The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-11-23
GOLD THEORISTS IN A PANIC.
e:ightened by the Popular Cry, "Restore
the Silver Dollars of Our Daddies!"

ExcAoLcc cditcrs Of all newspapers
that is, those of the~staff charged with
the delicate duties Of daily examining
the whole press of the Union and clip
ping from journals Of all shades the
tone Of public sentiment regarding poll
tics. finance, education and topics of
passing interest-agree that not the old
slavery question nor the tariff question
has so aroused public attention in all
sections of the country as the pending
questions concerning the future Of sill
yer coinage and the restoration of a
joint metallic standard.
It was the action of President Pierce
and his cabinet toward territorial slav-
cry that really intensified the feeling
which six years later resulted in the
election Of Lincoln, and it is the action
of President Cleveland in regard to gold
recommendation that has intensified pub
lie attention to the great national wrong
which was perpetrated by the demon
etization of silver and by the fresh at
tempt to still further discredit that
metal for coin. Like as the rising feel
ing of the north in favor Of antislavery
excited the southern press and orators
to angry recrimination and threats, so
the rising feeling in favor Of the con
stitutional rights Of silver currency
seems to excite the alarm and threats Of
the advocates of the Cleveland gold
standard. So that Of late newspaper
organs of gold monometallism have
turned their original ~insolent and con-
temptuous tone used toward silver ad-
vocates into threats and some p~retense
Of argument, which demonstrates that
they begin to appreciate the courage,
logic and presidents of their ~silverite
opponents, and to be alarmed at the in
creasing opposition among the electoral
masses to the specious plans Of the gold
interest for ''sound money"
Already political banners at the west
echo the popular cry, if homely, yet elo-
quent, Restore the silver dollars Of our
daddies!', There are yet living mer-
chants and tradesmen who knew the
financial times preceding 1873, when sill
YER coin stood on equal terms with gold
coin, and YET scarcely n Of those vet.
Grams is q follower of President Cleve.
land and his foreign allies in promotion
Of the single gold standard and single
affirmation Of legal tender money.
In the revolutions Of the whirligig d
time the Republican party has gone bacl
upon the financial plank Of the last Har
rison platform. That plank is now re
turning to plague the Republicans. Ant
it will do no harm at the threshold o
q new political campaign for Democrat
to remind their opponents Of that plank
which was stolen from Jeffersonian ant
Jacksonian books, and which constitutes
the only popular leaf that the Republic
an campaign book Of 1892 had. 1t wa
az follows:
/ "The American people. from tradition
and interest, favor bimetallism and de
mand the use Of both gold and silver a
standard money, with such restriction
and under such provision, to be deter
mined by legislation. as will secure tn
maintenance of the parity Of values {
tho two metals, 80 that the purchasin
and debt paying power Of the dolla'
whether Of silver, gold or paper, sha
be at all times equal. New Yo,
: Marcurv.