Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-10-29

representative anu EuSlduu was PIES
ent in body but not Gin Esprit" he
Brussels Conference, like its pred :
cessors was a farce
Every school boy ought to know
that England fixes the values of
American wheat and cotton and is
more interested than any other
country in keeping down the price OF
American silver for the benefit Of H.
dia, will never consent to the adoption
of the double standard.
These patriotic gentlemen, who
promise to work day and night to re
store silver to its original functions by
virtue Of an international agreement
damn it with faint praise. They put
their left arm around the neck Of sill
yer, give it a fond embrace, while with
their right hand they inselta dagger
10 its bosom.
England is the lead center OF the
mighty organization that is battling !
against silver. There is no safe
maxim in war. politics and in he
struggles of life than never do any
thihS JOoA NhSbAf "ohto " wv
1t is our duty .sto.- legislate for our
own people and not to please The rul-
els of the Imperial Governments Of
Europe. In=teai OF lieiaiug to their
notions aad drIn auus. its OUR duty to
provide for the welfare OF the Anerl-
can people.
Silver does not drive ont gold. The
prophets Of the gold standard have
repeatedly predicted that if silver is
coined at the miLts OF the same terms
with gold, the gold will go out of The
couatry. Not one of them have ever
materialiZed. The evidence is con-
elusive to the contrary.
When the Bland Act went into effect
on he first of January, 1879, the whole
amount of gold in the United States
was S27s,Ooo, 900. Silver was coined
steadily thereafter at the rate of not
lees than $4,000, 600 per year, still
gold steadily Increased year after year
until according to the official report
of Mi. Bourchar,i, the Director Of the
mint, it amounted to S626, 0O0, 600 on
the first day Of January 1896.
France has less than 10000, 900 in
population. She has in circulation
about 5000, 600, 600 in gold, 5000, 600 900
, III silver and about the same amount
il paper. Her silver does not drive
out gold. Our silver dollar contains
tnnre silver than theirs. b use OF
these three mediums Of exchange
creates no disorder in her financial
system. Ii France can sustain at par
with gold twice as much silver as we
do, why no follow her example? Are
they more Intelligent, industrious and
enterprising than We are? Is her ter
ritory as extensive as our, or her re-
sources so varied? Does she need as
much money as we 10? We produce
one-Jhird OF the gold and one-half of
! the silver Of the world and ought tC
possess as much ability as the French
man in regulating our own finances.
b country, because our ratio between
gold and silver, under the advice OF
: Alexander Hamilton, was Is to |
D while the ratio in the dominant com
0 mercial nations Of Europe was 154 TO
/. Gold consequently being cheaper
t here than in Europe left us Gnd Went
: there. Iu 1884 Thomas H. Benton, an
4 ornament of the Senate for thirty
= years, one OF the landmarks of this
country's genius, secured the passage
u Of the law fixing the ratio at Is to / il
order to invite gold back, and it haC
0 the desired effect.
EFFECT OF UNLOADING UPO Us THE SILL
. f OF THE
Under the free coinage system her
can be no danger of this Country be
ing deluged with the silver Of foreign
countries.
II the entire stock were unl0adeC
" here it would not amount to more thai
$50 per c. .pita, and would be hailed a.
- a blessing, not as a curse by the com
. mon people Unfortunately n
:, Country has scarcely enough fol HON,
consumption, not even the silve
e standard nations China and japan
- are the graves Of silver, 1t is swal
lowed up. buried and never leappears
What object would France have t
sind her silver here to be mihted int
IS American dollars when Is! onnce5 o
le her silver are equal to a gold dollar
d She would be forced to furnish an ad
l. ditioDal half ounce, Our ratio being l
to l, and would be a loser by the opeI
alton. The millionaire followers o
Of Mckinley who toy With the poverty Q