Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-09-04
The Verdict!
\ dispatch received ut this office FIVE
minutes before goipg to press SAYS that
returns from practically all over the
State give Grout Tor Governor nearly
$4,000 MAJORITY.

oosSoo LII al UNI L.
his name and in no way gave silver it's
money rights rs before 1879.
Your member OF Congress well said !
in speech upon the silver question last |
winter that a point has been reached /
where not another dollar of silver can be |
coined safely under existing conditions. |
Existing conditions is good, Could such |
condition be reached ifit was urinary
money we had been coming? The silver |
men most heartily agree with him that
silver must be restored to its long time
use as money and coin no more fit v-three
cent dollars. This country cannot afford
to com a commodity bought i'm one
market at its market value, measured
with other commodities by an apprec.at-
ing standard and put the stamp of the
Government upon 1t as money. To coin
silver as commodity and to coin silver
with its money functions restored in full,
as it existed for so wears before 1873, is
different proposition, and viewed by
any fair minded man. must he attended
with different results.
The fake of buying and coining silver
Congressman Grout in his recent speech
upon the silver question in his compari-
son of the white or silver OK, though he
omits one important point in his argu-
ment The people were clamoring in
| 1878 for the restoration Of the silver OK
to his place in the team with the yellow
or golden OK. This was denied them but
the demand was so positive that John
Sherman, being equal to the emergency
in 1873, came forward with his compro-
mise bill and SAYS Yes, we will restore
the white OK, and i'll doing it he loaded
him on the yellow OK load, and the poor
creature has been staggering under the
load ever since and trying to carry it
with the assistance of an occasional bond
issue of hundred million gold for oiling
the old cart of State. This piece OF legis-
lation John Sherman should be proud of,
but what do the people think oft
| In conclusion you say "0ur correspon-
dent has been spinning around one plank
OF the Chicago platform only" | had
tried to discuss one plank Of your English
gold platform IN comparison with one
plank of the Chicago platform and have
had no occasion to differ with you upon
any other plank of your platform; but
many things might I've said about the
re.enacting OF the Mckinley bill, which is
the shibboleth of your party. First, you
claim you must restore the business OF
the country by repeating the Wilson bill
and restoring the Mckinley bill in order
to raise sufficient revenue to prevent
further bond issues. Let us see. The
revenue under the Mckinley bill the la ST
wear before repeal was S131 ,S1S,531 and
under the Wilson bill the second year
ending June LIST 1896 was $160 ,534 ,35l.
The Mckinley bill has never checked the
outflow of money from the Treasury. Mr..
Cleveland turned over to Harrison $751;
f 701 ,0Sl free gold above the 500, 900, 900
reserve and Harrison turned over to
, Cleveland at the beginning OF Cleveland
second term 50 341 GA, and Harrison
} made every preparation for an issue oil
bonds before his term expired as Secretary
Fosters letter under date of Feb. 90
: 1898 will show, which is as follows
) ITO the chief of the bureau of Engraving
and Printing: Sir; You are hereby
authorized and direc,ed to prepare de
{ signs for the 3 per cent bonds provided
in the Senate Amendment to the Sundry
Civil Bill now pending. This authority
| Is gwen III uuNdIiNt VI lIG NudSlHlNlt IL
: view of pressing contingencies and yor
are directed to hasten the preparation
of the design and plate in every possible
: manner. Respectfully yours, Charles
: Foster, Secretary" This shows most
S conclusivclv that Harrison if reelected
J would have issued bonds as soor
= as Cleveland did. Your inquiry il
conclusion as to coming silver, with
+ opinions put in as change, have tried tc
= make plain. As to establishing an abso
lutte non-elastic ratio, refer you to til,
f exact ratio we prospered under till st oler
| from us in 1873. As to individual
: rights, ask only for the repeal Of thu
} Act of 1878, think it was, allowing thu
r taking of contracts PAYABLE in gold. Lee
E us live as we lived till this gold syndicat,
= made laws for themselves and against
t the people. We want no new things
h AS to the Federal Judiciary, they are flcsl
t and blood like you and and creatures o
Y our creation, mean their position, anC
r since they, from pure political considera
t ton, seated Hayes, the people can low,
f them but with a stinted reverence. Abou
c the riot in Chicago, many eminent ME,
/ assert that the State authority was para
t mount. You are lawyer and | am not
y Now let me ask you one question. Wher
e the 800 Christian men met at st. Loui:
= last June with 90 per cent of them belev
= ers in Christ as taught in his Holy Word
S why was Rabbi, representing a sec
= that crucified Christ and have ever sine,
gloried in the act, called in to open tha
r great Convention with prayer unless tt
Y appease Hanna and show the grea
e Rothschild's gold syndicate that thai
S Convention was about to baptize thi
S country anew into the crime of the singl,
e gold standard!
b Lam, very truly,
/ J.. NJ. BARTLETT,
II Minneapolis, MINI.