Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-15

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were not a legal tender, were not is
sued as money, and were not used as
money to any great extent. More
!. than half of them were issued in de-
nominations Of $1,000 and $1,000.
Only "A million dollars was issued in
denominations of $50 and none for
less. 70 consider all temporary debts
as money is absurd. According to
that the more debts the government
had, the more money it had, and the
better it was off. To make the per
capita circulation then appear large,
Holston excluded the Confederate
states, though it is we'll known that
their own money became worthless at
the end of the war and that they had
to commence using Uncle Sans mon
ey. According to the reports of the
Y. 5. Treasury Department, and we
rely more on that than on Holston,
the per capita circulation on June 80.
1865, was $20.57, which as the green
backs averaged that year only 63 and
6-l0 cents on the dollar, would only
make $13.08 reduced to coin basis. lat
present we have per capita circu]a-
ton Of $2l 10 and a total rer capita
amount of money OF $32.86. It IS
most base and false the charge that
the Republican party has contracted
the currency to the detriment of tie
people.
| Mr.. Holston stated that senator
Thurston invited Jewish rabbi to
lead the republican convention in
prayer, but the fact is that senator
Carter, Of Montana, free silverite,
did extend that invitation, he being
the chairman of the national commit
tee. He stated also that the Repub-
lican convention was made up Of plug
hat fellows and plutocrats, which is
another lie. DR.. Wattam, of this city,
went dewn-as an alternate delegate
in an $l8 suit, and he thought his ap-
parel compared favorably with the
average. Only few plug hats were
to be seen there, and they were most
ly on the silver nabobs. The most
"dudish'' looking fellow in the con-
vention was congressman Towne, the
free silver shouter from this state.
The delegates were in the main COM
mon every day men of affairs, repre-
senting the Drawn and brain of the
land. In the democratic convention
at Chicago, if anywhere, did the silk
stocking element predominate.
He said that Abraham Lincoln was
in favor of the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver, intimating that if
ne were alive to-day he would be
found with the silver forces. But how
does he know, IS that question was
not an issue in Lincoln's time? We
have every reason to believe that the
great Lincoln, were he here today,
would not be found in the party of
repudiation, per6dy and dishonor,
that Lincoln, who asserted the SUI
premacy of the Nation and crushed
the doctrine of state rights, would not
join Altgeld and Tillman to revive
that doctrine as it is sought to do by the
thrust in the democratic platform at
the president for sending u troops
to Chicago to quell a riot, preserve
peace and protect human lives and
property. Democrats have fond
ness for claiming dead republicans,
though when alive they had nothing
but abuse and villifcation for them.
He mentioned several republicans,
among them Mckinley as favoring
silver, but we defy Mr.. Holston to
produce single proof that they ever
declared themselves in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver
at the ratio of Is to1. And then con-
ditions change. A man might hold
certain views in 1873 that in 1896
would be entirely wrong owing 10
changing economic conditions. The
republican plan is to grasp the situa-
ton as it is, and in the light Of the
present do what is best under existing