Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-10-02
NO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.

Reform leaders have long ago con-
tended that an International agreem ent
on the reconciliation of silver is an
impossibillty but it was not until re-
Gently that the proposed scheme was
spurned by its most hearty supporters.
That the arbitrary powers of Europe
should submit to anything that would
even tend toward tightening the bur-
dens of the serts of the Royal family,
is not at all reasonable to suppose to
say nothing of the influence OF gold
owners of the world. The populists
have frequently pointed out the why's
and wherefOres of the inpossibility of
international agreement but their
words fell dead upon the ears of the
partisan who IN point of intelligence.
would be disgrace to creatures of the
dark age. Any nation that is already
imposing upon its subjects despotic
form OF government can not be expect
ed to aid in the adoption of principle
of reform. Such countries will continue
in the same old rut for the reason that
it is to the interest OF their rulers and
for the further reason that it is the
only sure way to keep the masses I'M
der the cloud of ignorance. Thus it
has ever been and thus it will con-
time to be until free and independ-
ent people shall rise in their might and
with the weapon of Right and the en-
blem of Justice thrust deadening
lance into the money power. But if we
wait until foreign power shall take
the lead we Will wait forever and in
vain. The United States, the most in
telligent and enlightened nation of the
world, must take the lead as she has
always done, and the other countries
will follow. 1t is a diShonor to the
stars and stripes for anyone to aver
that we must walt until we gain Eng
lands consent before we proceed to
adopt money system for ourselves as
Americans. Where would our fore
fathers have been had they waited for
Englqnd's consent before they took
steps TO free themselves from the thrall-
dom of the British money power? And
where Will we be if we continue to
wait? All, gentle reader, information
al agreement is a humbug and only In
tended to deceive the people. The
English statesmen will never permit
SO much as a conference and only treat
the proposition with contempt. We
must act unitedly and independently
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OF the international method of settling
this question, an eastern paper sums
up the situation wisely in this manner:
international agreement has been
knocked IN the head in the house of
its friends. Balfour, the head of the
new English cablnent and Well-known
champion of bimetalllsm, said on the
floor of parliament in answer to a ques-
tiOn that there would be no interna-
tional conference until all the big gov
ernments of Europe had decided on a
policy. He said to hold one now would
do more harm than good. Now let
those who have made stalking horse
of International agreement as a means
of avoiding the necessity of taking
sides on the real issue. stop their fool
lshness and declare one way or the
other. The issue is narrowed down to
one OF bimetallism by independent &C.
tion of the United States on the one
side and the English gold standard on
the other. Which are you for? It
ought not to take a true American,
whether he be democrat or republi-
can, long to decide whether he is in
favor of United States policy and the
stars and stripes, or for putting this
government permanently in control of
British bankers operating under the
piratical single gold standard flag of
their country. So define yourself, now
while it is called today, and cease to
cause delay waiting for an apocryphal
international agreement which is as
great myth as murderer Holmes
man Hatch. Where do you stand?
Under which king, Bezonian?. Speak
or die!'"