The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-11-14
.THB SILVER FIGHT
1t Will Be Prosecuted for Four
More Years.
HE GOT KENTUCKY
Final Figures Show That Mckinley
Has Carried The State by a
Light Majority.
Bucltuer VIII be Rewarded for his Assis-
tance in Recent EIection-WnI
Likely Get Foreign Mis-
sion,

WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-The cam
pign for the free coinage of silver win
be wagcd with vigor during the next
| four years, in preparation for the cleo
ton of 1900. The directors OF the Amer:-
can BimetGllic Union, who constitute
the bulk of the silver leaders in
three parties, have decided to main
tain headquarters in this city to send
out literature. The branch office at
! Chicago will be consolidated with the
| Washington Office, but the San Fran
cisco branch is to be continued. At
the request of the directors, General
| A. J. Warner has issued the following
address to silver leagues and bimetal-
lie unions of the United States:
"Silver has lost in this election, but
the battle for the overthrow of the
gold standard has not ended. The
disastrous results that must attend up
on the continuance of thss standard
make it impossible to relinquish the
struggle against it until it is finally
overthrow.
''The gold standard cannot be main
tanned by increasing revenues. because
revenues are not paid in gold. The
attempt to maintain the gold standard
by perpetual loans must also sooner or
later fail. The only other way is by
contracting the currency and forcing
down prices so low that gold will come
here of itself in such quantities as to
constitute in part at least the currency
with which revenues are paid, and no
debtor nation can long maintain such
a policy. Either course, therefore,
leads to inevitable ruin, the one by
bankrupting the government, and the
other by bankrupting the people.
Either policy will subject the United
States absolutely to British domina-
tioD, and hence the rejoicing of the
British press over The defeat of silver
here. The victory for gold is victory
OF the trusts and syndicated wealth,
brought about by corruption and coer-
cion, aud not victory of the people
or for the people, and it cannot last.
There must be an end also to the con-
slant appreciation OF money.
''The appreciation of money alone, if
allowed to go on at the rate it has gone
on for the past 20 years, will in half
generation more, transfer the bulk of
all the wealth of this country from
those who have created it to the hands
of few who control the money and
own the debts. No power can be con-
ceived so potent to gather wealth into
a few hands as the ceaseless, all-prevad-
ing power of an appreciating money
standard. No civilization cah stand
againstit. 1t must endanger the foun-
dation upon which free Institutions
rest.
"The battle, therefore, for the
restoration of silver must go on with
out abatement, and 1 urge upon all
silver and bimetallic leagues and
unions to keep up their organizations
and to continue the fight until the
victory for the people is finally won.
sThe noble fight made by our inter-
pid candidate in the campaign just
ended endears him to all who believe
in the righteousness of cur cause, and,
under his leadership, we believe
victory will be won in 1900"