The Meeker herald., 1895-07-06
SILVER MUST RETURN.
ESSENTIAL POINTS IN DEBATE
CLEARLY STATED.
Collins Of Little Rock. AK, .
Leading Lawyer sets Forth HI. view.
me Great Question of III.

believe 1 am able, as an outsider
run the rural districts, disassociated
run tne confusion that Is being inter-
1ecoed into the debate, to say how the
controversy is going and how 1t must
end IL the American people are true to
themselves.
Blanche. Tray and Sweetheart"
!ast now. are raising great noise rela-
ave TO variety Of conundrums
winch nave no relation whatever to the
questions In which the American peo-
PIE nave so profound an interest. II
II oe true, upon principle, and as an
economic postulate, that the money of
ultimate redemption exercises an ag-
Hessive influence upon the price level
Oh commodities and upon the values Of
al forms OF property. the product of
iapor; and IL 1t be true that the strik-
ing down of one-half of the money Of
ultimate redemption has created an ap-
preclating standard OF value in gold,
Hhich is unstable land hence unsound),
then the bimetallists, who are strug-
shng 10 restore silver to the same re-
iations 1t occupied prior to 1873. are
right, and our modern economists, who
are endeayoring to challenge the AK
IONS OF the centuries, are wrong.
II they are right at all they are aw-
luily right. II then becomes a ques-
tion OF such vital Importance as to
involve, as an economic principle, the
hDerties OF mankind and the peril of
reducing our people to the condition of
the European peasantry by law as
irresistible as a problem in mathe-
matics.
IL this question is determined In the
afiirmative then the only other Ques-
ton to discuss will be how can the
American people escape the dire results
OF system fastened upon them, 1t
matters not how; whether information
al action Is probable or even possible,
and whether "a new declaration Of in
dependence" is not only the duty. but
the necessity OF the hour, are the ques-
lions that should and Will absorb the
intellectualities of the people. 1t serves
no purpose, as the custom Of some is,
to attack Mr.. Harvey and the "Finan-
cial School, as to fancied inaccuracies
In non-essential details. Prof. Laugh
lin and others, observe, are very bit
ter because they imagine that Coin Is
inaccurate in his Interpretation OF the
act OF 1892 in declaring that the unit
Of value was placed at 37A grains Of
pure silver. and that gold. though hav-
Ing equal privileges and redemption
power, was required to correlate with
and conform to the silver unit. and not
the silver to 1t, for the reasons stated
In tho book. 1t has no bearing what
ever upon the momentous question at
issue. II matters not which is right.
At last both agree that from 1892 to
1873. under laws powerful enough to
make themselves dominant throughout
the world. both gold and silver were
money OF final payment, and whether In
circulation or not constituted Jointly
a measure of value in the markets OF
the world.
Since 1873, as we contend, gold alone
has formed that measure. That 1t Is
an approaching standard, rapidly being
cornered in the war chests and treas
uries of the nations and regardless OF
other Influences dwelt upon by the
new school (Which In all proper cases
are admitted by us) the single stan
dard in gold is hammering down the
values Of our property and placing
nroaperity in SO far as the masses are
concerned, beyond the reach oil hope.
Admit that other influences have CO.
onerated and are now cooperating,
hoth in accelerating and retarding the
downward tendency. At last the ques-
,,on rust be whether or not there Is
aucb an economic principle az the one
,ronosed and this old world has waited
.hrnuph the centuries for Our wise
men of the east" to doubt 1t. Neither
doea IL matter whether the act OF 1878
waa passed by stealth or not. In the
soraa "Coin" states 1t, whether II was
dome designedly or not, the country VIII
ho,Ieve IL. The American people were
M, conscious OF the far-reaching Sig
nieo.nce of what was being done. Con-
9ressmen and senators were equally al
fault 1t did not appear in the as
natchea. nor was 1t mentioned or as
cusaed by newspaper anywhere
though the same question that is now
shaking the nation. year or Two
AGO prof. Gilmore at st. Louis went
IN his room, ate banana ana ora"h
class OF champagne and lay down anu
died. The chemical aihnities pe'we ,a
the wine and fruit formed RANK poi'-
m In his stomach. He was UNCONSCIOUS
'. - he was doing, but 1t was never
she,esa poison and cost him his me-
\ nhs,dst might have known and dis-
1 ~ tho subject. but II he failed TO
Su",sr Gilmore as to what would be
s sha result he was none the iess de-
s sau II serves no vital purpose now
" nstermine how the act was passed.
" ',ss nassed and VIC are now wrestling
The spirit Of the fathers 10 awake ", se,r IN
.,e,r sons They are going 70 solve
IL