The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-06-21

vocates of the opposite view
What harm or discourtesy is there
in asking one who assumes'to teach
the people where he stands anC
what are the fixed and definite ar
ticles in his political faith? If he
be a stranger is there not greater
necessity for light on this impor.
tant subject? | believe in the ut.
most federation. | do not regard
it crime for a man, even in the
South, to be a Republican, a Green.
hacker or a Populite; but when any
man assumes to instruct the PEG.
pie on public questions | maintain
that they have the right to know
what he is and who he is, and
whether he proposes to be guided
and controlled by the fundamental
principles of the great party to
which we belong. Especially is
this true when he questions the
motives of those who differ from
him and attacks the standard bear
ers of the Democracy.
Mr. Bryan did not answer the
question when It was propounded
to him, but evaded it and turned
upon me to know if | would sup
port the party if it declared for the
free silver coinage. to which |
promptly responded, yes. For
this you criticise me. In the first
place yor make a misstatement of
facts. You say, Judge Brame,
like the average goldbug, holds
that the adoption by the Ameri-
can people Of the bimetallic instead
of the gold monometallic currency
system, would produce chaos il
the United States, killing its pros
perity and sending its industries
to hopeless ruin. This is pure as
sumption, notiustitied by anything
| said to Mr.. Bryan or by anything
that | ever did say to anyone.
How do you know what I hold on
the currency question? Is notyour
assumption that | am a gold mono
metallist like that of the average
free silver shouter who demands
that silver be coined at the ratio of
16 to |, though its actual value is
about 80 to / and who would heap
epithets on those who do not think
as he does?
1t is matter of very little I'M
portance what my individual views
are. am not politician, nor
candidate; but, since YOU have
seen fit to refer to the matter, |
wish to say that | am not a gold
monometallist, and there are thous~
ands of people in this country who
do not believe that it is possible
for this government to ct:n both
gold and silver in unlimited guam
titles at the ratio of 6toI be
lleve that an effort to do this would
lead to practical silver monometal-
ism. | am for god standard
something definite and fixed to
measure b., and only one kind of
a yard stick; but | favor also the
use of all the silver that all the
people of this great country in all
their foreign and domestic com
merce can use. wish to see every
ounce at least of American silver
coined at it's actual intrinsic value
and used at a parity with gold.
AS | have said, | am opposed to
the demand of the silver barons,
that our government shall open all
its minis for the free and unlimited
coinage at ratio which assumes
its value to be about double what
it is in fact. ! believe that the adop-
ton of such policy would be in
furious to the best interests of this
country, and especially the South,
now so heavily burdened with
mortgage debts. | believe that it
would result in the foreclosure of
this vast Indebtedness, and that the
forced liquidation of the same
would be extremely injurious. But
| may be wrong about this. Many
great al d patriotic men in our
party think differently. The ques-
ton involved is purely an econom-
ic one, and if the assembled wis
dom of the great Democratic party
shall declare in favor OF line OF
policy on this subject that differs
from my humble views. | shall
promptly surrender them and
"a have ALWAYS done nm