Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-01
CARLISLE BASTED.
GOV. ALTGElD TURNS THE SPIT
DURING THE PROCESS.

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| His Garment of Material Tina
VIII Wear for Ages 10 Add TO Hi
DiscOmfOrt.
Secretary Carlisle has been an
swered by Governor Altgeld. In
pointed open letter, made public a
Springfield, Saturday, the Governo
replies to the address on the none,
question which the Secretary recent.
delivered in the Auditorium in Chi
cago. Governor Altgeld's letter is a
follows:
A teacher should be willing tt
answer questions. At the close o
Mr.. Carlsle's speech number OF gen
tlemen arose and asked for further in
formation, but he turned his back and
slipped off the stage, and by direction
of his managers the questioners were
hustled out by policemen. He could
have made himself more interesting
on number oil points which he per-
sistently ignored. In 1878. when dis
cussing the money question in Con-
gress, he expressed his convictions in
the following language:
l shall not enter into an exami-
nation of the causes which have com.
bined to depreciate the relative value
OF silver and 10 appreciate the value
OF gold since 1873, but l am one of
those who believe that that they are
transient and temporary in their ma
ture and that when they have passed
away or been removed by the separate
or united actions of the nations most
deeply interested in the subject the
old ratio of actual and relative value
will be re-established on a firmer foun-
dation than ever, l know that the
worlds stock of precious metals is
none too large, and 1 see no reason TO
apprehend that it will ever become so.
Mankind will be fortunate in
deed if the annual production OF gold
and silver shall keep pace with the
annual increase of population, COM
merce and industry. According to
my view OF this subject the conspiracy
which seems to have been formed here
and in Europe to destroy by legisla-
tion and otherwise from three-sevenths
to one-half the metallic mines OF the
world is the most gigantic scheme Of
this or any other age. The consum-
nation OF such scheme would ulti-
mately entail more misery upon the
human race than all the wars, pesti.
lences and fsmines that ever occurred
in the history of the world.
"The absolute and instantaneous
destruction of half the movable prop.
erty of the world, including horses,
ships, railroads and all other appliances
for carrying on commerce, while it
would be felt more sensibly at the
moment, would not produce anything
like the prolonged distress and dis.
organization Of society that must in
evitably result from the permanent
annihilation OF one-half of the me.
tallic money OF the world"
1t will be seen that his language
is clear and emphatic and has none of
the sophistry and pettifogging about
it that are found in his Chicago speech.
His awful predictions made in 1873
came to pass. He not only saw his
own prophecy fulfilled, but he saw the
misery of his country become even
greater than he had predicted.
Finding that his views had been
correct he continued to hold them un-
til he entered Mr.. Clevslsnd's cabinet,
when in some mysterious manner
there was a change OF heart, but for
some reason he seems unwilling to
talk about it.
There are two other members OF
the cabinet, Hoke Smith of Georgia,
and Herbert of Alabama, who, like
Carlisle, had made their voices heard
for nearly lifetime in demanding the
restoration of silver and denouncing
the great conspiracy that struck it
down; and, strange to say, when these
two men entered Cleveland's cabinet
they underwent a change of heart
and, like Carlisle, they avoid talking
about it. When Saul of Tarsus saw .
great light and changed his views he
was anxious to tell all the world about
it; but these three statesmen seem to
be ashamed to discuss the manner of
their conversion. Why did not Car
Isle throw q little light on this ques.
ton?
Second-All of these men now de-
nonnce those people who are opposed
to the single gold standard as being
scoundrels and lunatics. Yet they
are only following the doctrines which
Carlisle and company preached.
Are We then to infer that Mr.. Car
Isle and his two cabinet associates
were scoundrels and lunatics until
they got to be old men, and then the
tinsel of . cabinet position not only
made them honest but gave them
brains? If not, then how are We to
know which end of their career was
honest, intelligent and patrioticf For,
in the absence of any explanation,
some OF us might think that they
were honest and patriotic when, in