San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-27
Ube Daily Light.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1896.
HEADQUARTERS OF REPUB-
LICAN STATE LEAGUE.

The most important campaign
of a generation is upon us, and
the utmost activity is needed to
awaken the voters and inform
them upon the vital issues IN
this fight. t would not do to re-
main neutral and depend upon
the sound money supporters OF
another political party to carry
the election for us. The Repub-
lican League is enlisted in this
fight to help bring about veto.
ry for protection and sound mon
cy, for prosperity, and to again
restore the Republican party to
power. We must fight if we OK
pect to win, and all members of
the League must use their utmost
endeavOrs to see that every vote
for the Republican nominee is
cast and correctly counted.
1t is with your help that we
expect to fight this campaign to
a finish. Let all sound money
men join hands, irrespective of
political utilization, to protect the
credit of the Nation and to pro-
tect the masses of our people
from being victimized by clip
ping the coin of the realm. Su
preme efforts must be made TO
maintain the credit and honor of
the government, inspire conf
dence among the holders of its
obligations and preserve the sta
bility and value of the various
kinds of currency in the hands
of the people.
Let the tOcsin sound the death
knell of the party who now at
tempts to wreck the government
and bury the corpse of free silver
so deep that it will never be
heard of again.
Let all honest men work t"
spread the light of the truth I'M
til the mirage painted by the sill
yer Optimists fade away.
The monetary plank in tile Re
publican platform is diametrical
to the plank of the POpOcrats,
which is for free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to /, and is not intended to
change the measure of standard
of value now existing, nor to dis
continue the use of silver as
money.
Do not be Influenced by am
higuOus statements being circu-
lated by the Bryanite free silver
advocates, pay no heed to any
sinister remarks uttered by them
in regard to the great success
they promise.
Beware of their white god,
It is an undeniabie fact that in
ease of Bryan's election our
forms of credit and prices would
not even nOminally advance, but
on the contrary it would destroy
credit and undoubtedly produce
the most serious financial disturb
ance this country has ever Wit
messed. We would under that
form of government have Il de-
preciated standard of value with
nominally higher prices.
Common prudence would die
tate that, when such an import
ant change is to be made in the
monetary system of this govern
ment it should be made in ad-
vance of the actual changes for
a gradual transition from the old
to the new order of things; a
transition period should be pro-
vided for so as to avoid, as far as
possible, a sudden disturbance of
business and contraction of the
currency-but the advocates of
free coinage have no such pur-
pose. They intend to make a
sudden and revolutionary change
in the standard upon which all
existing contracts of the people
are based and by which all val
ues are measured and let the
consequences take care of them
selves.
1t is beyond question of
doubt that the free and unlimit-
ed coinage arguments so far as
they are addressed to the honest
people of the country, are based
upon a flimsy foundation, upon
an erroneous principle and false
assumption of actual facts.
Credit or confidence is an ele-
ment of far greater Importance
in fixing or upholding prices than
the mere amount of actual mon
ey in use, or available for use,
and, in fact about 90 per cent of
the entire business of the cOun-