The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-25
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.
A BRITISH POOL.

A BRITISH POOL
The following letters under date of July
10, signed by VIM. Howard, of Washing
ton, &C, was published in the Washing
ton Post of the 23d:
Editor Post: The silverites could not,
had the chance been given them, have
chosen II better trump card than the gold
ties have, within the past few days. gra-
tuitiously furnished them.
Careful readers of prominent goldite
organs must have been struck with their
unanimity in plunging their supporters
into pit, out of which no ingenuity or
finesse can eXtricate them; there they are
bound to stay until the popular verdict
next November shall pull them out or
leave them buried forever
The ournal here selected as II proper
exponent of its large class is not an.ob-
scure sheet, edited with the reCklessness
of irresponsibility, but prominent,
widely quoted paper that is not only a
leader of public opinion in the second
largest city of the Union, but is also rec
ognized as voicing the views, opinions, and
policy of the highest, the most influential
advocates of gold recommendation.
Commenting on the Treasury gold re-
serve, this exponent of its class has been
sufficiently indiscrect to publicly divulge
ployed by its supporters to Illustrate and
defeat silverites. The following are few
of its most pregnant utterances:
Foreign moneyed interests will play
an important part in our political strug-
gle. The work, however, will he done
under cover, but it will be none the less
effective. a pool with &25, coo, 000 behind
it has been formed Gin London)"
Mark the confession. Men who as.
sumo to be Americans have allied them.
selves with foreign moneyed interests''to
defeat the wishes of the American people
as expressed and represented at their con
vention in Chicago. 1t was foreign
| money interests which precipitated the
Revolutionary war, and it was so-called
| Americans, subsequently known as
| Tories, who allied themselves to foreign
| money interests and did their best to
subjugate their countrymen to foreign
yoke.
Mark further: ''The work, however (of
the foreign money interests), will be done
under cover, but it will be none the less
effective" That is to say, sneakingly
slyly, hidden after the manner our silver
was demonetized in 1878, at the behest of
foreign moneyed interests, = despicable
''work done under cover,n so effect
ively' that President Grant who signed
lilt DlIlS, ultl lOI KNOW III uenlOlletlZcu
silver. awe are frankly told the size of
the pool CS25, 0C0, 000) raised to thwart the
wishes of millions of American voters.
but we are yet to learn the size of the
pool that did 1.-THE work under cover so
effectively in 1878, for the benefit of
foreign moneyed interests
Quoting further from this one Of many
representatives here of the foreign mon
eyed interests
Necessity will almost compel the for
eign moneyed interests to- maintain the
Treasury's gold reserve. The free gold
in the Treasury must not shrink to a
point which will compel another bond
issue. Such an issue during the cam
paign will be almost serious for the cause
of sound money 1t would provide POI
lltlcal capital OF inestimable value to the
free silver party
about another bond issue is not based on
! the disastrous results of such an issue to
American interests, but on the disastrous
results likely to overtake the ''foreign
moneyed interests because cit would
provide political capital of Questionable
value to the free silver party" And why
should not foreign interference with and
domination over financial commercial
| and industrial affairs "provide political
capital of inestimable value to all true
Americans?
Note also the cOmplacency with which
these American gold organs of the for
eign moneyed interests exploit the hui
miliatin z fact of our national Treasury
being at the tender % mercies of the
foreign moneyed interests" a disgrace
that causes all true Americans TO blush
for the honor of their nation only causes
chuckle of satisfaction in these Amer
lean allies of foreign moneyed interests. -
Listen to the Qualification of this Amer
lean ally of foreign moneyed interests
over our humilation
London is the dominating factor in
our markets. 1t can either advance prices
or cause them TO decline The course of
prices, therefore, depends on the foreign
attitude"
Here is a brutally frank admission
that we are, through so called sound
money become in effect tie prey, plum
der, and booty of foreign moneyed inter
ests, who dictate what shall be the
prices paid for our industrial products,
and who thus have il in their power to
create financial and commercial panics in
our midst when such shall best CRAFTY
their proverbial greed and grab propen-
stiles. II is to confirm and perpetuate
our subgusation to foreign moneyed in
terests that we are 10 be covered '.under
cover, >" as in 1873, into worshipping that
foreign idol called sound monev"-a
peculiar kind of sound" money that
would render us serfs to British domino
tlon to foreign moneved interests. ~
This is not party struggle between Re
puDncans and Democrats, but n national