The Anaconda standard., 1895-04-01
NtWIS EEPROPER TIME
Hon 7. G. Gerrill Makes Sons Pointed
Remarks.
ORGANZE COIN CLUBS
Educatethe Masses on the Finan-
cial Qleston at OnCe-Remove
the Mask. and Let There
Be Light.

Merrill or Helena Is i'll the city on ms re-
turn hone from trip TO Southern Cali
tornia fo.thc ocnefit OF. his health. Mr..
Merrill il member of the executive COM
nittec of thu National BimetallIc league,
of whicl Senator Jones of Nevada is
chairman, oiid is doing some earnest and
practical yar.S for silver. He has little
Faith in The proposed Brussels conferences
or the talk o such men as j. j. Hill for he
believes ;hatall this seeming .riendliness
Cor silver is SIMPLY an effort TO lall tho
American people to rest with soft prom
ises until aft,r the next presidential cleo
ton aud thci tho country VIII have four
years moro q a gold administration and
Tho monoim,allis:s will IN ;hat time be
allie 10 con tBcato tho rem aiming half of
the pcoplc'sproperty.
"Unlcss no people re aroused" said
MIR. Mcrril to a STANDARD reporter,
"they will Jgain be betrayed. The money
question IL, and Will continue to he until
settled. the all-Iupogtaut, vital issue, in
dustrial and political, before the Ameri-
can people The cause OF the present dis
astcr aud suffering of our people. and tho
prospect OF the utter financial ruin of the
merchant, .arner, mechanic and laborer,
and III factall classes of American cltl-
zens. except the loaner of money. was
foretold, ia perhaps the clearest and most
aOEClOiC iIlIllIlGE. Dl ltle Illdu WHO, HOW u
member of Clevcland's cabinet and a SER
want OF the coldite bankers, has just de-
med TO the American people tho privilege
of purchasing S62. 10000 of our bonds, and
has sold them TO the Rothschild syndicate
for S10.0O0.00O less than they were worth,
and less than they are worth to-day, and
who only few weeks ago tried to force
congress to permit HIM to issue to the
same syndicate $5O0,000, 900 of gold bonds;
The gold required TO be paid as prime pal
and interest on these bonds when they
should become due would amount to ST.
o0,0OJ,OO0. This man, John &. Carlisle,
when he was n member of congress, and
an earnest, loyal worker for laws in the
interest of the people, before he had
learned TO worship the golden calf, used
this language, which, viewed in the light
OF to-day, certainly seems prophetic:
~ know that the worlds stock of preci-
Gus metals is none too large and / see no
reason to apprehend that 1t will ever be
SO. Mankind will be fortunate indeed if
the annual production of gold and silver
coin shall keep pace with the annual in
crease of population, commerce and in
dustry. According TO my views of the
subject, the conspiracy which seems to
have been formed here and in Europe to
destroy by legislation and otherwise from
three-sevenths to one-half of the metallic
money of the world is the most gigantic
crime of this or any other age. The con-
summation of such a scheme would ultl-
mately entail more misery upon the
human race than all the wars, pestilences
and famines that ever occurred in the his
tory of the world.
1.-THE ultimate and instantaneous de-
struction of half the entire movable prop
erty of the world, including houses. ships,
railroads and other appliances for carry
ing on commerce, while 1t would be felt
more sensibly for the moment, would not
produce anything like the prolonged dis
tress and disorgaulzation of society that
must inevitably result from a permanent
annihilation of one-half the metallic
money of the world
This gigantic crime has been consum-
mated and we have but entered upon this
season of falling prices and prolonged
Distress which will continue unless we
can change the present financial policy of
this government, which has been prepared
and forced upon this country by the bank
ers of England and the United States, and
which is entirely i'll the interest of the
money loaners-the creditor class-and
against the best interests of the people.
This policy of finance under which we
have struggled for more than 20 years
from state of prosperity, when we we're
paying the national indebtedness incurred
by our civil war at the rate of millions of
dollars annually. and the individual debts
of the people were being paid at a much
faster rate. has brought US into our pres
ent condition. We are the greatest debtor
nation on earth, the last census showing
our interest-bearing Indebtedness TO be
over Sl9,000,OO0,0O0 all to be paid in money
gold only-and it has already caused
the destruction of about one-half the
value of our realty, products and COM
modlties, and the process of destruction
is still going on.
"How can the present alarming condi-
tion of affairs be changed, and the utter
financial ruin of the commercial and in
dustrIal classes of our people be pre-
vented? There are but two ways appar-
ent. One by securing an administration
and congress pledged TO a change in our
present financial policy 10y the votes of
the people. and If the power of money
shall be sufficiently omnipotent 10 prevent
this, the other revolution which, however,
much TO be deprecated and dcplored, will
certainly come before many more millions
of the American people are reduce to
hunger and want. Can we secure this
change by the vote of the people against
the combined moneyed interest of Eng
land and this country? We can only IN
one way, and that is by educating the peo-
pie of the entire country on tho financial
question.
The people were never before so earn
est and anxious to secure information on
this subject as they are tC-dav. This
question is not so intricate and compli-
Gated n one as the gold press of the coun-
try try TO mako people believe, but is SO
simple that any one can understand II,
when tho facts arc presented and appre-
cIated. The all-important question of
those who desire the return of prosperity
10 the people and who thoroughly appre-
ciate the vital necessity of this education
of the voters is, how can il best be accom-
lIlishcd. II has been suggested by many
Nno are intensely interested in this work
that the best means TO educate the people
rs to employ public speakers, thoroughly
the question. to deliver
lectures or speeches on the financial ques-
ilon, If possible, in each county. town
and school district in the country. This.
II IL could be carried out, would certainly
20 long way toward educating the peo-
pie, but this plan is subject to some vital
defects.
Money can employ the best talent. and
the money power can we'll afford TO en-
plov ID OF the best orators and smoothest
sopeists OF the country TO one speaker
sent out by the friends of bimetaliIsm.
and wherever a meeting was called aud
al frr "a s.r ~F.n.