The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-29
THE LONDON FINANCIAL NEWS.

We learn from ii number of our
esteemed gold standard contemporaries
that II certain paragraph which had re-
Gently gone the rounds attributed to the
London Financial News is IL forgery. Be
ing among those who SAW the paragraph
floating about. and, having no reason to
suspect its virtue. accepted it as genuine.
we are more or less languidly il terested
in the so-called exposure. We therefore
give place to one of the least intern perate
of the Outcries which have come beneath
our notice-the cutlery in question being
an emanation from the New York Com.
mercial Advertiser:
For some weeks past free silver or.
gans have been publish ing in their coll
umns what rurrorted to be an extract
from the London Financial News, declar.
ing that upon silver basis the United
States would rapidly surplant Great
Britain in trade with Asiactic and South
American countries. 1t now appears
that this extract which has been the text
Of innumerable eXultant editorials in re-
pudiationist journals, is forgery, pure
and simple In its issue of August If
the Financial News says:
NO such article was ever printed nv
us and its whole tenor is directly ,nnos.
ed to the views we have tax IN nc m.
effect of free silver in the Uni eed States
so far from advocating free. silver coin
age,we have per,istcntly .,oiuted out that
1T spells reputation ~ ii the withdrawal
of al European cap nj
ms exposure OF the fraud is ahso-
intely cohNihc' Ag. Yet how many free
coliaSc P"P IS will have The manlncss
|" print IL ,nd inform their readers that
they h"'.e been humbugged, Probably
not o' <. The whole foundation of the
l'rV an campaign is falsehood and misrcp-
>sentation. The objects (Which its pro-
motel seek i the most gigantic scheme
of robbery on record. 1t is to he expected
that forgery will he called in to help this
conspiracy OF theft wherever it is posi-
| BILE"
| We can hardly bring ourselves to be-
licvc that the free coinage organs
forged this uttcrance themscl yes. OF
course, they are all wicked and unprin-
cpled compared with such models of
Spartan virtue as the New York Com
mercal Advertiser, but we hear it said
that they are henscly ignorant also, and
, that being the case the chances are that
| they never heard of the London Financial
News in all their worthless lives. No
| doubt they were deceived, and henccshould
be pitied rather than rcvilcd Certainly
| they would not have gone out OF their
| way to look for countenancc and cncour-
agement from any British quarter
| Nothing could be more notorious than
the fact that the press and political lead
ers in England are bitterly opposed to the
free coinage of silver by the United
States. just as they are opposed to II
tariff that will stimulate American in
! dustrics. The free coinage organs, there
! fore have expected nothing but hostility
from England, and have taken il for
| financial or commercial eXaltation would
| have England's most vigorous opposi-
ton. We really think, if the CONNER
cial-Ad ertiser will permit us, that the
newspapers advocating Mr.. Bryan's cause
have not added forgery to the already
appalling list of their crimes and msdc-
mcanors.
We ourselves, commented on the
! alleged quotation from the Financial
| News rs strange news from London. ."
| II very greatly astonished us as coming
| from such a quarter. OF course we know
that II great many prominent writers in
turope-Mr. Whitney says all of them
are advocating the free coinage of silver
We had examined many learned argu-
ments by such students as Prof. Ahrcndt
| having for their object the demonstra-
| ton of the proposition that the United
States backed 10y Germany, France and
| Belgium, could adopt bimetallsm. and
within a short time capture England's
| entire commerce with Asia and South
America. We have seen several argu-
| ments by Mr.. Morcton Frewen, IL noted
| English writer on finance, to the effect
that the United States could achieve the
same results alone. We had no reason,
therefore, to assume that there might not
he mt least one London newspaper dis
pDSpl IN nprpp with rho most nrcop,nli Isl.
ed students and authorities in Europe
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