The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-06-11

lie wrote letter. IL was written for pub
,ication, and Mr.. Smith who was tho ed
itor of paper at Gibraltar KY, published
it in his paper on Jan. 25, 1890. know
all this is not news TO this audience, for
with newspapers like those in Memphis it
is not easy to say anything to the people
of this city in favor of bimetallism that
has not been heard before. But here is
what Mr.. Carlisle wrote, as 1t was publish
ed in the Gibraltar paper:
Hon. W. NJ Smith, Mayfield, KY.
DEAR SIR--Your favor of the 18th inst. is
lust received Every Democrat in the senate
voted against the silver bill as 1t was finally
amended and reported by the conference com
mittee because we believed it was worse than
the existing law. If the Farmers Alliance OF
Graves county believe that this Republican
measure, which substantially stops the coin
age of the silver dollar after year, is better
than the Democratic law of 1873, t1ey are of
course entitled to their opinion, but l do not
agree with them.
When the original house bill was under con-
sideration in the senate, voted TO amend it so
as to provide for the free and unlimited coin
age Of the silver dollar, and that amendment
was adopted. The house, however, refused to
agree to this amendment, and then n confer
ence committee was appointed, which struck
out free coinage entirely, and this is the bill
l voted against. / send you by mail all three
Of the bills. Yours truly, J. G. CARLISLE.
Carlisle For Free Coinage.
Now there was criticism of Mr.. Car
Isle made by the Farmers Alliance on the
ground that he was opposed TO silver, and
the gentleman who helped to elect him
wrote for an explanation, and Mr.. Carlisle
wrote letter of explanation for publica-
ton in which he said that he did vote for
the free and unlimited coinage of the sill
YER dollar, and that when the free coinage
amendment was stricken out he voted
against the measure.
Was he for free coinage thenP If SO, he
had right to write that letter. If he was
opposed to free coinage then, he practiced
deception on his constituents when he
wrote that letter.
Now, l used to be great admirer of
Hon. John G. Carlisle, and as n former adj
mirer of his am going to insist that it is
lack of memory that causes him to talk rs
he does now about what he used to do,
and that in fact at that time he was in fh-
vor of the free and unlimited coinage of
silver, when O silver dollar was worth 80
cents in bullion and 100 cents in coin. If
he would take that speech of 1878 and tell
his audience that he was mistaken then
and has since changed his views, then we
could commend his frankness and we
would not object TO his changing his mind.
But what we complain of is not the
change of mind, but the change of heart;
not the change Of opinion, but the change
of sympathy which accounts for what he
says and does now and not the change of
opinion that he speaks of. Do you believe
that the sympathies of a man control
him? When we talk of mans motives,
they say we are appealing to prejudice and
they call us demagogues.
want to confute Carlisle out of his
own mouth. / want to tell you what in
1873 he said about the effect OF a mans
sympathy on his actions. Let us turn to
this speech Of 1873 This speech of Secre-
tary Carlisle will live long after the people
have forgiven him for his lack of memory
now He says, speaking of the bill to coin
limited amount of silver:
"The senate has declared by large vote
that the coinage should be limited to
sum not less than 81, 600, 000 nor more than
"a, 600, 900 per month. If the execution Of
this measure be intrusted to public Off
Ger whose opinions upon the subject were
in accord with those of the great majority
VI lllt AllNIlChll DtODlO anu NllOSO llpft-
thies were with the struggling masses WI
produce the wealth and pay the taxes OF
the country rather than with the idle hold
ers of idle capital, the provision alluded to
would be of little consequence, because he
would coin the maximum instead of the
minimum allowed by the amendment.
"But situated as we are we all know, or
at least we have reason to believe that
not dollar beyond the minimum amount
will be coined, and consequently the proc
ess Of getting this money into circulation
will be too slow to afford the full measure
of relief which the people now demand
and need
A True Prophet.
say you cannot get Carlisle to explain
that passage. / call your attention to three
distinct statements in that passage. There
is the declaration of John G. Carlisle that
there are two classes of people-the strug
Cling masses who produce the wealth and
pay the taxes, and the idle holders of idle
capital. Sherman he says, is in sympa-
thy with the latter class, and he further
says that his sympathy will influence his
conduct as an officer of the government
and will make him issue only SO, 900, 600,
of silver coin where he would issue 81, 000,
600 if his sympathies were placed other
wise There is the separation of society
into two classes, and the charge that Sher-
man was in sympathy with the idle, and
that this sympathy would control his flu
ture actions 1t matters not what may be
said against John G.. Carlisle at this time
No man will ever charge a graver crime
upon him than John G.. Carlisle then
charged against Mr.. Sherman Carlisle
was true prophet. What he said would
come to pass did come to pass.
Senator Sherman and his successors in
the Office of secretary of the treasury did
not COMA dollar more than the minimum
amount permitted by the bill. But then
you remember that Mr.. Sherman is inter-
ested in this method and that at that time
John G.. Carlisle assumed to be and was
the representative of the struggling masses
and Mr.. Sherman was really the mouth
piece of the idle holders of idle capital. l
want you to observe that right now today
both are together advocating exactly the
same policy on the money question, and l
want you to decide in your own minds
whether Senator Sherman is at last in
sympathy with the struggling masses or
Secretary Carlisle is at last in sympathy
with the idle holders of idle capital. Mr..
Carlisle owes it to himself and to Senator
Sherman 10 come out now and say that
L. L