The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-09-11

cotaining four hundred twelve
NAH grams each Of standard silver
ano that 70 restore Its coinspe anal,
silver coins AS a legal tender In nav.
ihent OF SAID bonds, principal aud
INTEREST," Is not Ia violation OF ths
pubic iaith, nor In derog ton OF the
rights of the pubic crsditor"
Among those Who voted for tha.
resolution WAS Charles Foster ~
ONO, afterwards secretary ~ tha
treasury under General Hsrr,son
and the honorable William McK
ley, now a candidate for the nrasr
dency on platform which decIs rss
that to pay those bonds Ia nnythinv
bur gold IL dishonor to she nation
and would be an act OF bad faith 10.
ward those who bought the bonds.
But let us see who are dishonorable
In this contention. The gold GER
tiiicates issued by the gov ernmmt
are made payable In gold, the con-
tract so expresses II. Did you ever
hear "a double standard man advocate
their payment In any other metal?
No, sir; aud to do so would be dis-
honorable. Howis 1t with all the
other bonded obligations? They are
not payable IN goldr they are pay
able In coin II you will 20 TO your
dictionary you will find coin defined
To mean both gold and silver. tits
only these modern political Noah
Webster's that define IL TO mean
gold alone. And the very fact that
one set OF obligations are made pay.
able In gold and the other class In
coin, shows that tlsxgovernment re-
cognized a differehte. Not only so,
hut we have had an object lesson
during the past year. Mr.. Cleveland
was about to Issue and put upon the
market fifty millions Of bonds with
which to purchase gold. He sent q
message to congress informing them
that IL they would so legislate that
the secretary would he authorized to
insert In the bonds the word gold
instead OF the word coin, he could
save to the nation sixteen millions OF
dollars. This was refused the bonds
were made payable in coin, and sold
to bank syndicate as coin bopds,
bearing one per cent. more inter ,st
than the offer II the word gold had
ton sixteen millions of dollars. Not
bonds did IL with as full q knowledge
sifot thoy WVfE uVt kpiu POnuS dS NIju
the government mt Itself, and only paid
a coin price for them. Yet, strange
as II may appear, the same men who
were then in congress meet in St.
Louis and resolve that those very
bonds are pay able In gold. II they
are payable In gold why did they
not say 50 when Mr.. Cleveland
asked them to allow the word gold
written on them and save the HOv-
ernEent sixteen millions of money?
this was either q deiib.
crate attempt on the part Of congress
to assist this syndicate to steal elk
teen millions Of d0l!ars, or IL was an
honest constr uction of the word coin
In the bond rs meaning both gold aud
silver. Which II was leave you 10
determin. AS have said, all these /,
obligations, except The gold certifi-
Gates are payable In coin; they were
sold ny the governments with that :.
they were purcha sed ~
by the bond holuers with that uu- y
iersta ndIng, aud Is plainly written
in the bond itself. Ii this be true,
II the dish0nOr on the part Of
government In paying in either
gold or silver AS IT may elect? 1t
" nothing but common honesty that
he option should be with the gov
srnment as to which meesl sne
'hould pay in. IL should give you
ny note due phs LIST Of september
or 500. payable IN wheat or corn. am
= dIshonorabie man,if when tn note
alls due, elect to pay In corn? III
IN correct IN this timing, how stands
he question Of honor on the part Of
hose who purchased these bonds
nd those who contend now that they
ire payable in gold alone? Dishon.
liable indeed-how these people ao-
'ocate the cause Of the bend pur-
haser, how soiicitous they seem lest
he government should not treat
hem fairly-say, you need shed no
ears over the cause of the money
harks and bond holders. When the
var was over we bad an immense
det7. Congress passed an
CT converting It Into q coin debt
nd made IL pay able In gold or silver.
he bonds representing that debt
we're brought by these money sharks
With paper money worth less than
ixty cents on tne dollar as IN ensured
y gold. Here was q little profit
altered In by them OF many, many
billions Of dollars. The government
vas just as solvent then as she Is to-
ay ;yet she Uttered q shave Of over
srty per cent. In favor Of Wall street
nd Lombard street
The next move these politicians
lade at the bidding OF the money
over was to drop out Of the coinage
CT the silver dollar AS the unit of
alue. This was done at about III
clock at night, and without the
nowledge Of many Of our represen-
atives. Mr.. Garfield testified that
Q bad no knowledge that there was
nch change made by the bill. Mr..
Iolman ms recently said that the
i'll passed about midnight, with lit
q or no attentisn being paid to it;
ut that he (Holman) asked the geu-
eman from Massac h ussetts IL the
i'll In any wise changed the rela-
ons OF silver, aud he answered that
did not. Fit time, indeed, for the
Of 50 fouLa conspiracy
gainst the people. Not much was
lid about 1t, bu, there was trouble
! the finances, "A nd anxious inquiries
ere being made.
Having now prepared the way (by
ropping out the silver az the unit
value) to clai that there vas 60