The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-21

Six States-Kertucky, louisiana, Ne
braska, Oregon. Texas and west MI
ginia-must he set down as doubtful IL
asmuch as their senator's were ana
doubtless will remain, divided, one for
and one against.
This looks black enough, but we must
not stop here. Further inquiries VIII
show that the forces which ultimately
make the laws and settle things IN TINS
country are enormously against the si-
verites and chclp-money men or an dc-
ecrlptions. Take the test OF population.
The seventeen States ready to go une-
quivocally and finally to the gold standard
contain 34.4l5.eD0 inhabitants. In the
twenty-1ne opposing states there are out
2. 522, GO. Now i'm the long run NUMBERS
count in this country. PfepondetaUhg
numbers killed slavery, and VIII XIII Dad
money. The majority rules ultimately
even i'm the Senate The Senate was once
the stronghold Of slavery, just as 1t Is
now the stronghold of cheap money.
What made the checks of Calhoun and
Davis blanch as they faced the future,
was the swelling population of the free
States IT, that they saw the doom or
slavery, and the 100000 margin of pop
ulation now in favor Of honest money
means, I'm like manner, the doom Of de-
preciated currency.
The test of wealth shows a preponder-
ance still more striking in favor of SOUND
currency. According 10 TIE census re-
turns. the seventeen states Which stand
for a stable standard Of value report cap
ital OF all kinds amounting 10 &.OG5, 000 90;
me twenty-one opposing States return but
$943Oo,0G0. Can il be imagined that four
ffths Of the property Of any country
would allow itself 10 be imperilled and
cut in two I'm value at the demand OF
onc-ffth? The thing Is unthinkable. In
fact. this great preponderatinS mass or
property has already taken sure precau-
tons against being caught IN that way.
LEGISLATION can Inconvenience and Far
rass it. but cannot dospoil it. as long as
there are courts To enforce contracts.
ono of the cheering omons for the fu-
ture is the fact that State after State
I'm the West il learning the lesson that
every blow they deliver at the security CT
property or the STANDARD OF value hurts
them worse than the hated capitalists
they aim at. Whatever may be said about
the weakened rights OF property. IL IS
still the strongest force in the political
world. That il Is 50 orerpowerlngly
against degraded currency II pledge suili-
Client that the country will continue to
be against II.
The political test. finally, is as en-
couraeing 10 the friends of sound money
as either OF the others. The seventeen
States firm for the gold standard east
223 electoral votes. The twenty-one others
cast but i67 leaving hfty-four doubtful.
Moreover, politically speaking. II is i'm
possible TO combine even those l67 cleo
toral votes In any ono party column. or
f,r al
quarter Of them is Republican, and may
in desperation, flock by itself as the sill
yer Republicans threaten that II Will
but cannot mix with the three-qu;'ters
Democratic. If the latter undertakes to
absorb the Republican ore-quarter it Will
find itself whitfield down 10 One-qudrter
or less on the other hand. II tho sound
money Republication OF the East and
North goes after the silver idols it will
lose the East and North In the act What
will il profit the Republican party TO
get the thirty-siX electoral votes Of the
silver States, and lose as many in New
York alone, to say nothing Of the nun
dred or so that would be lost elsewhere
As the thing stands now a sound-money
President has clear majority IN the
Electoral College, and no other kind of a
President can possibly get majority
in it, This Is the strategic fact for the
business world to tie to. it is also the
fact for the Republican managers TO tie
to- Any alliance with the silver Republi-
cans, which means Wayering for hair s
breadth on the money question, viii be
as fatal as an alliance with the PopuistS.
The country, tried BY every test. IS FOR
honest money. and any party that wants
to carry the country must be for honest
money.