The record-union., 1896-10-11
PURE PATRIOTISM.
Noble Words Of a Large Silver Pro
duCer.
Would Scorn to be the Beneficiary
Of an Injustice to
Another.

One Of the most direct, logical and
candid of the arguments made to stay
| the wildnesS of the free silver craze
in the silver producing States, says the
Stockton Independent" is that of Hon.
Henry Kaippenberg of the Great Hecla
Consolidated Mines of Montana. He
addressed letter to Hon. G. c. Hart
| man, who bolted the st. Louis Conven-
| ton with Teller, which is not only
strong and spirited, but convincing.
There is species Of heroism in the man
| illness of his position which so contrasts
with the attitude, SO many years, OF
the timid bonanza" men of this State,
who declined to raise their voice against
a drift toward disaster for fear of MAX
| iLg themselves unpopular. He wrote
| as follows:
/ have lived in Montana sixteen years.
My every interest is in silver mining.
During these sixteen years / have fur
Lished the world 100000 ounces Of
silver. / have paid labor, in Beaver
head County, $S,OO0,OOO. Notwith-
standing all this. | am unalterably OPP
posed to the independent, free and un-
| limited coinage Of silver at 16 to i, sim
ply because my judgment tells me that
| ii is contrary to history, experience and
common sense. am a Republican.
Do you plead conscience? So do /.
| Do you plead honesty? So do |. Do
you plead love for the workingman? So
do /; by my acts. Do you assert that
legislative power can create value?
deny it. The great commercial world
knows, recognizes and bows to but one
| authority; supply and demand. You
| say that gold has appreciated, that It
| has doubled in value; when, then, do
you insist that the gold dollar shall be
| reduced to e-half present weight, and
! announce to the world that it must come
| to your standard? Then your 16 to !
would be honest and no man would be
| cheated in silver dollars. The very fact
! that you want to double the value Of the
silver dollar by legislation is con-
| fession that you regard our gold dollar
| as worth 100 cents.
Let no individual, no American citi-
| zen, cheat himself with the delusion
| that he is patriot because he may offer
| his misfortunes as indicative of the need
| Of special laws to fit his particular case.
| | would scorn that law that would make
| me the beneficiary of an injustice to
another
| The man in public position who will
| permit himself to be swerved from the
path Of duty to all, by any class, or by
! any clamor, is an enemy to his country,
and especially the enemy Cat leasD of the
very class he serves either as a mistaken
| or cringing slave.
| Speaker Reed recently said in one SEN
| tence more than William Jennings
Bryan has said in all his thorn" and
crown" and "cross" speeches. 1.-The
silver question is a universal disease,
and you cannot cure it by any local ap-
plication.''
| / am a bimetallist and shall be; but
when you dodge and proclaim a new and
strange god, 16 to l, tell you plainly
that to this "Baal' I will not bow the
knee. | prefer to follow Elijah, even If
| the path lead under the juniper tree
for season. / prefer to be right, and
| suffer defeat, rather than be wrong and
successful.
| Have no fears, my dear Hartman.
You as DemOcrat-Populist 16 to
sheep" and I as a Republican goat
Will die, but the grand principles of the
| party of Abraham Lincoln will continue
| to live and shall triumph in this, our
grand America
l am not goat" I will not be a
| goat" I am an American. I am a Re
publican, and I raise my voice against
any and all attempts at unholy and un-
righteous repudiation, now and forever;
and because you differ with me in this
opinion I will not let you be sheep
You shall not be sheep but a man,
an American citizen, whim / shall ever
respect and love.
We are Americans, and ''if ever it is a
question whether you and or the flag
must perish. you and I will instantly
choose that it shall not be the flag