Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-09-09

ditions, and it will not consent to
change until other nations can be induced
to assist in making change.
When other nations consent to help uf
in that behalf there will be no need OF
help, because we will cease to exist as 9
nation, unless we assert our independence
as it is now proposed to do.
| It is in favor of constant shrinkage
in the quantity of money in circulation
and, therefore, it is in favor of lower
prices, and it proposes, if it succeeds in
power, to further press prices down un-
less they can be raised by increasing taxes
II proposes to manufacture no more
money for the people except such as may
be made out of gold.
How it is possible for nation or an
individual to become prosperous by
continually increasing the amount Of
taxes that are to be paid, is matter that
is beyond the comprehension of the
ordinary mind and yet this is the very
thing that the Republican party proposes
to do if placed in power again.
Before taxes can be paid, money must
first be manufactured and delivered to
the people. Money does not grow, it is
manufactured, and the congress alone in
this country has power to manufacture
it.
THE MONEY MILLS.
tits affirmed by those who are in favor
of the "gold standard" that all that is
necessary to be done to make the people
prosperous is to open the mills and set
idle men to work. 1t may as well be un-
derstood first as last that the mills OF
this country will never be opened more
than they are at the present until the
mills of this country, owned by the gov
ernment in which money is manufactured
are first opened to the free coinage OF
units of money out of gold and silver at
the rate established by the law of 1887
and until they are opened there can be no
prosperity, individual or national, in this
country.
As we'll attempt to run an engine with.
out oil as to do business without money
The mints wherein money is made are
the most important mills to keep run
ming in this country and no man need be
alarmed lest there be more made than
the people of this country use in
the conduct of their business. Those
mints for the past twenty years
have been practically closed except to
those who owned and controlled the gold
mines of the world.
The battle In this campaign is for the
purpose of securing legislation which
will open those mills, and if we do not
succeed the fight will continue until we
do succeed.
| 1t is said that what the people want is
employment and if they had employment
there would be no hard times; no finan-
cial distress. Give to the people good
prices for their products and their serv-
ices and they will employ themselves to
the best advantages; there will be no idle
men; no surplus of labor.
There never was financial panic in all the
world when prices in general were rising,
and there can be no general rise in prices
unless the quantity of money in circula-
tion increases.
Financial distress, bankruptcies, strikes,
combinations of capital and of labor,
trusts and syndcates can only exist when
there is constantly falling market, when
prices in general fall. Prices in general
can only fall when the quantity of money
in circulation with respect to population
decreases. The volume of money in cir
culation and prices 60 hand in hand.
When the volume shrinks prices fall;
when it increases prices rise. 1t ia the
eternal fall of prices that pauperizes
men, paralyzes industries and ruins ma
tions.
The National Silver party was organized
for the express purpose of securing an
increase in the quantity of money by the
free coinage Of silver, 80 as to prevent at
least any further fall in prices in general,
and If through the efforts of that party
this can be accomplished, it will have
done greater good to greater number
than any party that was ever organized
since this nation was established, and it,
will have conferred upon mankind a
greater blessing than was ever conferred
before in the history of the world.
WHY SILVER WAS STRUCK DOWN.
The reason, and the only reason why
silver was excluded from the mints was
to increase the purchasing power of
money made out of gold, thereby giving
to the money holder and bondholder
greater command over the services OF
men and the products of the farm, mill
and factory.
We are now entering upon the greatest
struggle for the emancipation of the peo-
pie from industrial bondage, industrial
slavery, that was ever engaged in by
man. If we succeed, as succeed we must,
our country, our institutions and our civ
ilizatlon will be secure. But if We fail
our country will be despoiled, our insti-
tutions will be destroyed and our civil
zation will perish.
The gold barons of the world have
formed the most gigantic trust that has
ever been formed among men to control
and regulate the volume of money in cir
culation in the interest of themselves
alone. They have set about deliber-
ately and premeditatedly to enslave the
American people, PROSTATE their indus
tries destroy their opportunities and i'm
poverish the nation and the people
thereof. This trust must be broken, it's
power mast be destroyed. and it will be
destroyed by an outraged and long suffer-
ing people when they register their will
at the ballot-box in November next.
The present condition of the people is
the result of laws relating to money and
bonds which have been enacted by the
Republican and Democratic parties un-
der the direction and at the instance Of
the gold barons of this country and Eu-
rope. They have heretofore controlled
both of these parties. They now domi-
nate and control the Republican party.
The National Silver party proposes to
assist in destroying the gold trust and We
appeal to all those who are interested in
humanity, who are interested in good
government, who believe that men are
more important than property, who be-
lieve that the interests of those who cre-
ate wealth are paramount to those who
are merely consumers, to assist in this
great struggle.
That We shall succeed there can be no
question, because this is fight in favor
of the many against the few. II is q fight