Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17

1t means distress and disaster, beside
which the present panic is as, a dew
drop to driving storm.
Do we want it?
We say no, and say it with all the
emphasis within our power.
Do you think we ought to fly in the
face of facts?
Facts are stubborn things.
A fact is the most difficult thing on
earth to down.
1t has the reach of a Champion Cor
bett at New Orleans.
You can't laugh it down.
You can't sneer it down.
You can't knock it down.
1t won't down.
Now, it is fact that the commerce
of the world is transacted on gold,
and not silver basis.
In the light or shadow of this fact,
it is quixotic nonsense to talk of "free
silver sixteen to one"
Foolish as for the Montana cowboy
to attempt to stop the lightning express
with his lasso.
Foolish as was Thomas Jefferson
when he Thought to conquer the crack
navies of the world with wooden gun
boats, which were to be drawn up out
of the wet, housed under sheds for
emergencies and manned by volunteers.
Atlas may stand for strength-but
only on paper and in the story books did
he ever lift the world.
What we need, in our opinion, is good
strong brake, instead of full head of
steam.
What we need, in our judgment, is
concentrated international action to
restore silver to it's full money uses.
We know of no safe way by which
silver may regain it's ancient functions
except through international agree
ment.
Germany is ready to join us. France
is ripe for dual coinage. England will
yet fall in line.
Many of her far-seeing statesmen are
advocating international bimetallism
to-day.
Mr.. Bryan says: Nonsense! We will
not wait for Europe. Let us be indie
pendent of Europe. Let us go it alone.
We will never know till we try"
Just so with smallpox and death.
We instinctively shrink from the
trial.
We cannot afford to try the expert
ment alone.
We have too much at stake.
Of course, if Great Britain, France,
Holland and Germany become con-
WINGED that the United States is bent on
without the aid or consent of any other
nation on earth, they will say amen
with JUNCTION unspeakable.
Such action on our part would relieve
the silver situation across the sea, and
render any action on the subject by Eu-
rope wholly unnecessary.
They would get our gold.
We would get their silver.
Mr.. Bryan replies: $50 be it"-even
exchange is no robbery. 1t amt even.
1t is as rocky as trading a sound
horse for spawned mule.
The fellow who gets the sound ami
NAL can afford to laugh.
While the fellow who gets the spav-
ined critter can only swear.
We are of the opinion that only as
this nation shows it's grasp and under
standing of financial problems, its de-
termination not to be caught in the free
silver ambush, or lost in the fiat money
jungle, will this question be settled
right, and the nations of the earth be
induced to enter conference in the
interests of both metals, wherein a com
pact shall be reached that will insure
the integrity and security of both gold
and silver, and impair the standing and
safety of neither.
Wise sailors will not desert the safe
channel on the invitation of silver
tongued mermaids.
Prudent generals will not order
charges at the suggestion of drummer
boys.
We will pay dearly for our lofty in
dependence and superiority to the I'M
alterable laws of finance, and a "shut
your eyes and go it blind policy" with
out the aid or consent of aRy(other ma
i.i, aaE.hsszlSh sn. II. tn: crash comes:
iron pen and indelible ink, has written
on the buttments of the Bridge over
which Mr.. Bryan and his school would
drive with such reckless rein: Danger!