Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-25
FREE SILVER SENTIMENT.
Said to be Increasing in Nebraska, and
a Majority of the People Favor
Free Coinage.

"~ASitlN1iONy -. Ny SpAh u. SCS
rotary Morton yesterday received a
letter from a prominent Democrat in
Nebraska informing him that the free
silver sentiment was generally prova--
lent in that State and that n great ma
jority of the people seemed to favor
free coinage. The writer expressed
the fear that the next Democratic
State Convention would be captured
by the free coinage men unless yigor-
Gus efforts were made TO turn the cur
rent The outlook for accomplishing
that was very discouraging and the
writer suggested that a declaration for
free coinage might be prevented by an
effort or the part of the sound money
men to secure a compromise or strad-
die Oh the silver question.
To this letter Secretary Morton
made a characteristic reply. He said
this was not a time to talk of com
believed that the monetary system of
this country should be based upon
sound principles of finance, approved
by centuries of experience and recog-
nized and practiced by the great COM
mercial nations should stand boldly
and firmly for adherence to the gold
standard so long as that remains the
money of m He did not be-
lieve the question should be obscured
by bimetallism or any other form of
compromise. The issue should be
squarely met by friends of sound cur
rency without regard to party affilia-
tons. In such a contest under false
teachings and the depression of hard
times, the silver men might be sue
c~essful, but their victory would be
short lived.
The practical results of free coinage
would demonstrate the folly of those
who are striving to make SO cents
worth of silver purchase 100 cents
worth of gold, and that demonstration
would be speedily followed by a wave
of popular indignation that would
overwhelm those false teachers who
had deceived the people.
''The advocates of a monetary sys-
tenn said the Secretary in his letter,
(Which will compel the gold miner at
Deadwood to dig out 100 cents worth
of bullion or commodity value in gold
before he can demand the free coinage
of a dollar of that metal and at the
same time permit the silver miner of
Colorado to cease work Us soon as he
has so cents worth of bullion or COM
modify value OF the white metal dug
and receive therefor a dollar of equal
purchasing power to that gold dollar
which contains a commodity value o
100 cents will find that they are not
long to be upheld by the reason and
common sense of the American peo-
ple."
The Secretary a Y further: 'aThe
Presidents critics ask what is sound
money? Any ordinary man of business
may answer that question. Sound
money is hat sort OF currency which
has the most universal and least fiuc-
tuating purchasing power in the mar
kets of all countries. That money il
the soundest for which throughout the
commerce of the civilized world there
is the most universal demand. And
that universal demand is always based
upon the universal and noniluctuating
purchasing power of that money. The
present epidemic OF the silver fever
will in due time abate. AS the tenn
perature of the 10 to 1 patient de-
clines, mental alterations will disap-
pear and reason once more resume it's
sway"
Those who never read the adver-
tisements in their newspaper miss
more than they presume. Jonathan
Kenison, of Bolan, Worth Co., Iowa,
who had been troubled with rheuma-
tism in his back, arms and shoulders,
read an item in his paper about how
a prominent German citizen of Ft.
Madison had been cured. He procur-
ed the same medicine, and to use his
own words: at cured me right up"
He also says: A neighbor and his
wife were both sick in bed with rheu-
matism. Their boy was over to my
house and said they we're SO bad that
he had to do the cooking. / told him
of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and how
it had cured me. He procured a bot
tie of ii and il cured them up i'm a
week. so cent bottles for sale by
Chas. A. Buckner, druggist.