Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-05-14
THAT BOND 1NvEsT1GA11oN,

GOLDSBORO. N. c. MAY A. 1885,
THAT BoNDINvEsr1GA11oN,
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Now that the Senator has de,
cided Observation-Disclosures
United States bonds the country
waits to see what that investiga-
zion will disclose. ThatSthe sad~
ministration is notfearfu ofsahe
ontcome and was not against the
spassage sef the resolution was
Shown when Senators friendly tc
the administration voted in favor
Of the passage of PETERS reso1u.
ton. The investigation is in
the hands Of the Senate Finance
Committee, q majority of whose
members favor the free indepen-
dent, unlimited and eternal coin>
age of silver at a ratio of Is to I,
and are and ever have been ops
posed TO the'issue of bondsor the
taking of any other stepsby the
National Administration to pres
serve the governments%credi
by maintaining the existing gold
standard.
1t has been Populites, Repub~
licans and free silver Democrats
who have charged "rottenness"'
and ''fayorteismn in the bond
deals. Now these Populites,
Republicans land free silver
) Democrats have it in their power
to make public such rottenness
if it existed The Atlants Con-
stitution and other silver papers
joined Republican journals in
publishing column after column of
attacks upon The Administration
in connection with bond sales.
Now comes the Atlanta Consti-
tution's Washington correspon>
dentand says Che Investigation
will amount to nothing;ai other
words, that the vile and vicious
attacks made upon the Admins
mbe@sustaine
1.-The Investigation WILL" says
this correspondent. ''be in the
hands of the Senate Finance
Committee, and may consume
much time, but it is not thought
it will result in anythingt"EF n
In this connection the Atlanta
Journal shows up the true situa-
ton. It asks why it is that the
investigation will amount to moth.
ing, since TIE charge hasLbeen.
made that the President and Sec.
rotary of the Treasury sold these
bonds in the interests of Wall
staeet, and that they filled the
pockets. of their%powerful friends
if not of themselves. It then con-
cludes:
"Surely,these detractors are not
ready to write themselves down
as malignerss OF the characters of
honest men and assassins Of the
government credit, with full
power III their hands, without
making an effort to prove their
charges"
The truth Of the matter is sim
ply this: There will be no 'fex>,
posure," for there is nothing to
expose. The talk about the bond
sales has besns talk andsnothing;
more, and was intended only to
deceive and play upon the preju-
dices of the people.
The Finnace Committee will
spend a little more of the peo-
pies money uselessly, and after
the scanpaign report that the,
sales were all made in strict ac11
eoFdance with law and IN the
bestipterestof the government
and the people.
So much for the''midnight bond
robberies." The last has been
heard on this slanderous score
See if this isn't so.
This will no doubt befthe outs
come. The action Of the Senate
agitators looks like a cheap cam
paign trick. The Populites
played it because it was ants
Democratic and anti-sound mon
ey; the Republicans used it for
prejudice against theD democrats,
and the silverites Thought they
saw capital in it for free silver
and against sound finances and
Grover Cleveland.