Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-08-22

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international free silver are all
"bosh." Of course this answer to
the. fne-spun arguments over which
we have consumed SO much mid
night oil is perplexing. But we
think we can get away from the
TIMES man by paraphrasing the re-
mark SO often the refuge of Judge
McKinstry, when that eminent jur-
list was confronted by some sharp
lawyer with legal proposition OF
which he could not at the moment
dispose, "Sir, bosh sounds we'll,
but it means nothing"
However, we do not intend to re-
flute this discomfting repartee. The
TIMES believes "crime" was com
mitted in 1873 by the demonetiza-
ton of the silver dollar, and it can
not understand why tits, if Bryan's
theories of free silver coinage will
enrich the creditor classes, they are
SO bitterly opposed to putting that
gentleman into position where he
can carry them out. How does our
contemporary know that the credit
or classes are opposing Bryan?
How does it know that Wall street,
which is for free trade, is not also
for free silver without International
agreement? How does it know that
the millionaires, railroad magnates,
schemers, spectators and the other
classes it groups under the name of
gold bugs, are against the boy ora
tor? Does it not assume these things
in order to fire the hearts of its con-
stituents?-Post.
After the above explanation of
what "bosho means, we are more
than ever convinced that we used
a good word in a good place, for, if
there is anything that means moth
ing it is one of the Posts editorials
on silver. But there is great deal
more bosh i'll the second paragraph
of the above. The insinuation that
Wall street and the gold barons
and corporations may be for Bryan
and free coinage of silver, is not
only ridiculous, but it is mean.
No man bitterly opposes a measure
that he desires to be brought about,
and if the Wall street banker and
corporations and holders of gold
securities could double their money
by electing Bryan and inaugurating
a double standard financial policy,
as the Post claims they could, they
would not be throwing every obsta-
Gle in the way of Mr.. Bryan's cleo
ton, as they are doing.
Senator Stewart may have said
that at the time he voted for the
demonstration act he believed
he was right, but he does not
say so now, nor has he said so since
he found out what effect the law
had. That law was what gave us a
debased currency, if there is such
a thing, and of all the men who
voted for it but one Benedict Ar
mold Sherman knew what the eff
feet would be on our financial sys-
tenn. Even President Grant, who
gave the bill his signature, stated
a couple of years afterwards that
had he known what effect the meas
ure was going to have he would not
have signed it. Surely such men
as Grant, Blaine, Stewart and 9TH
ers may be believed in this matter.
The Post further says:
In 1878 neither gold nor silver
was in circulation east of the Rocky
Mountains. The parity between
the two metals was about 153 to /.
What possible difference could it
make to anybody whether the coin
age of the silver dollar was aban-
doned or not?
If it made no difference to any,
body what was the use of aban-
doning its coinage. But the Post
knows what the effect has been on
the country. It knows that the act