The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-15

The only way of bringing this about
is to elect q president and congress
that fully understand the situation
and are pledged to restore silver to
its former position and putting such
a pressure of public opinion upon
them AS will compel them to act.
To postpone the definite readiust-
ment of our currency laws, leaving
silver demonetized and its use as a
standard money metal wholly pro-
hibited, would prolong the present
financial and business catastrophe.
Should Nc Kinley and a Republican
Congress be elected in November,
there might be an appearance OF re-
covery for year or two, but the final
result would be a relapse of the pres
ent condition, which would be fright
full to contemplate, the effect of which
would be impossible to forerell.
Absolute gold monomet allism spells
ruin, universal and unsparing ruin,
Ut Tie IJOODlO I'll IAAS
The single gold standard has never
been sanctioned by the people OF this
country. The clamor OF the money
changers, the ursurer, and the stock
gamblers, inspired by the English
influences that radiate from Lombard
Street and which represents the or
ganized rapacity OF the world, has not
shaken the faith OF the American
masses one iota in the honesty, the
justice, and, above all, the vital nee
essity of maintaining silver side by
side with gold in their National Mon
ey system.
There may have been a change in
the relative measuring values of the
two metals That has often occurred
in the course of hist DRY. But that
change, whatever it may be, can be
corrected by change in the ratio of
coinage from the present 16 to l to
Is or even 20 to /, bat cannot see
that the change is necessary, or that
the situation will even warrant it.
1t does not justify the total abolition
OF silver AS standard money metal.
The thing necessary is an expires
sion of the popular will, loud and
clear and general enough, at the polls,
Nov. 3 to MAKE the next president
and congress underst and that the
people demand immediate reli f from
the stiff ng and staonatng currency
conditions from Which they are now
suffering; and that they want the free
coinage of silver rest ored at such new
ration as the wisdom of congress may
see fit to fix.
The money power has spoken for
gold mononetall SIN, and the Repub-
lican party seem to he its humble
servant. Now let the people be h ard
and inform the Republican party that
their services are no longer needed,
affairs until they have discarded their
present boz Q and show themselves to
be again wort by of the support OF
honest and intelligent people. 1t is
of the very first Importance that tn,
present state of affairs should not be
long continued. Business is benumbed
in every branch, currency and coin
are alike in hid n.y. trade is clogged
and hampered at every turn, mil s
and workshops are closed.
This is the situation, and it is not
improving but growing worse. A
surrender to the gold standard move
ment would mean disaster to all
classes except the vultures that al
ways flesh their beaks de pest and
gorge themselves fullest on field that
is strewn with the victims of a vast
commercial and industrial calamity.
The people must raise til II voices
now and demand their own saliva
ton. If silver be not rest ore. quickly
to free coinage, the most optimistic
man can not look forward without
fear. Millions of unemployed, wage
less men with their wives and chill
dren crying for bread, that cannot be
earned for them, will e hard to reason
with, but vii have to be reasoned
with if silver is outlawed from the
mints. And it will b. idle to tell
them that it was thought best to
starye them in order to place this
country onathe same gold standard
fontitg as England