Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-30

stabbed In the dark, in the daylight,
and IN the back in the right rib and
wherever else dagger could be planted.
Tor nearly quarter OF a century past.
1t would be In far worse crippled
condition than silver. No other form
of money on the face OF the earth could
have withstood as silver has done
such malignant unsparing crusade as
the last twenty-five years have wilt
messed in this country. II still holds
its place In the affections and conf
dence OF the people. Battered and
bruised rs Il has been, yet Il will buy
to-day all that gold will buy and pay
all the debts that gold will pay, unless
special contract has been made for
gold. The American people will never
give Il up and the sooner the minions
of aggressive. insolent. consolidated
wealth and the arrogant apostles OF
gold monometalllsm realize and act up
on this fact the better and safer II will
be for them IN the future of this coun-
try. In every state and territory silver
has been known and indorsed by peo-
pie for three-quarters OF n century, not
merely as sound money. not merely as
honest money. but as land office money
besides. with It their homes were
bought and paid for, and
not much patience now romans with
them or their descendants for those
who stand and stigmatize the great
white metal which has done It's work
so Well.
"And the need Of the white metal In
the hands of the people 10 even greater
now than before. There il scarcely
speck OF gold in sight OF the laboring
class. In round numbers, there are
nearly four thousand millions OF gold
money in the world. and about the
same amount OF silver. With silver
demonotlzed the plain people, the wage
workers and those who raise and sell
the produce of the soil VIII handle
specie money no more forever, ana
viii catch even a glimpse OF II but
seldom. Gold Will be boarded and hid
away in the vaults OF the great mag
mates OF wealth and the people IN their
business will be put on the half rn-
lions OF paper money to which the
shrinkago and contraction from basis
OF bi-metallism TO a basis of mono
metalllsm VIII reduce.
II Wish to impugn the motives Of
no one, and avoid hard words In dis
oussion as far as possible, but the
time has cCimc when speech, though
temperate. should be very plain. Party
platforms from this time forward VIII
mt be framed 10 cheat ON this sub
Ject. whatever may have been done
before. No dubious phrasoology nor
straddllng planks ON the question Of
silver will be tolerated In the next ma
tlonnl conventions that arc to take
rlaccAe this country. Words will mean
what they say and men will be nom
mated whose lives and records will
constitute a guarantee that the princi-
pies declared will be carried out Nor
are the people to be Imposed on any
further by the OMNIBUS air with which
the money lords and money lenders
OF being put on n silver basis by the
free coinage OF silver.
IF the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver as full legal tender money and
as the standard OF values and the unit
of account and payment without a
word Of International agreement on
the subject Will put this country on a
silver basis. then We were ON such u
basis every day and hour from the
passage OF the first coinage act In April