Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05

| and it would be no easier to get. But that
| and is contradicted by experience in all
times and in all lands It means s the de-
| the difference between the commercial and
Changing. and the effect would be to re-
duce property values, entail untold fnan-
obIigations Of existing contracts, further
iInpoyerish the laborers ,f and d producers Of
severity and infiict upon trade and com
policy. L am unalterab1y opposed.
Bimetallism.
''Bimetallisrn cannot be secured by In
be obtained BY opening, our Inints to the
unlimited coinage of the silver of the
silver to one ounce of gold, when the
aseT to Of goid nd
China have tr1ed the experiment Mexico
ratio slightly IN excess of sixteen and one
ha We her eI ns 70 are 1ne feeS OF gol
both metals at that ratio, not a single dol
as money. Gold has been driven out Of
circulation in these countries. and they
tionaI agreement is had. it is The plain
d o3 ST the dnitfd Is the to an a tbs
sole standard of the great commercial ma
more largely than any other. Eighty
four per cent. of our foreign trade for the
and DO our Wade Gs' With i otea eoun
tries was settled on gold basis.
We Now Have Moro silver Than Gold.
"Chfef1y by means of legislation during
and since 1878 there has been put in circu-
lation more than sG24,o 900 Of silver or
the honest effort to give to silver, if pos
n 5ne tRa ana nae of bo
gold and silver as money. Priorto that
silver dollars coined in the entire history
of the United States, period of 50 years
of silver consistent with financial safety,
and the pledge to maintain its parity with
gold. We have to-day more silver than
|
with grave peril to the public credit. The
aeer of the Gnte
money at its market value, From 1890 t.
ounces of SILVER month. or 81 900 900 ounces
Of fhe p nis nd Of t d pr b
country's product 1t was believed by
age that such use of Silver would advance
its bullion value to its coinage value. but
few MONTHS tbs the
dented market for the silver produced in
than eyer before Then. Upon the rec-
ehazng c9se the 1a
perrin ents in this direction
Tho Double Standard.
th9 zzd Of W eo dss have In p pn
ternational ratio. which all the leading
true relation be fixed between the two
metals. and all agree upon the quantity y of
T,
then silver would be as free and unlimited
in its privileges of coinage as gold is to-
secure. and with the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver adopted in the United
still further removed from any interna-
tons IS p We may non n9 tb be able
coinage of silver The double standard
g esn en2 bs 5hte an S that
rent law Of nations. 1t was the concurrenr
ard: it will require the concurrent law of
nations to reinstate and sustain it,
-Fayors tho Use OF Silver Money.
1.-The republican party has not been, and
is not now. opposed to the use of silver
ha dSne s that eoad be done fo Us
creased use, with safety and honor, by the
Th eee ose nE f3S
it has already gone beyond the limit of
luTther. and We must not permit false
gh5s TO fe c es thg 1 3anE e ln
any country in the world except India or
sl5o.oCo6 600 more than Franee: s4oo. 600 900
more than C, Germany I'm an sS25 900 coo less than
he Of has dssae nd n
employ all proper means to promote It.
would defer, if not defeat. international BIZ
metallism, and until an international
qlIires to maintain our present standard.
Independent free coinage of silver at
ounce of geld would insure the speedy con-
traction of the volume Of our currency. It
which we now have, permanently from the
trade of the country, and greatly decrease
our per capita circulation.
party to take from the circulating medium
of the country any of the silver we now
have On the contrary it is proposed to
lation parity with gold by maintaining
the pledge of the government that all of it
unbroien polieS 81 the repubiiean ag party rtay
since 1878 It has inaugurated no new
will in cir Hat nr, and
good as gold ali Of the silver and paper
money which now included in the cur
rency of the country. 1t will maintain their
the future as it has always done in the past.
1t will not consent to put this country
a silver basis which would inevitably fol-
sixteen to one 1t will oppose the expul-
sion of gold from our circulation.
Farmers and Laborers suffer Most.
IF there is any one thing which should
be free from speculation and fiuctuation
it is the money of a country. 1t ought never
to be the subject of mere partisan conten-
ton. When we part with our labor. our
products, or our property, we should re-
ceive in return money which is as stable
and unchanging in value as the ingenuity
OF the currency means destruction of val
ues. No one suffers SO much from CHEAP
are the first to feel its bad effects and the
last to recover from them This has been
the rich. are always the greatest sufferers
It would fall with alarming severity upon
investments already made; upon inSur-
upon savings banks and their depositors:
upon building and loan associations and
their members: upon the savings of thrift;
upon wege-earners and the purchasing
power of their wages.
Unlimited Irredeemable Paper Money