Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-12-10

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to dois to furnish minting capac.
ity. The rest regulates itself.
If money is scarce and of large
purchasing power as at present
mining would be prosecuted with
vigor. because renum erative.
If money should become plenty
so as to lower the purchasing
power of the dollar, and other
enterprises become more renun-
erative such q thing would not
happen for years to come---lnin-
ing the money metals would stop,
money would become scarcer and
increase in purchasing power
again. If one of the metals
should give out or become too OK
pensivc to mine. the Increased
mining of the other would keep
up the supply. Thus for centur-
les this automatic production and
free coinage of the money metals
has supplied the world with
money. In 1916 England broke
for the first time in the world s
history the first spoke in this
ever revolving wheel. But one
spoke didn t affect it's motion in
the world. It was about twenty
| years ago when half O.; the
spoke5 were knocked out thHt
the wheel lost it's balance. and
the old automatic money system
received it's death blow.
It is foreign to this subject to
refer to the widespread disaster
that has followed The destruction
Of bi-m etalism. But all admit
that something is wrong with our
present financial SYSTEM. Vuri-
Gus schemes are proposed to
remedy this. Some want govern
ment paper money only. and tx
clude the metals entirely. 9th
ers want to keep the present
wheel with half Of its spolzrs; out,
and balance it with duo bills of
private banking corporations.
We don't believe in any of
these newf;lngled patchwork
schemes. We demand the old
system of automatic bimctuliSnl
that has stood the test OF cx|>>'1-
fence for thousands Of years.
We don t claim that ii is; ubSu-
lutely perfect. but we believe i;
is the best yet for al practical!
purposes.
In standing Oh this basis we Of
fer nothing new or untried. We
offer simply the money system
laid down in our organic law. the
constitution. We ask simply
that all laws passed in con-
traventiQn Of the constitution
according to James ]. Blaine 80
On this subject during the last
quarter Of century be repealed.
If this; is an!rchism make the
best OF it. This is our personal
view on the money question.
We hold that the Peoples Party
should make this their chini is
sue in the coming campaign.
Standing for the restoration Of
our constitutional money system
we have at once the conservative.
sober and intelligent masses Of
the people irrespective Of party
OhI Oul olOC. hct Lllt ttltCl'llt
true bi-metallism be restored
and there will be notroub|e what
ever for the government to issue
a conservative and safe currency
adequate for modern business
requirements.
Let us be practical and con,
fine ourselves TO the question Oh
which the people are educated,
and do one thing at a time.
With too many irons in the fire
they are all apt to be burned.
The transportation question is
urgent, we admit. but the NOM
ent we touch it, an immense field
opens up for endless discussion
and diverts the mind from the
main issue now. Let us not try
to make the world perfectu at once.
Eternity is long. and posterity
must have something to do aftc,
we are gone. To establish the
money of the constitution; to un-
do all the scheming and trickery
of the money power during the
last quarter of a century in con.
gress, to once and forever, until
something better shall be found
to take it's place, re-establish the