The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-04

.srsy or low tariff on the prosperity OF
the country. and they began 20 icoz FOR
another and a deeper cause IL was
rnade plain 10 .hem ny tire debate n me
Brussels conference IN Iscs that the de-
preston commenced in fS-S. the year max
silver was demoneelzed by the silver usln :
nations OF Europe and the United States
TIE Judge didn.t offer 20 say how many
OF The farmers had read the report or the
Brussels conference. but he seemed %
think they knew all about il. ana con-
sinusd.
The depression continued year by year
from that tine. and has Eow reached a
poin. where all classes OF farm products
are from - 70 20 per cent less valuable
and justly. I think. concluded that they
had found The moving ard efficient cause
a. the prese7. depressed condition which
prevails IN the country
They do not believe that over-pro3uc-
ton has brought about the result, as Is
claimed by MANY. because statistics show
that while production increased . SIC per
cent. per annnm in the period between $50
and 1873. thew have only increased 6-10 per
cert per aneum since 1916
The people OF Eastern Washington
think X folly 20 wait longer N hope for an
international agreement. but think that the
people OF the United States ought 20 COM
mence AT once 10 work out their own sal
walton"
Here the Judge returned again 20 the
Brussels conference and got in a conplf-
ment for the free silver representatives
from America by saying; 1T was the
opinion of one or more OF the most eminent
delegates 20 the Brussels conference that
the United States alone and singie-handed
couid maintain the parity between gold
and silver. and when II is found that near
" all the silver in the world Is already
coined at parity which makes silver more
valuable than the ratio OF Is 70 would
make IL, and that all that this country
would have 20 do under free coinage would
be II take care OF the excess over and
above that used in the Industrial arts. 7
confess that am OF the opinion, as It Is
OF majority OF the people Of Eastern
Washington. that the United States could
successfully undertake and carry through
the task of free coinage. Even II il should
undertake free coinage and fail. am I'M
able 70 appreciate the force of the uredic-
tons OF dire disaster which we hear from
the advocates OF the gold standard
There IS no doubt tina. the gold and
lega! tender notes are practically retired
from circulation east of the Mississippi
river and the active business Of the coun-
try is now being done oy the limited sill
yer dollars in circulation and the silver
source that I consider authentic. II
this be true free coinage OF silver would
not contract cur currency. on the contrary
1; would enormously expand IL az once.
iaasnuch as il would instantly release
the si50. 10000 in legal tender notes which
are now boarded for the purpose of TAX
Ing gold out of the treasury.
1T would also instantly and immediate
~ double the value Of al the agricultural
manufacturing and extractive products
OF the state OF Washington The result
would certainly not be injurious 10 the
people of the West. however Il might
operate upon annuitants. pensioners and
those having fixed incomes. and as be-
tween the latter class and the farmers
and manufacturers of the country think
the latter are TO be preferred and most
considered when We are fixing the mon
etary policy OF the country. think that
the people OF Eastern Washington share
so largely IN these views that Il will
render the election of the silver state and
electoral ticket almost certain
The judge seemed 20 be loaded with
silver and little else. He did not express
any rernorse at having practically left the
party with which he had been associated
and which had honored him in the past
and II Is safe 20 say that. unlike Senator
Teller. he did not shed tears when he
pulled UP stakes. He did not speak a.
length as 70 JUST what the new fourth
party In this state would do. for the rea-
son possibly that Il has not yet been de-
termined. He would not say what his
political aspirations are, If he has any.
but from the genera, drift OF his remarks
ii is easy 10 see that he has pat a gulf
between himself and the Republican party
that viii prevent his ever posing as the
candidate OF that party.
Judge Turner will return TO Eastern
Washington this week and expects 10
give some time 10 the campaign.