The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-10-23
NO O.
SILVER UTTERANeEs
TEashfal Sayings OF Patriots S.stcsass|
TpEncoats and Others

Thomas Jefferson, lSeo-I coacar
with you (Hamilton( that the unit must
stand upon both metals.
Ger. U. S. Grant, ls73-With free and
unlimited coinage Of gold and silver. We
viii clear away our public debt before
the close Of the century.
Daniel Webster, lS50-Liberty cannot
long endure in any country where the
tendency OF legislation is to conce1s
traits the wealth in the hands OF the few.
John Sherman, 1S67-A contraction Of
the volume Of money would cause @ fan
of prices, lassitude of trade. and mas
tional bankruptcy and disaster. It
would be an act Of folly, without par
sllel for evil in modern times.
Alexander Hamilton. lT91-To annuI
the use of either Of them etais as money
is to abridge the quantity OF circulas3
ing medium, and is liable 70 all the OBJ
jections which arise from a comparison
Of the benefits Of full, with the evils.
Of q scanty circulation.
Abraham Lincoln, ls64-If the govs
trnmont contracts q debt with q GER
tain amount Of money in circulation.
and then contracts the money value. bes
fore the debt is paid, it IS the most
beiROus crime that government could
commit against the people.
Daniel Webster, 1851 am clearly of
the opinion that gold and silver at thB
ratio fixed by congress constitute tbs
legal standard Of value in this country
and that neither congress nor any state
has any authority TO establish any
other standard. or 30 diEplaoe thss
standard.
Charles A. Dana, New York Sun, 1ssS
Gold has risen, so that the proper way
of expressing the truth is, to say, that
the gold dollar is worth III cents, whla.
the silver dollar remains at par. The
prompt adoption Of silver as q standard,
instead of gold, would therefore arrest
the decline in prices to q great extent,
and palliate. il It did not cure, the evil
of dull trade.
James A. Garfield, 1ssi-WhVsyer
controls the volume OF money in any.
country, IS absolute master OF all Ia
dustry and commerce. - Everyone
who is opposed to the use Of silver coin
as part of the legal currency of the coun4
try, I disagree with. Every man who Is
opposed to the actual legal use Of both
metals, disagree with. I would ems
dow the two metals with equality, and
make the coinage free.
William Pope ST. John n. A., 1921
President Mercantile bank, New York;
There can be no return to q fairly per3
manent prosperity, either for the banks
or anybody else, without the restora-
ton Of silver, because we need g 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, leades
house of commons, EDgland-Of ais
conceivable systems OF currency, that
system is assuredly the worst which
gives you a standard, steadily. continu-
ously, and indefinitely appFeciatingt
and which by that very fact throws q
burden upon every man who desires to
promote the agricultural and industrial
welfare Of his cOuntryi and benefits no
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 tbs
constitution, indeed the money Of the
American people anterior TO the cons
stitution, which the great organic law
recognized as quite independent OF ils
own existence. No power was con-
feTred on congress 10 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, am
in favor Of remonetizing it. If it's coin-
age has been prohibited, ] am in favor
Of ordering it TO be resumed. ] am in
favor Of having it enlarged.
Gen. John A. Logan. 1861, for once
can see benefit only to the money holder
and those who receive interest and have
fixed incomes. I can see as a result OF
this legislation (the withdrawal Of the
treasury notes), our business operations
crippled, and wages for labor reduced 20
a mere pittance. / can see the hopes Of
the industrious farmers blasted as they
burn corn for fuel. because its price viii
not pay the cost OF transportation, aud
dividends on millions Of dollars Of ieti-
tious stocks and bonds. I can see the
people Of our western states who are
producers, reduced to the condition ot
serfs, to pay interest on public and
private debts to the money sharks Of
Wall street, New York, and OF Threee-
needle street, in London, England.
John II. Thurston, iso3-No matter
what other governments do this ecun-
try ought not to eliminate silver from
US as a coin metal. Any legislation
IN that direction viii be looked upon by
the common people Is in the interest Of
the money power, for the express pnr-
pose Of increasing the purchasing pow
/ er Of money, and decreasing the selling
| price Of everything produced by human
toll. It Is q 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. lam profound
believer Ia the use Of both gold and 81.
yer as money. / advocate the reatora'
( ton Of free coinage before any o. those.
( who are now the sslf-elected champions
Of silver had ever opened their Ups oE
the subject
BlmsusIisu u NSt Esguciasio-.
There Is not an oulst4ndins 5casi