The oasis., 1896-07-25
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next fall, the great mass of the people are actuated only by sincere and heartfelt desire to have it settled right, and Go have the transition from gold standard Co a bimetallic stand ard passed easily and gradually, with out any sudden shock or violent dis turbancc Of values
 lt is now tweaiy-threc years since the great commercial nations of the globe abandoned the blmetallic none tary system, ard adopted system Of coinage in which silver was relegated to subsidiary position. At the time of the change the bullion value of silver and it's coinage value were iden- tlcal. But there has been a gradually diyerging difference until now the bullion value k but little more than one-half the coinage value. With that divergence there has come gradual shriukagc in value of all commodities. until now nearly everything which mankind eats, wear, or uses in any way. can be bought for one-half as much money expressed in dollars and cents-as was required to buy St in 1873. That shrinkage in value is as- cribed to the appreciation in the pur- chasing power of gold, as superiuduced by characterization of silver. If that be true, a return to bi-metallism will bring back the old range of prices, and all classes will be required to pay for what they now consume at the rates prevailing in 1873 or thereabOut. Does it not then stand to reason that if a change so vast should be precipitated suddenly it would be attendant with great hardship, suGcsing and lossy Every wolkingman would suddenly find the purchasing capacity of his wages cut in two, and would be com- pelIed to deny himself and bis family many of the necesSaries and cOnyen- fences of life to which they are now accustomed. Every creditor who had sold goods under existing conditions would be paid in money which would buy only about one-half the goods he had sold Everyone who had loaned money would be repaid in money with it's purchasing power much less than tbat which he had loaned. Would not a transition so sudden create a panic beside which that of 1893 would be baby? All the evils which can be imagined by the sudden transition, as above outlined, from present to former conditions would follow in the train of the sudden adoption of free silver policy.
 To reach bimetallism by a scientific process iu which the change from ex- isting conditions back to former con dtions shall be gradual and with as little shock and resistance as possible, Is a problem which will require all the wisdom of all the world That is the policy proposed by the republican 
 platform international bi-metallism brought about by concurrent action of all the great commercial nations of the world. All those nations are ripe for adoption of such a policy. Ger many, who declared at the Brussels conference in 1892 that she was satis- fled with her existing gold standard, has now expressed, by resolution adopted in her reichstag, an earnest desire to return to bmetallism through international action. Britain | will unite with such action by re- opening her India hints to free coin l age of silver Austria, italy, France and all the other nations participat- ing in the Brussels conference arc anx- ious to enter an international coinage