The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04
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It is becoming more apparent every day
that the Republicans of California will be
sorely grieved and disappointed If the
State Convention fails to declare emphati-
cally and unequivocally for the remoneti-
cation of silver at 16 to 1. And it NAV be
said that the Republicans in California are
thoroughly convinced that the delegates
to the st. Louis Convention should go un-
trammeled by pledges to support any par
ticular candidate, that they may be en-
tirely free to make strong and deter
mined fight for declaration in the plat
form for the coinage OF silver, and for q
man who will fit the platform. These
things are paramount, for their accom-
phshment would mean the revival of all
lines OF business in California almost i'm
mediately.
Republican party and in asking for a
pledge that the mints shall be reopened to
silver she is only asking for the practical
application OF Republican principles in
the conduct of the Nations affairs.
Whatever may be said to the contrary,
the fact remains that there is not nearly
large enough volume of metallic money,
and because of the insufficiency California's
prosperity is seriously hindered.
The question Of the expediency, of the
economic aspect and of the consequence of
remonetizing silver is too well understood
by the Republicans of California to need
any analysis. The people know by exper-
ience that the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold is of vital Importance to
every interest in this State; besides, the
silver mining industry of the entire West
has been crippled too long already by
denying to silver It's legitimate place in the
monetary system of the country. This
is not sectionalism, but it is demand for
the adoption of a sound and sensible finan.
cial policy by the st. Louis Convention.
The principle of economics that makes
gold money has in the past and can again
confer the same office upon silver, and
California wants the delegates from this
State to the st. Louis Convention to see to
it that whoever is nominated is nominated
under pledges to open the mints TO silver
and to gold without any discrimination
whatever for or against either metal
Gold makes good enough money for
California, but there is not enough of it.
Silver makes good enough money for Cali
fornia. and there is enough of it, when
oONOo ~ SOlO W give the OCate
and the whole country an ample volume
of metallic money to meet the require
ments of the people. y
The attention of the delegates to the
State Convention need not be called to the
tremendous losses that the demonetiza-
ton of silver has obliged California to
sustain, for they know all about that, and
not few of them to their sorrow on per-
sonal account. Nor is it at all necessary
to show how the conspirators managed to
murder silver in 1S73 and how by reason
thereof there has been only depreciation
of values and business distress ali over the
country, for they know all about that, too.
But the attention of delegates to the
State Convention is called to the fact that
public sentiment in California demands
that they instruct the delegation that will
go to st. Louis to go loaded for bear, so to
speak, and that they be bound by no in
structions other than to watch and work
and pray for California's best interests.