The Monticellonian., 1895-09-13
THE CAUSE OF SILVER
Championed By W. L. Terry, Member
 of Congress.
The American People standing ERee to Face With the Grayest Issue Ever PreSented in all their History.
 Editors Congratulated.

LITTLE RocS. ARK, September '. = Al t great mass meeting at the state hoase l8s u5ght, haid in honor of the visit ing silver eljtats of Arkansas, the Hon Nn. l.. Terry, Nj t, by invitation of the Little Rock I}i Metallic League addressed the people in the following words:
 congratulate yau. ftllow-citizeas. for fhe public II nit you have manifested hN ynul presence heH= tonight. Tine Repub- lie will be safe ord liberty secure so long as the honest masses af the people take aa In1efest in public affairs and in tho great ilFias is.ues of the day.
 also congratulate the country editors ~ha have assembled ii oHr midst to eoun- sIl uHau these great i=sues A free and independent Press k one of the strongest bulWarks of the state
 Many a sampson among our editors 6ta4 have laid his head in Deliahs lap ana joined the worship of the golden eal# bnt there is saieHt remnant thank God, that have never baWed the knee to Raal nor turned their backs npon the Ark and Covenant of a#fathers
 No wcighti.a cause could demand vour consideration han that wh.rl has called Rs here tonight. Fhe American people are standing face 10 faee with the alayest .ssue ever presented in all their history I He contest before us is he Battle af the Standards whether we shall eea- t#8e to submit ta lie single gold standard fraa,le}e4tf4 fei,ted upon as h1 the sherman act of 1873. or re turn 10 the bimetallie standard given Us by the Fathers of the Republic m l5a22 | is ION weil-knoWH fact tHat fbe aduinistTa= tiaa that has thrown all its power and prestige into this conflict, wants no stand- ard but that of gold wants the green backs retired mofe bead- l. ued and a surrender Of government functions 10 national banks + tHern was ever any danht upan tbat eHaat5aa. fl can ue longer azlst. Road the reH@ts and proceedings la congress on the r1weunv. Read the speeches of br Carlisle at Covingfon and Memphis. and tEe feeent platform of tho botug democrats in Nebraska Yaur rep resantatiyes in the Peaale.s House refused fe fellow theaiHiaist.atienm in this crusade against democratic minriF!es. and iheE will 1etase again. The tine far phrase maneering ksh= soundi"g nias5tHasz anl equivoeatians
 past and nc intelligent man. who believes n bimetalism, should any longer permit himself to be deluded or deceived by such catch phrases #as sfae cents dollar a azafe currency. sound money etc A Haw ase4 fhev all mean but one thing. and that is the single gold -f#H3aHd ta tbe aaaf aHd silver to the rear. England bars the way ta 8HF international agreement. aHi whilst tbe common PeaRle ef b5ta England aad fi61maGy. a~ shown HV tbe vote ia tHeiH unEuiar assemblies He in stvar eR Ei- aet ism the 2 endieafc holds mort saee Upon nearly v=rz thfou+ r Europe. and Inc shes and HHteHe=ts of th. F##H4e II I.rrf a &teH HOW posing aS international bimetaI 5et. aud t' tfe saue timr ..vhaapiue | ap for sound meaaF. aFe deeeitits mn 51d1 anloss ii be themzeiyes The 3eH leader= o sounded tba .souuA manev 6eEgate nave since sEabeH opauly for said q he sole standard of value f5I these iHied States. aHI tHe .se1ud manet mask has as well be lropped by every cuckoo in the laad in 1atorenee ta hi- mes4l.ism Mr. Ca95I Ie said al Memphis that tlte proposition to=estabish and main ta-44 Heh .fHlsf3 semhatiies a physical and metaphysical ahaardtt4
 fhe plain dutY of tle hour then is t5 stHiF away ali suGteaH8saa. catch pra-44 and evasioue and come fieaf down to the red question. and that the Standard of Nal ue. Mr Carlisle. the aht,st spokesman for the gold stau3ati says you cant have himetalEsm because, hesays, you cau't coin thetwemetals. with.ut limit into full legal teH3af moncv. and E=e5 both in circulation t the same time. He oyerloohs the fact however That bime+allsn is q question of Standard ald moi af Circulation. Bj= 12s I ihsm does uat mean the concurrent circulation of tbe two metals designated as the Standard of Value but simply the free coinage of both an equal terms, SO that z | q Il 4I
 either The act af ARrll ? l1g2 gave the debtor that right and through all the day of the trials and thn trunphs of this great Republic, it reiaaped 6is right until he WIS robbed of if be the sherman act. like thief in the night in 1873.
 In lS1S Mr. Carlisle himself denounced That act in language that need not repent, for # will live a the memory of the Amer lean people when the achievements of Mf. Cleveland S Secretary of the Treasury will he buried in kindly oblivion; but in his Govngtou speech the secretary attempts to justify that art by saving that if Twas simply legal recognition oi d monetary condition which had existed. in fact II this country for about 35 years, of eyer since a short time after the passage of the coinage act of lsf4 He then eoee on to explain that from aRout the year SIS, until after the passage of the Bland Alisou net in 1878, no silver dollars were in cireu letion in this country.
 Here. again. the Hon. Secretary eonfuses f14 read issue hv roufounding a question of circulation with that of standard of value The two things are entirely separate and distinct Silver was made standard Of value by the act of lt92 declaring that dollars of the value of a Spanish milled dol lar. containing 3tl Il grains of pure silver, should be the unit of value. It wa that declaration of the law and not the mere coinage nor circulation of silver dollars that made silver a standard of value That provision of the act of l792 remained in full force until the Sherman act of 1873 made gold the sole standard of value by de claring that the gold dollar 'at the stand ard weight of 25 $ grains shaIl he the unit of value"
 II stopping the coinage or cessation from circulation, of the unit of value could have the practical effect of overturning the standard of value set up by an act of con gless. what has become of the gold stand- ard since the act of September, lS90. for bidding any further coinage of gold dollars. and their virtual retirement from eircula- iation7 Somebody will have to stud for .iosiah Patterson ta ll4u4 Where are we aIt=t
 The truth is fellow citizens that so far from bi metalhsm meaning the current cir euiation of the unit of value coins of both metals it is not necessary that there should be an actual coinage of either of such units; and, to show how entirely dis tiHet IS question of circulation from that