The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-03-30
STEWART SOUNDS
THE SLOGAN,
The Great Silver Champion In
ViteS the Gold Men to do
Battle.
SETTLE THE QUESTION BY A VOTE.
And Let the Great American
People Decide the Fight
Once and Forever.

Under date of Washington, D. c.,
March II, Senator Stewart writes the
president of the National Union
bank Of New York the subjoined
letter. The text is taken from the
recommendation of a banker that
the, money question will have to be
decided by the people, and that it
ought to be finished fight:
"Hon. Joseph G. Hendrix, presi-
dent National Union bank, New
York city, n. Y.--Dear Sir: The
many fattering notices of an address
delivered by you a few weeks ago at
the manufacturers banquet in Brook
lyn attracted my attention and led
me to procure the address, which I
found published in the Financier of
February 25, 1895. | have carefully
read the published report of your
address, and congratulate you on the
frank and outspoken manner in which
you present the issue. You say:
sAs we have fooled with schemes
and accepted compromises we have
gone from bad to worse, and we now,
in the absence of international settle
ment, must take stand for final
and decisive battle in this country.
Lincoln said that this country could
not remain half slave and half free.
Freedom or slavery had to go. Nor
can it remain in doubt as to it's ulti-
mate standard of value. Gold or
silver will have to win the contest.
Secession and slavery fought on the
same lines. They are buried be-
yond the reach of resurrection trump.
Silver belongs to both of them as an
issue in American politics. If there
is to be battle of the standards
fought out at the next presidential
election, we of the New England
and middle states and of the area
north Of Mason and Dixon's line and
east of the great rivers are ready to
throw off all party trappings and
meet the issue in the common inter
est of our republic and have done
with it. No more Janus-faced plat
forms, no more
GOOD-LORD-GOOD-D
leadership, no more shifting, dodg-
ing, trimming or timeserving among
presidential candidates. Let the
silver men choose of their number
Let the single-standard men choose
Of their number, and then let the
American people decide
81 hail the bold language that
you employ. rejoice that YOU
position is indorsed by the banker:
and gold press of New York. an
glad that those for whom you speal
are at last willing to abandon theil
tactics OF fraud and cunning and dc
battle for the classes in the open field
If your lang had been employed
in 1873 there would have been nc
battle of the standards. If you hac
told told the people of the United
States twenty-five years ago las
February that you would destroy
one-half of the worlds money by ex
Guiding silver from the mints for tn,
purpose of enhancing the value o
the other half, and doubling the OBJ
legations of contracts, no man il
either house of congress would hav'
dared to have been party to de
ceiving the American people b
smuggling in a provision in codi
fication law demonetizing silver
Every step that you have taken t
enhance the value of money and de
preciate the price of property by tn
destruction of silver has been accom-
plished by the methods of deceptio
which you now condemn.
''lt may be that the gold combine
ton which you present is stron
enough to throw off all disguise an
and appropriate the earnings of ii
masses by force without strategy.
have known for many years of II