Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-31

be issued under the said acts OF Con-
gress herein before recited, are pay
able, principal and interest, at the OPP
ton of the government of the United
States in silver dollars of the coinage
of the United States, containing 4laT
grains each of standard silver, and
that to restore to its coinage such sill
YER coins as legal tender in payment
of said bonds, principal and interest,
is not in violation of the public faith
nor in derogation of the rights of the
public creditor"
This resolution was passed by both
houses, they at the time being Repub-
ljcan. And before it's final pa ssage
Senator Edmunds of Vermont offered
an amendment favoring payment in
gold upon demand. This was lost in
the Senate by a vote of Is to 45, and a
similar amendment was lost in the
House by vote of 70 to $50.
1t is certainly long suffering people
who will consent to unnecessary bond
issues in time of peace, issues in in
terest of a gold syndicate only, and
then refuse to coin the silver of their
own country to pay them.
Is 1t Wrong to Favor Silver:
But we are told the free coinage of
silver, as gold is now coined, would
favor the silver mine owner. We re-
ply that one of our fundamental arti-
cles of faith is now and always has
been, favoritism to American indus
tries. We favor the iron industry, the
wooden industry, the tin indu ,try, the
gold industry. What reason as Re-
publicans can you give for ostracising
the silver industry? Certainly not,
that 1T will help the industry. But if
the silver is increased in value, under
free coinage, as it certainly would be,
what becomes of the cry of so cent
dollar? There cannot be a great in
crease in the value of the mine own
ers silver without increasing the bull
lion value of the silver in the silver
dollar As long as we admitted gold
and silver to the minis and coined
them free into dollars, making the
silver dollar l6 times as heavy as the
gold dollar, the bullion value and the
But by discriminating against silver
and in favor of gold, the gold has APP
preciated in valne. But the silver
dollar maintains itself at par with
gold through the demand created for
it as money. Cease this discrimina-
ton and the question of value will no
longer make afraid; 1t is the creature
of adverse legislation, and we seek to
destroy the evil by removing the
cause.
International Blmetallism.
While Republicans are insisting up
on the single gold standard, their
platform admits that the free coinage
of silver is right, but insists that the
party if successful in this campaign,
will be unable to do what is right
without the consent of some undeter-
mined foreign nations. This Is q
strange doctrine to introduce into our
national platform. That we shall be-
come u subservient state, that we are
TO recognize some other as dominant
state, that we are ready to sacrifice q
part of our independence is doctrine
that ought to be resented by our peo-
pie with Indignation. Can it be that
the party of Lincoln and Grant and
Blaine have forgotten the patriotism
of their fathers? Or is it another in
stance of degenerate children who
boast of royal ancestor? Or does
The jingle of guinea heal the hurt
that honor feels?"
NJ Mcline, the French premier, is
quoted in the July Forum as saying at
a banquet of the bimetallic league of
France: "That all his sympathies
were with the principles of the league
but that its success depended upon
the conversion of England to this
principle.
Thus the good will of the creditor
nation of the world, and our chief
commercial rival, must first be OBJ
tanned before the United States can
establish the free coinage of silver,
according to the ST. Louis platform.
The British empire needs market for
its large supply of gold; we need a
market for our large supply of silver.
England is purchaser of silver and
wants to buy it cheap, hence, she is
opposed from interest, to anything
that would increase the value of silver.
And England has never shown dispo-
sition to willingly surrender market
or abrogate the terms of favorable
contract. We believe that there is
just one way to secure international
bime tallism, and that is for the United
States to esta bllsh the free coinage of
silver and notify the world that we
will pay our debts, both national and
in either gold or silver at
the will of the debtor in accordance
with the law of the land as it existed
prior to 1s13. Do this and it will not
be three months until the leading
nations Of the world will
be petitioning for an international
agreement That we are not alone in
this opinion is we'll known. Mr.. Perry
Belmont, who is recognized as Roths-
childs' agent in this country, is quoted
in Public Opinion OF July 9, 1896, as
saying: 'As to international bimetal-
lism, the commercial and business
world of England remains in great
part opposed, while the scientific ex-
perts take a more favorable view.
Many fear that ii the United States
went to silver coinage American debts
would be scaled down one-half. which
would drive the British government to
consent to bimc tallism."
And Cernuschi, the father Of inter-
national bimctalism, in the pub
lication heretofore mentioned, the
European Economist, is reported as
IN " m said.