Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-05
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. remarks thereupon as follows: "Thes'
s propositions have never been success
fully controverted and never will be
. They show that the attempted identi
fication of free coinage at 10 to l with
DO bimetallism is "barren ideality.
20 The propositions laid down by Mr.
Carlisle are as follows:
% First hat there is not free
a coinage country in the world to-day
!, that is not on silver basis.
"Second-That there is not gold
. standard country iu the world to-day
J that does not use silver as money
:, along with gold
: "Third That there is not a silver
standard country in the world to-day
that uses any gold as money along
with silver"
"Fourth-That there is nota silver.
standard country in the world to-day
that has more than one-third asmuch
money in circulation per capita as the
United States have; and
"Fifth-That there is not a silver
standard country in the world to-day
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pay for his days work.
Our readers will bear in mind that
the five propositions above laid down
are the brain work of John G. Car.
Isle, and the comment and emphatic
endorsement thereof are the words of
tie Courier-Journal.
| That the enunciations may be given
their whole weight and worth we
hereby append what this same John
g. Carlisle said when he was closer
to the people than when he gave ut
terance to the later sentiments of
Wall Street. We also give the words
verbatim ct literatim of this same
| Courier. Journal when Wall street had
not made bare its arms in the cause
of the mighty against the weak.
Every reader ought to be a student
in this great battle of the people
against the corrupt syndicates of Wall
street and of Amsterdam and London,
and no one should fail to carefully
read these Numerically opposed ut
terances by the Secretary of the
Treasury and of the once great
Courier-Journal. When you have
read them then give them all the
credit they merit, no more, no less.
Now read what John 9. Carlisle said
of the crime of 1878 and further
along see what the Courier Journal
said and also notice the vehement and |
challenging manner it assumed in Civ
ing vent to its declarations.
Here is what Mr.. Carlisle said in |
Congress in 1878, five years after sill
yer was demonetized:
81 shall not enter into an examina
ton of the causes which have COM
bined to depreciate the relative. value
of silver, and to appreciate the, value
of gold since 1878, but | am one of
those who believe that they are trans
lent and temporary IN their nature,
and that when they have passed away
or have been removed by the separate
or united actions of the nations most
deeply interested in the subject, the
old ratio of actual and relative value
will be re-established on firmer
foundation than ever. / know that
the worlds stock of precious metals
is none too large, and / see no reason
to apprehend that it will ever become
so. Mankind will be fortunate, in
deed, if the annual production of
gold and silver coinage shall keep
pace with the annual increase of pop
ulation, commerce and industry. Ac
cording to my view of the subject, the
conspiracy which seems to have been
formed here and in Europe to de-
stroy, by legislation, and otherwise,
from three seventies to one-half the
metallic money of the world is the
most gigantic crime of this or any
other age.
The consummation of such scheme
would ultimately entail more misery
upon the human race than all the war,
pestilence and famine that ever oc-
Cured in the history of the world.
The absolute instantaneous destruc-
ton of half the movable property in
the world, including horses, ships,
railroads and all other appliances for ,
carrying on commerce, while it would
be felt more sensibly at the moment,
would not produce anything like the =
prolonged distress and disorganiza-
ton of society that must inevitably re. !;
suit from the permanent humiliation 6
OF one.half the metallic money of the !
world" T
Now, good reader, read what the ,
Courier-Journal said as published I
herewith and then render your YER I
dict. Here is what the paper said !
few years ago: ... =
"The Courier-J journal has been de-
voting large amount of space, week a
after week, to the discussion of the sill i
yer situation in its relation to the in i
terest of the United States. Most of y
the newspapers of the United States Il
have taken but little notice of the 2
matter; many do not refer to it at all, II
and no other daily newspaper except G
the Courier Journal, in any part of q !
the Union, is treating it with any de- q
gree of that earnestness and persist >
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