The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-05-16

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Just before he left Washington for
his home in Ware II sburg, Mo-, SEN
ator f. NJ. Cockrel wrote free
silver letter to ex Senator McLaurin
of Mississippi, in which he said; 81
| have never ceased to wonder why
the people of the south and west
furnishing SO largely as they do pro
ducts which are exported for gold,
should be willing to submit to all the
disadvantages and loss of gold mono
metallism and TO content themselves
with an approaching and huctuating
currency constantly appreciating
more AMI more III its purchasing
power and constantly depreciating
the market or selling price and the
debt paying power of their products,
while permitting others to reap a
profit from the transmutation of the
prices of their productions from gold
to silver.n
Senator Cockrell spoke of an
"avaricious guardianship and selfish
dictat'on of Great Britain" con-
demned the recent issue of bonds to
the Morgan Belmont Rothschilds
syndicate "as burden on this and
other generations'' yielding an
enormous profit, argued against the
single gold standard, and added:
''lf there are democrats who suppose
that our party can stand on plat
form embodying such doctrine as the
single gold standard either through
its affirmative strength or through
the perplexity of our opponents on
the same proposition; or, if there
are democrats who are willing TO
turn their backs upon their party
association in the hope that the sin
gle gold standard, under foreign and
plutocratic dictation, can win
victory without the aid of either
party organization, they should no
longer deceive themselves nor longer
refuse to look in the face the results
that will follow the defeat, if not the
disintegration of the democratic
party upon the issue that temp!s
them from their allegiance and allies
them with the foreign and plutocratic
classes against our own American
masses. 1t we should be forced
away from our traditional doctrine
of sound and safe morey, honest
money, the gold and silver coinage
of the constitution adopted imme-
diately after the Inauguration of our
constitution, and maintained from
our infancy as a nation, to our full
manhood, and until February IL,
1873, by the wholesome influence and
predominance of the principles of
our party, independently of all for
eign nations, our old antagonist will
take the field on the platform which
we abandon and upon which we have
won our victories and gained the
confidence of the masses and neither
the votes of reckless democrats nor
reckless republicans will avail to stay
their easy march to power. This is
as plain as anything possibly can be.
1t therefore becomes the duty of
every democrat, whoever he may be,
to consider what such victory would
mean, and in the light of proper
conception of its results he should
deliberately shape his course. So
doing he will doubtless determine to
battle for the restoration and main
tenance of our United States of
America (without begging for the
permission, consent or corporation
of any foreign monarchical or kingly
power), of sound and safe cur
rency, honest money, the gold and
silver coinage of the constitution,
upon equal terms, with equal rights,
for true bimetallism, our own Amer
lean system in the interest and for
the prosperity Of our American citi-
zens, adopted in our infancy as a
nation, and maintained by all the
influence of our democratic principles
till February IL, 1873"
BLAND TALKS.
Ex- Congressman Bland said: "I
have not heard of the efforts of my