Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-25
ORDERED CLOSED.


 The dispatches yesterday conveyed to the country the information that Secre- tary Carlisle has issued an order, to take effect November 1. suspending the fur ther coinage of silver except subsidiary coins. The effect of the order will be to close up entirely the only mint situated in the South--the one at New Orleans and as stated in the telegraphic report sent out frem Washington, convert the silver bullion now owned by the govern ment into gold obligation
 The policy of contraction it will be seen goes steadily on. A silver dollar once coined and in the channels of trade re- mains. It means one dollar added to the circulating medium that will remain there. That kind of money is what the contractionists are trying to get out of the way, and the secretary is lending a helping hand by ordering the hints closed entirely against the silver dollar
 Who has not heard the expression. when close friends fall out they become the bitterest of enemies. So it appears that the man who was, before he be- came member of the present cabinet the best friend the white metal had. be- cause he was the ablest, has come to be its btterest enemy.
 Of course the hints have been practi- cally closed against the standard silver dollar since July, 1890, and MT Carlisle's last order only serves to show that the administration is determined in it's fight for contraction and gold as the only re- demption money. Step by step the dem- ocratic party, If the administration is really the party, has been brought around to a full and complete indorse- ment of the single gold standard. The first step was taken when MT. Carlisle adopted the policy of Secretary Foster which was a surrender of the legal right of the government to redeem coin obliga- tions in either gold or silver The next step was the demand for the repeal of the only clause in the sherman law look ing to the further use of silver as money. The third and last is the order of dem- ocratic secretary of the treasury closing the hints of the government against the further coinage of silver dollars.
 In opposition to the solemn pledge of the party in it's platform in 1892 in oppo- sition to the will of 75 per cent of the voters who constitute the democratic party and in our humble judgment, WHICH we are SfdllHed 10 knOW cOlnclQeS with the vast majority of the people who make up the democratic party, against the best interest of the country, the men who were pledged to give the coun- try both gold and silver as standard money and to expand the circulating me- dium are actively engaged in a fierce war on silver and are fighting for con- traction with degree of energy and de- termination worthy better cause. It is for an indorsement of these violation of the party's pledges that the members of the cabinet have been sent out to make speeches in their respective states; and it is because the policy of the admnistra- ton has not been in line with the princ- pies and pledges of the democratic party that the people will withhold their in- dorsement even after they have had poured out upon them the powerful elo- quence of the members of the cabinet. The State Herald, along with the Mont. gomery Advertiser of 1892. regrets that MT. Cleveland is not in line with his party on the silver question.