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THURSDAY. AUGUST 10, 1896.
SENATOR SQUIRE'S VIEWS,
He is for Silver, and Nearly all Republicans
in His State Are for Bryan.

NN-ANe A'NNANJ
in His State Are for Bryan.
United States Senator Watson g.
Squire, of Seattle, Wash, has been
power in the republican party for the
past fifteen years, his following in the
far northwest is enormous. He has de-
clared himself unequivocally for silver.
and will be one of the most enthusiastic
supporters of Bryan and Sewall in the
coming campaign. Yesterday he wrote
the following
W. r. Hearst, the Journal:
l take my stand with the friends of
silver, and heartily indorse the platform
adopted at the conference of bimetallists
at Tacoma, June 13.
AS necessary sequence shall sup
port Bryan for president.
The money question is the paramount
issue of the campaign. All Others can
be held in allegiance. believe that the
growth of gold monometallism is the
chief cause of the continued falling of
prices that is creating so much distress,
and that, if the monometallic policy be
persisted in, the result will be general
bankruptcy and ruin.
It will be better for us to suffer some
risks and losses at present rather than
inflict so much greater losses upon our
selves and our children at later day,
when creditors, debtors and the inter
ests of labor will go down in one COM
mon and universal ruin, if we do not
proceed wisely beforehand to avoid
such great disaster,
Therefore, I trust that the friends of
silver will patriotically unite in one
common cause, regardless of previous
party ties, and work for the speedy re-
monetization of silver in this country,
which if accomplished, will do more
than can be done in any other way to
effect silver reconciliation through
out the world.
have been detained in the east by
important business, and in attending
to the interest of my constituents.
1t is my intentions to proceed to the
state of Washington as soon as possible
to bear my share of the burdens of the
coming campaign, which I think is one
of the most important, if not the most
important, in the history of this coun-
try.
bid Godspeed to the cause of the
people. WATSON G. SQUIRE.
Senator Squire is staying at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, accompaniedby his
wife.
'In round numbers in the state of
Washington, " he said yesterday, 'there
are 36, 900 republicans to 5000 demo-
Gratis. Fully one-half of. the republi-
cans are in favor of the free coinage of
silver, and at least 35 per cent of the
party will vote and work for Bryan"
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the chart and how the prices or c0mmodi- ties and of silver have, as a necessary and reciprocal fact connected with the rise of gold, gone relatively down since 1879 in the percentage indicated in my remarks. Upon the lower chart you will find the course of prices as shown by The Eeono- mist index numbers upon the London market indicated by the line marked E, the line showing the course of prices in the German market is indicated by the letter S, standing for Soetbeer, and the course of silver is shown by the heavy black line.
 Asking you 70 bear In mind, as before stated that no general law in economies can be learned except by studying broad and large results over considerable periods of time, ask you to note how beautifully this chart exemplilies to the eye the effects of the rise of gold The line of gold is not uniform, but its general direction is up- ward. The lines of silver and oommodi- ties are not entirely regular, but their gen. eral tendency is downward The corre- spondence between tho values of commodi- ties and silver is very remarkabl and ought to be very interesting to gentlemen who deny the appreciation of gold and de- clare that there is no parallel between the prices of commodities in general and sll- Ner. You will notice that in 1890, for ex- ample, there was n sudden rise of silver and of these commodities. Naturally sil- yer rose in a more pronounced degree than the other commodities, because in that year there was pending in congress prop osition to rehabiiitate the white metal and make it as good as gold. As soon as there was likelihood of the restoration of it's full money functions it began to mount toward the point of parity, and as neces- sary consequence gold began to fall.
 Chart c exhibits upon ono diagram the course of prices in England as shown by The Economist and Sauerbeck tables, and in the United States as shown by the Aldrioh report, already referred to. Tho prices are in gold, of course. The United States prices are shown in tho heavy dark lines marked A, and the two English lines are indicated by their appropriate letters. The general correspondence of the three is very striking. American prices started higher than English prices and have re- mained so. The action of our protective tariff in stimulating production, restrict ing competition very largely to our own producers and upon our own standard of living and keeping out own markets for those producers has justified the policy of its advocates, of whom l claim to be as faithful as any, but it has not availed to withstand the constructing influence of the gold standard, whose sway is as "broad and general as the air" Prices had fallen in the United States about 29 per cont by 1891, and by 695 the fall was certainly 33A per cent or more, so that the purohas- ing power of cold in this country Is fully 50 per cent greater than it was in 1872-B.
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make it constantly necessary to give more and more of all commodities, on the aver age, to get gold. The full effect was not felt all at once in 1873 The steps in the process were progressive, and the effects were correspondingly SO. Prices began falling with the cause and have fallen and are falling as the cause continues and in tensifles. The following is a fairly good statement of these successive stages in the process of squeezing the expanding ener- gies of the nineteenth century down to the narrowing measure of the gold standard:
 From Bimetaliism to Gold.
