San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-06

der the present system the govern
ment buys the silver. pays So cents
for the silver in a dollar, coins il in
to a dollar, and the government. which
is the people, makes the profit. But
they propose to take this profit. AZ
cents on every dollar coined. out of
the pockets of the people and turn it
over to the timetable trust. And yet
they have the assurance to claim that
their movement is in behalf of the
people and against the trusts.
OF old the commercial ratio between
the metals was 16 to l.; and now II is
81 to 1. What has brought about-the
change? Nothing but the enormous
increased production of silver the
world over. But they say increased
production can't lower the price. Just
try it with your corn and cotton.
When there are big crops the country
over you don't get lear as much per
bushel or per bale as in years of crop
shortage, and SO it is with silver.
Our friends felt a little dubious
themselves and had TO write to Bis
marck to bolster up the cause. But
they made the mistake of not giving a
truthful translation of his letter, and
today the lie has come back on them
like a boomerang. But the free Ger
man citizens of this country don't need
to go TO the Fatherland or to that
prince of autocrats, the Iron Chan
c%ellor," for lessons in fianance so long
as we have our Carlisle and Sherman
with us, who are the peers of the
world. The Democratic party have
shown their incompetency for legisla-
ton every time they have beenintrust
ed with power. The uneXampled
prosperity this country attained in
the twenty-siX years OF Republican
rule since the close of the war has
been due TO a protective tariff and
a sound monetary system. But the
Democratic party with their free trade
fallacy have banished prosperity, and
now propose to overthrow our none
tary system, which means the ruin of
the country and the downfall of the
republic. Memories of the heroic
deeds of the past should guide you in
the true and faithful course in this
present hour of peril. He had no in
terest except in the welfare and safe.
ty-of a common country.
He hoped the people would weigh
well the question at issue in this can
vass, throw aside the ties of party
and vote according to your principles
and your convitions for the man and
the party that you believe will best
and safest administer the affairs of
this country. The Democrats who met
in the Indianapolis convention are men
who have always been the conserva-
tive bulwarks of their party, the men
who met in Chicago have been the
radical hot heads, ready to adopt any
''ism'' or chance any Twill o the wisp'
that promised to help them to a few
votes.
He had worked uniformly for the
interests of his constituents. The tar
if bill which he had introduced had
to give place to one which the presi.
| dent would agree to sign which plac.
ed a duty of .06A cents on wool. 1t
vas voted for by every Republican
and against by every Democrat in the
house and alos in the senate. When
it came I'D for the last time in the SEN
ate, and was about to be passed, up
comes this same bimetallic league that
| captured the Democratic and Populist
| conventions, and got four United
| States senators to join them to force
free silver on the country'in the shape
of n rider 10 this bill, and your Demo
| cratic senator's, one and all, refused
to come to your aid and pass the piii.
| There would be no hard times in west
Texas today had not the free trade
| Democracy demanded that they let IN
free all the wool in the world raised
by the pauper labor upon the cheap
lands of such countries as Mexico,Aus-
tralia and South America, to drive you
ont of your own home market. Nc
| Kinley SAYS that under his administra.
tion every American interest shall
have prope protection. The past
| four years has taught you what, to eX-
pect from the Democratic party. Show
me a man so bereft of manhood who
will not say that the party attempts
TO drive him to wrong will get his
vote. When a sworn juror fails to
decide a case according to the law
and evidence he is ostracised, and so
it should be with the voter in exer-
cising the great privilege of American
citizenship.
CLINTON, MISSOURI.