The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-10-08

and under the subjec: ..No ben.fi, /
o Labor" referring 10 silver. Is fol-
lows:
Il, would not MAKE labor easier,
the hours Of labor shorter, or the
pay better. II woa.d not make farm
ing less laborious or more profitable. |
Ii would not start q factory nor make |
demand for an additional days la |
eor. 1t would not add 10 the com
fort OF the masses the capital of
the people or the wealth of the na-
ton"
II Mckinley was right then he is
wrong now, but the syndicate made
him take his medicine and his heneh-
men here who went TO st. Louis for
silver gladly say me too" and want
What was left of this medicine.
how about Senator Pritchard's
record' In speech in Congress.
he said; II am friend OF silver and
believe 1t should be RESTORED to its
dignity as a precious metal" And
he signed a paper with Senators
Taier, Mantle, Dubois and other
Republican Senators declaring that,
- s.e nalimited coinage of silver al
Is 10 l by the INDEPENDENT action
of the United States" is the only
method possible OF securing the peo-
pie of the United States from the i'm
pending danger of the difference of
exchange between gold standard
countries.
Senator Pritchard further said:
II have proved my loyalty TO the
cause Of silver by my vote in. the
Senate. Ny record will parallel
Senator Buffers on that great and
vital question. They reflect not ouly
the SENTIMENT OF THE PEOPLE THAT
| REPRESENT but they EXPRESS MY
HONEST convictions and my honest
PURPOSE TO SECURE AN AMERICAN
SYSTEM of finance.
But the Senator also said October
II, 1895: II consider that free trade
and gold monOnetallism are twin
brothers, and he who courts gold>
monometallism invites the disasters
which must follow in the wake Of
| free trade"
The Senator might now add that
the Mckinley plank now favoring
continuance of civil service is an
other free idea imported from Eng
| land.
| But when was the Senator con-
sclentious on the money question
then, or now when he is trying to
switch off on the tariff, we'll knowing
that no tariff brings employment in
| the protected cotton factories to a
single one of the 100, 900 North Caro-
lima negroes. The Senator's views
on the money question have like
wise been shared by Pearson, Rus
sell and others who are for McKin-
ley, and also by Walser who unfort-
unately occupies a straddling atti-
tude on the cooperation ticket in
the hope Of fooling both Republl-
cans and Populists out of an office.
[ have shown you not only the in
cOnsistencies of some Of the sO-cailed
leaders bit also that they have been
very favorable to the So cent dollar
until recently. But as to the 53 cen,
dollPr-was it not amenable to the
| same charge in 1888 when Mckinley
voted for free coinage, and was it moi
on same grounds equally to be dis.
credited in 1892 when Mckinley 81
ably defended silver? What became
of this charge only few months age
when Pritchard, Pearson and Russell
} white metal? They claim to be Repub
, lican leaders, now what sort of a de
vious lead is this?
The fact is demonetizatiOn alon,
has caused the decline in value of sill
yer BULLION. When that infamOu
act was surreptitiously passed the sill
yer dollar was worth more than tn
gold dollar, but since then it has beel
t steadily declining, and now, when sill
/ yer has been discredited by the gov
| ernment, refused mintage and the lav
= for its payment of government Obliga
tiOns openly violated, the demand TO
it has decreased and the bullion ha
. Value only for use in the arts-it is n
Q . longer money metal.
Remonetize it, admit it to the mint.
: coin it into the standard dollars an
!, then contrast the money value of eac
g metal. If conditions were reverse
q and the seal Of condemnation set O
q gold, and silver alone was hOnOrel
+ then indeed would like results follow
~ The people should see to it that tn
- jugglers and their henchmen, the pie
counter fellows keep their hands O
: the money of our fathers.
Bismarck, the wisest statesmen
~ Europe, advises America to get
a alone, take the lead and other natior
% Will. follow.
Shall we longer submit to the selfis
e greed of England whose statesmen d.
h clare that as she is the creditor natiO
D of the world debts must be paid
!: gold. Ours is a debtor nation and OF
d people are alarmingly embarrassed /
20 this mOnied strain upon their evel
~ interest-this destruction of the none
10 in which they might pay their indeb
edness. How need We fear resul
at with our abundant resources, our III
.. rivalled facilities and our unprec
80 dented vim and push?
To We want and must have good mon,
Sc no sane man thinks or desires Othe
OF wise; and the term sound money
D. merely a catch phrase used by del
sr agogues for purposes of deception.
Mt If, then, the gold standard has pro
a. trated your dear interests, of VIII
20 remedial use will the election of NJ
=, Kinley be when he proposes TO purs
~ the line of policy dictated by w;
X street shylocks?
e. = The effort to maintain the prese
gold standard under Cleveland has
m ready cost the people two hundred al
. sixty two million dollars in bon
~ which will hang as mortgage ov
90 your children for generations to con
Let us come back to genuine bimet
ID lism-the mintage of both gold and S
a. ver-the metals of the constitution, t
ne money of our fathers and the pc
SG mans only acquaintance and friel
Dear money makes cheap labor, che
products, cheap clothing, cheap fo
'ct and cheap people. Dear mon
le- makes it easier for the few to cont
,e, the masses. Already our country
ng rapidly losing the prestige Of an i
Nd mensely prosperous people throu
the concentration of all money il
up the hands of few men and the c(
rn sequent destruction of the great m