Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-29
THURSDAY EVENING. OCT. %, 1856

q finish of you," the republicans inform
us that a large majority of the college
students are opposed to free coinage.
That a majority of these youngsters,
whose ages run all the way from Is to
% are that way of thinking may be so.
We should infer that at Yale University
there was quite a preponderance of
gold standard sentiment. So decided
were their economic opinions that a
regular organization was made to howl
down Mr.. Bryan and prevent a crowd
of 10000 persons from hearing him
speak. This zeal was effective and was
not seriously disapproved by the COL
lege professors. yThe incident must
have been highly gratifying to the rich
parents of these young men. How could
they give a uobler proof of their devo-
ton to the cause of Sound money" or
illustrate better the morals and man
ners of the American plutocracy OF to-
day? What right had the laborers and
plain people of New Haven to hold a
meeting and hear Mr.. Bryan, if these
Young codlings chose to prevent Ii?
True. Mr.. Bryan is reputed an elo-
uuent man, but a Yale howl is far more
eloquent and effective. From such
Young men and such a university great
things may be expected in the future
for this country. Other colleges have
not gone quite as far as Yale, but many
not all of their young men who are
also the sons or the rich %parvenue class
of this country sympathize with what
was done by Yale at New Haven. The
hoodlum knows his brother hoodlum
by q generous instinct, and next to
crawling before an Englishman's feet
ne is ready to stand by his kind. 1t
goes without saying that next to the
small class of m~illionaires, bondholders
and the money-lending class Of the
United States, the persons best quail
fed to understand the silver question
are the college students. Many of them
have rich fathers, from whom they in
herit great financial talent. Then,
again, sill their time not given to g few
p~erfunctory studies and football and
their clothes, is VIGOROUSLY expended
upon the study of the money question.
The midnight oil is burned regardless
OF expense. This question may indeed
come home to the farmer, struggling
how to meet a mortgage and support a
family upon steadily declining prices;
and it may also concern the laborer
who is thrown out OF employment BY an
arrest of production; but Of course
these erudite ~collegians who toll not
and spin not, but live on the earnings
OF others, are the Judges whose decision,
added to that of the plutocracy and the
snobocracy, and reinforced by England,
ought to settle the money question
finally and forever. We are told that
their dic.um is for gold. Laborers and
farmers please make a note of this when
YOU come to vote next Tuesday. This
decision bears rather hard on many OF
the great thinkers of the world who
have been bimetsllists, and upon those
whose works are relied on for authority
by the bimetallist speakers of to-day.
We feel sorry for Alexander Hamilton,
Thomas Jefferson, Robert NJ. T. Hun
ter, VIM. II. Crawford, Robert Morris,
Allen G.. Thurman, James B. Bell,
Thomas A. Hendricks, James G. Blaine,
Locke, David Hume, Balfour, Cheva-
lier, Wolonski, Cernuschi, Leon, Eau
Chef, Baron Rotbschild, Prot. Laveleye,
Arendt, Bismarck, Professor Andrews,
Stanley Matthews, Daniel Webster,
Henry Clay, John c. Calhoun, Prof.
Walker, Gosehin, Frewen, D'Israeli,
Archbishop Walsh, John T. Morgan,
Geo. G.. Vest, John P. Jones, David
Turpie and Henry NJ. Teller. All these
men are very we'll in their way, but
they did not have the aid of a Yale
course OF study, save Mr.. Calhoun, who
though a Yale student wandered off as
a Senator into bimetallic paths of error.
Considering college diction, we are
bound to grieve also for divers and sun
dry gentlemen rebuked by it though
now helping on the gold cause, but
whose records are somewhat disigured
by past alterations to bimetallism.
There is Mckinley who voted outright
for free coinage and stuck to it till 1891;
John G. Carlisle, who did the same
thing, Secretaries Herbert and Wilson,
Senator Palmer, Mr.. Bynum, Bob In
sersoll and brave Ben Butterworth, not
to mention Senator Lodge, e~x'Speaker
Reed, Roswell P. Flower, and a num-
Der of others who have lent considera-
BILE countenance to the silver heresy. OF
course, if these men could have fore
seen the stand that Yale was going to
take, they would have been much more
careful. 1t happens, however, that the
plutocracy are not yet masters of this