The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-06
CEASED TO RIDICULE
The Eastern "Silver Craze" Howl Is
Beginning to Abate. 2"
RECAlNlNG THEIR SENSES
An Interesting Article Published In
Central New York Paper
Views on the Great Cues fl
ton by PastStatesnen.

trip through the East said to a Stand
ard reporter to-day, in speaking of the
silver question:: Il noticed during my
trip that there has been a very material
change in the silver sentiment in the
far East. While / think that there are
more people there who are favorable to
free coinage than there were a year
ago. what impressed me most strongly
was the fact that business men and
bankers, as well as the press, have
ceased to ridicule the silver people and
are beginning to consider the question
seriously. This is the best thing that
could happen for us, as IL indicates
that the silver sentiment has become
so strong that IL is commanding re-
spect."
In this connection, the article print
ed below will be of interest. 1t was left
at the Standard office by County Urea
surer Cave, who cut IL from a paper
published in Central New York. The
article is as follows
THE HARD TIMES AGAIN
Editor Times: r.
feel to express my thanks for the
favor shown me by publishing my
article of last week. l want to cor
rect it to read $40, 900, 100000, instead of
$40, 900, 900. i notice your comments on
the article which I must confess seem
SOIutWHdl Will
silver was done in 1873 and in 1892 but
now il is earnest work, the great issue
of all parties, to be avoided as far as
possible or met squarely. 1 consider Ii
the greatest evil to be remedied-the
decentralization of silver. 1t has been
marked symptom of our country's i'll
ness" for many years, and each year
the illness has been more pronounced
and this too continued through years
nf ton,
want to be thought a non-protection-
list i believe in high protection almost
to exclusion, especially on what we can
produce ourselves. / also believe in
fighting trusts and combines or any
thing in the way of monopoly, affect
ing the masses. / am pleased to know
that your columns are open for discus
sion in these lines, and trust that all
such discussions will be without any
party sides whatever, but for the bene-
fit of the greatest number of our peo-
pie, always remembering those in pres
ent distress. l wish to submit for your
satisfaction and reflection the minds of
Daniel Webster, John A Logan, James
G.. Blaine, Andrew Jackson, Abraham
Lincoln and Sir Francis Bacon. They
are worthy of being clipped and car
ried in your vest pocket to size up all
that you may read on the subject of
finance and also size up the platforms
on which you will vote next Novem-
Der: 4
Daniel webster-Gold and silver is
the money of the constitution. The
constitutional standard of value is es-
tablished and cannot be overturned.
To overturn it would shake the whole
system. Gold and silver at rates fixed
by congress constitutes the legal stand
ard of value in this country, and
neither congress nor any state has au-
thority to establish any other standard
or dispose of this.
John A. Logan: 1 can see as a result
of this legislation (the decentralization
of silver) our BUSINESS operations
crippled and wages for labor reduced
to a mere pittance. l can see the beau
tiful prairies of my own state and the
great West, which are blooming as
gardens, with cheerful homes rising as
white towers along the pathway of
Improvement again sinking back to
idleness. / can see the hopes of the
industrious farmer blasted. / can see
our farmers of the West grooming and
burdened under taxation to pay debts
of states, counties and cities, incurred
when money was abundant, and bright
hopes of the future were held out to
lead them on. / can see the people of
our western states, who are producers,
reduced to the condition of serfs to pay
interest on public and private debts, to
the sharks of Wall street, New York,
and of Threadneedle street, in London,
England
James G. Blaine: I believe that the
struggle now going on in this country
and in other countries for a single
standard would, il successful, produce
widespread disaster in and throughout
the commercial world. The destruc-
ton of silver as money and the estab-
lishment of gold as the sole unit of
value must have a ruinous effect on all
forms of property except those invest
ments which yield a fixed return in
money These would be enormously
enhanced in value and would gain
dispropCrtionate and unfair advantage
over every other species of property.
IT. as the most reliable statistics affirm,
there are nearly 81, 900. 000.0 900 of coin or
bullion in the world, not very unequal
ly divided between gold and silver, ii is
impossible to strike the silver out OF
existence as money without results that
will prove distressing to millions, and
utterly disastrous TO tens OF thousands.
Andrew Jackson: No power on earth,
so help me God, shall control the key
10 the nations funds. but the United
States government itself!
Abraham Lincoln: see in the near
future a crisis approaching that un-
nerves me and causes me to tremble
for the safety of my country. AS a re-
suit OF the war. corporations have been
enthroned and an era OF corruption in
high places will follow. and the money
power of the country will endeavor TO
prolong it's reign by working upon the
prejudices OF the people until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands.
and the republic is destroyed. | feel
at this moment more anxiety for the
safety of my country than ever before
even in the midst OF war. God grant
that my suspicious may prove ground-
less. So
Sir Francis Bacon: Above all things.
good policy is to be used. that the treas
ures and moneys OF the state be not
gathered into a few hands: for. other
wise. a state may have great stock and
yet starve And money is like muck.
not good unless spred. This is done by
surpressing. or at least keeping a
straight hand upon the devOuring