Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-15
THE COUNTRY IS sAFF
There Is No Danger of Free Silver sa.
 ators Winning.

There Is No Danger of Free Silver sa-
 ators Winning
 Thee free coinage movement vii, come ID again and again in speeches in resolutions, and in newspaper artioles b,,t praet cally the country has apnar' aptlv little to fear. The silver nar+,, will continue to exist for a time, and # may be that the politicians who will control the coming presidential conyen- lions. even some of those who have ins4 voted against free coinage, will suc- ceed in inserting in the platforms double dealing and dishonest eurrencv blanks. Such blanks, however, win be taken by the people at their real value. One thing is certain, neither marty will dare, in the face of this yota fo nominate q presidential candidate who would not veto free coinage measure. IL may be that the eandi- dates will be men of doubtful ante cedents; nevertheless, the man who will be president after the 4th of March 1897. is not likely to sign free coin age bill. Whoever he may be or whatever his record on this question may be. he knows now that the people who control the presidency and the house of representatives are against this particular humbug. The business interests of the country, and the hold. CTS Of American securities at homa and abroad, may rest assured that it is as certain as any future event can he that for the coming four years the white house will be as strong a bulwarlx against this form of unsound money as it has heen and is during the pres ent four years.
 This much has been accomplished by the thorough discussion which the question received during the time which elapsed from the strenuous days of the panic in 1893 to the end of the campaign of 1894 For nearly 20 years the country has been at the mercy of the speeulators Of the mining camps because of The eoWardiee or ignorance of our politicians. It was in 1876 that the movement for free coinage began. and in 18f1 Mir. Bland secured the pas sage of lis free coinage act by the house of representatives by vote of 163 to 34. It was great victory, but Mr Al- Iison in the senate secured the amend. ment of the bill SO that it became our first silver purchasing act. In this form it was passed by both houses in 1878. From that time te this the agi. tation has cone on. The free coinage congressman have never been able to enact then theory into law. but they have disturbed business. ruined hun dreds of merchants, discredited the country. cost the taxpayers many nil- lions of dallars. and burdened the treas urY with tons Of useless bullion. In ehe end taeF inflicted panic upon the country. and increased the public debt an amount exceeding S25n,oa0,000 Itvas onifHhen thepeopfe actaaliyre- Ilized that the strength of the silver sentiment congress was sending home the bonds and other securities that had been zald= =in Europe. and that by reason of the same bad influence business was brought to q standstill, tae banks were boarding their funds. merchants Aesa failing factories were closing. and 0ofizinsmen were idle, while the government was again. as it had been in the carly days of the war, q half-sus9eeted borrower in fhe money narlzet-it vas only after all this had daWned Hpou their minds that the people 5egaa to think upon the sub aeet, with the result indicated by the recent vol in the house of representa- tiyes.-HaHnef,s Weekly.