Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-10-28

GOLD AND SILVER THE MONEY OF H
CONSTITUTION.
When the Colohists, from oppres-
Sion in England. bad settled on our
shores thy carried with them and
D., dopted the laws of the Mother
Country "a far as they were appli-
cable to their condition.
When the trainers Of the Constitn-
have power ito coin money, regulate
the value thereof, and that no State
shall coin money, emit bills of credit
or make anything but gold and silver
coin Il legal tender in payment Of
debts" they took the definition of the
words "tr coin money" as understood
in the mother Country. At that time,
money in England meant gold and
silver, aud nothing else. An English
bank note was not a legal tender for
debt. These money clauses arr still
in the Constitution, aud in the t-cth
Of the plain provi ions of that sacted
instrument, the money sharks OF Wall
and Lombard Streets, the bankers and
the mililonalres are attempting to
convince the people that it is ii relic
OF batbari5m and tIeir duty is to ig-
more it. With their yachts, their pal
aces, their eH ,ipage5. their love OF
foreign titles aud what Is worse, their
vicious notions of iegi7lati ., they
constitute an element which is of no
good use in Il Republic.
Monometali5m is noI the ism OF thu
Constitution. Daniel Wehstsr 5 lis! in
1886 "most unqlestl pnaoly there is no
legal tender, and there can De no legal
teuder in this Country under the
authority OF this Government, but
gold and silver, either the coinage Of
II W minis or foreign coins or
notes regulated 10y Congress-"
BLAINE's PROPHETIC SPEECH.
James G. Blaine in United States
Senate, 1880:
I believe the struggle going on
in this Country and in other Countries
lct a cltSIO Soll o. 'itI "ctl's IL
successful, produce wi iesp:ead dis
a,ter ia and throughout the commer-
cial world The obstruction of silver
as money and establishing gold us
the sole unit of value must have "a
ruinous effect upon al forms OF prop-
erty except those investments which
yield a fix return 10 money. Those
would he enormously enhanced il
value, and and would gain a dis
proportionate aud unfair advan-
tage over other species of property
If, as the most reliable statistics at
firm, there are nearly 81 600, 900, 900 OF
coin or bullion in the world, very
equally divided pet ween gold and sill.
Yer, it is impossible to strike silver
out OF eXistaDce as money without
results that will prove distressing t
millions and utterly dis astrous to tens
OF thousands.
l believe gold and silver coin to bt
money Of the Constitution, indeed, the
3 money Of the American people anter,
ior TO the Constitution which the grea
organic law recognized as quite indie
! power was conferred on Congress t.
5 declare either metal should not b,
money. Congress, therefore, IN N,
judgment had no power to demonetize
. either. If, therefore, silver has beer
~demonetiZed, [ am in favor of rem0n
= eTizing it. If the coinage has bee
prohibited. l am in favor Of ORDERING
e it to be resumed, [ am in favor O.
having it enlarged.
Justice Stephen J. Field, in the lega
tender cases says, To coin money is t
mould metallic substances havin,
= intrinsic value into carrafn forms con
!, ~venient for commerce, and to impress
thereon the stamp Of the Governmeu
in debating their value, The power t
cola none is to fabricate coins"
Justice Clifford in the sBme case
, said, Money in the constitutions
f sense means coins Of gold and silve
fabricated and stamp ped by authorit
q Of law as d measure Of value, puIsuar
10 the power vested in Congress 10y tn
q, CONSTITUTIONS
, The Supreme Court of the Unite
d States in the ease of GWin vs.. BrecdlC
2 Howard 3Sl which involved tn
question of the right of a United State
d Marshall to collect on execution ban
notes held, Justice Cation, deliverin
5 the opinion, that "gofd and silvt
D. made current by law cal only be ten'
he cred in payment OF debts"
admit the legal tender decision
ID made Treasury notes money, but tt