The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-03-18

ineitai money Oh tine country.
April 10, 1895, the NoRTHERNER
printed comprehensive article de-
fining its opinions, under the heading
GAS to Currency" from which the
following extracts are taken:
"True bimetallism is and must
continue to be the standard of the
republican party. 1t is
possible free coinage at IL to would
not drive gold to premium. If,
after careful investigation of the
probabilities of the case, our national
lawmakers and financiers should de-
eide such TO be the fact, then the
passage of such coinage law would
give sharp upward tendency to all
commercial values and would accom-
plish marked improvement in bust
ness conditions. There
is no good reason why either silver
or gold should alone be our unit of
monetary value. In the return to
true bimetallism, after the proper
ratio has been decided upon, GER
tain number of grains of gold should
be declared to be legal dollar,
certain number OF grains OF silver
should be declared likewise to
be dollar, and dollar should
be our unit of value.
But after all, the question is not
so much one of free or limited coin
age, of a ratio of 16 to l or some
other ratio, as it is of return TO the
use of silver as redemption money.
x 4 The republican party is
right on the financial question"
May 3, 1895, the NoRTHERNER
said:
The NoRTHERNER is a thorough
republican. 1t believes in the prin-
ciples of the party, protection, BIZ
metallism and a free ballot"
May 10, 1895, the NoRTHERNER
said:
''Silver is bound to be remonetized
in the United States. Silver as a
basic money metal is needed in all
Europe, and the people there feel
the need and demand the money.
The basis of the return of silver is
alone to be determined in this coun-
try, and the NoRTHERNER only de-
sires that the return may be made in
such way as to aid the debtor, pro-
tect the creditor and maintain the
financial honor of the United States. 4"
May "a, 1895, the NoRTHERNER
said:
"The NoRTHERNER is in favor of
bimetallism, not because of any wor-
ship for the dollar of our dads but
because we believe that the amount
of gold in the United States is far
too small to furnish a safe and un-
changing basis for our currency, and
because we believe that a currency
based upon both gold and silver
would be more stable, its fluctuations
less marked"
June IA, 1895, the NoRTHERNER
said:
1--WE are in favor of the use of
both gold and silver as redemption
money under safe conditions. +
If, after every effort has
been made, an international agree
ment is found to be impossible, then
we would favor opening American
minis to American silver at con-
siderably increased ratio"
June %, 1895, the NoRTHERNER
said:
ave believe in bimetallism."
August 16, 1895, the NoRTHERNER
said:
"Never have we said word except
for bimetallic currency in some
form or other. The
NoRTHERNER is a bimetallist and
believes thoroughly that both gold
and silver should be used as primary
money, and that gold dollar and a
silver dollar should be of equal in
trinsic value"
October 4, 1895, the NoRTHERNER
said:
1--WE believe a revision of our
monetary system advisable; we be-
lieve in a wide use of silver as pri-
mary money, with exactly the same
monetary functions as are accorded
to gold"
January II, 1896, the NoRTHERNER
said:
$50 far as party autonomy is con-
cerned, the republican party is unit,
on the broad, liberal platform of BIZ
metalism as declared in nationa
and state platforms time and again
February z, 1896, the NoRTHERNER
said:
''The republican party is bimet-
allie party and has always been SO.
Not a single state or national plat
form can be produced that declares