The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-11

~ chosen. Drew no me picture, but sim
ply said to you that all we could do would
be to prevent evil. That we did, and IL
takes good deal of sense sometimes to do
no evil We tried to do better, and had
the Democrats from the north risen above
party for good as the six silver senators
sunk below party for evil the revenues OF
this country would have been equal to Its
expenditures, and we should have been
two years nearer prosperity.
Greeting you this time with the same
frankness am bound to say that the evil
which has come to us by an unwise revi-
sion of the tariff has been greatly aggravat-
ed by one Of Its consequences-ourl loss OF
revenue. Had there been no deficit, then
500, 600 900 of borrowed gold would have
carried us through the crisis safe and
sound AS IL was the constant drain OF
the deficit, continually COMPOUNDED with
the redemption of gold, has so afflicted the
Imagination OF our people that confidence
| cannot commence to be restored until our
revenues equal our expenses.
The New Cure For Hard Times.
Periods of depression are common to the
human race. Doubtless you and think
| that IL we had had the world To make we
would have had human progress arranged
on a continuous upgrade, ten feet or bet
fer To the mile. But God knows human
nature more perfectly and knows we could
never stand such monotony and must go
ND hill and down dale. But while depres-
J sions are common they have their aggra-
| waiting causes, which must he removed
Then, when confidence comes, prosperity
follows. How think that can he reached
will tell you soon.
Meantime let us see what Is proposed by
those gentlemen who within the last two
months have discovered new cure for all
the Ills flesh Is heir to and who proclaim,
as they did four years ago, that they alone
hold prosperity in their grasp.
Their remedy Is the coinage Of silver al
10 to I. What does that meanY
Heretofore whenever gold and silver have
stood together II has been at the market
value. When we tried to make gold and
silver circulate together, we have Away.
married them according to their marko'
value. Today we find them not 10 to 1
but 81 to 1, and we are going, they say, Il
lift silver to twice its value, not by tn
universal sense of mankind, which alon'
makes values, but by the statute of tn
United States, single handed against TIN
civilized world.
WHY should the United States try to d
this aloneS
II the demonstration OF silver IL dis
ease at all, 1t Is world disease 1 def
any body to find a single argument whic
proves that the remonetization OF silve
would be good for the United States tina
does not prove that IL would he good fo
the whole world. II Il is a world disease
how can 1t be reached except by worl
, remedy International bimetallism l ca
understand, but this driving out of gol
! and substitution Of silver Is only silvs
recommendation for the United States.
, 1t Is not bimetallism for the world an
/ a stable currency, but the shifting fro'
. cold currency and civilized Europe an
going over to silver and Mexico, Japai
India and China oh, but China an
Japan, India and Mexico are prospero'
lust nowi Yes, but what kind of prospe
. itys The prosperity of cheap labor, groy
, ing cheaper every day. Manufacture
3 there may be prosperous, and traders mi
: be prosperous, but the people are not pro
\ porous ut all. Up here In Maine and Ne
{ Hampshire paper pulp Is made chea
. HowS Because the manufactures lie clio
? J TO cheap labor. In silver countries lab