The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-01-15

LOF D1m6Galll6m In England OUTSIDE OF
the college. He lectures, he dimes out.
he visits, he sees people, and literally
devotes all the spare time of a busy
and ~exacting career to the cause which
seems to be so near his heart. 1t is
with him a labor of love. And here
in England it has been hard labor and
incessant labor to get where the BIZ
metallists are to day.
THE NEW RULE.
While that eminent statist and tute.
larry guardian of British statistics. DR..
Robert Giffen, sits in Whitehall Gar
dens and declares bankers and financial
men of England will not listen to BIZ
metallism, the younger and more en-
terprisir 6 r taking the bit in their
own mouths and listening with undis-
guised attention to college professors
and statesmen who have broken away
from the obstinate unintelligent inertia
of the average London financial leader
writer. To day I find, and in this Prof.
Foxwel entirely agrees, supporting BIZ
metallism, the leading professors of
political economy in England and
Europe, Indian statesmen and finance
ministers; the principal exchange bank
ers and merchants, who have a pro-
found and practical knowledge of the
subject; Members of Parliament of all
shades of politics, from Mr.. A. J. Bal
four, Sir w. Houldsworth and Mr..
Chaplin, to Mr.. Jacob Bright, MI.
George Howard, Mr.. Samuel Smith,
Mr. Leonard Courtney, Mr.. R. L
Everett, Mr.. s. Montagu and Mr..
Vesey Knox, some 1853 in all; three ex-
governors and present directors of the
Bank of England the finance ministers
of nearly all the leading nations in the
world Germany and Austria are only
waiting highlands lead); the manufac-
turers of Lancashire and Yorkshire, of
Dundee, L9ith and Glasgow; the most
enlightened agriculturists, like Mr..
Heneage, Mr.. Glare Sewell Read and
Mr.. r. L Everett; and last, though
not least, the leaders of the trades
unions in Lancashire and else where,
Bristol included. The Manchester
Guardian, the Manchester Courier, the
Financial NeWs, the editors of which
understand the question, are among the
leading organs in the press on the side
of silver.
The opponents are Lombard street
bankers, the gold monopolists and
money lenders, and some highly paid
or highly pensioned Treasury and
Board of Trade officials; the city editors
of the Times, Standard, Daily NetCs,
Economist, and StGtist, whose purview
of this subject is, as Prof. oxwell said
to me, limited to the next settling day
on the Stock Exchange, and whose in
significance is sheltered under the
anonymous editorial I'VE" but who, if
they signed their venomous articles,
would be appraised at their true value
against such authorities as Prof. Fox
well, Nicholson and Sedgwick, Sir
Louis Mallet Sir D. Barbour, MI. II. 81.
Gibbs, Mr.. Grenfall and Sir William
Houldsworth.
Twill you," / asked Prof. FoxWell,
"kindly define for American traders
the present attitude of the English BIZ
metallists9"
THE ENGLISH ATTITUDE.
Il may add that English bimetalIists
find themselves in complete agreement
with Gen. Francis A. Walker in re-
gard to the settlement of existing none.
tary difficulties. I do not know thatI
can better describe their position than
by saying that the views of the leading
bimetallists here, whether In the world
of business and politics or at the uni
versities, are practically the same as
those of what is sometimes called the
gold party in the United States. That
is to say, weare opposed oall purchase
schemes, all mere manipulations of sill
yer, all partial and local attempts at
it's demonstration. Nothing less than
international free mintage of both
metals appears to us calculated to
bring about a lasting and final settle
ment of all the very serious difficulties
into which the worlds trade has been
plunged by the careful characterization
of 1873. We can sympathize, of course,
with the sufferings and the injustice
which have led to the extreme demand
for your Populist and Western parties,
but we do not believe that anything
less than international bimetallism will