 1872 Norway and Sweden substitute the gold standard for the silver standard.
 1873-The United States, while on a paper basis and looking longingly toward resumption of specie payments adopts the gold standard, although silver at the time is worth more in the market than gold, and although there has been no public de- mand for such action, the people and near ly every man in public life being ignorant of tho real scope and object of the act, no amendment to which striking tho standard silver dollar from our coinage can to this day be found of record. Thus on resum- ing specie payments in 1879 we became an aggressive scrambler for share of the gold in the world, which was now booom- ing mora and more the object of the eager pursuit of nations Between 1877 and 1879 we absorbed over S560, 900, GOO of gold as against about $55, ,000, GOO in the preceding II years.
 1S73.-Germany changes from the silver standard to tho single gold standard mak- ing great demand for gold, so that by May, 1881, she had coined over S414, 000, 900 worth of it, and throwing upon the market for sale as bullion large masses of her worn and demonet.z zed silver coin, sell ing by 1879 more than 7,100,00 pounds weight of fine silver.
 1873.-Belgian parliament authorizes the government to suspend tho free coinage of silver.
 1S73-1S74.-Francea and the Latin union Otaly Switzerland, Belgium and Greece, besides France) suspend the free coinage of silver, and France substitutes the gold standard for the double standard.
 1S75-Holland formally demonet2es sill yer, having suspended it's free coinage in 1873, and adopts the single gold standard for herself and her East India colonies.
 1873-1S75 The Bank of France retires $350, GOO, GOO worth of paper and adds greatly to its gold reserve.
 1878. The United States enactS the Bland law, compelling the government to purchase from s2,000 900 to $4,000, GOO worth of silver monthly, but to add it to the money stock not as primary money, but, under the construction placed on it by our government, virtually as a token coinage measurable in gold, thus increas- ing enormously the strain on gold. This jaw, moreover, completely nulliied the
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Aggregate value Silver of twentycommodi- value of

And the royal commission of 1888 de- clared that the purchasing power of silver in India had not fallen.
 Sir, there is ample reason why prices began falling about the year S73 and hays kept falling with more or less regularity evor since. Down to that period gold and silver shared together tho functions of ul- innate money among the great commercial nations of the world. Together they formed one vast money reservoir, whose aggregated contents measured all exchange values and constituted the ultimate solu- iion of all representative and credit money. England's action in going upon the gold standard in 1916 had not impaired this re- ]ation, but the sudden and nearly contem- pQraneous adoption of that standard about 1873 by several leading governments, fol- lowed at frequent intervals by others, made sudden and tremendous lessening of tho mint demand for silver and threw upon the volume of gold the double bur den of sustaining the credits and ths re- dcmption functions formerly borne by both metals jointly. This added enor- mously to tho strain upon gold, rendering it relatively scarcer and more difficult to obtain, increasing almost beyond concep- ton the demand for it, while its supply did not materially alter. The inevitable result was to raise the value of gold, to
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wheat. Last fall we still owed 2,000, ,00o,- 900 bushels, after paying 5000, ,000, 900 bushels in principal and interest.
 The Single Standard Measured.
 The burden of the gold standard on the world could be fully measured only in blood and sweat and tears.
 It Is pertinent to this discussion, sir, to answer briefly contention constantly re- peated by the opponents of the restoration of silyer-that silver has fallen because of It's enormous overproduction. I do not wish to appear doglnatic, but do say that this argument is absolutely without foun- dation. It has been thousand times re- futed, but contNues to reappear in every discussion as fresh as ever and apparently unconscious of It's discredit The famous senior senator from Ohio (Mr. Sher1nan), in public speech in his state year ago, lent the support of his high name to this profound error, and in substance 1t was restated by the distinguished gentleman from Maine (Mr. Dingley) in opening this debate. l cannot hope to stop the oircula- tion of this convenient and serviceable as- sertion, but I can easily show that 1t is utterly without foundation. The follow ing table shows the worlds production of gold and silver (ooinage value) since 1792. have added to the table as cited the cor rect figures for 1893 and 1894:
 PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER IN THE WORLD, 1702 TO 1892, COPIED FROM UNIFIED STATES SENATE REPORT NO. 285, PAGE 103, COINAGE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES 1792 TO 1894.
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main principle of bimetallism, which de ponds upon the right of the debtor to elect in which metal he will pay by enaoting that silver should be legal tender except where otherwise provided In the contract. This gave the creditor the determination of the metal of payment and virtually completed the demonetization of silver.
 1S79.-The United States resumes specie payments and on single metal-gold.
 1S70.-Austria-H Hungary suspends the free coinage of silver.
