Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-07-30
Mr.. ATKINSON TO MR.. DANIEL.

Justice to his State and to his country,
4 yet he has. lent himself to the silver
barons (that Is good name for them)
Of the mining States, who, like the
robber barons OF old time, are making
an effort to take part of the product
Of this country from the community
without giving any service in return.
They are like the barons of England
Z who resisted the repeal of the tax on
!. the bread Of the people, against whom
thundered Ebenezer Elliot, the Corn
Law rhymeES One may raphraae the
words Of Ebepezer Elliot:
What Is bad money then. thou slave,
Whom robbers representa-
What is bad money then, thou knave,
Who lov'st bad government?
II Is the deadly will that takes
What labor ought to keep.
II il the deadly power that make
Goods dear and labor cheap.
Many honest and sincere men, and
= few able men like Senator Daniel,
now support this force bill by means
OF which the owners Of the silver
mines are trying to defraud the people
Of this country. In the time of the
corn laws very large body OF deluded
masses, led by q few able but sincere
! men, supported the barons of England
In their effort to tax the bread of the
people, to make ''bread dear and labor
cheap" When men are thus deluded,
especially men of brains like Senator
Daniel, they let their minds run wild
and there is no argument so absurd but
what they may cite it in their effort to
sustain themselves.
In this speech to which I refer,
Senator Daniel imputed the effort OF
those who sustain tho single gold
standard in this country to English
influence. Strange that free trader
who knows what rubbish the talk
about British gold is by which high
tariff in this country has been de-
Tended, should descend to the same
fallacious folly on this money question.
Now what are the factsf The United
Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland
is the principal customer of this
country for grain, provisions, cotton,
tobacco and other farm products. Fol
more than 10 years Great Britain has
bought from this country at the stand.
ard Of the pound sterling, the single
standard, more than $500, 600, 900 worth
year mainly of these products, more
than one-half of our total exports, an6
although we are her greatest customer
we have averaged to buy British good,
during the period only s160, 000. 00t
worth year. Great Britain has oweG
US year by year on the average for II
years S240, 600, 600 in pounds sterling
that is to say, in gold by weight.
There is no such coin as pound ster
ling.
Now what does Great Britain d,
with most Of this materially She con
DO anl .,;o
into fabrics. The largest single articl,
Of export from Great Britain to Asia
= Africa, South America and other silve
or paper money States, consists o
fabrics made almost wholly from
American cotton and American food
Upon her bankers falls the work, th,
expense ard the difficulty of convertinl
the silver money of her customers int,
the gold with which we insist that sh
shall pay US; yet Senator Daniel ant
other deluded victims of the silve
barons support force bill or act o
legal tender under which these owner
of silver mines may force silver dollar
into circulation which cost them los
than so cents on dollar in gold, upoi
the ground that il we do not aid il
that nefarious transaction we shall b
subjecting ourselves to the dictatioi
of British bankers and that we are in
fluenced by British gold. One cal
hardly speak with respect of men VIII
subject themselves to such dslusion
What could British bankers, Britis
merchants and British manufacturer
more greatly and earnestly desire tha
to be able to gather in the silver whic
they receive for their fabrics made q
5, American cotton and American food
.,ehd it over here, put it through ou
f'ynint at the cost Of the tax payers an
force that silver upon our farmer
\ under our own force bill at 100 cent
Oh a dollar.
S Now, when mon like Senator Danie
and his coadjutors impute subjectio
to British gold and an unworthy pun
pose to those who would maintain th
honor and integrity of this nation an
keep its money or unit of value equ;
to the highest standard of the world
commerce, how do they expect to
treated themselves? In what esteer
do they expect to be held and in wha
credit do they expect their States an
the people OF their States to be hel
which they thus misrepresent and dii
creditY How are the mighty faller
Virginia was the home of statesmen
VI pupllCists, Vi lndSteTS OF ecODOml
science in former days. In what repui
can Virginia be held and in wht
esteem can her merchants her manr
facturers, her towns, counties an
cities be held when their leading Sent
tor lends himself to force bill {
which the main purposes can in I'll
nature of things ha but twoH
lst Tho purpose on the part of IL
mine owners to pick the pockets ,
the people while deluding them wit
the idea that they are giving them
benefit.
I'd. The purpose Of debtors to d
fraud their creditors.
How long will Virginia tolerate sue
force bills or such measures?
Mr.. Daniel thinks that the su,
porters of the gold standard are tloir
their work in Difference to British IL
ttuence, when in point of fact be
one of the men and very cOnspIcuol
one who is lending himself to the SUI
port OF British interests against Ii
interest of his own country. How ca
such man be go provincial, SO lit
informed of the facts of commerce an
80 ignorant of the real status of Ii
caso? One of the largest metal worke
of Great Britain lately passed throug
my Office on his way home from tri
through India, China and Japal
where he has a large demand for tt
products of his machine shops
which he employs 5000 men or NOR
His remark on our present condition
map thia. tWo bnyn b,1 :, No,