River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-30

II have read the speech delivered by Mr..
Carlisle In this city % Thursday; also the one
delivered by him in Covington, KY. last Mon
day evening, and hnye compared them with
the speed deliveredsy him on the 2lst OF Feb
ruary, 1873 In the hose OF re reese natives. and
! am rem lnded of the language used by David in
lamenting the death ~ Saul: How are the
mighty fal.enY' In 1k1S Mr.. Carlisle was hurl-
ing the pebble Of truth at the giant of the Phil
istines John Shermas, to-day, as Goliath.
he daily issues challenges to his former
friends His speech o. 1873 was made when he
was 43 years old IN the full possession OF his
physical strength anG. mental yigor He had
then been a practting lawyer for twenty
years; a member of.the state legislature OF
Kentucky and lieut. mt governor Of that
state, and was then atmember of congress-
MIR. Carlisle did ne refer, at Memphis to
his speech of 1873 br' he did refer 90 il at Gov
ington and said 'Sosne OF the opinions then
expressed have ben modified, and some
OF them have sbcen changed alto
gether by subsequent events and by
more thorough Investigation Of the
subjects to which tfs,y related; but on the
quest m OF free coin!Sse my convictions have
never been shaken for moment but he did
not state, even at Coz ington, what parts OF his
foymer speech he repldiatcd, and what parts
he modified tic sservod in tho house
and senate for about fifteen years
after the making of that speech,
and never. upon a Single occasion did he at
tempt to withdraw toe utterances OF 1873 or to
modify the emphasis with which he then spoke.
1T is true that in ISIS Mr.. Carlisle did say
that he was opposed TO the free coinage of sill
yer, but he ought, In all fairness, to have
stated that he was at that time opposed to tho
free coinage OF goA also. He said in his
speech OF 1878: Il ara opposed to the free coin
ago OF either gold orsilver. bnt in favor of the
unlimited coinage q both metals upon terms
OF exact equality
$50 niue. for the position OF Mr.. Carlisle
upon the question of free coinage We do not
DENY him the right change his opinion. but it
has been more THAI a change OF opinion; 1t has
teen a change of heIrt MIR. Carlisle at that
time was the Moses Of the common people;
he is now the commander in chief Of Pharaohs
army. He was then. the courageous and zeal
Gus leader OF the MISSES in the effort to re-
store the gold and silver coinage OF the consti-
tuition: he IS now ne foremost champion of
the very forces thaX he then denounced with
so much vigor
'In his denunciatisn OF Senator Sherman at
that time Mr. CarlAle stated in substances:
First, that the interests of the 'idleholders OF
idle capital are INHERENT from the in
terestst of the struggling Masses; Sec
ond, that Senator sherman sympathizes with
the capitalists, rat per than with the masses
and third that Senstor Sherman as public
official. sworn 20 d. his duty, would be gov
erned by his sympa4 les, and, therefore. coin
only half as much money as he would coin II
his sympathies wore with the struggling
masses
History bore out she prophecy made by Mr.
Carlisle, because Mr. Sherman and his
cessors never coinetmore than the minimum
amount senator sherman and MIR Carlisle
are now in hearty az eord. Has Senator Sher-
man at last becoJ,e the champion of the
struggling masses, ior has Secretary Carlisle
become the CHAMPION of the idle holders Of
idle capitalg
Mr. Carlisle, In discussing the legal ratio,
assumes that the Emitted States can accom-
plsh no more by fsee coinage than our little
neighbor. Mexico. end overlooks entirely the
effect which will - produced upon the value
of silver bulliCL y the unlimited use OF 1t
in the United Stees. In other words, he
does not take into Consideration the fact that
the United States Commercial standing is ten
times greater than Nexico's, and he does not
take into consideration that an increased de-
mand. such as would be furnished by the
United States, will effect the price of that por-
tion OF silver whitehall upon the market
in estimating the amount of god available
for coinage annually he fails to consider the
great increase in the consumption of gold in
the arts and the Increase in CONNIE rec in the
last hundre q years. Mr.. Carlisle holds out no
hope OF internation9s bimetallism, but insists
that it is the duty ~ this governmet to main
tain a gold standard and tries to show that lt
will cause no appreciation in the value of che
dollar.
AT the Ne mphis convention Mr.. Catchings
insisted that the opponents of silver were ex-
pectng international bimetalllsm The SEEM
ing conflict between Mr.. Carlisle and Mr..
Catchings can be oklsily explained. Mr.. Car
Isle believes that the government should buy
whatever silver it Deeds, and therefore might
be called a buy-meAllist Mr.. Catchings Is in
favor of the restoration of silver after awhile
II other nations VIII help us. and therefore
may be called by5and by -metallist
"What need is thsre for bimetallism If the
gold standard will furnish sufficient amount of
money? The confession that oimetlll Is de-
sfrable DESTROYS allIarQument in behalf of gold
recommendation, am when one has admitted the
desirability OF oknetallism he must either
favor the restoration Of it by the United
States alone or su 9pmit the destinies of this
people TO foreign aations. II has been we'll
saidthat 1t is mor6 dan yerous to put an En-
Qlish banker at the.head of our financial sys-
TEN than to put "a English admiral at the
head OF our navy OF an English general at the
head OF our army"
Mr. Bryan discussed various phases OF the
money question, qaoting frequently from Sec
retary Carlisle and answering his arguments
BY arguments Formerly made by Senator Car
Isle, or by statistics. lie closed oy
saying that Secretary Carlisle had
deserted the s.struggling masses" for
whom he formerly spoke, but that, even
without his Leadership they would ne able to
cast their ballots for the restoration of the
gold and silver coinage of the constitution, and
that the present EFFORTS Of Secretary Carlisle.
instead of retardSng the movement would
make hts former steech familiar to the Amer
lean people and Ihow them the danger of in
trusting our fnankial policy to the idle hold
ers of idle capitalI or 10 their representatives.