The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-30
c. E. Trescott, Publisher.

OF the Helena lnuepenueht WflteS
the following interesting gossip
Senator Carter:
Senator Carter's position on the
silver question was left in an un-
equivocal state after his declara-
tion in the republican caucus. He
made his declaration so plain that
none of the senators misunderstood
him. Some days after a man who
had some DOUBT as to the position
which Senator Carter had taken
asked him about it.
"There can be no doubt about
my position" said the senator in
reply to the inquiry. 81 am for
the free and unlimited coinage of
silver and will do all | can to Sc
cure the nomination of q republi-
can. .who is friendly to silver. By
friendly I mean a man who will not
only talk silver, but will sign a
silver bill. l think that great
many of the candidates are afraid
of the silver issue. A great many
believe that the United States can
not sustain free coinage by itself
alone, and are talking about an
International agreement.
''What do you think about it,
yourself" asked a man who was
listening to the Montana senator.
"My judgment is" said Mr.
Carter, weighing his words with
care, "that the next congress will
enact a tariff bill which will pro
vide that the gold standard covn-
tries shall pay their imports in
gold and that the silver countries
may pay their imports in silver at
the coinage value at cur mints. 1t
would mean that. we would accept
the silver of the countries using
silver at the market value and coin
it for our own purposes"
Do you think that would.be sat
isfactory? he was asked.
1t would make New York the
clearing house of the world in
stead Of London, he responded.
Mr.. Carter drew circle on {
piece of paper. He drew arothe'
one fourth the size.
Here, he said, pointing to the
larger. are four fifths of the people
of the world using silver and arr
on silver basis. We, with IN
limited capacity for production
are trying to keep up with th'
nations in that one>fifth, and th'
burden is too much for us.
In one point of the small circl
he made a pencil point.
Here is England, he said, tn
creditor nation of the world, con
trolling one-tifth because she ha
power, through the gold standard
aud with the1 one-ii th dong tn
business of the remaining four
fifths. If we want to sell ploN
to some point in South America
we send it first to England in a
English bottom, and it is sent t
South America in an Englis
bottom. England is the clearin
house for the whole world, and sh
gets rake off on every bushes
deal made in the world. If W
should cut loose from her we migt
do large share of it.
The trouble is, continued th
senator, that we are just now d.
voting too much talk to the meat
of commerce and forgetting a
about the commerce itself. W
are devoting all our time to tt
simple medium of exchange, tt
money, and not enough to the re
article in which the riches of tt
country lie. If we should secu
the commerce of great portion
h the silver standard countries v
would not need to bother ourselv,
whether we were upon gold
silver basis. The prosperity
the country would be so great tn
the question of the kind of mon'
that was our standard of val
would not be considered 1t wou
be of small Importance so long
was stable and sound.
9 The man who had questioned N
Carter remarked afterwards th
m enhancement of cuob lido