Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-13
DAVID BURR CHASE.

from reading that gentleman's article
in the Statesman.o .on the johnson mat
ter. After reading the nauseating sort
of homemade rot, with which the
Statesman's columns are so plentifully
besprinkled, II is really refreshing tf
peruse the writings OF a person who
although on the wrong side of the
case, has so much of the ability Of a
skillful special pleader. He has brain
and knowledge enough TO back up
some Of his theories with facts and
statistics, we'll knowing that any,pro'
position can be proven by statistics.
In fine, Mr.. MOoTes is no Sardine.
Now let us take partial review of
his article. or course he INDUCES in
the usual rldicule OF these misguided
mortals who are unable to believe that
the Wilson tariff bill is responsible for
all the decline in the price Of wheat,
but we are used to all that. Then he
repeats the charge that we "garble"
the utterances of Blaine and Carlisle,
because we do not give certified copy
of all proceedings Of congress when
ever we quote from one Of their old
speeches. AT the same time he can
not deny the main fact, which Is all
we claim, that Blaine and Carlisle
both did in 1878. .denounce the demone-
tization Of silver In the strongest
terms.
Mr.. Moores himself quotes Blaine as
saying that the action, with ourselves,
of Germany and the Latin union in
demonetizing silver had "been the
leading and dominant cause for the
rapid decline in the price Of silver"
That Is one Of our fundamental argu-
ments-that the demonetization Of
silver has been the cause Of its decline
In price as measured In gold, and 1t is
one OF the goldites most strenuously
deny. Thank you, Mr.. :MoOres! He also
quotes Mr.. Soetbeer as testifylng to
the rise In the value Of gold. That is
another Of our facts which the goldite
deny. Thank you again, Mr.. Mooresl
However, he is unfair in saying that
the silver men won't have an inter-
national agreement" for we would be
glad TO have IL, and will have IL much
sooner than would the Republican
gang Of goldbugs with all their
pledges; but we don't propose TO sit
down and patiently wait on England,
for we have sense enough 10 know that
she will never consent or allow IL as
long as she can prevent II. England,
being the creditor nation of the world,
has everything TO gam by the worlds
and retention OF the single
gold standard, and England has never
been Justly accused OF being any
eleemosynary idiot asylum; but she
can neither bulldoZe nor bamboozle
the United States, a debtor nation,
into playing into her hands much
longer, IL is positively amusing, in
this connection, TO see Mr.. Moores
quoting that England is today enjoy
ing san expanding trade,a marked de-
crease In the volume Of commercial
failures, and buoyancy In the stock
exchange" Truly, the Republicans
are making the uttera.ce OF the
British journals do double duty. MIR.
Moores uses IL 10 show what the gold
standard will do for a country, while
his colleagues use II to show how the
iniquitous Wilson bill Is enrching
England at our expense. Surely MIR.
Moores forgets the Wilson bill when
he tells US that, "hard as times are to-
day every one familiar with our ma
tlonal history knows that at various
periods In the past they have been a
great deal worse.n
In this line Mr., Moores arrives at
two widely varying conclusions. He
tells us; EARN products today will
buy twice as many OF the necessities
OF life as they would in 1910 under
free coinage, and one days labor will
buy twice as much" On the prlnci-
pie that things which are equal to the
same thing are equal TO each other
this shows that one days labor must
buy the same amount OF farm prod