Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-03-17
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.

Tho Sacramento Bee, in answer to
the query whether it wants a plank
i'll the Republican platform favoring
the unlimited coinage of silver or one
III favor Of an international agree
ment, says:
"1nternatlonat agreement" he rcle.
gated TO the "demnition bow woWs!"
There lever has been an "mternation
al agreement" yet on the money ques-
ton that has not been simply IL meet
ing held for the purpose of ratifying
the wishes of the RotllschiIds and UtiI-
cr gamblers in the peoples money.
Why should the United States ask
these Shylocks what it should do To
help along it" own people? We DO
not stand, hat in hand and beg the
pardon of Great britain while we
place Il duty uEOn her goods that en-.
ter into competition with those OF
American manufacture, Why should
VIC humb!y ask hyr permission or that
~ NiN 'tIINI I''il'iI, btioI' We ictOItl
10 the peoples money The equal place
Which it should hive III the currency
of The country?
w mwst r"urt the wlshcaof Europe
i'll this matter or we cannot float our
bonds, say the timid ones. No? Was
it not proved but the other day that
the United Statcs can procure all the
money she can possibly use from her
own people. who are eager to invest
in Government securities? Was iC
not demonstrated that. were the Ship
Of State waterloggei with debts, she
could be tioated into the harbor of
soivency without going East of Cape
Cod or Ncst Of the Golden Gate?
What becomes Of theories about ain.
ternational agreements" when one is
confronted with facts like that out
pouring of the faith of the people in
the credit Of the Nation?
This country has been mill1cd for
gold to pay the gamblers in the debts
VI Oiio 'tSloh lllJC IhS JULIUS UJlCln-
selves EXPLICITLY declare that they are
payable i'll coin of the United States"
What spectacle it is to see a country
rolling III wealth, with silver mines
lying idle because Of infamous legis-
lation, continually seeking out Shy
locks from whom to purchase gold
with which to redeem bonds that are
no more payable in gold than they
are III silver. Under our present dis
graceful, dishonest, and %brigandish
method of tinanciering, the same III,
famous swindllng of the people. by
borrowing gold to pay debts that are
not payable in gold, would continue
if the National Capitol were packed
to the dome with silver.
n few facts are worth whole librar.
les of theoretical books. With these
facts staring the people in the face,
the Bees silver plank would be:
1.-The opening of the mints of the
United States to the free and unlimlt-
ed coinage of silver.
1.-The payment of bonds of the
United States in accordance with the
letter and spirit Of the contract-"in
coin of the United States"-a silver
dollar to be Of equal and exact value,
in the payment of that or any other
debt, with a gold dollar.
3-The passage Of a law making it
a felony, punishable by fine and i'm
prisonment, for any man within the
jurisdiction of the United States to
depreciate the face value of amy money
stamped with the faith and credit of
this Nation.
Those are ideas. We care not
whether they get into the platform
grammatically or not, 90 long ~ they
get there, and get there in unmistak.
able language.