The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
Free silver Organs Furnish Evidence
That the Craze Is Subsiding.

Free silver Organs Furnish Evidence
That the Craze Is subsiding.
Springfield (Mass). Republican Gnd0.
Signs appear in the hot-beds of free sill
verism in the south that the sound money
arguments are slowly but very surely get
ting strong hold upon the popular con-
sciousness. The silver organs give evil
dence that they are aware of this move
ment away from their leadership and are
redoubling their efforts to offset it, but it
seems almost safe to say that their sue
cess is not what they expected. There are
evidences that the southern people are
passing the stage where invective against
the gold bug, "Shylocks' and Wall street
sharks will pass for arguments, and of
some realization that there is at least an
other side to the question and that neither
all the financial wisdom is the country nor
all the patriotism and regard for the
farmer and the wage Garner is confined to
the silver men. There was time not long
ago when whole sections of the south
seemed almost as impervious to the argu-
ments against the Independent free coin
age of silver as parts of the west seem
now to be. The advocates of a sound and
safe currency appeared to be in a we'll
Ligh hopeless minority, with a majority
against Lueil lldl WdS JdA ely lOlti ant VI
their position.
That this situation has changed. any one
who reads the southern silver organs very
soon realizes. Cnconsciously these news
papers give evidence that the work of the
sound money minority is having a marked
effect on public opinion. There is an added
bitterness in the attacks on the gold
bugs, and evidences of unusual effort to
press home the silver side On the other
no G NIT !,
few exceptions conducted their campaign
in admirable temper. and have been con-
tent to put the practical objections to free
silver before their readers in concrete
form, and let them accomplish what they
would. A considerable number of coun-
try weeklies are on the sound money side
and some of them give excellent object
lessons on the evil effect Of cheap money
to the farmers who are their readers. The
rise in the price of cotton is proving
strong sound money argument in that it
answers the claim of the silvertes that
there was no hope for the cotton planter
until silver was once more freely coined.
Cotton is steadily rising on the indications
of a smaller than usual crop, and de
mand larger than the last few years have
seen, and the planter has proof pos
tive before his eyes that something be-
sides the demonstration of silver has been
responsible for the hard times he has suf-
fered from. The effect of this object les
son must be to open his mind to the anti
silver arguments, and to awaken distrust
of what the silverites have told him.
One other thing bothers the southern
silverites and that is the prospect that the
repeal of the tax on state bank circulation
will again be pressed upon congress. The
Atlanta Constitution is much disturbed
over what it thinks is the probability that
the Memphis sound money convention
will declare in favor OF this repeal. and
so set the southern farmers thinking that
another way for them to get cheap money
may be open besides the free coinage Of
silver The Constitution is well aware
that the strength of the free silver move
ment in the south is the demand for cheap
or more easily obtainable money in which
ne can have confidence, and if currency-
issuing banks can be established near bts
nome where he can borrow on reasonabIa
terms, his zeal for free silver will denac+
AS an antidote to the silver craze in H..
south the advocacy of state banks would
surely be effective. whatever may he
thought OF the remedy on its own merits
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