The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-04
DID NOT HURT BI-METAL-
ISM.
Senator Chandler Says the Election
of Mckinley Does Not Mean
the Gold Standard Perma-
nentlY.

in a cable letter from London, Will
print Tomorrow an advance copy of
an imp )rtant article written by Hon.
William e. Chandler, Senatar from
New Hampshire, for the December is
sue of the National ReUieW, the con-
sentative monthly, in which he dis
cusses the late election from Republic
can standpoint. His principal object
is to encourage European bi-mettallsts
to continue their propaganda. The
Review, commenting edilorially upon
the election of Major Mckinley. dog
matically asserts that sunless the Re-
publican party settles the silver ques-
ton before 1900 there will be nothing
left of that party after 1900"
Senator Chambers article is as fol-
lows:
European bimetallists need not be
lieve that the election of Mckinley
and Hobart by overwhelming MAORI
ties is decision to permanently accede
to the single gold standard. The Bry-
an proposition was soon seen by the
American voters to he simply that the
United States should adopt silver
mOnometa lisrn; should deliberately
give up all attempts TO keep gold and
silver at parity; shonld send gold to
a premium aud thereby make it mer-
chandise merely, and should base all
American prices upon silver only.
II no., I,ar1I,. ho .OnSi6orad npOu pa-
Election by any true bimetallist, that
such action upon our part would have
helped the cause of bImetallism in any
country of the world
at is true that the Bryanites called
themselves himetaIliss and that Mr.
Bryan in his recent cutlery from his
temporary political entOmbment, adj
dressed not only the Democrats,
nor the Populists, nor the people, but
the 'bimetallists.' This, however is a
sheer affectation. No Bryan orator or
writer has seriously denied that the
adoption of this policy-the immediate
unlimited free coinage Of silver by the
United States-wOuld send gold TO a
premium and keep it there for an in
! deAlite period. Surely that would be
silver mOnometallism; and can it be
cOntended that silver mouOmetalism
is any better stepping-stone to bimetal-
lism than gold recommendation? | had
supposed that it was generally agreed
by thoughtful and rational bmetallistS
everywhere that it would not help, hut
rather hinder the cause of Dimetalism
for the United States to leap at once to
free silver coinage. How, then. can
the late decision of the United States
81 n .ntx
jure the contest for bimetallism.
"That the United States is oppused
to the single gold standard and is in
favor Of retracing, in due course and IN
careful regard to the rational honor,
the steps taken in the decentralization
Of silver until both gold and silver shall
be admitted to free coinage at the ratio
of 49, to l and make the standard
money of the world and the measure
of the values of the world is prop =
sition which would receive the suf-
frdgeS of fOur-fifthS of our voters if
this proposition alone could he fairly
presented to them, even without fur
Their debate.
"TO such convictions, entertained by
a vast majority of American voters
committed to bimetallism, the friends
of such monetary system NAV conf
IDENTIFY appeal. The question IS not one
of four years, nor yet of decade. 1t
may take as long to remonelize silver
as it has taken 10 realize the paralyZing
influence of decentralization. But the
fact that six out of thirteen millions of
American voters have given their bal
lots for the wild project of immediate
free coinage of silver by the United
States alone shows that the question is
one which must be compromised and
adjusted in some way. The advocates
of gold recommendation are crying out
that the silver question is dead. They
hope but do not really believe that this
is true. Never was it more important
for bimetallists to exert themselves.
Mr. Mckinley is pledged by his own
words to cooperate with us.