The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-09-19

IL means distress and disaster, beside
which the present panic Is as a dew
drop to n driving storm.
DO we want IL?
We say no. and say IL with all the
emphasis within our power.
DO you think we ought to fly in the
face of facts?
Facts are stubborn things.
A fact is the most difficult thing on
earth TO down.
1t has the reach Of a Champion Cor
bett at New Orleans.
You can't laugh IL down.
You can't sneer II down.
You can't knock II down.
II won't down.
Now, il is a fact that the commerce
of the world Is transacted on gold,
and not n silver basis.
In the light or shadow OF this fact,
IL is quixotic nonsense to talk OF "free
silver sixteen to one"
Foolish as for the Montana cowboy
to attempt TO stop the lightning express
with his lasso.
Foolish as was Thomas Jefferson
when he thought to conquer the crack
navies OF the world with wooden gun
boats, which were to be drawn up out
OF the wet, housed under sheds for
emergencies and manned by volunteers.
Atlas may stand for strength-but
only on paper and in the story books did
he ever lift the world.
What we need, in our opinion. is good
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steam.
What we need, in our judgment, Is
concentrated international action TO
restore silver to it's full money uses.
We know OF no safe way by which
silver may regain It's ancient functions
except through international agree
ment.
Germany is ready to join us. France
is ripe for dual coinage. England will
yet fall in line.
Many Of her far-seeing statesmen are
advocating international bimetallism
to-day.
Mr.. Bryan says: "Nonsensel We will
not wait for Europe. Let MS be indie
pendent of Europe. Let us go it alone.
We will never know till we try"
Just so with smallpox and death.
We instinctively shrink from the
trial
We cannot afford to try the expert
ment alone.
We have too much at stake.
OF course, IL Great Britain, France,
Holland and Germany become con
vinced that the United States is bent on
a silver basis. sixteen TO one or bust"
without the aid or consent of any other
nation on earth, they will say "amen"
with JUNCTION unspeakable.
Such action on our part would relieve
the silver situation across the sea, and
render any action on the subject by Eu-
rope wholly unnecessary.
They would get our gold.
We would get their silver.
Mr.. Bryan replies: $50 be it''-even
exchange is no robbery. 1t amt even.
1t is as rocky as trading sound
horse for a spawned mule.
The fellow who gets the sound ami
NAL can afford to laugh.
While the fellow who gets the spav-
ined critter can only swear.
We are of the opinion that only as
this nation shows it's grasp and under
standing of financial problems, it's de-
termination not TO he caught in the free
silver ambush, or lost in the fiat money
jungle, will this question be settled
right, and the nations OF the earth be
induced 10 enter conference in the
interests of both metals, wherein n COM
pact shall be reached that will insure
the integrity and security of both gold
and silver. and impair the standing and
safety of neither.
Wise sailors will not desert the safe
channel on the invitation OF silver
tongued mermaids.
Prudent generals will not order
charges at the suggestion of drummer
boys.
We will pay dearly for our lofty In
dependence and superiority to the un-
alterable laws OF finance, and "shut
your eyes and go il blind policy" with
out the aid or consent of any other ma
ton on enrth-when the crash comes.
In conclusion, history, with its great
iron pen and indelible ink, has written
on the buttments of the bridge over
which Mr.. Bryan and his school would
drive with such reckless rein: Dangeri
Danger!