Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-10-15
CLERICAL INTERFERENCE IN
POLITICS.

denouncing Bryan as an anarchist
and calling on Catholics To rally to the
gold standard, ta- raised a strrtn #
dlsaproval everywh-re. A perusal Of
the Rev. Prelates letter shows it to be
full OF the most glaring Measurements
on the money question. He says:
Some imagine that the ratio OF sill
yer to gold was always .16 to l, or
thereabouts. The ratio was co.,
stantly changing throughout histori"
times. At one time silver was more
valuable than gold at another time,
since the discovery of American sill YER,
1t was ten times less valuable than
gold the ratio is constantly changing
and the question for us today is not
what the ratio was at a preceding
date. but what it should be 10 our
time.
Archbishop Ireland must nave taken
that statement on heresay, for he
would have made it had he
looked up the statistics on this point.
The ratio of silver to gold varied COM
paratively little from 4s4 B. c. to A..
d. 1873: and never until the wear
1873, when silver was demonptizpd.
was its value s, low that it took Is
parts of silve, to equal 1 Of gold.
Another assertion equally falIacious
is this:
That the great American republic
will declare to the world that it will
now make a law compelling its cred
itors to be satisfied with half, or a
little OF the money loaned, goes on re-
cord in the eyes Of the world as a
br~aken-down, bankrupt, regulating
nation, it is not possible to belle We.
No one will say in justification OF
such a possibility thai America is
compelled by national poverty to do
so. than one should De able to saw she
thin ks Of doing so.
Nothing co aid be further from the
truth than 10 make such a state
ment. The bonded debt of the
United States was payable in coin.
The bond-holders demonetized the
silver coin and now claim payment
in gold. We are not proposing to pay
interest on our bonds at a SO per cent
reduction, from what was agreed up
on, neither DO we propose that inter
ested parties will compel US to pay
double the rate agreed upon, as is
proposed by the gold standard men.
He further says:
The question of free and unlimited
coinage of silver is put in the back
ground. The question has its import
ance in the presence of other Q,les-
tions which are brought into the
movement which had its expression
in the CHICAGO Convention, end which
now seeks by means Of popular suf-
frage to enthrone itself in the capitol
Of the nation. In its logical effects it
is revolution against the United
States. 1t is secession-the secession
OF 1861, which our soldiers believed
they had consigned to eternal death at
Appomattox, but which demands
again recognition from the American
people.
One reads such utterances with
amazement. Ia all the political dis
cussion this campaign has produced,
Archbishop Ireland, is the first to
drag the buried issues Of secession
from its grave ana attempt to use il
in a logical discussion. This is rot
the first time ne has turned from the
sacred duties Of the Altar to give his
attention to politics. He vas actively
engaged III shaping the work Of the
Convention at ST. Louis, and Chair
mar Carter of the National Republic
can Committee was a hot silver man
aud was in favor Of a free coinage
plank in the Republican platform, un-
til he was ~hypno;iZed by Archbishop
Ireland. His allusiop to Bisinark as
a sly old fox has stirred up the
German cement, and the end is not
yet.