Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-27
BImETALIsM DEFINED.
Suppressing Statistics-The Beef
Trust Gresham's Sore Spot.

Suppressing Statistics-The Beef
Trust Gresham's Sore Spot.
from our regular correspsndent.l
WASHINGTON, Apr. a2.-Republi-
cans are interested observers Of the
rumpus in the Democratic party
which Mr. Cleveland has stirred up
over the silver question. They have
expected for some time that the Dem
ocratic party would split into silver
and gold factions before the opening
of the Presidential campaign, and
those expectations seem now to be in
a fair way of undertaking into facts.
They are merely amused by the Chi
merical assertions of certain OF Mr..
Cleveland S followers. that the Repnb-
lican party would support Mr. Cleve-
land on single gold standard plat
form. They know that not even a
small section Of the Republican party
could under any combination of cir
cumstances be brought to support Mr..
Cleveland upon any platform. They
are quite amused by the assertion
that the Republican party, outside of
the extreme Western States, is gold
standard party. OF course it is need
less to say to any intelligent, Repub-
lican, and most Republicans are in
tellIgent, whether he lives North,
East. or West, that the Republican
party is not, never has been, and is
not likely to be single standard par
ty.
The Republican party has, since
the question has been raised, repeat
eddy declared in its national platforms
in favor Of bimetallism, which the
Century Dictionary thus defines
The use of two metals as money al
relative values set by legislative en-.
actment; the union of two metals in
circulation as money at fixed rate.
Specifically, that system of coinage
which recognizes both coins of silver
and coins of gold as Legal
tender to any amount, or the
concurrent use of coins of two metals
as circulating medium at a fixed
relative value. There is no indiea
ton that the next Republican nation
al convention will do otherwise than
reafiirm that declaration. There is
only one single standard gold party,
and that is the Cleveland wing OF the
, Democratic party.
| Even rock-ribbed Democrats had tc
smile when the official announcement
was made that the Treasury Depart.
ment would no longer collect and dis
seminate statistics relating to the
manufacture of tin and terne plate ii
the United States. The reason was
plain. Every publication of figure.
showing the increase of this industry
which was one of those established by
the Mckinley tariff law, was officially
lgiving the lie to every Democratic ed
itor and stump speaker who took par
in the last Presidential campaign, al
of whom had declared in the mos
positive terms that there was no sucf
thing as the manufacture of tin ant
terne plates for commercial purpose.
in the United States. and predictee
that three months after the election i
would be impossible to find an Amer.
! lean tin-plate factory at work. Blu
the makers of the Mckinley law knew
what they were about. They CAV,
the manufacture of tin and terne plat
such firm footing in the Unitet
States that it has continued to grow
although its growth has been SLOW
since the enactment of the Democrat
ic tariff. Had the Republican party
continued in power there would toda,
have been no need to import pound
! of tin or terne plate.
Secretary Morton continues I,
make an exhibition ofhimsel!. through
his daily newspaper interviews on tn
beef question. He seriously presents
arguments to prove what everybod,
has known from the frst-that til,
price Of beef was forced up and KEEP
up by the beef trust, and then Just a
seriously announces his inability I,
do anything to help the people
! Really he is a very funny little man
|. True, he talks too much, but his tall
amuses the country, and in thes
"hard times the people need all tn
| free amusement they can get. Hi
latest interview advocates the singh
gold standard OF finance
That there are a number of hungr,
Democrats still unprovided for i
shown by the number of applicant
for the vacancy in the Deputy Comp
troilership of the Treasury, caused b
the death last week of Hon. Charlie
H. Mansur. One of these applicant
: AN Exon. ressman-is charge
with having circulated petition ask
ing for the ,fic, as :oon as it was an
nouuced that ..lr. Mansur's Hines
would probably De fatal. No matte
who gets the ofic, this ghoul shoul
not.
Secretary Gresham is quite touch
) over that apology demanded frof
!, Spain on account of the firing on th
Alliance. and which has never bee
; made. IT is said that an old person;
friend OF his attempted TO jolly him
little about it and that lie quickl
made 1t plain that it was forLidde
subject. The new Spanish ministe
is expected to arrive here in a fe
days, and that his arrival will shor
" he followed by an apology from h
government for firing on the Amer
lean flag or by a demand from h