 1SS3,-Italy resumes specie payments on a gold basis and borrows Ss6, GOO, ,o00 in gold to do 1t with.
 1s90.-The United States passes the Sher- man silver purchase law, continuing the vicious principle of the Bland aot
 1s9o-1S92. 2.-The Imperial bank of Russia increases its gold reserve by sl20, GOO, 900 and begins policy of hoarding gold, which has gone on ever since.
 1s91-1s92. Austria H Hungary adopts the gold standard and becomes borrower of gold to an enormous amount.
 1899. .-Roumania adopts the gold stand ard.
 1S93-India closes her hints to the coin- age of silver.
 1S94-1895. 95.-Chile and Brazil adopt the single gold standard and join the ever fiercer struggle for the lessening supply of real money.
 1895, February. ry.-The United States be- gins the unhappy and humilitating pro- codure, apparently become chronic if we are to preserve the single gold standard of borrowing millions in times of peace whorewith to pay tribute to the despotism of gold.
 Why will gentlemen persist in shutting their eyes to the plainsst of evidence? The great fall of prices in the gold standard world since 1873 is as indisputable as any physical fact in nature, and that 1t Is chiefly due to the appreciation of gold seems to me as conclusively established as the law of gravitaton. In England, where the gold standard was born and where its operation Is to fill her creditor coffers with unearned increments of the wealth of all debtor countries no mystery is made of it.
 The World In Bondage to Money.
 Moreover, so clearly arc the observed ef- feots of the gold standard conformable to the economic law l have tried to state that they have been foretold at different times by Men learned in the science. Many years ago, before the nations had be- come crnzed by the misunderstood exam pie of England and had not so generally gone to work to subdue the world to a money bondage. Jevons wrote as follo,-s:
 liam Yaf rom deayinG that If the Italian government decide to carry into effect M. duszatti.a threat of buying gold at all
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country, calls loudly and pray not hope
 lessly upon the patriotism, upon the intel
 ligence, upon the courage of the splendid
 leaders of the grand old Republican party,
 if we have such left, and believe we have.
 Sir, if a man denies that these things are
 true, then he may believe in the perpetua-
 tion of the present system, but if he be-
 1ieves that this picture, which have en-
 deavored to show, of the continual fall of
 commodities and of the rise in gold, and
 the ruinous effects of it, are due to the fact
 that part of the ultimate money substance of the world has been taken away by law,
 he cannot believe in its approximation. He cannot supinely submit to its continuance.
 He will arise against 1t and help put it aside.
 l must not forget, sir, that promised to say something about wages. I am prompt to admit that the great Republican policy of protection has vastly benefited the laboring man in the United States. Sir nobody upon fit occasion can speak upon that great policy with more enthusi- astio enoomium or more intense conviction than myself But it cannot do everything. Handicapped by tho single gold standard. it can work out only portion of its proper results. When plead for bimetallism, plead for the other half of protection. Free trade and the geld standard both aim at low prices, are both smbodiments of Brit ish aggression upon the industrial inde- pendsnoe of my country. Twill resist them both to the utmost.
 I do not question tho fact that protec- tionha had beneficial effect upon wages; but, sir, organized labor is also largely to be credited for the maintenance of wages. Diminishing the number of hours of labor, lessening the number of apprentices, or ganizing against proposed reductions, they have fought their way by one method and another and have succeeded to large de- gree in warding off the natural effects of an appreciating money. Let me add that If you will consider the number of men who have bean out of employment and the diminished labor of those who have had employs nent the statistics of the rise in wages will appear far less imposing than they do now. The laboring mans inter- ests are precisely the same as the manu- faeturer's, tho tradssman's s and the farm CTS in this respect. And the policy that Is sure to wreck all employers in produc-
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The enormous fall of prices in tho gold standard world l have proved. Gentlemen in this debate may hereafter seek some other explanation for tho fact than that which offer as chiefly accounting for it, but nobody will deny tho fact. It is an open and notorious fact whose signif- canoe, if preponderantly due to the single gold standard, challenges tho intellect, the conscience and tho patriotism of this na- tion. Contrast it for moment with this; The purchasing power of silver in silver using countries Is today almost the same as in 1878. Consul Wetmore, at Shanghai, shows this by the following index num- bers based on go staple commodities on the Chinese markets:
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Totals s8, col 254, eco $5, ,5O1 075 0O0
 Thus in the 103 years ending in 1894 the production of gold has exceeded that of sil- yer by $500, ,000, GOO.
 It must be borne in mind that dispro- portionate production for any one year or few successive years in the case of the precious metals Is far less significant as affecting relative value than would sim
 liar disporportion be in any other kind of commodities. The metals are sosdurable and their existing mass so large compared to the production of any one year that the value of the whole will show little varia- tion. The disproportionate production