The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-05
British Gold ana British Trade


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tician Of a great deal of brilliancy
great deal of ambition, and very
little craftsmanship. For many
years the country has enjoyed tht
corruscations of Mr.. Vests genius
but in ali that time they have new
er derived from his multitudinou,
oratorical eruptions a single valu.
able idea in politics or statesman
ship. Senator Vest is an advocate
of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at Is 10 l and he has re,
Gently unbosomed himself in al
interview with a reporter Of the
St Louis Republic. The Missouri
Senator in this interview repeats
the old and worn catch-crieS that
are on the lips Of every blather-
skite in the free silver camp and
constitute the staple editorials OF
every free silver organ. big and
little. He mouths about the SIN
Gle gold standard" gold mono
metallists," the gold bond slav-
ery,' the "British gold bond syn
dicate," ad nauseam. Mr.. Vest
grows especially excited over what
he terms American subserviency
to England; the shameful fact that
we look to London for the quota
tons of the price of gold, and he
would declare America mdcpend-
ent of England, commercially and
financially.
In a period of popular discon-
tent and unrest, well or i'll found
ed, the masses ere too often caught
by catch cries and statesments. to
cool headed men. fraudulent on
their face, that any iemagogue
may invent and promulgate. If
this were not true, when Mr. Vest
speaks of American subserviencv
to England he would be hooted off
the rostrum.
No great commercial nation can
be entirely independent of her sis
ter commercial nations unless she
chooses to build wall around her
borders and exclude all foreign.
trade: this is the highest protec-
Zionist theory; the theory Of those
who, pretending to build up Amer
can industries, are seeking in fact
to plumber the masses for the en-
rchment Of the few. The trade
of the United States with foreign
countries amounts to about two
billions Of dollars per annum, and
If she maintains that trade and de-
si:es to increase it, she cannot be
independent of other nations, nor
they Of her. Under such trade
conditions a reciprocity ofinterests
arises which imposes mutual obi
cations upon the nations engaged
in 1T, 4 common currency circu-
lating in these several countries is
a vast convenience and incentive
to international trade, and Mr..
Vest or any other man, when he
SCOTS at the icea of a common
standard of money in commercial
and maintains that the
United States would be benefited
by preferring the, Silver standard to
the gold standard, the standard of
the nations with whom we most
largely trade. simply makes him
self ridiculous in the eyes of sensi-
bic people.
But If the "gold standard" Is
such an awful thing; if it is an in
of slavery; if it is inju-
rious to a country, how is it that
with the single gold |
standard, is the richest country on
the globe; controls the seas, and |
has the largest international trade
ON earth: how IS it that she is the
nation of the world, and |
has america On her knees at her
feet?" 1t seems to us that. if what
MIR. Vest and other tlorid ranters
IF the free silypritcS SAYS i really