Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-14
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION.

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 WHAT a pity it is to see Q young man going astray. Now here is Bro. Adams, of the Pine Bluff GRAPHIC. He is young man of good moral habits, upright in char acter, kind in disposition, true to a friend, possessed of many pleasing social qualities and of unquestioned talent; but, it is sad to say, he is straying off in the political field after a phantom that alures but to destroy Bro. Adams is correct in intention. He is not willfully going outside of the Democratic party to browse in the poor pasture lands of the enemy, while our own pastures, green and luscious, lie all around him. The trouble is with his eyes. He is blind. Not physically, for his visual organs are bright and pierc- ing, but his blindness is mental. 1t is not total blindness, but effects a part only of his mental character. Persons are called color-blind when they cannot distinguish colors. In the case of Bro. Adams, he may be said to be logic-blind. He cannot see how the parity between the two metals can be maintained with free coinage at the ratio of 16 to l, and yet this is quite plain. Grant for the purpose of argument that the law provides for free coinage at the ratio named. Then 4t24 grains of coined standard silver would be a dollar, and 25.8 grains of coined standard gold would be dollar, each would be equal to a dollar. Things that are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. The conclusion is unavoidable that the parity would be maintained as long as the law so remained. But Bro. Adams is logic blind and cannot see this. Alasl on account of his blindness, he is wandering from the fold of De mocracy, and is unwittingly brows- ing with the sheep who are guided by the shepherds crook of John Sherman The Eateqprisr admires Bro Adams, and would gladly see him return to the fold He should realize his blindness and be willingly led by his friends. If he would do this and use his talent on the right side of the silver question, his eyes in due time would be opened and he could say, like the blind man, Whereas l was once blind, l now see. o-Fordyce ERterprisf.
 The GRAPHIC never fights outside the lines of the Democratic party. It always keeps within the fold, where, by the grace of God, we ex- pect to remain.
 The National Democratic party in convention assembled in Chicago in 1892, declared:
 We hold the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminat- ing against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of eQUdl intrinsic and erchongeuble colue, or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the main tainence of the parity of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of an unstable money and fuetuating currency.
 Until this decree is revoked there can be no other course of conduct for Democrats. The platform does not demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to l. It holds to the use of both gold and silver without discrimination or charge for mintage but the dollars thus coined must be of equal intrinsic and eGchdagedble oalae, or be adjusted through international agreement, etc
 None of these conditions have been complied with, and until they are it is not a Democratic demand
 At 16 to the silver dollars are not of intrinsic or ecclongeuble value, but on the other hand, with free sil- yer at l6 to we would have silver dollars worth just one-half as much as they are now, or their bullion value.
 It may be true as a geometric