The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-06
THE CURRENCY QUESTION.
Silver Men Conspiring Against the Finar
cial Honor of the Country

Silver Men Conspiring Against the Finan-
Cial Honor of the Country.
To the Editor Of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
A declaration by the Democratic
party for free silver will be the most
serious event which has happened in
the history of the country since the
bombardment of Fort Sumter. A dec
laration against the financial faith and
honor of the country is as reasonable
as a declaration against the country's
unity. That any Intelligent person
should consider the free coinage Of sill
yer right and just, Is not to be enter
tanned. Silver men are divided into
scoundrels, their hired agents and their
weak-minded victims. The latter
would not be dangerous were the other
two incarcerated. Any man may be-
lieve a lie who chooses to do so and
sets himself about it. So long as he
keeps the lie to himself he is compar-
atively harmless and may be left alone.
The instant he begins to preach a lie
against his country and to persuade ig-
norant men to act on the lie, the riot
act should be read and the militia CALI
ed out. EVIL movements gather force
and lose self-control every moment
they are permitted to exist. No at
tempt should be made to compromise
with public villainy. Altgeld and his
gang are in principle high-wayrobbers.
They have declared their intention Of
looting the people Of the United States,
They should be arrested and imprisoned
as plotters against the sovereignty of
the nation. Under every government
there is limit to freedom of speech
and freedom Of action. Inciting, con-
spring and plotting public plumber is
way beyond the limit and should be
met by immediate and authoritative
force.
The silver dollar weighs q little less
than an ounce. With silver at seventy
cents an ounce, the silver dollar is
worth about sixty-five cents. The sill
yer production of the United States Is
in round numbers about fifty-five mill
| lion ounces a year, worth about thirty
five million dollars If silver were at
the par value with gold of sixteen to one
| fifty-five million ounces of silver would
be worth about sixty million dol
lars. The silver people, in plain lam
guage, propose that the people of the
| United States shall pay them the diff
| ference, that Is at least twenty-five mil
| lion dollars, a year. Their methods are
| immaterial There are many ways of
robbing. The method does not alter
| the crime nor affect the crirninality.
How much larger would be the plum
der were all abandoned mines worked,
can. only be conjectured.
For the purpose Of gaining at least
| twenty-five millions year, and prob
ably several times that amount, how
much are bold and INSCRIPTIONS men,
men without conscience or patriotism
willing to put up? Ten millions is a
small sum with which to secure sc
grand bootyl How many Altgelds
| how many venal senators and con-
gressmen, how many sordid writer's
how many needy voters, can be bought
and delivered for tenth of the sum!
Apart from the direct purchasing OF
supporters, the silver men are pratine
false and delusive doctrines; and weak
minded eastern men are offering COM
promises. Every compromise is par
ticipation of villainy. Every compro-
miser is a compounder of felony. BIZ
metallism is mathematical and a
scientific impossibiIity. There can be
but one dollar, one yard stick, one pint
measure. The silver dollar to become
a legal tender must contain a gold dol
lars worth of silver. Only by intent
and for purposes Of deception can com
mon sense and thesfundamental princi-
pies of financial honesty be ignored.