The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19

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moral They see no dishonesty in
paving obligations in deprecated cur
rency According to their perverted way
OF thinking, they are forced into making
contracts which gave an undue advantage
to the creditor Now 1t IS a question
whether they or their creditors are to
be crushed. The instinct for man to look
out for himself is inherent. These men
say they are simply following the mex
orable law Of nature and giving their
creditors dose of their own medicine.
If silver is triumphant we know what
will happen, or, at any rate, unless all
oar theories are at fault. There viii. be
widespread distress and commercial dis
order IF THE SILVER MEN ARB
BEATEN IT is DIFFICULT TO FORE
SEE WHAT WILL FOLLOW, BpT
FEAR THAT AN EVEN MORE DAN
GEROIJS STATE OF AFFAIRS WILL
RESULT.
What the outcome will be no man can
predict. I have seen too much Of Ameri-
can politics to make any rash guess three
months before election. IF THE ELEC-
TION WE'RE TO TAKE PLACE A
WEEK HENCE I WOULD KNOW
VERY WELL WHAT WOULD HAP
PEN, BRYAN WOULD BE ELECTED
WITHOUT THE SHADOW OF A
DOUBT I have recently Travelled ex-
tersively throughout the west and south
in the very hotbad of silver, and know
how intense the sentiment is there. Inc
east. of course, is for sound money, but
the east cannot carry the election without
the aid of western votes, and the west
today is almost unit for free silver.
Heroic efforts are being made by the Re
publicans to stem the current, but many
of the things they are doing are reactns
on them. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE
ALL THE MONEY THEY NEED Al
THEIR COMMA AND, AND THEY HAVE
THE SUPPORT OF THE BANKS, IA Il
RAILROADS, THE INSURANCE COM
PANIES AND OTHER GREAT CON-
PORATIONS. THE DEMOCRATS FIND
IT VERY DIFFICULT TO RAlSE
MONEY ENOUGH FOR LEGITIMATE
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES, BUT THE
KNOWLEDGE THAT THE MONEY
GLASSES ARE ON THE SIDE OF THE
GOLD STANDARD rs ONLY TENDING
TO SOLIDIFY THE SILVER RANK,
AND MAKE THEM FIGHT MORE DES-
PERATELY THAN EVER. The west is
heavily indebted to the east. Eastern
banks and loan associations have notified
their western debtors that they must not
expect to be granted an extension Oh their
loans, and the natural antagonism which
exists between the west and the east has
been intensified by. this action, and has
increased the sectional feeling which the
money question has developed. The west
has all the feeling for the east that a
man has for the accommodating friend
who discounts his little bill, and makes
him pay dearly for the privilege. 1t is no
secret that the east is putting the screws
on the silver south and west.
must caution your readers not to bank
too heavily on the cable news which will
be published during the next few months
regarding the progress OF the campaign,
or to take it for granted that the Repub-
licans will win in a wa.kover. Most OF
the cable news emanates from New YORK,
and New York is out of touch with west
ern sentiment and does not yet appreciate
the full significance of the movement
which is going on. THE EASTERN PEO-
PIE HAD BEEN WARNED MONTHS
AGO THAT THE DEMOCRATIC CON-
VENTION WOULD, WITHOUT MUCH
DOUBT. BE CAPTURED BY THE SILL
YER DELEGATES, but in their over
weening conceit they brushed all such
York and Boston would not permit such a
thing. After the convention the east was
stunned for few days, then it recov-
cred it's usual complacency and AT
FECTED TO REGARD THE SILVER
MOVEMENT AS A CRAZE WHICH
WOULD SOON DIE OUT, FORGET
TING THAT A CRAZE WHICH HAS
LASTED NEARLY A QUARTER OF A
CENTURY DOES NOT MEET ITS
DEATH IN A NIGHT. In New York
there is only one newspaper advocating
silver, in Boston silver has no advocate,
and in Philadelphia it has to rely on one
paper. IN THESE THREE GREAT
CITIES OF THE EAST, THE PRESS IS
ALMOST SOLIDLY ARRAYED
AGAINST SILVER, AND THE CON-
DUCTORS OF THE VARIOUS PAPERS
ARE DELUDING THEIR READERS
BY BELITTLING SILVER AND PUB
LISTING GOLD NEWS ALMOST Elk
This ostrich-like style of
journalism may have it's advantages, but
it is dangerous to pin too much faith to it.