Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-08

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people. Appeal To Reason.
who will furnish them for less?'
Ask Miss Flagler, Brother wayland.
She will likely furnish them Just for
the fun OF killing them, even IL the
old man does have to put up $500 to
satisfy the outraged peace and dig
nity'' of the District of Columbia.
The Globe-Democrat makes the foI-
lowing explanation of the reason why
Senators Jones and Teller were allowed
to write the financial plank of the re-
publican party. The explanation also
develops the old party methods of
catching suckers with platform taffy.
The editorial referred to says: ''It is
fact that the financial plank in the
last republican platform was con-
structed by Senators Jones and Teller,
and the democratic papers have a right
TO get as much comfort and amusement
out OF 1T as possible. But it Is proper
at the same time to recall the condi-
tions under which those two free silver
leaders were permitted to frame that
declaration. The silver question was
not then of surprising Importance, and
was not expected to become so In the
future. There were other issues and in
terests that bore a controlling relation
to the situation. The free silver sem
timent in the party was not arbitrary
and threatening, but it insisted that 1t
was worthy at least of courteous con-
slderatlon, since it was expected to sup
port the republican ticket. According
ly, Jones and Teller were given leave to
prepare an utterance on the subject to
satisfy their followers and yet not COM
NIT the party to their view of the mat
ter. This was considered good politics.
inasmuch as it was acceptable to both
sides, and served to promote harmony
In the convention: but it was in fact
mistake, and did not prevent the states
of Messrs. Jones and Teller from going
against the republican party.
The mistake thus made in 1892 will
not be repeated in 1896. The free sill
verites will not be conciliated with a
resolution that can be interpretated
both ways. They have forfeited the
right to ask or expect anything of that
kind, and the conduct of their leaders
in the senate is calculated to put all
compromise out of the question so far
as free coinage is concerned"
When other nations begin to poke
fun at us it is time for the people to
rise UP and snatch the so-called finan-
ciers at the head of their government
bald headed, flguratively speaking.
The London Financial News, which
may be regarded as pretty good author
ity, has this to say about the way we
treat silver:
There can be no doubt about 1t, that
If the United States were to adopt a
silver basis tomorrow British trade
would be ruined before the year was
out. Every American industry would be
protected, not only at home but In every
other market in the world. OF course
the United States would suffer to some
extent, through having to pay her OBJ
legations abroad in gold (but not more
SO than now, but the loss of exchange
under this head would be but a mere
drop in the bucket compared with the
profits to be repayed from the markets
of South America, Asia and even
Europe. The marvel is that the United
States has not long ago seized the op-
portunity, and but for the belief that
the way of England is necessarily tho
way to commercial success and pros
perity, undoubtedly it would have been
done long ago.
Now, Americans are awakening to
the fact that so long as they narrow
their ambition to become larger En-
gland, they cannot beat US.
''It has been a piece of luck for US
that 1t has never occurred to the Amer
leans to scoop us out of the worlds
market by going on a silver basis and
1t might serve us right If, irritated by
the contemptuous apathy of our gov
ernment, to the gravity of the silver
problem, the Americans retaliate by
freezing out gold. 1t could be easily
done, and we propose shortly to show
by evidence collected from perfectly
unprejudiced sources, that even now
the process has begun and is proceed
ing at rate that will astonish many
people, and probably make this country
regret that it did not at an earlier stage
fashion it's monetary policy on princi-
pies of friendliness to other nations in
stead of on a basis of short-sighted sell
fishness.''
The chief interest which the country
has in the doings of the Ohio conven-
tion centers on the Ohio platform ex-
preston on silver. This follows the
lines of the uterance of the National
convention of 1892. and part of it is
repetition of the language Of that deliv-
erance. I'VE contend" 1t says, "for
honest money, for currency of gold,
silver and paper with which to measure
our exchanges, that shall be as sound
as the government and as untarnished
as it's honor, and to that end we favor
bimetallism, and demand the use of
both gold and silver as standard money.
either in accordance with ratio to be
fixed by an international agreement, If
that can be obtained, or under such re-
strictIons and such provisions, to be de-
termined by legislation, as will secure
the maintenance Of the parity of the
values of the two metals, so that the
purchasing and debt-paying power of
the dollar, whether of silver, gold or
paper, shall be at all times equal"
Just set onto that plank, will you,