The Monticellonian., 1895-06-07
Secretary Carlisle's Letter to MT
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New York Sun. May s ls95.l

hS OiiOi lo Oi Ahi. N'htf'c ec V concile his present attitude on the silver question with his past utter ances, must awaken sympathetic interest in every heart where pity is not dead.
 The Secretary of the Treasury is now struggling with the En- glish language in an attempt to explain the silver expansion speech which he delivered in the House c: Representatives on Feb. 21, 1878. The Bland-Allison bill, so- called, had come back to the House with the Senate amendment which substituted for the free coin- age of silver the provision tor the purchase and coinage ot silver bullion at the rate of not less than $2,000,000 worth, nor more than S4, 100000 per month. When the bill passed the House in it's orig inal form, Mir. Carlisle voted for it, free coinage and all. He sub sequently y explained that he had voted for the free coinage of silver against the judgment, and prefer cd the silver purchase clause of the Senate amendment. That memorable piece of legislation was not entirely satisfactory to Mir. Carlisle; but his objection, as he plainly stated at the time, was not because ho feared the accumu- lation and coinage of too much silver, but because he feared that the Secretary of the Treasury, un- der the influence of gold interests, would limit the purchase of bull lion and the coinage of silver to the minimum amount specified, instead of going the whole figure of $4 100000 per month. In or der that that there may be no doubt as to Mir. Carlisle's appre- tensions, as an expansionist, upon this score, we quote his exact words on this subject:
 "The Senate has declared by a large vote that the coinage should De limited 10 sum of not less than S2,000,000, nor more than $4, 000,0 per month. If the execu- ton of this measure could be in- trusted to a public officer whose opinions on the subject were in accord with that of the great ma iority of the American people and whose sympathies were with the struggling masses who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country, rather than with the idle holders of idle capital, the provisions alluded to would be of little consequence, because he would coin the maximum instead of the minimum amount allowed by the amendment. But situated as We are, we we'll know, or al least we have reason to believe that not dollar beyond the min imum amount will be coined, and consequently the process of get ting this money into circulation will be too slow to afford the full measure of relief which the peo pie now demand and need. But it will certainly afford some releif It will reverse the grinding pro cess that has been going on fol the last few years. Instead o1 constant and ruthless contraction instead of constant appreciation of money and depreciation of pro perty, we will have expansion to the extent of at least $2,000,000 { month, and under it's influence tho exchapgeable value of commodi ties including labor, will soon be gin to rise. thus inviting invest ments, infusing life into the deac industries of the country, anc quick ening the pulsations of trade in all its departments"
 Here is the very lingo of the be nighted Westerners and South ern CTS whose delusions MT. Carlislie at Mir. Cleveland's command, hat now gone forth to combat. The extract above will serve as a pre- face to the helplessly and patheti cally disingenous letter written by Mr. Carlisle to Mir. A. H. Seviel of Texarkana and published 1T yesterdays newspapers, in which the Secretary of the Treasury de nies that he ever made speech or wrote a letter in favor of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to l, or, in fact, at any other ratio;" and attempts to give the impression that there is nothing inconsistent in his record on the subject. He quotes, for example this detached sentence from his remarks in 1878 to show that he was always against the free coin age of silver: