San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-27

money itself, whether gold or sill
yer, is not used to the extent of
more than l per cent in our bust
ness transactions.
There has never been a time in
the history of the world, when
the wOrkingmens' dollar would
buy as much. of the necessaries
and comforts of life as at pres
ent, and there has never been a
time in the history of the world
when the wOrkingman received
more good dollars for the same
amount of labor than he now re-
ceives in this country.
The intention of the Bryanites
to revOlutiOnize our monetary
system and thus destroy the
credit of the government and the
people at home and abroad, yiO-
late the obligations of all CON
tracts, unsettle all exchange val
Iles, reduce the wages of labor,
eXpel capital from our country,
! and seriously obstrust the trade
of our people among themselves
and with the people of other
countries, is one which chal-
lenges the intelligence, patriot
ism and commercial honor of ev-
cry man to whom it is addressed.
1t is safe to say that the voters
at the coming election, by many
thousands, will be influenced by
the money question in deciding
their course at the polls than at
any previous election since the
war. Party ties, that have been
.relaXing steadily, chiefly because
of the lapsing or settlement of is
sues which appealed to partisan
ship will now be relegated and
the money question be para
mount.
1t should be borne in mind
that public opinion is far more
powerful in national than in
state elections and the greatest
question of the campaign is east
" discernible now; the preserva-
ton of the public credit, sound
money and good government.
The silver question came into
prominence II years ago and had
the ADLER statesmen taken the
same view of it that the late JUS
tice Lamar did in 1873 and gone
| to the people and shown them
| the truth of the matter, instead
of following them in their error
and aggravating their delusion,
we would now have escaped near
| " or quite all of the monetary
troubles from which we have
suffered and are still suffering.
We cannot afford to take any
chances this year; the pOsslblll-
ties of harm are too many and
too great.
1t is matter of history that
for the last quarter of a century
we have had to depend for the
safety of our financial system
upon our presidents. President
Grant saved us from the Inha-
ton bill of 1874. President
Hayes vetoed the Bland silver
bill in 1877 and whose known OPP
position prevented the cOntem-
plated repeal of the Resumption
Act the same year. President
Cleveland stood firm against all
efforts to force this country off
the gold standard and has pre-
served the national credit, and
prevented the wide spread con
| fusion and industrial and com
mercial disaster which descent
to the silver standard would
have caused.
The people want a courageous,
able and patriotic man in the
white house, and one who will
uphold the nations honor and
credit.
The most conspicuous fact in
| the financial history of the world
for the last hundred years is the
coming one after another of all
the great nations to the single
gold standard of value.
Extreme advocates of free sill
yer say it is due to a conspiracy
against silver, but even they do
not believe that 1t is due rath-
err to a natural process of evolu-
ton.
Every nation is merely a COD
lection of individuals, and it is
the individual who decides this
question of standard of value.
Gold is the only metal known to
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