The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-30
INTERNATIONAL" RAsCAL1rY.

TO say that the Eagle is not alone, is
not in hole. Nor is it going 10 take
| anything back. The United States sen
ate is probably as distinguished body
of men as can be found anywhere. lis
majority demand silver. There are
eminent federal and supreme judges,
lawyers, statesmen and patriots, with
even a national banker here and there,
scattered throughout the country de-
handing the same thing. The Eagle
is not entirely without company.
The honest dollar" is the dollar of
the contract Any other dollar is a
| dishonest dollar SO measured the
gold dollar is a dishonest dollar. Our
silver dollar is not yet entirely demOne-
tized, in that it is still a legal tender,
but it is the plain intention of the gold
bug 10 completely destroy silver as
| money.
VIM. Pitt, the great English states
man, once declared, in the British par
lament: IF America ever adopts our
system Of finance ner boosted liberties
| VIII be but phantom
America must be independent in all
| Things, no less financially than pOliti-
/ Cally, if she would remain the most
I prosperous nation on the globe. The
trouble with America today is English
financial dictatiOn. The disaster which
has overtaken her enterprises, the des-
tiUution which has come to her wage
earners, and the shrinkage sustained
by every known value, are due TO the
single gold standard policy of Europe,
which proposes to level America, and
all that she is. or has, TO that same
European level
VIM. Pitt was right. America was
great and prosperous only because Of
her independence America not only
stood by her Declaration, but put it
into her constitution that congress shall
have the sole power 10 'coin money and
regulate the value thereof" There
fore if we have ''cheap money" and
a dear money" congress is to blame,
or otherwise both the constitution and
Pitt talk nonsense. Silver was not a
cheap money nor a cheap metal when
it was demonetiZeG, it demanding at
that very hour per cent premium
over gold.
Have cur criticising contemporaries
forgotten that in the interest of this
goddess gold combine, that our govern
ment even before the plOwshare had
been turned into the pruning hook, and
while yet the land was full of crippled
and limping patriots, enacted one law
after another defrauding the soldier
by enriching the gold owner? Were
not the men who offered their lives
to save the country paid in money with
a proyiSo on the back, and the bond
holder in ''coin," afterwards in "gOld?''
Didn't even old John Sherman storm
over the outrage?
The assertion of our contemporaries
that the tariff is the issue and not
money, is not true. But were it true
how are we TO increase our revenues
by high protection unless we buy, and
if we have no money 10 buy with where
Will be the revenues?
The Declaration of Independence
was right, and the constitution of the
United States was right, the one de-
cl2ring for the pursuit of happiness !
Independently, and the other for power /
to regulate independently the value Of |
money. International agreement means
iternatiOnal slavery. An International /
money standard means the leveling Of /
everything in America to the dead level |
Of European Internationally. The |
only hope for America is in her ''inde- /
pendence' not dependence. A univer-
sal money standard means that the /
money OF that standard viii go where
things can be bought the cheapest, and |
thus our money would seek the country
Of the poorest paid labor until our labor
standard had fallen TO the level Of the
international money standard" Back
of these governmental and Industrial
questions are the trusts and combines,
and back of all the other combines and
trusts is the monopoHstic monometal-
ism of the gold combine and trust
which includes the money power of
every capital of Europe. The sovereign
power of Europe. that which sustains
armies and crowns, and grindS the
millions into the dust, Is seeking SOW
ereignty in this land
While il is true that II all the MONEY
in the world were put into the fire. to-
day, and burned. the world. as a whole.
would be no poorer tomorrow, yet the
destruction Of any portion Of its volume
inevitably works wrong. With Cleve-
lands administration demanding the
destruction of the greenbackS and
treasury notes, and his secretary of
the treasury refusing TO recognize sill
yer as mOQey. it is easy 10 see where
We are drifting. There is a moral side
as well as Il legal side and a financial
side 10 this proposition to destroy one
half Of the cOin-money Of the world. |
and we are for the moral and the legal
sides. There is neither secuonaIisn or
dishonesty in such a demand.
The whole question is resolved into
1ne of American Independence or
American Dependence.
NEW CAMPAIGN METHODS.
Expenses must be cut Everything =,