The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-06-27
SILVER IN THE WEST.
a Boston Newspaper Man Gets a Few Tins
on the Greatest Of Political Movements

a Boston Newspaper Man Gets n Few Tips
on the Greatest of Political Move ,nents.
henry Haynie, Il oIrcspondent sent
ont by the Boston Herald. is learning
the truth about the silver cause. and.
what IS really astonishing, is printing it
In a series Of letters in that big daily of
the Hub. In a recent letter from Den.
yer no says, among many other inter
estlng things which fill ever three col
umns, the following:
There arc several small parties and
associations among the political people
Of this western country which are dis
tInct from and outside of the two old
parties. 1t is these several associations
mat count for most in the coming cam
palgn-that is, if they become united
but as yet ]" is by no means certain that
these several groups will ever be able to
unite III the silver issue. 1t is claimed.
however, that if every party and per
son favoring the rehabilitation of silver
as money were to sink all minor issues
and ambitions-were to put away the
idea of fealty to old parties and unite
with the one object in view, that of BIZ
metalllsm-their cause or candidate
would win next November. I have yet
to meet n man OF oman except I'M in
wyoming, who is not i%rrevocably com
mltted to the silver issue-that is, if
their own words go for anything.
However, a third party will not be
summoned into life until after both Of
the old parties have had an opportunity
to refuse a plank asking for the free
coinage OF silver on the ratio already
mentioned, and the Populist convention
was called purposely several weeks later
than the regular conventions so as to
afford the Republican and Democratic
parties this opportunity. One thing is
certain, the politics of this third party
are i'll the hands of trained politicians,
and they are not going to hurry or make
many mistakes, if any. Men like Sena-
tors Teller, Stewart, Jones, Morgan,
Allen, Butler, Cameron, Warner, Pence. |
Mott, PETER and Tillman have no am
bltlon to crafty, but a principle to es-
tabllsh. There is no question but that
the west and south want free silver, but
it is a question whether for the sake of
it they will throw aside all differences
ana march under one banner.
What we need" a tolerably well TO
farme in Kansas said to me, "what
we require, are higher prices, but so long
as a single standard, and that one gold.
is maintained, higher prices are impos.
slble. Without higher prices the Ameri-
can people cannot pay their foreign
debts, and unless we pay those debts we
,anno maintain the gold standard. for
dragnet of the foreign creditor will
fake it all. In short, sir, a continued
gold standard means our ruin. lust as it
also means the ruin of your manufacture
-ng people in New England, and a mon
stary system which is rapidly drawing
he producing classes of the richest ma
ion on earth into the vortex of financial
destruction is neither sound nor honest.
no amount Of banking defamation
II party platform can make it SO. The
complete restoration of silver to its
'ormer place as a money metal will
heck the rising value of gold, deprive
silver standard countries of the adyan-
ages in exchange which they now pos
and give the toiler and producer
omething like a fair return, and this
AN be done only in II way-the mints
must be opened to free coinage again."