The Butler weekly times., 1896-07-30
their own. + we overlook the hu.
initiation and degradation We must


feel OIL account Of such 8 declaration
os fnancia. dependency we may well
INQUIRE when the consent OF leadlps
commercial nations will be obtaiae0.
No one who has read til pro
ceedlngs Of the three international
monetary conferences that A=7a u.
ready been held. OF who has e1a4in-
ed the impractlab!e propositions
presented at those conferences, can
for a moment believe that any inter-
national bimetall;c agreement can
ever be made with tie consent f a.
the leading commercial nations Of
the world When will Great Britain,
controlled as she is, and ever will be,
bv the creditor classes, who collect
vast sums Of money for interest due
her and her citizens; who buy of Us
annually many more millions than
she sells to Us, and whose interest it
is to make the pound sterling pur-
chase as much of our products as
possible, consent, that We shall be
financially Independent, as we are
supposed to De politically indepen
dent? When did the creditor class
of Great Britain give up Or IN any
way yield an advantage such rs they
now possess through the maintsince
Of the gold standard There is no
hope for international bimetallism
until the United States stall estab-
lish bimetallism by itself, and when
that is done international bimetal
lism may be secured without the
consent Of Great Britain The Uni
ted States, on all other subjects OF
leg .islatioa, acts Independently q any
other nation or earth. By what pro-
cess of reasoning is its right, author
ity. ability to lasis.ato upon this, the
most important subject with which
it has 70 1eel, questioned or denied
GROUND Oh HOPE.
With nation equal IN wealth and
power to one-fourth of The world Il
is cowardly to say that we must ask
the permission Of Great Britain to
establish and maintain a financial
policy of our own Believing 81 we
| do that a return to the monetary sys-
tenn especially recognized in the
Constitution AID completely prosld-
ed for by law from 1892 to 1878 af-
fords the only ground of hope for
the betterment of the distressed
condition of all of the classes except
those who live By the increment that
money loaned gives to those who
loan it. we appeal to all classes to
rally to the support of the only can
didates whose success indicates any
hope OF relief
Let the merchant and business
man whose d#iuding anG iessened 4
profits have. despite his care and
economy, brought h.m face to face
with prospective bankruptcy and
ruin; the professional man, whose
best efforts scarcely afford him corn
peasation for his labor alone: the
farmer, the continually falling prices
of whose products nave lott him Z 0
returns for capital invested and
work performed; and, last, 1ut net
least, let the grand army of laborlng
men. so called--the artisan. the me-
ehanie, the miner and every one who
depends upon his daily labor for Lis
daily bread-look about Kim and
observe the great number of those
who vainly seek for chance to work
upon the great arm OF enforced
idlers and one and all resolve to
try, not an experiment,ssbut rather a
return 70 policy ,;hat' throughout
the vicissitudes OF our nations in,
fancy,throush the internscine strug.
gle of lis manhood, kept US great
free and prosperous nation, in whick
labor was not only respected and
employed, but wes SC compensated
that want and distress, such as nov
weigh upon us, was unknown. Lei
the lesson OF history, too recent ant
TOO plain to be gainsaid or denied