The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-10
THE RABBITS PRAYER
TURNING THE THING 'ROUND-
FALSE MEASURES.
(The PHILADELPHIA American,)

t1ne Phlladelphia Americana
"The eyes of the whole nation are
in this hour turned with anxious ex-
pectations upon this assembly. For
fatal deluSion has taken possession
of numbers of the American people.
National dishonesty is by many held
to be national wisdom. Debasement
of the coin of the land, it is believed,
will insure our country's prosperity.
Dense ignorance, reckless selfishnesS,
vaunting greed have perverted the
judgment of hundred of thousands in
the land. False prophets have arisen,
corruptors OF the peoples hearts and
minds.
'They cali evil good; breach of faith
with individuals and nations they
commend as highest public virtue.
They laugh to scorn the worlds ex-
perience; the wisdom of the wise is
folly in their eyes. Q Lord! dire dis
aster is threatening the American
people. National bankruptcy and in
dividual ruin, the misery and degrada-
tion of those who work for hire are
lying in ambush.
"We beseech Thee, protect the
American people from the errors and
wiles of those who would lure it from
the path Of honesty and afety. May
the delegates here assembled speak
out in no uncertain tones for national
honesty. May they declare in clarion
notes that there shall be no false
weights and false meas ures, no fraud
and no breach of faith in the land of
Washington and Lincoln"
Such are the words of prayer with
which the Jewish rabbi, DR.. Adolph
Moses, opened the second session of
the Kentucky Republican convention
"a convention that finally adopted
straddle on the money question, de-
claring against the unlimited coinage
of silver while at the same time de-
manding the use Of both gold and sill
yer as money.
It. is, indeed, time that the people
of this lapd should be awakened to,
the imminent danger of becoming the
mere drudges of a small clique of
aliens, and those with alien interests.
whose policy is dictated ''by reckless
seltishness and vaunting greed"
False prophets have" indeed, "arisen,
corruptors Of the peoples hearts and
minds" But it is not the bimetallists
but the clique Of gold-monometallists
who are the "false prophets
who are vigorously pushing the cam
paign of falsehood and deceit by We
hemently calling black white, and by
hurting offensive epithets at their op-
ponents, and these enemies of pro-
gress have not the excuse of ''dense
ignorance for their action. They
are thoroughly alive to the revolu-
tionary changes which they advocate
and they are urged forward by the
temptation of honest and enormous
gains, at the expense and the ruin of
thousands of hard working toilers and
producers.
'Dire disaster isl indeed, threat
ening the American people," and
''misery and degradation" stare the
wage-earners in the face but not from
the restoration of honest money, of
silver to it's place side by side with
gold, but from the continued appreci-
alton of gold. Fortunately the Amer
ican people are not ''densely ignor-
ant" but fully capable of thinking
for themselves. When they fairly
consider the question they must come
to the conclusion reached by the
United Labor League of Philadelphia,
as expressed in the following resolu-
tions:
"Be it resolved. That we, the United
Labor League of Philadelphia and
vicinity, indorse the free coinage Of
silver at the ratio of l6 to /, with the
same privileges, to the same rights as
gold.
Resolved, That we condemn the
coinage of gold as the only redemp-
tion money as an un-American, un-
Cons titutional currency, believing it
to be injurious to the government and
very detrimental and extOrtiOnate to
the producing and debt-paying
classes"
1t is, indeed, time that the Ameri-
can people ''declare in clarion notes
that there shall be no false weights
and measures, no fraud and no breach
of faith in the land of Washington
and Lincoln" But the crime of tam
pering with the measure Of value
must be laid at the door of the gold
monometallists. The bime tallists de-
mand the restoration Of silver for the
simple reason that gold, cut adrift
from silver, has proved to be the
falsest Of false measures. The gold
standard, the most dishonest Of meas
ures, fluctuates at the bidding Of the
clique Of spectators, and is at the
mercy of every government that
elects to use or discard it, thus raising
or depressing its value. Before silver
was demonetzed it served. to steady
gold. 1t did not absolutely fix the
value of the standard, but the add-
tion Of silver to the measure Of value
kee it within reasonable bounds, and
| no great inconvenience was expert
enced from the slow and gradual fluc-
| tuatiOnS.
Thus when gold and silver were
| linked together "cOmpound stand
ard of value was established similar
| in it's action to to the ting
| pendulum, or an automatic equili-
| brating apparatus, which, though not
so absolutely invariable as the other
| standards measures Of weight, guam
| tity and distance), was as nearly so as
| anything that human ingenuity has
| been able as yet to devise, and this
ystem worked we'll and to the COM
plete satisfaction of the entire COM
mercial world, so long as it was in
use." w. S. Wetmore.)
With demone tization. gold and sill
yer we're rent asunder, gold was alone
| made the measure Of value and it has