The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-07-21

the fact exists that every gold stand
ard country in the world. whether Ii
has high or low tariff, Is now and has
been during recent years In the throes
of financial panic; and every silver
standard country compared with its
former condition is enjoying an indus
trial development and degree OF pros
perity hitherto unknown I'm its history.
While thus differing in opinion they
unite In asserting that the gold stand
ard must be maintained until foreign
countries shall signify their willingness
that the American people shall exercise
the rights OF free men and create a
financial system Of their own. ~
Don't vat Tor Othsr Nations.
IF we overlook the humiliation and
degradation we must feel on account of
such declaration OF financial depend
ency, we may well inquire when the
consent OF the leading commercial M
tions will be obtained. No one who has
read the proceedings Of the three intQ-
national monetary conferences tut
have already been held. or who has ~
amined the impractlcable propositions
presented at those conferences. can Cor
a moment believe that any internatiql-
al bimetaliic agreement can ever Xe
made with the consent of the lead
commercial nations Of the wor
When will Great Britain. controlled
she is and will ever be, by the cret
or classes, who collects vast sums -
money for interest due, who buys OF -
annually many more millions than she
sells to us, and whose interest IL Is "
make The pounds sterling purchase as
much of our produce as possible. con-
sent that we shall be financially inde-
pendent as we are supposed to be pou-
tically yindependent? When will the cred
itor classes of Great Britain ever give up
OF in any way yield an advantage such
as they now possess through the main!
tenance of the gold standard?
The Unitci states Nan Lssd the Way.
There is no hope for International
bimetallism until the United states
shall establish blmetalllsm for itself,
and when that Is done International
bimetallism may be secured without
the consent of Great Britain. The
United States on all other subjects OF
legislation acts Independently of any
other nation on earth. By what pro-
cess Of reasoning Is It's rights. author
tty or ability to legislate upon this, the
most important subject with which 1t
has to deal. denied? With a nation
equal In wealth and power to one
fourth of the world, II is cowardly TO
say that we must ask the permission
of Great Britain to establish and main-
tain financial policy Of our own.
Believing. as we do, that return
to the monetary system especially rec
ognized In the constitution and COM
pletely provided for by law from 1872
Till 1873 affords the only ground of hope
for the betterment of the distressed
condition of all classes, except those
who live by the increase and increment
that money loaned gives to those who
loan 1t, we appeal to all classes to rally
to the support of the only candidates
whose success indicates any hope OF
relief. Let the merchant and business
man whose dwlndling and lessened
profits have, despite his care and econ
omy, brought him face to face with
prospective bankruptcy and ruin: the
professional man whose best efforts
scarcely afford him compensation for
his labor alone; the farmer, the con-
tinually falling prices OF whose prod
ucts have left him no returns for capi-
tai invested and work performed; and
last. but not least, let the grand army
of laboring men, so called, the artisan,
the mechanic and the miner and every
one who depends upon his daily labor
for his daily bread look about him and
observe the great number of those who
vainly seek chance to work-upon
the great army of enforced idlers and
one and all resolve to try, not expert
ment, for bimotallism Is not an expert
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that throughout the vicissitudes of our
nations infancy. through the interne-
cine struggle of its manhood. kept us
great. free and prosperous country,
in which labor was not only respected
and employed. but was compensated
that want and distress, such as now
weigh upon US, was unknown. Let the
lesson OF history, too recent and too
plain TO be gaansaid or denied. be heed
ed. and let there be mo- fear that sys-
ITEM that so wonderfully protected Ia
Dor, developed business enterprise and
secured to the nation a contented and
prosperous people In the past. will do
aught but bring to us a return of like
prosperity, the predictions of disaster
OF our opponents TO the contrary not
wbthstanding.
The .scmocrats Acted Wisely.
I'm Mr.. Bryan the Chicago eonven-
ton placed at the head of its ticket a
gentleman OF exceptional ability and OF
high character. A member of congress
for four years. he commanded the ad-
miration and respect of all his asso-
cialtes In that body as scholarly
statesman and profound thinker. No
man had ever assailed his character
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