The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-17
SILVER SENTIMENT.

The silver sentiment must be grow
] ing when such magazines as the Arena
| editorally declares that SILVER must be
remonetized or gold demonetiZed. :"
That exact expression, made by the
Eagle two or three years since, was
| ridiculed by our esteemed contemporary
the Topeka Capital as being undisput-
| able evidence of crankism gone mad.
| The silver sentiment grows. Senator
Hoar. that goldbug of gOldbugs, after
listening to Senator Cockrelfs speech
last week. like King Agrippa, exclaim-
ed that he never felt SO persuaded to
be a Christian. And still the silver
sentiment grows. The measure of its
growth can be estimated most exactly
| by the appreciation Of the power OF
gold. AS gold advances in power the
| Industrial interests of the country fall
lower and lower in the dust AS gold
goes up the very metal Of which the
silver dollar is made goes down in in
verse ratio. Lands and all their pro-
ducts. mines and all their outputs, fac
tories and all their fabrics, and every
conceivable value, have all gone down
that gold might go higher.
Protection and silver must go TO-
gether. That they should is as logical
as it is inevitable. Protection, reel
procity and free silver is an industrial
triplicate demand that will yet be
found to be party platform. Upon
the one hand are the labor Organiza-
tons Of the country, the trades as
ser1blieS the manufacturers associa-
tons, the farmers unions, alliances and
oranges, all demanding protection and
free silver. The only organized bodies
against silver are the banking corpora
tons, the gambling concerns known as
chambers of commerce, stock eX-
changes, bucket shops and the ike.
Who ever heard of trades unions,
grange or a labor organization of any
character being against silver? With
all the goldbug talk of a single mono
metallic standard, where is the district
in the United States yet electing dele
gates to either of the national conven-
tions that has dared to pronounce for
a single standard? There is not one.
There have been lodges and straddles
we admit The eastern manufacturer
especially desires a protective tariff,
but his every emplOye is against the
gold standard. The national admin
istration and the interests it represents
alone are demanding the English none
tary policy for America.
The nominees Of the national con-
ventiOn that declares for the single
gold standard of Cleveland and Sher-
man is doomed. Brice and German
and Cleveland and Carlisle are upon
the one side and Sherman and Aldrich
and Morrill, and Hoar upon the other
but after all they are all on the same
side. They are goldolators and all
their votes, utterances and political
actions are controlled by the money
power. Whether for free trade or for
protection they are not representing the
industrial and producing classes of this
country. With all their proteStationS
they are not the friends Of the farmer
and of the labor-unionists, of the trades
assemblies and of the working people.
These latter are in the majority and
are for true bimetallism, for the free
coinage Of silver on the ratio Of their
relative production.
The nomination of Mckinley on a
platform of Protection, Reciprocity and
an assurance that silver shall have the
same consideration as gold, will bring
good times, swift and unerringly. The
very promise Of such a change from
the present destructive policy, even be-
fore he can be elected, will restore con-
fidence and prosperous times. Free
silver is as much a demand of the in
dustrial classes as protection is of the
owner of the eastern factory and a
reciprocity that reciprocateS will con-
cede both.