The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-20

cloth or upon the cooper's casks. Every
man beneath the nag must shift for him
self, saving and excepting alone, the pro-
prietors of silver mines, who are to be-
come special wards OF the government and
to be made rich by statute.
"Our commercial rivals would be de-
lighted to see us jump neck-deep into this
free silver Is to l quagmire which the
mine-owners and their Democratic allies
have prepared for us. They know that
in every part of the world the value
measure of gold would still be applied to
our cheap money, and to all OUR CONNER
cial products, whether we consent or not,
or whether We like it or not. We might
pass laws, and threaten and buster about
how great we are and how Independent
We are. but the yard stick of gold value
would be ruthlessly laid upon our cheap
silver, and 1t would be rated at the Euro
pean market price-a price in the fixing
of which. in the absence of treaty stipu-
lation, Americans would have little or no
voice.
"All told. more than sj0o.O0OeO0 of silver
G5C5, IsS, ,i26) were, in fifteen years follow
ing 1873, added to the volume OF the cur
rency. In that fifteen years many times
more silver was used for American dol
lars than had been before used for that
purpose, all told, since Washingtons mrs;
Inauguration. Let me be more explicit.
l say more than sixty times as much sli-
YER has been coined into dollars since lS13
than had ever been coined into American
dollars in all the time since American
coinage began Ard yet, II is brazen!y
asserted that Republican silver legisla-
ton has enormously contracted the cur
rency, and that the American market
for silver bullion has been destroyed by
demonetization of the silver dollar. Re-
spectacle men ought to be ashamed TO
howl such gross misstatements In the race
Of an intelligent people.
THE last three years have been hard
years, industrially considered, but they
have been rich in the lessons OF expert
ence. The object lesson upon the tariH
has been complete. Those years have
made 1t necessary that every Democratic
orator should rewrite his tariff speech.
The old free trade lingo, which smote the
American ear for a quarter OF century,
will be listened to no more. The pat, Ut
tie demonstration that the protective TAR
In is nothing but tax, which the con-
sumer pays, and the glowing account or
the 'markets of the world which were
awaiting the products of the American
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