The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-08
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Brief Excerpts From Editorial Comments
on the Chicago Platform.

sfAff' comments
on the Chicago Platform.
We ask workingmen to think Of his
doctrine. which is at the bottom Of the
silver movement. DO they believe that
the dollars which they have received IN
wages have been worth too much. that
they have been worth twice as much as
they ought to rave been? Is any dollar
worth too much for the w-age-edrncr TO
whom il is paid? DO they believe that
the buying power OF their dollars ought
10 be reduced by one-half because, as
the Silvorites cay, they have been able
10 buy twice as much food and clothing
with these dollars as they ought 10 have
procured for the money?-New York
Times.
The Silverite orators insist that the
dollars we have now, which are main
tair ed at parity with gold by the Govern
ment, are too good for the people OF the
United States-that they are really TWO
dOllar dollars.
There is food for reflection in this con-
tcntiOn. The Wage-earnerS, the dcposl-
tors in savings banks, the buyers OF IN
surancc, the pensioners. and all otner
persons who are getting two-dollar dol
lars for their services or their dues, are
asked 10 go to the polls ana help them
selves to money half as gQod! ou.,u,
There have baen aforetime political
"fakirs" who have undertaken TO impose
upon the public credulity. but never be-
fore have they had the audacity TO ask
people TO cheat themselves Tor the pleas
use OF cheating others.-Philadelphla l'e-
cord.
Candidate Bryan's crown Of thorns'
seems to have gone 10 pieces ana 10 nave
been considerably scattered III ni3 own
pathway. Ii was already q WcII-MoI"
~''proporty." as they say OF stage crowns,
before he nOurished II at ST. LOuls.-fhll-
adelphia Record.
According to Populist Murphey. OF Geqr-
Ella, "a wall has been reared between !ne
Populists and the Democrats bl VAN
words from a muscular mouth mug
refers 10 Senator Jones recent alia-A
ON Watson. and, while the metaphor is Il
little mixed. the ALTERATION is an f,gnt
and no one can misunderstand MI Mul-
phey's sentiments. Chicago Chrohl'le'
ro,os of Arkansas. Jones'. of the Demo
cratic National Committe. Jones. or the
World Interview. Is Do deep Iolnlr OF
spirit. lie wishes he hadl l. ne Us W.
ing TO explain. His explanation l7 tndt
he didn't say IL, hat ne never went iot
10 sav II. that ANYHOW he only said "a
mart of il. and that be wouldn't nave
said 10 If ne had known the reporter "@9
going 20 put 10 in the paper tNldeut!
ZONES has been told that this ism a
GOOD time for the chairman OF the Bryan
Campaign Committee to be shaking MS
fist under the noses Of the southern lol-
uli-ts and shouting out his belief tnat
they will ultimately bring mp alontSlue
the negroes where they belong. Hart
ford Courant
PERHAPS it would be just a. well for
the silverites 10 stop calling name 'o9'
Calling an opponent a tool OF Wall street
"A purse-proud OppressOr and a gflndlhA
mOnOpolist is not q whit better IMAM ut-
notncing him as am Anarchist ana a
chear.-BOstOu Herald.
"The silverites who are anxious TO ~
German at the head OF the movement
would do well TO remember the way lN
which German executed the trust that hls
party TepOscn In him ,respecung it
tarii."-New York World
In 1873 the worlds total production
of silver was 81 10000 ounces. ana tht
silver IN 4 dollar was worth Sl.V4 in golu.
IL st year the words proidct OF SILVER
was ~1G5.OuO,OD ounces, n the silver
I'm a dollar was worth only % 40 cents.
VIII the sllyer-miners restore the pro-
duction Of 1879 as the first step towdrds
restoring the conditions 1oIk
Word.
When members of the Fifty-third Cong
ress take the stump Tor the Chicago plat
form they should be asked whether they
apurOve the action of President 'leNe-
land i'm serding troops TO chicago 10 put
down the insurrectOn or 1874. IL ilcy
sIF yes. IL VIII It III UAN'A ~ 1.N Nf' ''
why they voted in convention 10 con-
denim IL, or If they were not IN the con-
Vcntion why they support 70 platform that
condemns il. II they say no, let them
be asked why they voted for 1t IN the
House or Senate. as the case may be, or
suffered IL to pass without a protest.
How does IL happen That an act mat was
p~raisewOrthy tn 1894 became so bad in
1896 that a convention c!aLnlng 20 ne
long to the same party as the president
felt impclled 10 condemn t!-LOu-sFllle
COurler-JCurnal
II IS a significant fact that he o
States whose delegates bOltel the Re
publican convention at 81. Louis, repre-
scented $J9.OOc.pJO of the SGO,pJO,oOO total
silver Yrodt CtiOu OF the country. accord
ing TO the mint statistics OF loJi.-Nash-
ington / orst.
The change from a gold to a silver
standard TOW would, in my opinion, be
one of the greatest disasters that has
ever befallen his country. / think the
first effect OF IL. at the ratio proposed,
would be a prompt D tremendous con-
traction OF the currency. The whole 5000.
OUt.VO of gold would disappear, ana IL
would be a physical impOsslbility TO re-
place II, even ncEinaily, with SILVER lI
ten yoars.-Prof. Burgess.
Senator Faulkrer's talk about this cam
paien being a bitter struggle etwcen
allied wealth and the masses OF the peo-
pie is therefore nonsense. lie knows
IL is nonsense, and so does every other
intelligent man. The contest is rather
between the masses who want good money
and the nlsncial theorists and political
adventures and spectators who would
dcbase the currency and put them OFT
with money reduced in It's value % IT'S
purchasing capacity by nearly "A half.
Thus. the fewer the dollars a man has
TO spend, the more important 10 him is
the defeat of the movement FOR repudia-
ton, of which SinatoT Faulkner has
made himself a leader at the expense OF
his honest convictions.
lie is trying 10 deceive the people,
though he does not deceive himself. lie
is telling them lies. knowing them to be
lies.-Ncw orb sun.