Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-01-30
CARTER'S VIEWS ON SILVER.
The Senator Presents Some Ideas Worthy Of
Consideration by the Government.

The Helena independents Wash
ington correspondent gives the fol
lowing interesting Interview of a
gentleman who had some doubt as
to- Senator Cartcr's position on the
silver questions:
"There can bc no doubt about my
position" said the senator i'm reply
to- the inquiry, Il am for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and will
do all can to secure the nomination
of n Republican who is friendly to
silver BY friendly ! mean IL man
who not only talks for silver but
who will sign silver bill. | think
that great many of the candidates
are afraid of the silver issue. \
great many do not believe that the
United States can sustain coinage
by itself alone and are talking about
an international agreement"
What do you think about it your
SELF" asked n man who was listen
ing to the Montana senator.
MY judgement is" said Mr.. Car
ter, weighing his words with care,
that the next congress will enact
a tariff bill which will provide that
the gold standard countries shall
pay their imports i'm gold and that
the silver countries may pay their
imports in silver at the coinage
value at our mints. 1t would mean
that we would accept the silver OF
the countries using silver at the
market value and com it for our
own purposes"
do you think that would lac sat
isfactory?' he was asked.
1T would make New York the
clearing house of the world instaed
of London" he responded.
Mr.. Carter drew II circle on IA piece
of paper He drew another one
forth the size.
Here he said, pointing to the
larger. .'are four-fifths of the people
of the world using silver and are OF
a silver basis. Here is one-fifth on a
gold basis. We, with unlimited
III l'toot'tioh- sti' ~ y ~
to keep up with the nations i'm thai
one-fifth and the burden is too mucl
for u.s."
In one point of the small circle n,
made "a pencil point.
Here is England" he said. "th'
creditor nation of the world, con
trolling the one-fifth because she ha'
the power through the goll standard
and with the one-fifth doing til,
business of the remaining four-fifths
If we want to sell a plow to SOM
point i'm South America. we sent
il first to England in an Englisl
bottom. England is the clearin,
house for the whole world and sh
gets a rake off on every business dea
made i'm the world. If we shoul,
cut loose from her we might do
large share of it.
1.-The trouble is continued tn
senator, that we are just now dc
voting too much talk to the mean
of commerce and forgetting al
about the commerce itself. We ar
devoting all our time to the simpl
medium of exchange, the money
and not enough to the real articl
. i'm which the riches of the countr
lie. III we should secure the con
merce of "a great portion of the silve
standard countries we would no
need to bother ourselves whethe
we were upon II gold or silver basi.
The prosperity of the country woul
be so great that the question of TIL
kind of money that was our stant
! ard of value would not be consit
cred. 1t would be of small impo
tance so long that it was stable an
sound
. The man who had questioned NJ
Carter remarked afterwards tha
an enlargement of such ideas woul
inject some new life into the silvt
debates OF the senate and might we
be worth considering. He also r.
marked that he did not believe tha
there was any doubt about Mr.. Ca
ter being silver man.
Reyeuue Is What We N..a