The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-16
The Tripartite Ticket Now Has the Right of Way

Now that Mr. Bryan and his bifurcated Vice Presi-
Dental appendage have been duly notified the great silver
trumvirate should wggle waggle without further inter
rupton The little election affair in Maine need make
difference with the professional march of the demo
popo trio In fact such diversions indicate the Ignorance
rather than the intelligence of the public the silver
question few dips of the rabd Republican States late
the deluge of Mr.. Bryans eloquence will convert them
seethng sverte strongholds and then the election
will go hellfalutn. campaign of education is what
they need and they getting it in the Unrestricted
ticket represented by Messrs Bryan Sewall and
Silver has had its day. The free coinage epidemic
has its course and the bmetac deluson is rapidly
being dispeed Notwithstanding the claim that farmers
and working people the producers OF wealth and that
is of their creation the fact is beginning to
dawn in the minds of the that money is species
of wealth and should be safe and sound any other
kind of capital Inasmuch it represents the value of
their labor must be undeprecable they would be the
principal sufferers People generally also finding out
that there is sentiment in money. The rapidly in
creaslng growth of money famine indicates the faacy
of the free coinage claim. silver basis would be good
for the country those who handle the money would
be most profed and money holders would be eager to
invest and take advantage of improved conditions but
the prospect Of free silver is having contrary effect
Money is being boarded and refuses to circulate Bust
ness interests are embarrassed for want of capital
Banks decline to loans to protect themselves from
by depositors, and deepseaed depression in the
financial and industrial world betokens disastrous panic
The OF this lack of confidence in the future is d
recty attributable to the silver sentiment Money hold
ers, large and small assisting to lessen the volume
of trade and hasten the day of disaster They will
neither loan invest their capital for fear Of loss by
silver supremacy; they be blamed for this natu
raj feeling of alarm.
There is only way to inspire confidence and re-
store good times The silver dragon must be smothered
beneath avalanche of ballots. Until it is dead as
the history of the mound builders, it will continue to
brighten away prosperity, and ballot is better than
bullet to eXterminate its banefu existence. return of
confidence In the stability of financial future means
more money, more active mills greater number of en-
poyed wagee arners and increased demand for all
kinds of products. 1t means better prices and i'm
proved trade and if that is not sufficient inducemen
to support the sound money party. other be
offered. Mr.. Bryan and his confederates claim that
sound money advocates offer hope of increased
circulation to relieve the monetary stringency The
August Treasury report shows that have 81 9o3
JAP of money either in actual circulation locked by
the silver phantom and that is about billion dollars
than the country would have for the first two years
of silver administration Remove the obstruction to
national progress by defeating the free coinage party
and there will be neither lack of confidence money to
stimulate trade and commerce. Continue the silver a9i
tation for year two longer and the country will be-
come an industrial graveyard, dotted with idle mills
and factories monuments to American financial stu
pidity.
A conca enation Of intellect known as ''The Cotere
of Five, consisting of handful of eiderly men, intel
gen and cultivated Interested in questions that agitate
the public takes The TIMES to task for asserting that
silver supremacy at the polls prolongng of
business depression There be question the
ability of 1.-The Coterie of Five to arrive at this
clusion. In stating its fitness this aggregation of
severated brain power soberly says: 1--WE have read
analysed and dsseced the letters of acceptance of all
the principal candidates and find them all alike abso
utey devoid of argument but filled full of assertions
based, not fact, but hope and prejudice" Know
ing that any explanation THE TINES might offer will be
subjected to the ordeal that has frightened the wisdom
out of the letters of acceptance the task of replying
this declaration stupendous, but there may be
others not wise this profound "Coterie of Five "
Consequently effort may not be entirely stranded
that quntuple rock of knowledge.
The decade of 1sso-1seo Immediately following the
resumption act the most prosperous in American
history. Nearly two millions of wage added
to the pay rolls of mills and factories The annual
value of export manufactures increased from
S13 306 600 to S201 52 7OO and the total value of all
exports increased from 500 600 900 SSO7 700 OOO
Nearly every kind of trade thrifty beyond expecta
ton and the hand of plenty smoothed the way for
tentmen in every Industrious citizens home. There
an excess of imports of gold and treasury in
satisfactory condition. The of this happy of
affairs the absence of silver agitation The conn