The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-06-27
A LARGE MANUFACTURER.
He Is For Silver and Shows Up the Real
Dishonesty In the Currency Issue.

He Is For Silver and shows Up the Real
Dishonesty I'm the Currency Issue.
One of the foremost citizens and cap
ltalists of the Champion City is Hon.
John W. BoOkWaltcr. He is vastly
wealthy and a header in manufacturing
i'll this great community Of manufao-
thrers, owning and operating great ma
chinery shops, employing thousands of
hands and possessing large Investments
i'll real estate and other enterprises. He
may safely be placed i'll the category of
millionaire manufacturers. Yet it would
be hard to find a man who is more ar
IDENTIFY devoted TO the cause of silver than
this successful millionaire manufactur-
er. Mr.. Bookwalter is a well known
globe trOttcr, and has made an investi-
CATION of the commercial and financial
conditions i'll almost every known coun-
try on the great, round earth. No MAJ
is better versed in practical political.
economy than he. and when he gives
expression to any set of views they are
worthy of consideration.
Il suppose Wall street will make an
other attempt to bulldoze the Democracy
OF Ohio on the financial question, " was
the terse and vigorous fashion in which
Mr.. John w. Bookwalter opened up on
the silver question.
Il was i'll New York last wear when
they sent out IL man stepped up to the
ears i'll wild and dangerous speculation
and whose every business act for wears
has been far from proper to teach the
doctrine of sound and honest currency
to the people of this state. Just think
of it-a wild cat Spectator teaching
ound money. When he succeeded in
having the miserable Straddlc of 1892
adopted Iy tn" convention the Wall
street agents th"t sent him out clapped
their hands and said That's good!
Ohio, thank God, Is for honest money
Yes, they have declared for it,,
said |, but mark my words. the Democ-
racy will be fairly wiped out of exist.
ence.'
Il I'M for free silver. and am willing
to II every effort on my part 10 fur
Their the cause. isvek no political prefer
ment mvsclf-wNuldn't touch Il position
of any kind-hut | stand ready and will
ing to help any MAJ who is for silver.
l say to you that the country stands in
"A most perilous condition. because of
the danger of Il single gold standard.
The consequences are fearful even to
They talk of English gold
having been poured into this country to
free trade. If free trade was to
England's interests the gold standard is
UNNECESSARILY much 50. and she could
afford tn send far more to bring about
a result, If any is to be- r was ever
sent. Take the writers ana authorities
III economies of Europe and you will
earn that gold has appreciated from %
70 40 per cent in the last 20 yoars. That
us to a point that should he well !
Inculcated into the mind Of every voter. !
1.-The charge is made that the friends
IF silver arc DESTROYS of rcpudiatingthcir
obllgatlons-they want to pay 100 cents
Of debt with a - cent dollar. This is
an insult to every mans manhood. and
many are deceived. Now, | do not ac-
cept any such statement. No honest man
desires to do any such thing. He wants
to pay III the same money tor which the
was contracted. England has many
obl1gatlons incurred at the timri in mixed
silver, paper and even fiat {
money. If she can be repaid in gold
only, the dearest of all, will not her OBJ
legations be enhanced that much? No.
the dishonesty IS all on the other
side, II morals are to figure III this qucs.
ton. The creditor class is ~cndcayoriug
TO get 10 cents OF more for every 100
cents worth of obligations it holds, and
they will admit that this is truo.
dishonest themselves, they CHARGE
theft against others. In this question it
is the east against the west and south.
FOR the east is using the same policy
against its creditors that England is
using against the whole country. The
conflict Is as ilreprrssiblc as was that
slavery, and thc outcome will
be the emancipation Of silver
(O.) Cor. Cincinnati En-
unirer.