The herald., 1896-09-13

Is deprecated and reduced in price.
McKinley's platform for protection and
International bimetallism is illusory
and impossible, as he well knows. AS
recently as Aug. 22d last the once vehe-
/ ment champion. Of free silver, John
field, Ohio: "The only way in which A
Republican administration can correct
the evils of the past Is by increasing
the revenue by a new tariff law, and
this, I fear. is not practicable" How
can It be with the present personnel Of
the United States senate with major
ity for free silver?" AS for the chances
for international metallism, we are
just informed by the public press that
DIR. Theodore Barth, the leader of the
Liberal party in the German richstag,
has just arrived in New York, and Is
stated to have uttered these words: Tn
ternational bimetallism has long been
discussed in Europe, but 1t will never
come to pass, I believe. England and
Germany will never consent to abandon
the gold standard, and without them
the other powers will be helpless"
There are two sermons being preach.
ed to the American people today. One
is Falsehood and the other is Truth.
Vote for the gold standard and McKin-
iey's idea Of protection next Novem-
ber and God alone knows where this
country will be in 1900.
Vote for truth, and the words con-
tained in the following statement made
by the London Financial Times will be
verified:
"There can be no doubt about it that
II the United States were to adopt sill
yer basis tomorrow, British trade would
be ruined before the year was out. Ev-
cry American would be protected not
other market. It has bee. a piece
of luck that it has never oc-
CURED to the Americans to scoop us
out of the worlds markets by going on
silver basis, and it might serve us
right if, irritated by the contemplate
apathy Of our government toward the
silver problem, the Americans retaliated
by freezing out the gold. 1t could be
done. The marvel is that the United
States has not long ago seized the OPP
portunity."
Il American farmers and producers,
these words have for you a world Of
| meaning, and tell a clearer story Of rob-
berry, oppression and wrong, by those
who reap the benefits Of the toilers of
America than any words spoken by us.
The Englishman's words are only too
true. Are you going to lose your oppor-
tunity to get even, at last?
AS the Rev. Eli Fay offered several
"Nuts for silverites to crack" I have
taken his last nut first and this is the
kernel of it.
America and Mexico are both great
agricultural countries, capable of pro-
ducing fromsits soil all that man needs
for this worlds wants.
In Mexico the tiller of the soil and the
miner work at profit.
In America each toll at a loss. AS q
natural consequence Mexico Is prosper
Gus. America is not. When the farmer
| and the miner have money to spend,
business everywhere is good. Reverse
going from bad to worse, and will con-
tinue to do so just as long as we hug
this delusion to our breasts and say,
BLESSED be the gold standard, THE
golden calf that this, the greatest and
wisest nation on earth has set up.
Mexico's laws. are framed TOR the
benefit Of her own people, not for Amer.
leans or Englishmen, or the denizens OF
Lombard and Wall streets.
When we do likewise then we wall be
prosperous, but not before.
South African Gold