Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-09-10

and stay of the republic-and
proposes to adopt and continue
governmental policies that are
wholly iu the interest of the pluto
Gratis of the land9
After demonetizing silver, de-
stroying it as money, after putting
it under ban, these gold bugs point
at it as commodity and say that it
is worth but 60 cents an ounce and
your dollar you would coin of it
will be worth but so cents. They
pretend not to see that if gold had
been denied use as money-put under
ban as silver has been-it would
have been worth little, would have
been only commodity as silver is.
With brazen effrontery they assert
that giving silver coinage on an
equality with gold will not increase
its value; pretending, for the pur-
pose of deceiving the laboring
classes, who do not think and in
vestigate, to ignore that economic
law that an increased demand always
increases the value and price of a
thing, and that the moment that
free coinage of silver is established
all our silver will go to $1.29 an
ounce.
They say that legislation will not
give any increased value to silver,
ignoring the fact that it is legislation
making gold money that gives it
the value it has today. So when
silver is remonetized and coined on
an equality with gold there will be
no cheap silver. You can get none
for less than its coinage value.
But they seem to be afraid the
miners will make something out oft.
Well, is it not all right that they
shouids Does not the farmer make
all he can out of his farm products7
Would any one complain if he could
make as much again as the cost o1
productions
But these objectors should moi
| ignore the fact in their effort to foo
| the masses that it is not proposed to
| let the miners coin their silver just
to please themselves, but because
the people of the nation have use
for it as primary money; remember.
ing that it is not only constitutional
money, but also that its use as
money is as old as the history of
civilized man. We want to supplant
this makeshift paper money, or
battress it, with the actual money
made of the precious metals. Paper
money is ever and always the panic
breeder When real, Or coin money,
is plentiful, so that coin can be had
at any time for the paper, then there
are no panics.
look upon the present, with VIM.
j. Bryan as the Democratic nominee
of the Democratic party standing
upon the financial plank that he does,
as presenting the great opportunity
for the masses of the people-the
great commonalty of our country
to throw off the yoke of bondage to
the monied classes, who have die
tated the legislation of congress in
their own interest so long, by voting
for Bryan and defeating Mckinley,
and such an opportunity as should
be welcomed with enthusiastic joy
regardless of party.
Listen to what Republican Senator
Wolcott of Colorado said in his state
ment of his position awhile ago. He
stated that he was in favor of the
free coinage Of silver and believed
that the United States could open its
mints to the unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to and
maintain that metal on parity with
gold independently of other nations.
And also believed that a continuance
of the gold standard means only
further impoverishment and suffer-
ing. Yet he clings to his party.
What should be thought of a man,
and United States senator, too,
who holding such sentiments has
not the manhood to cut loose from
his party and make common cause
with the party that stands for this
vital and paramount question: What
execration ought not to be meted
out to him whose party ties and
prejudices are stronger than his de-
sire to relieve the masses of the peo-
pie from the impoverishment and
suffering which he admits the gold
standard has brought upon the peo-
pie, and which he believes win be
continued if Mckinley is elected9
But the senator gives as an excuse
for his party allegiance that the Re-
publican platform declares in favor
of bimetailism as soon as the leading
commercial nations of Europe will
agree to it and pledges the party to
promote such an agreement. A
thing which he knows to a moral
certainty old England lthat has had
| a gold standard for more than half a
| century, will never agree to and
| consequently the gold standard will
| be perpetuated if the Republican
party is waited for to bring it about.
| So he is willing that the great masses
of his couptrymen shall come to
| beggary and want rather than abate
one iot or title from his party ale
glance. Yea, more; by such a posi-
ton mocks at their calamities.
I notice that old Missouri has q
few Democrats, from whom we had
the right to expect better things,
who seem to be afflicted with a sort
of political dry rot and penchant foi
fault finding and carp at the Chicago
platform and call it undemocratif
| because it has dared to take ster
forward out of the old conventions
rut to meet the exigency Of the times