Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-06-06
the SILVER DOLLAR AN HONE ST DOLLAR


But the advocate Of the gold standard
tells You that the silver dollar is not al
honest dollar. He Gays il i, deprecated in
value. ] deny IT, Measured by what
Standard ] affirm, and upon the aft rmation
! defy contradiction. that one hundred cents
In silver today will buy as much Of human
property 9r human labor as IL ever did buy
since It pleased the Almighty 10 create
mankind. One hundred cents Of silver to-
day VIII buy as much IN farm products or
OF the machine shop, or Of any product OF
mans sweat and labor As il ever did buy In
all the ages. 1t will not buy as much
gold, | grant you. And why9 Because
You have declared that silver shall no long
or be money metal on an equality with
gold you have forced gold up and silver
down by arbitrary, unwarranted and un.
righteous legislation. A fair way TO put
the proposition would be that silver has not
shrunk in value. but gold has risen in value,
and the only explanation Of il Is that IL il
the result OF arbitrary, unjust and erroneous
legislation.
But he says that IL you remonetize silver,
that Is, II you open the minis Of the coun.
try 10 silver again, every dollar of gold in |
this country will sprout wings during the |
sun next morning scross the Atlantic ocean: |
that you would never see the gold again |
that all the silver Of foreign nations will be |
dumped upon our soil for mintags and coin. |
age, We have heard this threat before. Ii |
is the same old cry Of wolf that fails To
startle OF snrightus. In 1873 when we passed /
the Bland A llison bill that gave free coin
age limited To from two to four million A
month, 1t was not Carlisle but John Shsr-
man who told US then what Carlisle tells us
now. He told US not to pass that bill. thai
If we did every ounce of foreign silver
would be brought 10 our minis 70 be coined
and stamped with the American eagle and
that every dollar Of our gold would take its
light at once. We did not believe it, III,
did not believe Mr.. Sherrnan's prediction |
then, do not believe Mr.. Carlisle's predie.
ton now. Foe he Is telling US the same
tale that the Ohio Senator then INDUCED in.
In spite Of Mr.. Sherman's warning the
Democratic party in that Democratic
House, in 1878, with the aid OF the votes Of |
Mr.. Carlisle and myself, passed that free
coinage bill. A Republican president
vetoed II. The gold party was against us
then. The gold party Is against us now. IL
Is not exactly an accurate statement for me
10 say that a Republican president vetoed
that bill but counterfeit pinchbaek rep.
resentstiye Of a Republican president did
veto that bill. Hayes vetoed the bill. That
Democratic Congress passed IL over his veto
by two-thirds vote and rammed il down
his throat and made il the law Of this land
in spite Of his veto. What happs.ei2 Hen.
stood Sbermsn's prediction that all the
silver OF the world was coming here. and all |
the gold we had WAS going away. Neither |
happened That law was in force from 1878 |
10 1890 We lived under that Bland ALI
son free silver coinage bill for twelve years.
The official report of the superinten dent
Df the mint shows that no foreign silver
was brought to American minis for mint
.ge in all that lapse Of twelve long years.
The official report Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury shows you that instead Of our hsv-
ng lost our gold. as Sherman said We
would, and as Carlisle to-day declares we
will, at the end Of that twelve years Of OPP
ration Of the Bland-Allison Free Coinage
3ill, instead of losing your gold you had
hree dollars Of gold where you had one to
'egin with. ,
Why would your gold go abroad Gan it ,
Ind Investments more profitable and more
In the world than here? ri !
o, II would never come here. The foreign c