Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-16

but they have gone farther. Not con-
tent with the results they were bring
ing about at home, they have used all
their influence to throw obstacles in
the way of the bimetallists of Great
Britain. So far from desiring to bring
about an international agreement, Mr..
Cleveland and his republican allies
have set their faces against it, and have
taken measurers to deceive many
European silver men into the belief
that the people of this country did not
want even interna tional bimetallism.
AS Sir Moreton Frewen says, ennis
saries have been sent to Great Britain
and the speeches of such political jay
birds as Mr.. Sterling Morton, of Ne
braska, have been circulated in Eng
land TO show the bimetallists of that
country that the people of the United
States would give them no aid in the
matter or an international agreement.
Not understanding the unpopularity
of Clevelandism and its republican
goldbug supporters in this country, the
English bimetallists have had their
efforts paTalyZed to some extent by the
belief that Mr.. Cleveland and his
friends represent the intentions of the
American people. They have been
| told By Edward Atkinson and other
gold standard American representa-
tives, bearing the credentials of Cleve-
landism, that this country is opposed
to the restoration OF silver, and Of this
Sir Moreton Frewen says:
! so impossible had become the sue
cess land III this connection I know of
what l am writing) Of those members
of our government who were pledged
to currency reforms. because of the at
tiGude Of the government at Washing
ton, that last year we, for the time,
gave up the struggle"
-And yet all this, strange as it may
seem, has contributed TO make the sill
yer question in this country the par
amount issue until i is settled. The
European bimetaliists as the result OF
Mr.. Cleyeiand's missionary work
abroad, has been the means OF cOnvinc
ing the voters of the country that there
can be 10 such thing as international
bimetallism until it is forced On Europe
by the independent action of this all
powerful republic.
Thus it will in measure be seer
that by the mysterious workings OF
Providence ClevelanGjsm and goldbug
ism has not been altogether an unmixeG
evil. 1t has driven the gold men into
the open; it has forced them to throw
away the convenient and dangerous
mask of ''international bimetallism;
it has forced them to show their hands
it has compelled the republican party
at present controlled by the money
power, to throw aside all pretense OF
friendliness of silver and to take it.
stand unequivocally in favor of the
British gold standard, and it has made
the true issue so plain that no man wht
is impartial, honest and sensible car
misunderstood il.
/ The nomination of an avowed silver
man on platform pledged to the res
toration of silver to the position it occu
pied prior to 1873 at Chicago last weel
has filled the friends of silver will
hope, and if the canvass can be made
on the financial question instead of tn,
tariff issue, as now seems probable
there is great reason to belieYe tina
the more the matter is discussed thi
Imore free silver will be indorsed b.
the people. Pick up an eastern news
. paper. and no matter what the politics
with few exceptions. it is in favor of /;
perpetuation of the gold standard
J Everything else is subserved TO thai
, one question alone, and the unanimity
with which these papers, irrespective
, of politics, endorse that policy that has
} we'll nigh bankrupted the county ought
! to be a warning to the west that wha
, the bankers, corporations, money loan
ers and bond holders want is something
!, that we do NOT want. Farmers, thi,
gold standard means contraction, lower
, prices for your products. limiting your
ability to pay and power to purchase
Still, in the face of all this you ar,