The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-07-18
FREE SILVER HOBBY.
What Able Texas Editors Think About
the Question.

Cuero Record: Immediately following
the Memphis free silver convention chinch
bugs are destroying the crops OF Tennes,
set farmers
Free silver IDEAS carried out would be
more harmful to the farmer than chinch
bugs.
Cherokee Blade Pop.): "The gold
bugs organized Il club at Fort Worth last
Saturday night. They enrolled 3S1 names.
These names were obtained by a canvass
ing committee, who, for days had
drummed the city of Fort Worth This
IS rather poor show for place like Fort
Worth, one of the fountain heads of gold
bugism."
The silver club meeting there. if The
Statesman remembers correctly, had only
about $50 names enrolled.
BOnham Democrat: THE silver people
have not vet answered the Carlisle argll-
ments in favor of sound money When
they do this it will be time for them to
make their boasts. The fact that some
people want a thing don't make it right -
Galveston News: Congressman Law
son of Georgia has come through the will
dernesS of fallacies and now declares for
sound money. He was formerly for free
fiatism, but has passed over the miry
places in which so many of the walters
at the ratio of 1G to l are now stuck
in the blue mud"
Houston Post: THE late silver craze
had behind it the most enormous specula-
tion movement that the world ever saw.
1T is matter for rejoicing that the eX-
IRENE demands and the selfish interests
have become so plainly EXPOSED to the
people that they have rejected them, and
now all true friends of silver for tine sake
of its usefulness to the people as money,
have a clearer field to work for its larg-
est use in a sound financial SYSTEM
The true friends of silver want it kept
on a parity with gold, hence they are bit
teIly opposed to its free and unlimited
coinage. They do not favor making the
minis a free dumping place for the sur
plus bullion of the silver barons.
Kyle -Vindicator: editor Wilson,
of the Lockhart Register, has changed
from Silverite Ito gold bug, but he isn't
as rabld and rampant as the Austin States
man and others. He does not believe a
man should be condemned and hung as
age Editor Wilson does not allow preju-
dice and bitterness to swallow up his bet
ter Judgment"
That his better judgment is not swal-
lowed up is evidenced by his opposition
to free silver. R-cG Wilson wants the
silver dollar to remain aus good as a gold
dollar.
Waco Central Texan: 'The result in
Kentucky seems to have called a halt in
the free silver movement that seemed to
be sweeping everything before it. The sill
Yer people at Memphis lost their chance
to capture the South and West and it is
doubtful if they will ever have another
such opportunity"
Comanche Chief: "The Chief would
advise all Democrats not to be too precipi-
tate in committing themselves to the radi-
caiSm of free silver. There is a year in
tervening between now and the next cam
pAign, and that time ought to be devoted
to calm and diSpaSSionate study of the
financial issue from a non-partisan point
of view. There is no probability that the
National Democratic party can be COM
mitted to the extreme views pTopagated
by that faction known as the free silver at
Ii 10 l men. neither will it do to assume
that every man opposed to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver is an enemy of
silver. The party will probably declare
i'll favor of Il system of bimeta.liSm-that
is, the concurrent circulation of both sill
Yer and gold coinage-to be secured
Through the limited coinage of silver with
such other safeguards against deprecia-
ton as may be required. The man who
reckleSsly commits himself to the policy
of opening the mints of this country to
the coinage of all the silver bullion in the
world-or even to the United States pro-
duct-will certainly find himself bitterly
disappointed when the party declares it
self"