People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-10-01
LONDON FINANCIAL NEWS.
Says Silver Basis in America Would
Ruin EngIand's Trade.

lcl IRON Tue paper, anu lac Slmlle
Of the original cutting from that
sheet is now being printed in lead
ing newspapers Of the United States.
The editorial actually appeared in
the London Financial News of April
SOth, 1854, and how any American
can read it and not realize that the
interests Of this country lie in the
reconciliation of silver is beyond
comprehension.
I'm matters Of international policy
neither this nor any other country
dares to act in deliberate antagonism
to its neighbOrs. The comfy of ma.
tiOns requires that no power should
follow course damaging, directly or
indirectly, to the interest Of country
with which it is at peace. At the
same time we seem TO be shaping to-
ward course which may bring US
int awkward conflict with the popu.
lar sentiment, il not with the govern.
ing powers of countries with whom
we hold political friendly relations.
In another column we print extracts
from speech made in the American
senate the other day by Mr.. Don
Cameron, who represents Pennsyl-
vania. The gist of Mr.. Cameron's
contention was that the English
policy on the all.absOrbing monetary
question is directly antagonistic to
American interests, and that the
United States must throw off the
influence Of English ideas il she
means to maintain the steady march
OF her prosperity. There have not
been wanting. Of late, indications Of
growing irritation with this country
for its dOg.ln-the-manger attitude
toward question that is convulsing
two continents, and gravely ctmpro-
missing the future Ofthe poorer states
ofEurope. This feeling has been voiced
in America by Senator Lodge, whose
proposal to virtually shut out British
goods from the United States until we
should assent to bimetallic cOnven.
tion, though extreme and absurd.
Indicates the trend Of sentiment on
tie other side Of the Atlantic. Mr..
Cameron is much milder. and makes
war rather on those who acclimatise
English ideas 10 America than on
this country, but the sentiment has
the same origin in both cases.
Senator Lodge is not silver man
in the usual sense, being opposed out
and out to free coinage 10 the United
States under existing conditions, and,
therefore, his views, though tinged
with strong feeling, may attract more
attention here than those Of the pro-
nounced silverites. Mr.. Lodge is very
bitter about the failure of the Brus-
sells conference last year, where The
attitude Of the British official dele.
gates was scarcely less than dis
courteous to the United States, and
he believes that nine-tenths of Amer.
lean people regard it in that light. A
feeling OF this kind is not to be lightly
ignored. We have frequent dlplo-
matte differences with the United |
States; but as rule, there is seldom
associated with these any sense of
animus between the peoples Of the |
two countries, and such squabbles |
pass over aud are forgotten. But
now we are encouraging the growth |
Of a feeling that on question which |
affects the prosperity Of millions Of
individual Americans this country Is
Inclined TO entertain views uufriendly |
to the States. We know, of course,
that the unfriendliness is accidental. |
and that our monetary policy is con-
trolled by purely selfish considerations
so purely selfish that wedo not mind |
seeing India suffering from our action |
much more than America does. The |
Americans are sufficiently old.fash-
Toned to believe that 1t Is the part Of |
-afriend to show himself friendly, and |
when this country turns a deaf ear to |
the plant Of half the world, includ.
ing all the New World, they, not
unnaturally, take 1t unkindly. 1t is
not for us to say whether the feeling
OF irritation is wholly justified or not:
1t exists, and that is the main point.
Moreover, it is taking a shape that
may entail very awkward conse.
quences on US. The recent proposal
to coin Mexican dollars in San Fran.
cisco was bid toward giving us an
object lesson by ousting US from our
commanding position In Eastern
trade.
Senator Cameron points a plain
moral when he remarks that IL the
United States would venture to cut
herself adrift from Europe and take
outright 10 silver, she would have all