The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1896-09-18
GODDN II ODNTE.
resorts TO Forged Documents to
Make Il Case for Free silver,

The Tree silver argument at the opera
house Tuesday evening to good sized
audience. His plea consisted Of the
usual appeal to prejudice rather than
| to reason, the usual denunCiatiOn Of
! the money power" and a presentation
Of distorted facts and bold forgeties, IA
few OF which we we propose to call al
tentlon to. One OF the most glarlng of
| of these was the reading OF an article,
said 10 have appeared IN the London
| Financial News Of April 10, stating that
England feared losing her commercial
supremacy if the United States should
60 to a silver basis. This article had
been printed and circulated by the
democratic committee, and it was sent
TO the editor OF the London Financial
News, who in the issue Of that paper
Of Aug. g, expressly repudiates the
article and says:
No SUCH ARTICLE WAS EVER PRINTED
BY Us AND lis WHOLE TENOR l. DIRECTLY
OPPOSED TO THE VIEW We HAVE TAkEN
or TIE EFFECT OF FREE sIINHR IN THE
] UNITED STATES SO FAR FROM ADvo-
ICAT1NG FREE SEWER COINAGE. WE HAVE
PERsIsTESTI.Y POINTED OUT THAT II
SPELLS RFrrDIArloN AND THE WITH
DRNWAL or ALL LuKoPEAH CAPITAL.
The Whole article is Il barefaced forg-
elv, aud has been denounced as such by
almost every daily paper in the country.
land Mr.. GoOdykOOntz knew it when he
presented it TO Milhanli audience.
/ The people are desirous Of getting facts
upon which TO base AN Intelligent Her.
dict, and what can be thought Of the
imam or cause that seeks to lead them
estrav bv reading acknowledged forger-
les for the purpose OF preJudlclng ana
lpcelying them. As Intelligent people
discover these deceptions it has just The
opposite effect 10 what was intended.
Arajn Mr.. Goody koonfz euloglzed
Thomas Jefferson, and attempted te
lead his heaters 10 believe that that
Great statesman favored coinng money
II half its market yalue, Willie every
we'll informed man and student OF his
tory knows THAT both Jefferson ana
Hamilton agreed, aud 50 stated 10 Con
I,res. that tie commercial or market
value of the metals was tire only proper
mode of fixing the legal ratio, ana that
= making Tie first mint law they dad tx
the legal ratio 1T just what ii WIS lnthf
mari cts of,he world as near as could be
aseertained.
The speaker reiterated tie Old ex-
nloded assertion that half Of the money
Of ,he country was struck Gown by the
.c,ima If 1873" Notwithstanding the
fact that ia the eighty years previous Z
that time. but eight million SILVER dollars
,,ara coined. while III tie tNenty-thret
wears since the "crlme some o0'ooo,ou,
silver dollars have been coined. Mf
Goolykoou,z suppressed this Tact, WhIei
would have shown that ins'eaa q
contraction of the currency which n
claimed, there had been expansion
. The sneaker presented the Earnes
fSeyd myth. stating that tue act OF .
was passed at the instlgation OF 'A
rnol,sh money -loaners because NOR.
eages we're being paid of too rapld'y
and protested that the present bar
,;mes ana depression IN business wa
occasionea by the law Of 1873 and no
, by the destruction OF the rep9oiica
tariff law.
rhe sneaker had the hardlhood 7
; Quote the Abraham Lincoln propAec
tran3 which was formerly printed
nopllist papers, but which has Dee
nroved to be Il forgery, and when cal
nat be found in any authentic blogrf
!, nhy or writings Of The great emanclpa'o
al also quoted Blaine in support 81 ID
Is 10 falscy. while every tole'aDl
r.oll informed man knows that Biain
was nncompromislngl opposed 70 tn
trpe coinage Of silver, and denounced
IN one of his greatest speeches IN 1oi
,,rass AZ reputation and dishonesty an
nrad;c,ed disaster TO follow II.
: me HERALD ADVANCE believes mi
thara Is plenty o. room tor an hone
a;ffarence OF oplHion and can respect
f,;r n,esenta,ion Of adverse views, b.
!, believes no language can be sntliclen
:. e..an, 70 denounce the delibera
n;sreprrsen,ations, that 20 to the exte1
- forgery OF newspaper articles ~
,n;souoting the honored dead q the
nuhl;c ia order to mlslead and pr~judi'