The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-27

SILVER CeTtiuCdteS. ANU dS a TcSuis
business is stagnant. half the labor
| unemployed. half the mines closed,
half the machinery idle. half the debt
ors delinquent. and half the people
suffering miSeries untold.
This is not right, and no party can
live that attempts TO fasten such con-
ditions upon the people. When the
gold standard advocates were in the
act Of driving the United States notes
out of circulation they called them
rag money" Now. when they want
to get rid Of silver. so as TO give them
complete control of the money of the
country, they call it dishonest"
money.
IF the silver dollars are dishonest.
what becomes of the silver certificates.
Take both away and permanently re-
tire the paper money issued by the
government, and what shall we have
as circulating medium: The single
standard of honest gold at a premium
as low as the greed and avarice of
Rothschilds. Belmont, Morgan & Co.
will permit. OF course the national
bank notes will be left, but how many
of them will it take to buy an honest
gold dollar?
IF there is not gold enough in the
world to do the business of New York
City for a single day, where, please
tell me, will the people of this country
get the money required to pay off
countless millions of mortgage indebt-
edneSs? Where will they get money
with which 10 carry on business: Such
a scheme might for the time being re-
suit beneficially for those who force it
upon the country. but l tell you the
end would be bitter.
There is no middle ground Those
who are in favor of single gold STAN
dard are opposed TO silver and legal ten
der paper money, and no perversion Of
language or ambiguity in platforms
can make it otherwise. If England
and Germany want single gold stan
dard, let them have it. If they want
to place their industries at the mercies
of few men, who deal exclusively i'm
money, let them do it. That is their
buSiesS, not ours. They have nothing
we need; we have much they are
obliged TO have. The countries from
which We buy the things we need
sugar, coffee, tea, ETC., are silver coun-
tries. With them let us have reci-
procity and do our trading.
Let us coin our own silver, and
the legal tender silver dollars from
other free coinage countries, and levy
a heavy duty on all imported silver ores
and metal.
"A grave responsibility rests upon
the Republican party. II must define
its position on the money question in
plain language. If it is in favor of the
single standard. il must say so; if for
the free coinage of silver the same as
gold, say so; if for limited coinage.
say so.
Gentlemen who are trying 10 COM
NIT the Republican party to single
gold standard should consider well
what they are doing. because if they
they will wreck the party. Just
as certain as the election takes place
in November.
They can no longer fool or brighten
the people, who have already been led
TO the verge of bankruptcy and ruin by
a financial policy that never should
have been adopted. Their claptrap
talk about honest, sound money is the
merest bosh. All money issued by the
government of the United States is
sound and honest as the government
Itself.
Il trust, therefore. that the Republi- |
an party will make no mistake i'm de- |
lining its position. Give us platform |
favorable TO reciprocity with the coun- |
ries whose products We need-favor-
lble to a high protective tariff on the
hinSs we produce-favorable to the
rec coinage DC to II of American sill
-er, and the imported legal tender sill
'er dollars of other countries-fayor-
bile to legislation that will break the
endless chain" and restore the United
states legal tender paper money to its
legitimate channels. and demanding
hat each nation attend to it's own af-
air. Then the Republican party will
ave the confidence and support Of the
PRODUCERS of this country and march
o certain victory