Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-30

lore MS inauguration to Office to stop
IT,. ,onsge OF silver dollars, and after.
Maids, and to the end of his admins.
tration, persistently used his power 10
that end. He was determined to con.
tract the circulating medium and de.
monctize one of the coins of commerce,
limit the volume of money among the
people, make money scarce and, there,
fore, dear. He would have increased
the volume of money and diminished
the value of everything else - money
the master, everything else the eery.
ant"
In his annual message to congress in
December, 1890, President Harrison
said with reference to the operation OF
said Sherman silver law, then but re.
Gently passed:
"The enlargement of our currency by
the silver bill undoubtedly gave an up
ward tendency to trade and had a
marked effect on prices, but this nat
ural and desired effect of the silver Leg
islation was by many enormously OF
tributed to the tariff act"
In his message of December 6, 1892,
President Harrison, speaking Of the
international monetary conference,
then in session (the last one that ever
metz, said:
eff any temporary check or delay in
tervenes, believe that very soon COM
mercial conditions will compel the now
reluctant governments to unite with us
in this movement to secure the enlarge
ment of the volume of coined money
needed for transaction of the business
Of the world"
But the reluctant governments have
not united with us, and show no dis
position to do so. Prince Bismarck
says the surest way to secure their CO.
operation is for the United States to
declare for international bimetallism.
Gen. John A. Logan said of the policy
decentralization of silver:
II, for one, can see benefit only to the
money-holder and those who receive
interest and have fixed incomes. !
can see, as result to this legislation,
our business operations crippled and
wages for labor reduced to mere pit,
lance. I can see the beautiful prairies
of my own state and Of the great west,
which are blooming as gardens, with
cheerful homes rising like white tow
ers along the pathway Of improvement,
again sinking back to idleness. I can
see mortgage fiends at their hellish
work. can see the hopes of the in
dustrious farmers blasted as they burn
corn for fuel because its price will not
pay the cost of transportation and div
idends on millions of dollars Of fcti-
tious railway stocks and bonds. can
see our people Of the west grooming and
burdened under taxation to pay debts
of state, counties and cities incurred
when money was more abundant and
bright hopes of the future were held
out to lead them on. can see the peo-
pie of our western states, who are pro-
ducers, reduced to the condition of
serfs to pay interest on public and
private debts to tine money sharks OF
Wall street, New York, and of Thread
needle street in London"
Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa,
said in the senate June 6, 1890:
''The affairs Of this world cannot be
conducted upon the single basis of
gold; and the war and contest to-day is
between those who seek to destroy and
outlaw silver and those who seek to
place it upon an equality with gold,
That is the contest, and I am for the
full and complete restoration of silver
as one Of the coin metals of the world,
and therefore, I propose to do whatever
l can to promote that most desirable
object"
Bob Ingersoll said: 'silver was de-
monetized by fraud. It was an impo.
sition upon every solvent man; fraud
upon every honest debtor in the United
States. 1t assassinated labor. 1t was
done in the interest of avarice and
greed, and should be undone by honest
men. The farmer should vote only for
such men as are able and willing to
guard and advance the interests of la
bor'
Senator Thurston said: "It is better
that we should, if necessary, buy gold
at premium to settle our foreign bal
ance with than that the American peo-
pie should be compelled to pay higher
prices in human labor and human en-
deavor for a dollar because of the
adoption of the single gold standard.
am an advocate of the American the
Dry. I have no doubt the remonetiza.
ton of silver in the United States
would speedily and certainly appre-
lott 1,A ~ ell
this country, but throughout the whole
world"
Ex-Congressman Butterworth, of
Ohio, in recent letter, said:
us it not folly to suppose that the
capitalists of England-and they are
the capitalists of the world-will be
easily persuaded to agree or consent
to bimetallism? Why should they?
How is it to their interest to do so, while
we consent to make it to theif advan-
tage to refuse? They have doubled the
value of their credits by demonetizing
silver, and thus, in effect, doubled
the interest received by them. The
United States blundered into that trap
and within year beggared millions Of
her citizens, and, if we adhere to the
blunder, will beggar 100000 more, and
double the burden OF every debtor and
every burden-bearer in the land"
The republican national platform of
1888 said, William Mckinley being
To Be Tried for Embezzlement,
Philadelphia, Oct. 20. = Adolphus
Cohen, alias Coles, who was arrested
here on October 16, charged with being
an enbezzler of 100000, has been taken
to New York by a detective from this