The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-07

this only surviving specimen of the stone
age. opens Il heavy eyes from the sleep
OF ages and sends message from the re
mote past TO the living present 1t comes
Ike message from a photograph, and
its burtaen is "Hark from the tornbs-"
He seems 10 dimly realize that he is no
longer the de-nigod he once deemed him
self when he had a policy and party
and congress on his hands. He sees
as through a glass darkly that there has
been a deIuge. He thought himself the
! nan Of the ages and of destiny and the
deluges were all for his benefit. But
this one has buried his policy and his
party down. far down in the direction of
oblivion and left him lonesome and obso-
lete-a political anachronism-with con-
gress thai is distinctly not on his hands,
but fully disposed and determined 10 do
business on its own account
He belongs TO an order not altogether
extinct, with whom the onward rush of
the times means disaster, and their i'm
pulse is to apply the brake. They can
apply the brakes-they have done II and
stopped the car Of progress. and have no
more idea how TO set the machinery in
motion again than the brake upon the
car.
Somewhat sobered from his inebr-ety of
| egotism he maunders in this distempered
deliriun of disaster, and IKE a phono-
graph repeats the platitudes folded away
in the involutions OF his mind and thinks
il wisdom. There is not a new thought,
a pregnant suggestion. an original idea
in the whole arid desert of sterile COM
position.
But he is true TO his friends. the angle
maniacs, the sanhedrim Of New York ma
tional bankers, and the guild of Wall
street money changers, and against the
revolt OF the rank and file of his own
party. the rage and political revolution
, among the people. he argses like a special
pleader and opposes his own unreasoning
viii with the pig-headed obstinancy OF all
| the Georges rolled in one This IS not in
tended as compliment, but he would
take it as such for sake Of the COMPARE
son.
He had II in MS power TO help his coun-
! trymen who could not help themselves
and TO call a halt upon that bully of the
| nations-England, the traditional enemy
of his country. But he used his power.
his patronage. and all the ability ne pos
sessed to give the people of the United
States IAN object lesson" which they
are not likely soon to Forget; and on the
other hand every approach to the lion has
been with hat of and a proposition 10
melt the Monroe doctrine into a matter
of all-round arbitration. This a Demo
crat of the Jefferson Monroe-Jackson or
der, He is quite at the other pole or
WI, Fch IL har-
ic, Republican, nor anything else Ameri-
can.
He denies in a single paragraph of his
message all the known facts of monetary
science and history in respect to a double
standard, with no more intelligence and
just as much assurance as the colored
Virginia divine in contending that the
earth is fiat and don't turn over.
He paraphrases and reverses the state
ment made by one of the Rothschilds be-
fore the Paris monetary conference of
1876. as to the effect the decentralization OF
either gold or silver would have upon
values in the world, and applies IL IN
favor of bond holders in case of the res
toration of silver apparently supposing
that his inverted plagIarsri would escape
detection when standing on it's head turn
ed upside down. The RothschiIds knew
perfectly well what he was talking about
and was sure if his facts-but whether
this other does and is is an open question.
The alternative of escape from impudent
assurance is in ignorance. of both which
our subject is in possession of unlimited
supplies.
He can turn a phrase so deftly as to
enable lie to masquerade in the dis
guise of truth, but this is a trick possess
ed by great many who were never mis-
taken for statesmen.
Rothschilds said in substance that the
values of all things are fixed by the
money metals of the world. and to destroy
either gold or silver would be to confis-
cate one-hah of the property in the world
without compensation"
The message says in substance that free
coinage of silver would reduce the value
of all securities held against our people
by one-half without compensation" sup
pressing the fact that security holders
have already had their value doubled by
the process indicated by RothschiIds,
hence restoration of silver would simply
retake from security holders an advan-
tage acquired by fraud and force OF law
and re-estabEsh the equities between deb
tor creditor.
He says all debts were made IN view
of the present standard. which In respect
to our national debt and debts in general
is distinctly not true. for nothing is clear
er than that the scope and effect of the
change of standards was not known IN
congress except 10 one or two and pos
sibly a very few others. and the Drop
ping both of the proposed fve-franc dollar
and our own silver dollar from coinage
was a feat of legislative legerdemain
which viii forever leave a bar sinister
upon the reputation OF the chief actor
therein. The press. the people. congress
nor the president knew anything of this
devihsh device 70 pick the pockets OF the
people while they were altogether uncon-
scious Of the process by which Il was
done.
Stripped Of its sOphistry the plea of the
message is that having been held up by
these money sharps the people must sub
NIT TO perpetual extortion lest our credit
suffer- Crsdit for cold. common sense Il
better in this matter than credit for pay
ing dishonest debts As well ask a man
20 pay a check which has been raised TO
double ths amount for which Il was
drawn.
His agony over the gree1bancks would
be pathetic II we did not know 4 - all for
a purpose- And that purpose Is by the
destruction OF silver. OF greeabzcks. trea-
sury notes. silver cer;1acatss-alI forms OF
government issues OF money n short ex-
ce2c gol6-tO make room and a free fed
for the banking fraternity 70 issue their
currency" which is lot legal tender.
Tot money and o1iv the necessities o. The
pscyss for a ulsdtum Of exchange would