Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-07-18
MOTHERS
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DID NOT SUFFER AFTERwARD. xR-aant by Express or mail, on receipt of price, aI 60 per bottle. Book ITO MoTdEhs" 1ailed free.
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 SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
SILEER MEN MUST COMBINE
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political campaign will be no
 walk over" for goldite Mckinley,
 as has been anticipated by his friends, if the silver men of the
 country combine, and they must
 do this everywhere throughout the land. Mckinley should not
 be allowed to succeed Cleveland and intensity the distress which the gold standard has already in- Aicted upon the country. This can be prevented by proper action
 on the part of all who believe that this country is able to manage its
 own financial affairs.
 The silver question is the para mount issue ot the present cam and old party ties should be
 forgotten and give place to a de- termination to put in the presi- dential chair the man who can control the undivided silver vote of the country. There is a chance to do this if we concentrate our
 efforts while thers is none if we divide them between two or more candidates. This fact should be thoroughly understood by the silver people, for if they have two , candidates in the field they not t only invite defeat but insure it,
 for in this event the election
 would be certain to go to the
 House of Representatives, the present lower branch of Congress
 with it's enormous Republican 7 majority.
 { Our only hope, then, is in the
 people who must concentrate their votes upon one man in order to succeed. To prevent this ac-
 complishment, efforts are being put forth in every direction to divide the silver vote among the
 difrent parties. Old line Re publicans are told that they will tarnish their political record by voting any ticket but the
 goldite one that has been forced upon their party. It will be the same way in other cases and , silver men should resent every effort made to prevent them from 1 uniting in their efforts to elect an out and out silver man as Presi- dent Of the United States.
 Our friends should remember that there is nothing dishonest or dishonorable in the ratio of I6 to I which the goldites have re-
 pudiated. There is in the world
 from fifteen and half to sixteen times as much weight of silver as there is gold. This was the
 basis of the Benton law passed by ; Congress in IS37 and signed by
 General Jackson. By the act of
 June I4. 1870 under which the
 bond debt of the United States was funded, that debt was made payable in coin [not gold] off the then standard value, and this contract is printed upon every bond issued by the United States.
 This I6 to I is therefore the legal ratio of the country and | bond holders cannot object to it
 though they might to any change
 of ratio, even to one less favorable to silver. Hence the charge of the goldbugs that the silverites of the country propose repudia- tionis utterly untrue. The coun- try never offered to pay their their bonds in gold. Coin, as expressed in the bonds, is either gold or silver and 1t is evident that in paying our bonds, or other in- debtedness, that the United States has a perfect right, under existing laws, to use either one of these metals. The financial dis tress of the country has been caused by the attempt to use gold only, which, as we have shown, has been illegal from the first.