The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-30
BRITAIN vs.. BRITAIN DRUNK.
Appeal from the Selfish Senti.
ment of England Now Rul-
ing Our Treasury.
IDEAS OF SCHOLARS.
Morton Frewen, the Manchester
Guardian, WiIfred Lawton in the
Bankers Magazine ard Others.
England, France and Germany Only Await
the Triumph of Free Coinage in the
United States to Fall in Line for
International Bimetallism
Bryan as tho Apostle of
Universal Monetary
Reform.


Bryan tho Apostle of
Universal Monetary
Reform.
Chicago, Oct. 24.-(Special.) 1T is the
pleasure of gold advocates in America
to represent themselves as in accord
with the sentiment of the leading COM
Inercial nations Of the world. Yetevery
country now on the gold standard has,
within 1S months, taken steps in it's na-
tional legislature looking toward biz
netallism. The British house of COM
mons in March, 1895, called upon tho
Salisbury government to take steps in
the direction of bimetallism. Prince
bismarck in his famous letter to Gov.
Culberson, of Texas, assumes as mat
ter of course that the election Of Will.
;iam j. Bryan is long step in that di-
Icction. Cernuschi, the father of in
lerna ational bimetallism," expresses a
similar opinion. AS for the drift of
British sentiment generally it may To
CLEANED from the extracts which follow.
The first Of these was sent the demo-
cratic national committee by Sir More
ton Frewen, vice president of the BIZ
metallic league. 1t should also be noted
illat the agricultural interests of Eu-
rope go hand in hand with their fellows
in America in the demand for currency
reform which the republican party hao
deliberately abandoned in spite of the
pledge in it's platform.
The letter is as follows:
Senator Teller: inclose you a lead
ing article from the Manchester Guard-
ian of September 2e, the Importance Of
opinion in Engand cannot t. possibly us pfes Be
exaggerated. OF all the 81 gns Of the
times this leader is, venture to think. the
The Guardian ranks, after one London
daily only-the Daily iTelegraph-is the
emerged in England a serious political
demand for currency reform; it is the lead
ing liberal 6! organ of the north and west Of
newspaper beyond all question both of
Great Britain and of Greater Britain; for
1T is the one commercial paper which is
on lille IN every newspaper office in our
colonies and dependencies, all over the
globe.
at this remarkable change in the atti-
tude of this, the leading organ of Lam
cashire. The day previous to the st. Louis
convention, this paper would not have, a
word to say in favor Of free silver in the
United States. The change of tone re-
fleets faithfully the profound convictions
Of bimetallists, both in England and in
Europe, that the platform which you were
unable to support at st. Louis is a plat
form for gold; a platform for decreas-
ing wages; platform for diminishing
stimulate the industries Of every nation
in Asia and South America, now upon a
basis of either silver or paper, and which.
therefore, is a menace to every industry
employing white labor, between the Gold
en- Gates on the west and the Golden Horn
In the east.
II wish it were possible that this classic
in economic literature written in cold
blood BY the Manchester editor t1 could 24si+ be be
States before he casts his ballot.
'MORETON FREWEN."
Extract from the Manchester Guard
ian, dated September 3, 1896:
"sINCE THE OPENING OF THE CAM
PA1GN BETWEEN MR.. BRYAN AMI
MR. MKINLEY FOR THE PRESI
DENCY OF THE UNITED STATES, WE
HAVE TAKEN THE VIEW THAT
THE VICTORY OF Gd THE form 12t2 N
FORM WOULD BE MORE LIKE
LY TO RESULT IN THE SPEEDY AS
SEMBLING OF AN INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE FOR THE SETTLE
MENT OF THE SILVER QUESTION
THAN THE TRIUMPH OF MIR. MKIN
LEY AMI lTlE hOO1ko 1IiA1 y oAS~u
1--WE have formed this opinion not
withstandng the fact that while the
Chicago platform pronounces in favo1
of national bimetallism in the United
States without regard to the opinion
and convenience of other coun tries
the St. Louis platform expresses a de
sire to cooperate with other nation
in measures for the monetary rehabili
tation of silver. We now have the i'm
portant declaration by Prince Bis
marck that he also holds that opinion
In his extremely interesting letter t.
Mr.. Culberson, the governor of. Texas
the most redoubta ble of German chan
cellors, who was, moreover, in otiic'
at the time when Germany adopted tn
single gold standard, declares that h
has always had prediction for tn
double standard;' and he adds not onl.
that he still thinks it advisable TO see
to bring about an understanding be
tween the states, which are principal]
interested in the. worlds commerce, il
the direction of double Standard bu
that should the United States, utilizing
their greater freedom of movement il
economic matters, take an indeDenden