The herald., 1896-07-04


Senator TeiIer's silver Party
Editor Herald: An editorial in the San
Francisco Argonaut arraigns senator
Tellers boiling silver party" for treason.
The arguments and conclusions are so
one-sided, unjust and even Incorporate.
that the necessity arises to refute ITS as
sertions and conclusions. not in bitter
partisan spirit. but in calm, MID,
Christian-like manner. putting here and
there a question, which in itself may be
worth more than dozen assertions.
1.-THE motives which actuated the sill
yer boilers are not noble ones. {.
Upon what is Senator Teller's boiling
silver party founded but upon the love
of money!" What right has the Argo-
naut to question motives? Have you
patent on patriotism? Are you all-see-
ing, allknowing? Can you read the
minds, the hearts of men? Who hatn
set thee up as judge of thy brethren?
Do you presume to judge on the strength
of your perspicacity and your knowl-
edge and insight of men and conditions?
If so, you prove the truism about the
procession of dangerous things.
Blindness or -sightedness. ike
incapacity to grasp the meaning and
true inwardness of men and measures
are regrettable weaknesses, and those
afflicted with these defects ought to be
chary with their judgment, more SO
with printers ink. The Argonaut. like
many other gold papers" cannot, or
will not. perceive that there is great
moral prime iple underlying this bolt.
1t is not simply question to force
eel aif 70
than they think it worth"-and more
of this kind of twaddle. Does the Argo-
naut really believe the so-called silver
men so stupid as to intend to try and
hope to force by law the establishment
of a fixed value of any product what
ever? Such an assertion is false ISSUE
Thanks for such a compliment!
With Lincoln we affirm that the bat
tie of freedom independence is one to
be fought out on principle. We have
temporized with slavery (subserVlency
to the golden moloch) from the necessl-
ties of our condition, but that black, toul
lie can never be consecrated into God 5
hallowed truth The repeal of the
coinage or currency law in 1873 has in
stalled the weapons of foreclosures and
sheriffs' sales, We see its fruits in bank
ruptcies. in impoverished farmers, in de-
Gazing industries, in mortSaged homes,
in countless tramps. in closed mills ana
mines in numberlesS felloW-beingS Nv
ing or rather existing, from mana TO
mouth, not few of them contendlng on
refuse heaps with dogs for the rem
nants of rich mems kitchens; we see IL
in starving children and women, and in
suicides. We see its fruits in the sense
less luXuries of many millionaires, whose
mental efforts seem mostly directed to-
wards the discovery of new avenues Oh
useless expenditures, be it for horses
palaces, women or whatsoever ticliles
their fancy.
Yea. it was at that memorable meet
ing of the ST. Louis Republican conNen-
ton in 1896 that the advance OF NOUS
trial slavery upon American soil ana on
American citizens was checked. Many
attempts had been made before, in and
outside the halls of legislation, to check
the advance of the British gold dragon,
devouring the living and the dead,
monster that came in the CARP Oh
helper, sustainer, friend Win u
smile. and a blarney-like blood is
thicker than water" Our foremost
men. Lincoln at their head, warned us
without avail-and now we have to face
a storm. worse than the one in 1861. Let
the cause of the people triumph in NO
vember, and soon shall we see and feel
the claws of the lion-and it behooVeS
us to prepare for 1t.
In the hearts or the men ana WOILeH
who are founding the Independence
party in 1896 shall be pure love of coun-
try and of every mothers child in 1t, an
intense love of total independence from
any and all dictation, come it in the garb
of monometallism from British shores
or from home traitors. Yea, there exists
in the hearts of the masses, of the COM
mon people, who are the mainstay of our
country. an indomitable determination
to break the letters, these golden
shackles. and to prohibit in future all
interference of any kind of power for
eign or domestic, with the internal az
fairs concerning our national welfare.
Let it be called "a sordid determination
to sell an ounce of silver for dollar,
instead of for 80 cents"-a silly state
ment. acquiring fictitions force merely
by constant reiteration.
The great question resolves itself now
into a battle for complete independence
OF any foreign money power, OF courage
Gus rejection of any kind of dictation,
including particularly our currency
question, and of defense of the homes
of our fellow citizens against the machl-
nations Of Shylocks, foreign or domestic
or-more and more subserviency to the
golden calf, more and more loss of ma
terial benefits, of self-respect and of
American manhood.
Men of 1896, you will have to choose be-
tween America and Great Britain.
Let every voter know this issue and
freedom S battle is won.
THEO. G. ED. WOLLEB.