Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-09-10

Democratic Candidate for Chief Justice of
the restoration of silver coinage. For
! or perhaps more correctly speaking, fright
e be I'M men Nth in the Republican party to pass
members of Congress over the Presidents
so when it WSs m bv be s1er
purchase law, about which so much has in
When the Bland law of 1878 was under
discussion IN Congress the arguments of
now made, in the event of the restoration
OF silver coinage, were then made.
the S q 1875 and ND 1ss rS We are
tnresning over old straw, as 1T were. It
drive gold out of circulation. It was then
said that silver could not be maintained at
the money masters of the world would not
Recognize. its its value except for. commodity
effective mission would be. to go out in
the country and cheat the laborers of the
Of Incorporate speech, every sophIstry of
Illogical reason, every MISREPRESENTATION of
against the champions Of silver coinage and
rights should be taken into account. pe0pie
IN those days now every one who
you'd Idn phIlosSphise about the Just relations
ieaae c tb every one who would nit
was anathematized as a repudiationist, and
every one who disputed the divine right of
list, while every pin-headed mortgage fore
| closure lawyer and every pumpkin Drained
Gates Of fiscal reform and old-time bime METAL
u What S5 and
and a @eman that Of o Thich every man
membsrs s as q 9 fast i hat "s an q ra-
exSmped for period Of
of general contentment and prosperity pre-
VAILED dId until the s,a money on masters Of the
only partially supported by the legislation
Of Of this eSountry, more largely supported by
on. as they did during the closing years of
! the last decade. conditions of distress among
the people.
An Argument for BimetaIIism
"It would seem like a burden upon the
patience and almost an insult to the in
tSe CID argume e 1 favor ef %
which were adduced so fully and forcihly
and the sa sh OF ah ge
monometallists of that period. 1t seems,
difference to them I will take up the old
time thread Of discussion anew.
demonstration and the reasons against its
Representation are the vast over-productien
concurrently with or slightly preceding the
year of the demonstration act of 1873. and
which oyer-production, it is claimed, has,
in the years since. reached the aggregate
There has been no such oyer-production
of silver. and none was threatened in 1873
age az 'i premium over gold dollars in the mar
kets of the world of nearly one-half a
they commanded a still greater premium
over gold But yielding to the effect of the
began to, decline in money value; There
is no such eyeT-pEGodhuctiSn' and that that there
nation on the globe but what supplements
its circulating and reserve stock and silver
resting upon coin base of equal value
a aepreseDt IKE ike amount of money
in vaults Until this universal practice of
as su Tepresentative Of coin, but in ne, excess
of it and in addition TO 1t, has ceased there
either of the precious metals for coinage
capita " do You suppose we have in this
country? The statistics give the per capita
over 50 and of silver at a little over So
That is not the production of recent years.
ali the ages from the beginning of time
s. of s sG Sa for money per head
In other words. the labor of the countless
brought the precious metals to the light of
day and coined them into instruments for
the entire history of the world has given to
each man, woman and child in this country
only So of silver for money purposes. Mil
lions upon millions. billions. I might better
Of the bas metals he that d have been
bottom of the sea, along the highways and
in the f0Sts IN p hle oy abd s faT
gotten; used in the making of jewelry and
plate, consumed in dentistry and in null
titudfnous arts, and there has been left to
us with which to carry on the business of
this country and our share of the business
of the world only 50 per head.
Gold Product Compared With Silver
But the silver of the world relatively to
gold was not increasing and has not in
crea sed, except in the United States. 1t is
true that it has increased in the United
States during the past few years relatively
to the gold product of the United States,
h,1fe world
so that the relative proportions of produc-
ton have not changed except to change
slightly in the direction of gold increase
in recent years. In reality gold has been
for nearly 100 years increasing in production ,
rela lively to silver The table of the world
production of gold and silver since the dis
covery of America down to 1888, which yous
will find in the report of the director of
the mint for 1895. ard which L also have
before me in the Atlas Almanac and Cyclic