The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-05-16
The Fight Is On.

"Coin's Financial School y was writ
ten to promote the PROSECUTING of voters
to the cause OF the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of 16 to 1 and for the
enrichment of the author and publish
ers of the book. That it has made
converts to free silver cannot be de-
MED, but while it has done this, it is
also true that the sophistries and fall
lacies of the book have driven many a
man inclined toward a compromise in
favor of silver, bag and baggage, into
the ranks of the most enthusiastic adj
vocates of the gold standard. These
have been driven entirely away from
silver on the theory that cause which
requires the misrepresentation con-
tanned in the book, and the very plain
attempt to deceive the American voters
is a cause that is dangerous. On the
other hand, those who have accepted
the cause of free silver, through read
ing the book, have accepted it's state
ments as true without investigation,
and are not inclined to surrender their
convictions, notwithstanding that the
fallacies of Coins Financial SCHOOL,
have been completely and utterly ex
ploded, not by other sophistries, but by
the facts of history, from which there is
no escape.
The book, however, is entitled to
credit for one thing. 1t has created a
condition which will not be changed
until the question is settled at the polls
and in congress. The free trade ques
zion was presented III the same falfa-
cious manner and caught the unthink
ing voter, who is now sorry that he
permitted himself to be deceived and
has now reversed his judgment. 1t is
to be hoped that the country will not
have to suffer the calamity of free COIN
age before men can discover their err
ror; but however this may be, the sill
yer question will be finally settled be-
fore it is agaiX dropped. The fight has
been forced by the effects of a book
which was made to sell.
That element of the democratic
party which has advocated every fad
and fallacy that has come up in the
last thirty years, with the view of. get
ting votes has taken up free coinage Of
silver at the ratio of Is to l because
they believe it will bring votes to the
party. They are pursuing the same
course they did in regard to the tariff
to get votes. The things they prom
ised as result of " tariff for revenue
only" have not been realized by those
they deceived. The opposite is true.
The things they promised as the result
of free silver will never be realized
should they succeed. The opposite
will be the result. These people got
in power on free trade fallacies and are
trying to keep in power by means of
free silver fallacies. r. /
They will, in all probability, commit
the democratic party to free silver.
They expect to deceive large number
of republicans into following them, but
it is not likely that any considerable
number will, when the time comes,
care to follow such leaders. But, on
the other hand, large per cent. of the
democrats will refuse to follow the in
fated balloon of silver, and, already,
all over the country, sound money
leagues are being organized by men of
that party. They mean business, and
will not be dragooned into a movement
they believe would prove disastrous to
the people, no matter how many votes
for the party may be in sight. This
leads to the conclusion that when the
smoke of battle has cleared away, free
silver at 16 to will be defeated, just
as the greenback craze was defeated;
then the country can once more move
forward in the paths of security and
prosperity.