Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-29

cotton, on account of the ex-
IRENE bad trade existing in America.
cannot advance. Our own Daily News
is as silent as Pharoah's memory. Sound
money has blotted out every tint from
even it's rosy disposition and every phase
of trade Is an open mouth calamityite
declaring that this gold experiment has
gone far enough. Sad indeed is the con-
dition of that country when bountiful
crops bring poverty instead of riches;
when large production Is menace and
not the way to prosperity.4=The past ten
years have been blessed by prov
idence with every condition that
engenders wealth profound peace,
Industrious people, big crops, and
yet so far reaching has con-
traction gone that lucky is the man or
country that has held it's own. Ten years
of life gone, ten years buried in the
vain attempt to goldize the world. The
masses sacrificed to the few. Labor and
agriculture cornered to such an extent
that it has to be measured into that
measure named by the interest least
favorable, and all this that we might
initiate countries where environments are
most dissimilar from what we wish ours
to be. England with 1000 individuals
owning all the land the first lord of the
treasury stating that the condition of
the farmers was desperate; that the adj
vancing cost of the gold dollar was con-
fiscating. The masses have been pictur-
ed to us a thousand times by this very
goldite press as on the verge of pauper-
ism. So we want to be like England?
Poor farmers; poor masses; 1000 people
owning the land; sound money; silver
under free coinage from the time Abra-
ham with it bought Machpelar up to
the latter part of the nineteenth century,
when free coinage by the stiletto of the
capitalist, was killed. Mind you, not in
old age not in weakness or i'll health,
but in full vlgor and muscle and while
performing every duty of basic money,
and what has beer the result? Prosper
fty and progress arrested at full tide,
ten years inundated on an ideal theory
of money standard, and still we nave
the bragef of sound money held up
before every funeral cortege of prices
or business and, like quack doctor, CIV
ing patent pills as a panacea for every
i'll of the body polite There is. there
can be but one relief for our depression.
Strike fats shackles from silver, restore
bimetallism and let the nation, with
drawn blades, be always ready to strike
down the enactment of class statutes.
Silver under free coinage is as sound
money as the world ever used 1t would
have the same value in one mans pock-
ct as another's in our country as any
other. You could hammer the eagles off
IT and the value would be the same. Pass
II through the furnace and it would be
unscathed. And yet, with this record
of soundness unbroken except when in
Jail, we have a governor, would-be
time clamoring for Estate banks and
state bank currency and decrying the
restoration of silver And yet expert
ence has taught that this one is the most
rotten currency ever offered man. And
the other has stood the true measure of
industry through all time and by ma
lures own laws is the only metal or
thing that can restrict COLDS value or
make limits beyond which 1t can't go.
Respectfully. b. b. CONFER.