Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-05

ence which would imply that it il
recognized by leading minds as a
question of indefinite moment, and
of immediate and intense practical
significance to the welfare of all
classes of citizens. Such is the mag
nitude of the question, and such its
practical bearing upon the interest OF
all men, and we find the whole Amer
lean press ignoring it,
"The Courier-J Journal lays down the
following propositions:
81. That the characterization of sill
yer, which has prevailed for some
years up to this writing, both in the
United States and Europe, has had
the effect of advancing the value of
gold about 40 per cent.
2. That this has been accomplished
by depressing the value of all other
property to that extent.
3. That about 40 per cent. of the
property and producing resources of
the people have thus been transferred
to comparatively small class of men
whose stock in trade is gold invest
ments.
"a. That in the exact proportion as
gold has risen, the burden of debt
and taxation has increased; and that
in proportion as property and labor
have declined, the capacity of the
people to pay their debts and taxes
has diminished.
,"5. That the silver discount is
creating bonus of more than 30 per
cent in favor of the farm productions
of India and Asia, which to that ex-
tent cheapens the wheat, cotton and
various other productions of the
United States.
Sc That these lamentable condi-
tions have been produced by anti-sil-
yer legislation.
"Now, here are seven propositions,
either of which, if true, certainly
proves the silver situation is matter
of intense and universal Importance.
If so, why is not the matter forced
upon public attention day after day
by all the newspapers in the land
which are not owned body, breeches
by the money kings or the gold con-
spiracy. If they Tor either of them
are not true, why do they not prove it |
and put the whole question at rest
once for all? If any newspaper in
New York or Boston. or Chicago or
Philadelphia, or St. Louis, or Cincin-
natti, or New Orleans can successfully
controvert either of these PROPOSE
tions it will render the public valua-
BILE service by doing so at once. If
they can not controvert either of
these propositions, they are obviously
conniving at gigantic fraud and
wrong which can not possibly coexist
with any degree of prosperity. If
any or all of the propositions are
true, the honest journalist, with the
capacity to understand the principles
involved, can not consistently abstain
from giving the greatest publicity
possible.
"We challenge the editor of the
papers named, and of any other, to
point out single flaw or error in any
of the seven, and if this
can't be done, we ask, in the name of
the people, what. interests they
are serving, and what consideration,
IN kind and amount, they are receiving
in conniving at the iniquity9 1t will
be worth great deal to the country
t those papers will prove all the
propositions stated are either true or
'alse, and the public should not be
content until the public press is
awakened to the sense of its public
luties, to its dependence on public
support, and to its betrayal or ignor-
lnce of its ostensible otfice-public
ldvisor-in.chief .--Bowling Green
"Noi1riar