Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-15

To the Editor OF the Dispatch:
Barring our friends, the seeding Demo-
Gratis and few others. tho sentiment
of this country would seem 10 be practi-
cally unanimous I'm favor OF bimetallic
money basis. This being so. II must
appear passing strange to the calmer
mind that the Republican party. with all
it's Wanted intelligence, should declare
boldly TO this great American people
that it believes in the restoration Of
silver to It's old status. but that this
government should not move in the mat
ter unless England and other mighty
monalrchies of the Old World shall say
that we may do so. In the eyes of all
plutocratic copyists OF the fads ana
fashions OF our patronizing English
cousins, IT may be as IL should be, for
us uncouth Americans TO bow and cringe
to John Bull. even in the matter Of
adjusting the fiscal system OF our callow
country 10 the financial notions OF his
Hishness under all circumstances and
on all occasions. In the eyes of those
of our American tourists, who i'm a three
acquire the pronunciation, the vocal
tone the aristocratic brusqueness OF the
proud and bury Briton, II may be the
proper thing for this people to subordi-
nate itself to that people in any and In
every way. In the eyes OF mushroom
millionaires looking for noble alliances,
though anti-Salic succession 10 monar-
chic titles. II may be eevatlng, refining,
and advancing for American ladies' TO
barter their prospective parental fortunes
for position i'm giving their hands,
without their hearts, to foreign wooers,
and thus and then lengthening and
strengthening the golden bands that bind
not the Old World to the New, but the
New World 10 the Old. II may be the
logic of the law of orders TO subject
American manhood. through American
Womanhood. to British arrogance and its
aggressive influences I'm American affairs.
In a word, the anglicized American Is
nor AT all out of his place and his role
when he confesses his inferiority TO the
foreign family Of his own race; but
whep IL is asked OF all the men Of this
American nation that they do likewise.
an insult is offered to the progenitors OF
this people, as well as 10 this generation
OF their descendants. And IT is an insult
courage and the manhood of the true
American of to-day cannot and viii not
brook
John Bull has some good points In his
nature, but generosity is not one Of his
shining virtues. He has n vast fund
OF hard, common sense. and he knows
how 10 hold his own wonderfully well.
lie Is really brave enough at heart, but,
on occasion he is the veriest swash-
buckler known to the civilized world.
His arrogance is saved from offensive
ness only by the amusement IL affords
10 sensible and educated people contem-
plating his characteristics. individually.
he IL very often found to be very good
fellow, but, collectively, there can be no
Of the fact that Mr.. Bull Is
as encroachng, as presumptuous, and as
rapacous as his own interests move him
to be and his opportunities and capaci-
ties enable him TO be. Mr.. Bull Is a
great fellow for using other men for
his own purposes and profits. He has
always been so; he was conspicuously
seen to be so when he held our Ameri-
can Cologies by the throat before George
Washington was introduced TO him as an
American gentleman not unworthy of
consideration. He is still himself. I'M
changed and interchangeable amid all the
among men and things.
And Mr.. Bull is shrewd,
cunning fellow, withal, bluff as he is.
and hearty as he may appear TO be
at times. His Highness is a chess-player
OF exceeding skill. with fine personal
qualifications for success I'm that subtle
game. The whole world is the board on
which he plays, and he uses big nations
for his big pieces and little nations for
his pawns. Just now John Bull is en-
gagged in a game with his American
IL has been quite a long game,
and ii Is drawing TO a close. Mr..
Bull plays with his usual ability but
the American cousin is forcing him TO a
checkmate fast
Dear old England" las the dainty lady
OF our own land just back again from
Europe would say iD, believes in gold as
as the Mussulman believes IN
Mahcmet. She has no silver mines to
speak Of, and she turns up her nose at
silver as a money metal, only fit for her
subjects in far-Off India, where
Tyots and rupees are inseparably asso-
ciated. Dear old England has mortgages
on many, many things in many lands.
and in many hands. She holds many
rcnds, and Shylock WAS no more usurious
AMI exacting. Gold, gold" saint-se-
duciny god"-gives the glamour that
makes her see nothing in its true light,
unless there is golden glow around It.
Dear Oh England is exercised immensely
at the present time IN contemplation OF
ocr national elections TO take place on
the I'd dag of November. In her head
and in her heart. too, she Is troubled,
lest our next administration al Washing
ton may remonetze silver. expand our
81 frsr.r
grasp Of the octopus OF monometallism,
and make all the world understand that
in fact, as well as In theory. this is a
free country. capable OF managing all
of its own affairs, financially and other
wise. without the aid or influence or
counsel or cooperation Of any other
nation on the earth.
John Bull misunderstands his Ameri-
can cousin this time. If he is laying the
JUNCTION to this soul that either
the Palmer-and- Buckner group OF gold
standard advocates, or the Republican
party, or Herr Most furnishes an APP
Proclamation to n fair representation OF
the real bmetaIlic sentiment which is
to show itself in crushing Capitalization
at the polls on the 30 OF November.
With the great bulk and body OF our
American people there IS az last thank
God, a scorn for all further dalliance
with the delusion of international
We have heard enough OF
that. and more than enough. Our people
are astonished at themselves in being
so long beguiled by the false promises
and the selfish sophisms thar have held
in allegiance their chaing spirit of re-
sistance 10 the merciless wrong perpe-
trated upon them by an American Con-
gress under British influences. by the
light of a dark lantern, nearly twenty
four years ago. At last the iron is hot,
and the Democratic party is about 70
strike The stroke will be a brave one;
and John Bull will find that his Ameri-
can cousin can no longer be bullied or