The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-10-23
SILVER UTTERANCES.
Truthful Sayings of Patriots, Statesmen,
Turncoata and Others.

unlimited coinage OF gold and silver, we
will clear away our public debt before
the close of the century.
Daniel Webster, 1S50-Liberty cannot
long endure in any country where the
tendency of legislation is to concen-
tTate the wealth in the hands of the few.
John Sherman, 1S67-A contraction OF
the volume of money would cause a fall
of prices, lassitude of trade, and ma
tional bankruptcy and disaster. 1t
would be an act of folly, without par
allcl for evil in modern times.
Alexander Hamilton, 1791-To annul
the use of either of the metals as money
is to abridge the quantity of circulat-
ing medium, and is liable to all the OBJ
jections which arise from a comparison
of the benefits of full. with the evils
Of scanty circulation.
Abraham Lincoln. 1S64-If the gov
trnmcnt contracts Il debt with a GER
tain amount of money in circulation,
and then contracts the money value, be-
fore the debt is paid, it is the most
helnous crime that a government could
commit against the people.
Daniel Webster, 1851 am clearly of
the opinion that gold and silver at the
ratio fixed by congress constitute the
legal standard of value in this country,
and that neither congress nor any state
has any authority to establish any
other standard, or to displace this
standard.
Charles \. Dana, New York Sun, 1855
Gold has risen, so that the proper way
of expressing the truth is, to say, that
the gold dollar is worth III cents, while
the silver dollar remains at par. The
prompt adoption of silver as standard,
instead of gold, would therefore arrest
the decline in prices to a great extent,
and palliate, if it did not cure, the evil
of dull trade.
James \. Garfield, 1sS1-Whoever
controls the volume of money in any
country, is absolute master of all in.
dustry and commerce. Everyone
who is opposed to the use of silver coin
as part of the legal currency of the coun.
try, disagree with. Every man who is
opposed to the actual legal use of both
metals, 1 disagree with. 1 would en-
dow the two metals with equality, and
make the coinage free.
William Pope ST. John NJ. A., 1892,
President Mercantile bank, New York
There can be no return to fairly per.
manent prosperity, either for the banks
or anybody else. without the restora.
ton of silver, because we need a grow.
ing volume of money along with the
growing volume of everything else.
Prosperity must begin at its foundation
head. in order to be continuous, namely.
with our producers, primarily with the
tillers of the sell.
A. j. Balfour, London, 1896, leader
house of commons, England-Of ali
conceivable systems of currency, that
system is assuredly the worst which
gives you a standard, steadily, continue
ously, and indefinitely approaching;
and which by that very fact throws
burden upon every man who desires to
promote the agricultural and industrial!
welfare of his country; and benefits nc
human being whatever, except the own
ers of fixed debts in gold.
James G. Blaine, 1851 believe gold
and silver coin to be the money of the
constitution, indeed the money of the
American people anterior to the con.
stitution, which the great organic law
recognized as quite independent of its
own existence No power was con-
ferred on congress to declare either
metal should not be money. Congress
therefore, in my Judgment, has no
power to demonetiZe either. If, there.
fore, silver has been demonetized, I am
in favor of remonetizing it. If its coin
age has been prohibited, l am in favor
of ordering it to be resumed. 1 am in
favor of having it enlarged.
Gen. John a. Logan, 1861, for one. |
can see benefit only to the money holder |
and those who receive interest and have
fixed incomes. l can see as a result of
this Legislation (the withdrawal of the |
treasury notes., our business operations |
crippled, and wages for labor reduced to |
a mere pittance. | can see the hopes OF
the Industrious farmers blasted as they |
burn corn for fuel, because its price will !
not pay the cost of transportation. and
dividends on millions of dollars of ficti
tious stocks and bonds. | can see the
people of our western states who arc
producers, reduced to the condition o! .
serfs, to pay interest on public and I
private debts to the money sharks OF
Wall street, New York, and of Thread.
needle street, in London, England.
John NJ. Thurston, 1S93-No matter
what other governments do this coun-
try ought not to eliminate silver from
us as a coin metal. Any legislation
in that direction will be looked upon by
the common people as in the interest Of
the money power, for the express pur-
pose of increasing the purchasing pow
er of money, and decreasing the selling
price of everything produced by human
toll. 1t is 4 fact, which should not be
overlooked by statesmen, that the price
of American silver, and the price OF
American wheat, reached low water
mark on the same day. am profound
believer in the use of both gold and sill
YER as money. / advocate the restora-
ton of free coinage before any of those,
who are now tine self-elected champions ,
Of silver had ever opened their lips on
the subject.
Labor Crucifed.
If the single gold standard can be
forced upon South America and Asia. !
is it has been since 1873 forced on
North America and Europe, gold must
appreciate to at least four !
times its present absurd value, or to !
put it otherwise, commodities must de- :
cline to one-fourth of the present price.
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