The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19

blind, selfish and pig-headed advocates
of the policy of destruction. The far
ner may have had no hint that there
was a better way to overcome the
scourge of rats.
These men have had ample warning
all along the lines Of the contest, but
wise in their own conceit, and possibly
cognizant of the open record that every
facile and devoted abettor Of the great
wrong was surely to be rewarded for
all in the cabinet or in the national
mint, or currency departments, who
have signally served that cause have
been rewarded by lucrative positions.
We only recall one exception, Hon.
Charles Foster, whose private affairs
prevented such action.)
They have sinned against light in
this work against the vital interests OF
their country, for never were facts and
historical illustrations more eloquently
presented than those which the true and
tried friends of free bimetallic coinage
have presented in the greatest debates
ever held in legislative. halls to refute
the gold monometalist theories.
Utterly ignoring the wise words Of
men who had spent their lives in the
management of international and do
hiCoIiO OANAoA6C, az given az CuC DI 10.
sells Conference, and by, such men as
Mr. Henry, Hucks, Gibbs and Mr.. Gren-
fel and exChancellor Goschen, they
have betrayed their own ignorance
while betraying their country. The
plain truth did not enter their heads
that the whole theory upon which the
use Of gold and silver las money! rests
upon the unlimited use of natures sup
ply, which has never been excessive,
but which in at least two historic eras
has proved insufficient, to a degree,
that swept away an ancient and very
advanced civilization in one case; and
in another led to vast social evils which
were stayed by the discoveries of gold
in California and Australia.
God help our country if fools or
knaves are to direct it's destinies:
These men, who protested fear Of
| our not succeeding in independent ac-
tion, have seen the destruction of values
and of hopes. They have admitted it
as not only affecting our own country,
but all others, and yet they glory in
their shame. For them facts amount
to nothing. They boast of having struck
the shackles from slaves, who at least
| were we'll fed and had enough to do,
| while they help to forge bonds which
| are to hopelessly subject the people of
the world to their Molock of gold.
| Knowing that no nation using metallic
| money can dispense with silver, and
that three-fourths of the civilized world
have no gold money, and, that as the
late Edward Pierrepont said, Sixty
| millions of our own people never use
gold at ALL" these blind leaders of the
blind refuse to see the light AS though
if all silver and all gold being in I'M
| limited demand some where, for money,
| it could make any serious difference
| whether this nation or that nation
should prefer to have larger stock of
the precious metals, one or the other
! If all nations, by public law, could
| it is plain that wheat would be in larger
demand and advance in price.
But if half the world should use no
wheat and use corn and rice and the
other half use wheat alone, the demand
| for and the production of all would 20
on.
It is reflection upon the integrity of
American journalism that question of
such vast Importance to our own people
and to the world at large should not be
permitted to be fairly and freely dis
! cussed in those great vehicles of public
intelligence. But when it has come to
pass that open falsehood and misrepre-
sentation of principles and of statistics
wantonly presented and continuously
|, repeated, it is time that an indignant
protest be entered against such an I'M
American policy.
1t is persistently stated, for instance,
that silver is down because it can be
produced so cheaply now, and many are
| led to believe it as truth.
Certainly the gold advocates will &C
| cept Mr.. Edward Atkinson's statement
| as to the cost of silver. In his report
| in 1887 to President Cleveland he in
cludes an address, which he delivered
| before the British Association for the
| Advancement of Science, and on page
Is we find these words on the produc-
| ton of silver in our country: (Which
| product have cost us Tin the opinion of
| the most competent observers, if re-
gard be given to the time and labor
| which have been devoted to unprofit-
able mines and to the waste of fraudu-
lent enterprises, at least $500 in gold
value for every $1.0O of silver bullion
produced" Other authorities think
this estimate too low.
Now we present over the signature of
the late director of the mint, Hon. E.
0. Leech, of the total product of gold
and silver for the world each year from
1850 to 1888 inclusive. AS it will take
too much space to detail, we will give
the aggregate for the 80 years in dol
| lars: