Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-25

portant measure: Is 1t not possible that
he feared there were other Morgans in
the Senate, if he mentioned the fact that
ne proposed to demonetiZe silver? Did he
not know that secrecy was absolutely
necessary to carry out his scheme in con-
nection with the Rothschid combination?
If not. why did he present the scheme as
codificeti ton bill and nothing else?
The Fall of silver.
He further says: ON April p, 1870 when
the bill was sent to the committee on
finance by the Secretary of the Treasury,
the silver dollar worth s1.q312 In the
markets Of the world. Germany' had not
yet sold her silver or adopted the gold
standard. There was no Indication what
ever Of the fall in silver and no, one could
foresee that it was destined to rapidly de-
cline in price, 81,
or course. there no indication of
the fall of silver. 1t had remained on a
parity with gold for thousands Of years
while the mints were open. The reason
why no one anticipated the fan or silver is
that no one knew that John Sherman had
entered into conspiracy with the Roths-
chllds combination to demontYize silver
and destroy it's demand for coinAge 1t is
true that Germany had noti demonetized
silver at that tine. but that Johnt Sherman
OF OHIO was the leader in the transac ton
and anticipated Germany and af con linen
tai Europe in the deadly work q 's"' '-'
he further says: mo one asked to have
the (S1lVer) dollar cCfned, and No one was
opposed to its discontinuanee. This state
ment Is untrue The people of the Pacific
coast were at the tine asking to have silver
coined by taking it to the mint for that
purpose al the rate of more than two mil
lions year, and there had been more than
two millions coined between 1871 and 1873
at the request of citizens Of the United
States. He says again: The silver dollar
was out of circulation long before the law
I Of b,
past How can Mr.. Sherman make such a
statement in view of the fact that the San
francisco mint was running full time on
silver dollars the very day the bill ma ssed
He says again: The silver dollar was CON
ceived by Hamilton in 1892 and superseded
by JEFFERSON in 1906, and practically demon
etized by Benton and the men of 1894 un-
der Andrew Jackson
Nothing could be more false than this
JEFFERSON did not suspend the coinage, of
full legal tender silver money There was
10 year from 1872 to 1873 when there was
not full legal tender silver coined by the
United States mint. jefferson for a year or
two suspended the coinage of silver dollars
for the reason that they were being expor-
! ed, but continued to coin fun legal tender
! calf dollars and other subsidiary coin. The
F.! fourteenth section of the act of 1887, passcd
| by Benton and signed by jackson, reads as
/ follows: That gold and silver bullion
brought to the mint for coinage shall be re-
ceivcd and coined by the proper officers for
| the benefit of the deposition
| The Whole CONTROVERSY.
THE whole controversy between the PEG.
pie TO the United States and the advocates
| of the English gold standard is to have tn,
paragraph above quoted re-enacted into
| law. No other legislation is necessary tt
! restore silver to the place it occupieG
previous to the crime of 1873. How any
| man who has any regard for his veracity
can assert over his own signature that tho
| act of 1897 demonetized silver seems in
| comprehensive. The man must be crazy
| All the silver advocates ask is the re-enact
ment Of that act. This is all they evel
| asked. This is all that any free silver bill
ever introduced in Congress proposed. TIL.
| original Bland act of 1873 re-enacted tn.
Jackson law Of 1887, and it passed the
House in that shape and was voted for b,
both Carlisle and Mckinley, as we'll a!
| every other friend of the RECOMMENDATION o