF
deviceful man. The nations of the
earth that recognize this fact Will
prosper and become TO the full extent
OF their natural resources creditor ma
lions. For the use they make of their
prosperity they. with the plutOcrat,
viii be answerable in another direction.
The pIutocrat has been building on
fact and not a lie, all this while,
which, strange to say. accounts for his
success. Stranger still, If the govern
ment had been as sound in its foreign
policy his efforts would have been
. largely devoted TO foreign fields and ne
become a benefactor insteal of a blood
sucker, or something more inimical
than a tramp on the nation.
Ii we don't like him, lets US regulate
/ him, or. in the ultimate. resolve 10
. learn him TO be regulated. and not, on
account Of our hatred, be forced to
pick up the wrong weapon in our mon
etary conflict with other nations. To
sit in the game, that is IT; to draw
cards, that is something Ike; but II
I kick, to repine, 10 get 40 and quit, that
is a sorry spectacle. Nothing Is more
discOncerting TO an adversary than
pleasant acquiescence backed by the
whole-souled energy OF common sense.
Attempts TO account for financial dif-
ficulties by alledging far-reacning in
ternational treachery Economical traits.
chicanery, diplomatic turpitude and
deyilishness are sheer myths, and re
mind one Of the prepOsterous theories
built up by systen-mOncers to account
for Napoleon. who answers them in a
word: 1t Is because I have fought
well against the enemies OF my coua-
try-nothing else" 4 simple fact
England's simple facts are business
principles, which we ourselves would
use if tomorrow she should sink into
the sea.
II IS easy enough 10 get upon silver
basis. all We have 10 do Is 70 do moth
ing, 70 let bonds be issued and the need
for them remain until they are worth
less than par in gold, and We are there
safe and sound. In a pinch we might
lezislate ourselves thitherward by s.
tablishing an artificial parity between
silver and gold at a ratio OF Is 10 /. OF
copper and gold a. SO TO !. or govern
ment shin-plazters a. 50 much per
thousand TO / Yet ve can't blink gold
out Of being money. and all the other
circulating medium. 10 matter what
superscriptioa il bears = really h0t q
promise 70 pay IN gold
We may not h. a creditor nation now,
bur the way 20 %. and the one way Is
10 adhere TO the standard q money now
extaat. and 10 dsp@nt upon TIE prestige
our wealth and power. rightly direct
81 in our foreign policy. VIII bring
IL l. also a lie 20 intimate that other
nations may some day 80 IN for
double standard. whatever that may
mean They may 90 IL for 3 silver
basis. II they Ike. and let - take care
OF their credits and do their finance.
but the nation that Is silver" Eatloa |
Is per 50 a debtor nation. ard natural /
- fnGs the nearest ayaiisf.Ie t-iEhbor !
t.sl 5 ab.e 10 at the aAy. We haze J