The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-06

IItSe uucs llouS, ulCH we uccIu peru
nent, from reading extracts from a
speech made by that gentleman in 1873,
and which was, seemingly provoked by
the assertion that the new coinage act
had surreptitously demonetized silver,
and from the additional fact, that self
constituted mediators are now Ques-
tioning the right of advocates Of silver
to recognition by the Republican party.
If Mr.. Blaine's claim to being a Re-
publican meets with no gainsay, then
no silver advocate OF the present has
gone so far as he, who declared in the
speech referred to, that silver and gold
were both not only constitutional
money, but the money Of the American
people anterior to, and independent Of
constitutional recognition.
Put that in your pipes, ye would-be
party censors, and note the color and
aroma of its ascending fumes
Goldbugism is essentially Bourbon
istic; free silver is in consonance with
the progressive spirit Of Republican,
ism.
The Republican party has ever drawn
its real inspiration from the common
ality. Its greatest heroes and leaders
We're rail-splitters, tanners, canalboat-
men and schoolmasters. It's greatest
burthens have been monopolieS, its "old
man Of the sea- the plutocrat Once
dismiss from the party the men who
stand for the many, the men who voice
the convictions of the patient masses,
and who seeks to lessen the loads impos-
ed upon humble shoulders, by ever DOM
mating classes, and the ideal OF con-
sumations struggled for by the Lin
coins, Grants and Garfields become i'm
possible Of realization. While the
Bourbon party, now In power, in fail
ing Of continuous rule cannot die, sus-
tanned. as it is, and ever has been by
the power Of greed, the Republican
party, upon the other hand, born of the
cry of the slave beneath the lash of a
Democratic whip, becomes nothing. or
at most but a Bourbon imitation, once
it loses the sympathy Of the great body
of humanity who wills for the right at
whatever coSt,-who strikes for his
neighbor and his brother in defiance of
the threats of the oppreSsor or the
whine of that oppressor's paid tools and
slaves. If, therefore, those who are
demanding that the merccnary mana
gers Of gold-control shall loosen their
grasp are to be politically ostracised,
and the name and fame of James G..
Blaine relegated to political infamy,
then it is high time that the Republican
organization was served with notice
that other rail-splitters, other canal
boatmen and other tanners and school
masters will rise up to confuse their
councils and deliver the people.
But what did James G. Blaine say
touching the conspiracy against the
peoples money and the victory of the
gobblers Of gold in the demonstrating
act Of 1873? His own words portray
| that his convictions were more wildly
| and radically in favor of the free coin
age of silver than any ever uttered by
the Eagle. He made it plain that the
conspiracy was not new or unknown to
| him. He declared: ION the much
vexed and long-mooted question of a
bimetallic or a monometallic standard.
my own views are sufficiently indi-
Gated in the remarks 1 have made. |
/ believe the struggle now going on In
this country and in other countries for
a single gold standard would. if sue
ceSSful, produce widespread disaster in
and throughout the commercial world.
The destruction of silver as money and
establishing gold as the sole unit of
value must have n ruinous effect on all
forms OF property except those invest
ments which yield a fixed return in
money. These would be enormously
enhanced by value and would gain a
diSproportionate and unfair advantage
over other species of property. If. as
the most reliable statistics affirm. there
are nearly $1,000. 100000 coin or bullion
in the world, not very unequaliy divid
ed between gold and silver. II is i'm
possible TO strike silver out of exist
ence as money without results which
will prove distressing To millions and
utterly disastrous to tens Of thou
sands"
As for the constitution and congress
sional powers to regulate the kinds and
values of money, he went on 10 say: u
believe gold and silver coin to be tbs
money of the constitution; indeed tht
mnrey of the American peor,la arfe-io,