The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-08-01

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SATURDAY,. AUGUST l. 1895
THREATS MAKE SILHER11ES.
It is peculiar trait Of the American
people that they will not be driven to
submission, Though they may be coaxed
into following the lead of parties or
men. They may be-convinced by argu.
ment that certain propositions are
either right or wrong, but bulldozing
and threatening will not accomplish
this-end: hence itis that some of those
who. most ardently favor the maintain.
ance of the golfetandard are pre51dic-
ing their cause and forcing otherwise
neutral voters into the ranks of those
who favor the free coinage Of silver.
BY deneuncing those who do not take
readilyto gold as traitors, fools and
Williams, and by threatening to wreck
the commerce of the country if the
sssilver craze" Is not hushed, they are
/. forcing the masses to believe tie capi.
talists have been granted unsafe
powers under our present financial
system. Such threats as the following
circular issued by Henry Clews & Co.,
tue Wall street bankers, is making
more silver men among the common
people.of America today than all the
argument of the silver orators and
papers. In their circular. Messrs.,
Clews & Co. say:
'The mere fact that large portion
Of the people should be intent upon
forcing the acceptance OF debased
and iuctuating metal as standard
money is discouraging symptom; for
1t shows--ro- what DANGEROUS ehds an
ignorant free suffrage may be prosti.
tuted. Wall street has learned to be.
neve that there are greater pretenses
that party platforms, than: legislative
.subserviency to. popular: Ignorance,
than the madness OF partisan
infssrsiienr. they. know that there
are situations and events which can
Instantly coerce and convert the most
reckless Legislators into willing ser.
wants. -.The..-near prospect Of the
authorization of free coinage-a count.
ing OF heads showing certainty of a
two.thirds vote in the house and senate
for 16 to1-would evoke in Wall street
the kind Of conditions that no congress
has ever yet dared to disregard, and
the caussr Of free coinage would be
overthrown at the moment when its
success is most certain. It is this re-
served power on which Wall street is
reposing.
s.This will be worse than labor
riot; the Pullman strike will be for.
gotten. A labor riot can be quelled
by sending the troops and shooting
few strikers, but who would think of
shooting Wall street? When the
Southern states became tired Of the
combination and desired to set up
little republic OF their own, at the ex-
peuse of a few billion dollars and q
half million lives, the republic was
knocked fnto-a; cooked hat; but who
would dare to knock, Wall street in
to cooked hat?" -
When Wall street thus openly boasts
-of its power 70 coerce coaGress,. and
make willing. servants 1of Legislators,
It causes true Americans. tos>revolt
against the. systems that gives those
who control affairs in the money .marts
of the nation this power. If it is the
maintafhance of as gold -standard' that
enables them to WELD this influence,
and in their circular, they intimate
that it is, there is little wonder that
the common people threaten to strike
it down with honest ballots at the polls.
{ While this circulor does not say in
SO many words, that Wall street con-
trolls The American government, to.
gether with the army and navy, it i'm
plies: that Wall street controls those
who control the government, which
Is the next best thing; and when Wall
street pass the screws to the people,
when it brings into action. ''this re-
served power" which Messrs. Clews &
say they have, it is time for the masses
TO raise the danger signal. They be-
come alarmed at threatened danger,
and are ready to remove the system
that creates this. unnatural and unsafe
power. II it is the gold standard, they
seek to strike at the root of the evil
and establish another and less danger
Gus standard, one that cannot be
by the owners of wealth.