Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-08-14
To the Frederick Examiner.


PooLEsvILLE, Md, Aug. 10, 1896
Editor Examiner.
Dear Sir: deem this an Opportune time
to inform you that 10 my Judgment quite as
! many reputable men will support Bryan
and Sewall as ever voted for any candidate
in this country.
So far as am concerned, | can say have
been Republican all my lie, and most OF
that time in locality where il was only
possible to entertain such views through the
sacrifice OF social and business privileges,
and must say your extravagant language
has anything but a soothing effect. II you
will refer to your history you will see
that lust such ugly talk was INDUCED in
against Abraham Lincoln and his follow
ers. But Lincoln, Grant nor Garfield would
stand upon the Republican platform to day.
They were Americans, with the Interests OF
America at heart. The Republican party
of to day has grown apostate. II has for
gotten the watchword of Monroe: "Friend
ship for ALL entangling alliances with none"
For what more entangling alliance could
there be than a financial agreement with the
"leading nations of Europe" But this need
not be feared. The Encyclop@ lila Britain
MICA says, "there Is little likelihood of such
an agreement" The trustees Of the Repub-
lican party will never consent to IL. But it
now breaches the "gold standard" and
"honest money"
Why, there is no more quarrel with gold
than there is with silver, and surely none
with either.
But cannot follow the Republican party
TO worship at the throne of England. |
cannot bow down and worship old Nabach
Hanna's gold standard calf 1t is mockery
in the faces of the productive classes Of
A 10 lraa phurpna "a "a n
self. The single gold standard is as elastic
as rubber. There is not one single argu
ment used in support OF the gold standard
that may not be used with equal applica-
ton in favor of the rubber standard, For
instance, If we make 25S grains Of rubber
our standard dollar instead OF gold, and
grant free coinage of rubber at that rate,
we will observe the same phenomenon takes
place with the rubber dollar that now takes
place with the gold. That phantom Of IN
trinsic value will be found TO have made its
nest in the elastic substance Then what
ever mutlation this rubber dollar may suffer,
whether used to patch bicycle tires or to
melt into sling shots, it will be perfectly pos
sible TO return the 25S grains of rubber TO
the mint and have IL made into new dol
lar.
Bot under these circumstances how Will
it be with gold? Why that so called stable
metal will be found skylarking between
heaven and earth like a chip on wave
cutting the same number Of capers in the
commercial world that rubber is to-day
Hence the FOLLY Of preaching the stability Of
the gold standard and the wisdom Of the
assertion that legislation does affect values
Now as 10 the cry Of "honest money,
that is simply the old cry Of stop thief, "
raised TO divert attention from the real plum
derer. For in the Britannica, vol. XII, page
70, we read that the purchasing power was
legisated away from silver, which raised
the purchasing power OF gold one fourth
This being true, and it is certainly nnim-
peachable authority, man owning $4,000
farm and owing 81 600, found himself just
able TO pay his debt with nothing left.
| Now ask you in all sincerity, where is the
thief who got this mans extra 81 900? Was
| it an honest deal that transferred it TO his
! creditor without his own knowledge? Are
you mercful judge when you now de-
| clare he is dishonest because he demands it
| back?
You talk tariff-tariff. Why, sir, you may
| raise the tariff TO the top Of the Capitol, but
| it will not return TO the people of America
what was taken away from them through
the decentralization of silver.
! X. w. Stout.