The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-04-04
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
CLATE r. TINAN.
Official PaDsr Of the City and County
!. AN X RAY.

While the party in the state may not
hold the extreme views on the free coin-
age OF silver as Pettigrew does, it would
oppose almost to man the gold mono
metallism which the Blade advocates
Pierre Journal.
Fiddle-faddle! and what straddlel
PettigreW Is for the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver at the ratio of 1G to l..
lie knows, too. that that would bring
m0n0me tallism and is free to acknowi-
edge-and we admire him for his homes
Y. The Blade is squarely opposed to it.
There is no middle ground for "the
party" nor the Journal to stand on-not
in the least. II there is we'd like to have
the journal point it out. In fact we'd
be pleased to have one Of these good lord
(sllyer) good devil (goldj newspapers say
lust exactly what they would like to
have congress do with the silver q,les-
tl0n. and in good, honest, straight, plain
English that no one could misinterpret
II they tried. Will the Journal for one?
Ave tank nit.-GRAPuIC.
Ii the klmhall GRAPHIC man has read
the history at past events and the CON
temporary literature upon the subject
and cannot see that there is any middle
ground between gold monOmetalllsm on
the one hand and silver recommendation
Oh the other, he has our sympathy in his
evident atfliction. II he will throw aside
his prejudice for time and examine the
question from an unbiased standpoint
he will find that in the world today the
pest minds among both statesmen and
economic writer's are united upon fhe
deslrablilty Of return to the use OF both
silver and gold as money of ultimate re-
demptlon. The question that is puzzling
tnese men ls how, having gotten off this
basis we can get back without subject
Ing the business world to too great
wrench. But we're wasting time. There
IS no chance to project light into the in
ner consciousness Of Cleveland Demo.
cIat, even the lstest improved X rays,-
Pierre Journal.
Ii the Journals excuse for being On
the fence isn't a lame one we never saw
one. 1t is talking through its hat; talk
ing to save time. 1t wants to jolly the
silver folks but not to the extent of
offending the other fellows s-the leaders
OF its party. 1t doesn't know which way
the cat is going to jump and wants to be
prepared for emergencies. Pshaw! In
the twenty-thrce years of agitation of
the silver question why have not some Of
these Statesmen and economic writers"
proposed some plan by which both silver
and gold may be used as money of ult-
mate redemption without free coinage of
both at ratio Of 16 to 1. Has the Jour
nal in all its wide reading of "contempo-
rary literature" and deep study of 'past
events" ever ran across any proposed
scheme Of the kind aside from the jn,er-
national conference business? Guess
not. The Sherman law was the nearest
approach to it and under its operations
the price of silver bullion steadily de-
clined. If free coinage of silver is 60
ing to give the business world severe
wrench then the journal should be
against any such action. If, on the con-
trary. as some hypocritical Republican
sheets profess, the present monetary sys-
tenn islrunning the masses. 1t should be
in favor of righting matters wrench or
no wrench. We trust that when the
journal finds its middle ground" it will
let thetwcrld know, for its editor will
have accomplished what none OF the
"best minds Of statesmen and economic
writer's" have for quarter Of q century
utterly failed TO do. If an X ray was
turned on the inner consciousness of
the Journal it would find a Straddle
Bug.