The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-17

national agreement looking toward tae
free coinage OF silver. Mr.. Mckinley
says 1--WE never had better currency
than we have today. and good money
we will continue to have " Which of
| these great men is the free silver re-
! publican to believe?
The Boston Herald, gold standard
paper, advises the goldite cartoonists
to stop caricaturing the American
| farmer till after election. sit is
queer spectacle" it says. ito find the
farmer ridiculed in politics now in the
days of his reported distress. n clear
mistake has been made, and it should
not in ordinary prudence, be con-
tinued."
Since Senator Ben Tillman, of South
Carolina, has appeared on the rostrum
in Oregon. the republican papers of
the state have been quite loud in de-
nouncing him as an anarchist and
traitor. If such appelation are justified,
what about Senator Mitchell a2(t Con
gressmen Ellis and Hermann The
records of .he senate and house show
that they advocated exactly the same
| principles Tillman is advocating today.
Neither the living nor the dead are
| free from the scurrilous abuse of the
| Oregonian. Thomas Garfield, a broth
er of the murdered president, wrote a
| letter a few days ago, which is pub
lished in another column, defining his
! views upon present issues. This
brought forth the following dirty slap,
n It to him alone, but to his deceased
brother: ''Garlield's brother is q
i Bryan man, and Garfield wasn't very
wise himself"
Since the billing of Senator Tillman
and Mr.. Schoonmaker to speak in The
Dalles on the same date has caused
some confusion, which none regret
more sincerely than do the manage
ment of the Bryan campaign, they are
willing and desirous to arrange mat
ters so that joint discussion may be
| held between the two orators. BY
such an arrangement all may have an
opportunity to hear both sides of the
question discussed by men of national
reputation. VIII the management of
the Mckinley campaign accept the
challenge to joint discussion
The Chronicle in reporting Mr.. But
| ler's speech certainly did not mean
what it said when it asserted that he
abandoned the position from which
| repu blican argument has driven him,
| that silver was not demonetized in
1873" Mr.. Butler dwelt at length
| upon that proposition, and very clearly
showed that silver was demonetized
| not only by the act of 1873 but by every
coinage act since that date; that con-
gress had not only Disseminated
against the silver dollar but had
clothed the creditor with authority to
refuse it as legal tender.
The Oregonian places great stress
upon an alleged discovery made by the
New York World that the silver-mine
owners have been solicited to con-
tribute to the Bryan campaign fund,
and brands it as an sun blushing pro-
posal to buy the presidency of the
United States.n Ye gods! What an
awful crime this is. But pray, what is
Mr. Hanna with his $4,000, 900 cam
paign fund trying to do? Why did
Vanderbilt, Huntingdon Carnegie and
their associates contribute these
millions if it were not for the purpose
of buying the presidency?
Some remarkable figures are brought
out by republican claims that wheat
had advanced because of the belief
that McKinley's election is assured.
1t is stated that in Chicago when Ver-
mont went republican wheat fell 24
points. When Arkansas went demo-
cratic wheat went up 2 points; when
Maine went republican wheat fell 2
points: when Bismarck's letter ap-
peared wheat went up II points; when
the republican managers in September
were claiming everything wheat
slumped from 10 to 66 cents, and fell
steadily until the election returns came
in from Georgia and Florida, when it
recovered TO 699 cents.
",fhere is not asilver-standard coun-
try in the world today where the Ia
boring man receives fair pay for his
days work. This is the last of the
"live facts worthy of daily study"
which the Oregouian parades in
double-column leader. Whether this
is true or not, D. z. Thompson says in
Japan, which is silver standard coun-
try, laboring men all find employment
and have all the necessities of life. Is
this true in Germany, France and
Italy? all of which are gold-standard
countries. Dos the people in those
countries receive fair pay for their
days work? Is there not more pover-
ty, more want, more hunger and lower
wages in gold-standard Italy today
than any silver-standard country on
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