Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-10-08

crals OF TINS county were rlgnt mel
and are right now. Hope MI. TRIM
BILE will not see fit in his campaign
throughout Missouri to tell Demo-
Gratis that he learned his present prin-
ciples of Democracy from the people
of Audrain County. Why should he
not be candid and fair and tell the
people that he got his present views
since he became a corporation law
yer? The first office Mr.. Trimble ever
held he held in Audrain County and
the Democratic platform at that time
contained the following assertion:
"sWe regard the national banking
system as being oppressive and bur.
densome and demand the abolition
and retirement from circulation of all
national bank notes and the issue Of
legal tender notes in lieu thereof
and in quantities sufficient to supply
the wholesome and necessary de-
mands of the whole country and that
all greenbacks so issued shall be used
in the purchase and retirement of the
bonds of che United States, so that the
interest bearing debt of the country
may be lessened to the extent of the
greenbacks thus put in circulation
"He tells us that in the noise of ouI
numbers we are not able to make him
keep still. I say that this is unfair to
the men who elected him to his FIRST
office. He also took up Mr.. CIeve-
lands action in regard to the Chicago
strike. I have nothing to say now
against Mr. Cleveland. His record is
behind me and I am not talking about
dead records. Why didn't they tell
US why Cleveland refused to sign the
best tariff bill that his party was able
to formulate. But I have no talk to
make about Mr.. Cleveland tonight
But I do say that we resent the inter
ference of Federal powers In local
affairs until the local powers have ex-
hausted their resources. That is no,
Jeffersonianism; that is Hamiltonian.
ism. But 1 suppose that Mr.. Trimble
would own that Aitgeid is too much
of an Anarchist to enforce the law In
Illinois. Revile him as You viii, he's the
same old John P. Altgeld, who will be
the next Governor of Illinois ant
who will deliver the electoral vote OIL
that State into Mr.. Bryan's hands
Great cheering.)
"Then Mr.. Trimble makes a dive al
the financial question and says it is i'm
possible to maintain a parity between
gold and silver, owing to the fact Of
the over-production Of silver. Sta
tistics don't bear that assertion out
We have about $4,000, 00o, 900 of gold
and silver in the world now and abou,
1,500, 0O0, 900 inhabitants. Divide the
first amount by the second and you
find a per capita of about $3.50. That
is a per capita distribution of silver
amounting to about $3.50. Does any
man say that is an over production Of
silver? The present silver dollar has
been degraded by legislation and moi
because it is an inferior metal or be-
cause there is an over-production Of
silver, but mainly because OF the fact
that it was demonetized by that Judas
Iscariot of the Republican party, John
Sherman.
"Mr. Trimble speaks of confidence
and of the government. What is the
government? Is it some foreign pow
er, or something we cannot control?
The government is constituted of the
people and you may as well talk of the
people having no confidence in their
own DEGREES as of their having no con
fidence in the government. He said
the election of Bryan would mean sil-
yer monometallism. When he says
that he denies history. If you would
listen to his views and talk you'd think
there never had been such a thing as
bimetallism. Up to 1878 we had 9
system of bimetallism and it served
the nation in some of it's greatest
emergencies. They say that the com
mercial ratio must determine the
monetary ratio. They ignore the fac
that money has a value separate from
any commercial ratio. They ignore
the fact that there is not enough goli
and silver in the world at present Il
carry on the worlds business. 1t fol.
lows that any ratio under that condi'
ton is absolutely fixed by law. 1
there was more gold and silver coli
in the world than is needed to carr,
on the worlds business, then the com
mercial ratio should be considered
The conclusion therefore follows tina
any ratio which the law will fix mus
be the ratio by which the metals mus
| circulate.
"There is nothing about the gold dol
lar which recommends it that does no
also recommend the silver dollar. You
have legislated against silver and tn,
arm of the law has been around gold
What should recommend gold as /.
superior money? In 1s47 Holland de-
monetized gold and it immediatel.
sank to the same position as a mer,
commodity value, thus showing tina
when the protection of the law wa
taken away from 1t it was nc bette
than other circulating mediums. On
the other hand, when India demonet
lied silver the value of the one dolla
piece fell 25 per cent In five days ant
soon sought the bullion and commod
ity value. The law had been takel
away from it. Did the other countrie
of the world have such an awful strug
gle about maintaining q parity be
tween the two metals?"
Mr.. Hirth here cited several in
stances of the prosperity of variou
! countries under gold and bimetalli
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