Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-12
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Congressman Bland, in his lecture on
silver, says: THE battle to be fought,
and the all important point to gain is
to secur- president who will sign
free coinage bill if sent to him, and
will not use the power and patronage
of his office to prevent such bill COM
ing to him." Accordingly to this kind
of logic Mr.. Bland is a self-convicted
demagogue. He has been all the time
working hard to have free silver bill
passed. and at the same time has given
in each campaign his best talent and
efforts to secure the election of a man
who has done all he can to defeat free
silver. And right here we make the
prediction that Richard P. Bland will
vote for the next Presidential nominee
of the Democratic party if he is a gold
bug.
We now believe that silver is to take
| the place of the tariff as a bone of con-
| tention to keep the people divided and
to sustain the two old parties. 1t will
be sham fight throughout. For this
reason the free silver issue is being
made as complicated as possible. We
now have the following varieties of
free silver advocates:
1. Those for free, unlimited, and in
dependent coinage.
2. Those who only want free, unlim-
tied and Independent coinage of the
product of the United States.
3. Those who want the ratio changed.
4. Those who want to wait until some
| international arrangement can be had
We find these factions in both the old
parties. There is only one pure, un-
adulterated free coinage party-the
Peoples party. It's members are
united for free, unlimited and inde-
pendent coinage of silver regardless of
| Europe, Shylock or the devil.
A dispatch from Washington dated
May II, stated that Mr.. Carlisle's Mem
| phis speech had been written, read to
| the President, revised, and a thousand
copies printed for distribution
If any one has any doubt that every
effort is being put forward by the gold
bug administration and the bankers to
commit this country indefinitely to a
| single gold standard, it must be be-
cause they are criminally blind to
| passing events. There is not member
of the administration that favors plac-
| ing silver where it was prior to 1873.
Every national banker, every bond
| holder, every money leech that has
bled this government since the war is
in favor of the gold standard. If there
1 xxroC fn fha II
| standard theory, the crowd that advo-
| Gates it ought to be enough to sink it
into hades with honest, intelligent peo-
| pie.
| The Bankers Magazine, gold stand
ard organ, has issued a circular stat
ing that it has prepared an answer
to Coins Financial School," but ex-
| presses the fear that it will not reach
and be read by the masses. While there
are some things in Coins School" we
don't indorse, we take great pleasure
in the knowledge that it is stirring up
the gold bugs as nothing else has ever
done. Any attempt to answer the ar
gument from gold standard stand
point must surely end in miserable
failure. Coin" stands just where the
whole bimetallic world stood prior to
the time the Rothschilds conceived the
idea of doubling their wealth by strik-
| ing down silver. The very objections
which are urged by the gold bugs can
be used to support the arguments in
favor of bimetallic currency. These
attempts, however, on the part of the
banks go to substantiate what we have
frequently said, that this is fight be-
tween the bankers and the people, the
dollar and the citizen.