The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-26
PRESIDENT AND PLATFORM.

Although published in the South, the
Atlanta Journal is a goldite paper, and
as is customary with that sort of a
| journal, is very bitter towards the
silver men and their cause. 1t calls
them 'silver monometallists."
| Now that is a Misrepresentation Of
the silver advocates, which the At
lanta Journal ought to know. What
the silver men of all parties contend
for is the restorat ton of silver to it's
money status previous to the act Of
1873. II that was silver monometal-
lisn. then they are silver monomet-
allists, if not then the term is IN
justified
1t is as we'll to state fairly the posi-
ton OF an opponent. The Atlanta
Journal and other gold monometallists
will gain nothing by misstating any
thing in this controversy. The silver
men of this country are gold men as
WELL That is to say, they want the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold at the ratio of Is to 1, just
as the two metals were coined before
the great mistake of 1873 was made,
which changed the money policy Of
the United States that had prevailed
from the beginning of this nation.
The Journal further says:
The Democratic platform oppose all
schemes of coinage which do not con-
tain ample assurance of parity be-
tween gold and silver and faVors the
repeal of the ten per cent state bank
tax. President Cleveland was elected
on that platform and stands squarely
on it.
The Democratic PLATFORM must not
be misrepresented any more than the
silver question. Here is what it says:
I'VE hold to the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the
country, and to the coinage zof both
gold and silver without discrimination
of either metal or charge for mintage,
but the dollar unit of coinage of both
metals must be of equal intrinsic and
eXchangeable value, or be adjusted by
international agreement, or by such
safeguards of legislation as shall in
sure the maintenance of the parity of
the two metals. and the equal power of
ket and in the payment Of debts"
If that is the financial policy of
Grover Cleveland and of the Atlanta
Journal they do not make it very clear
in their public utterances.. Is there no
discrimination against either metal
under the present administration Is
the coinage of both gold and silver car
ried on without discrimination? If it |
were. would not the silver dollar be /
equal to the gold dollar not only as a |
coin but in the market and in the pay |
M nT D.,
was previous to 1873 and would it not, |
as then. be all that is demanded in /
the platform as a money metal?
The intrinsic and exchangeable"
value Of the two metals-using the
terms employed in the platform-de-
ponds upon legislation. That is to say.
the silver in a silver dollar would be
equal to the gold in gold dollar in
market value as metal. if the discrim-
nation which the platform denounces
was not exercised. and gold was not
taken and silver refused at the minis
for coinage on equal terms.
We all want sound money" "hon-
est money" a safe currency" But
use of those terms is I'M
derstood to signify that gold alone an
swers to their meaning. If that is not
the case he is greatly misunderstood
If it is. then he does not stand square
~ on the Democratic platform" which
ed silver men TO expect that when that
miserable makeshift. the purchase pro-
vision of the Sherman law was repeal
I'd. silver would be placed by Iegislas
ion on free coinage basis. with in
agreement if attainable and
without it if not.
Silver Democrats are not silver mon
They stand by the demand
If the platform for the use of both
,old and silver as the standard money
If the country. and for the use of
10Th gold ard silver without discrini-
nation against either metal" K The
President is with them they do not
lnow it. IF the Atlanta Journal stands
~ the platform they would like it to
'e made SO to appear.