River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-09-10
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The following is from the editorial
columns of the Chicago Times Her
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mo silver standard country has
any gold in its currency.
Every gold standard country has
silver in its currency. There is no
such thing as a concurrent circula-
tion of the two metals on equal terms
at the minis.
where silver is the standard gold
will not run.
Where gold is the standard silver
runs co-ordinately in limited coinage
only.
Mexico, q silver standard country,
has no gold.
Japan, silver standard country,
with 100000 people, has no gold.
India, with its 100000, 900 Of people,
has no gold. China, with its 100000
900 OF people, has no gold.
''On the other hand, Germany, with
81, 100000 of people, carries full legal
tender silver to the amount of $780,
600 100. Belgium, with its 5000, 900
of people, has full legal tender silver
to the amount of $4,000, 600. Swift
erland, with 100000 of people and
sl4, 900 in gold, has legal tender
silver to the amount of $l0,000,000.
France has full legal tender silver ex-
ceeding $4,000, 900. The United
States, with 70,OOO,0O0 of people, has
more than $500, 1000, 900 full legal ten
der silver.
mo country on the gold standard
opens its minis to the unlimited coin
age of silver. That is the reason sill
yer is current in those countries as
full legal tender with gold.
"Will the American people retain
their silver at its present valuation of
100 cents on the dollar, or, abandon
ing the only practical system of BIZ
metallism, will they sacrifice all their
gold and go down to the level of China,
India, Japan and Mexico?"
Much as we deprecate the wanton-
ness of young Musgrove and Cinqmars
who murdered Sheriff Rogers of
Glencoe, Mimi, last June, and much
as we may regret the light verdict
that a lawyers eloquenoe secured for
them, we cannot help bringing down
the weight of condemnation with
heavier and keener blows upon the
heads of the twenty-five or more
citizens who lynched them. For a
brace of vagabonds to shoot down a
county officer is a grave otfense; but
the courts have a penalty to apply,
and the law of the land suffers no
rebuke. But for a body of citizens,
belonging to an organized factor of
the commonwealth, to deliberately
break into public Jail and presume
to do justice by INJECTING upon the
prisoners a punishment which the
courts of justice had decided too
severe for them, TO leave them dang
ling by the neck before the eyes Of an
innocent community, brings upon
those citizens and that commonwealth
stigma of lawlessness which years of
peace and freedom from crime cannot
avail to erase. Just such examples of
violence as this, arouse against us
the prejudice of the East, and fill the
eyes OF the old world with suspicion.
1t is time the West learned the virtue
of restraint.
1t becomes necessary every now and
then, says the Peoria Herald, to re-
mind some silver paper that France
is not silver country. France is one
of the soundest gold standard coun-
tries in the world. With less BUSH
ness than England, France has nearly
$500, 900. 600 of gold more than Eng
land has. In France silver coinage is
limited and is maintained at a parity
with gold by the government.
The American Protective Tariff
League has just issued document No.
SO, THE Tariff, which gives extracts,
in parallel columns, from the speeches
Of Hon. w. ]. BRYAN and Hon. Will
liam Mckinley. This document
should be read by every voter. Adj
dress, w. f. Wakeman. General Sec
rotary. l35 w. sd Street, New York.