Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03

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number Of The Forum should do good
service for the cause OF honest money.
Thou Shalt Not Steal'' is the sug-
eestive titls of the opening paper
which is by Isaac L. Rice. Mr.. Rice
disposes of some of the arguments OF
those who favored the unlimited coin
age OF silver at the ratio Of l6 to /.
showing among other things the falsity
of the plea that gold and silver are
constitutional money. Moreover, he
declares that we preceded England by
eleven years in gold inonometalism,
Jefferson having discontinued the coin
age Of silver in 1905. while the British
did not adopt gold mouometalism until
lsl6 He also disposes OF thu plea of
servitude 10 London, and holds rather
that under the reduction of our dollar
I'VE shall feel financial seryitude far
worse to bear than the ills from which
we forced ourselves in 1T76.i
Following Mr.. Rice's paper. the Hon.
Andrew d. White writes Encourage
ments in the Present Crisis. !" The ex-
Minister to Germany answers some
Critics who objected to his open letter
addressed ''To Patriotic Democrats, /"
and dwells particularly upon the par
allel he had suggested between the
Chicago convention and scene in the
French Revolution. As a student of
history he had acquainted himself
thoroughly with the French Revolu-
tion, and the parallel which he now pic
lures with some detail is most strik.
ing. One paragraph will suffice to con-
vey an impression of the vigorous
sketch. There on the floor" he
writes OF the Chicago convention, 81
seemed to see that old Jacobin tragi-
comedy; the same advocates of every
extreme principle and extreme want of
principle, outbidding each other for
the applause of the galleries; the same
demagogues, vilifying those who were
laboring most faithfully TO serve the
country: the same fanatics ready to
plunge their country in ruin to vindi-
cate their nostrums; the same declaim-
ers stirring hatred between different
sections of the country; the same sen
sation- mongers srousing distrust be-
tween the men whose cooperation is
necessary to the national peace and
prosperity: and withal the same body
of thinking men, dazed by the tumult,
stunned by the noise, silent in an orgy
of unreason.
Later Mr.. White takes up the differ
ences between conditions in the time
of the French Revolution and in the
present and finds encouragement for
this country. The greatest encourage
ment is that the questions are to be
settled by appeals to reason and pa
triotis n addressed TO the sober second
thought of the American people,"
Ex.President Harrison addressed a
Republican meeting in NewYork Thurs
day night, and il the course of his re-
marks said:
| shall speak. my fellow citizens, as
a Republican, but With perfect respect
TO those who bold differing opinions.
| Indeed, | nave never had so much re-
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perhaps, ] should say never had so
much respect for so many Democrats as
l have now. That party has once more
exhibited its capacity TO be ruptursd,
and party that cannot be split is a
public menace.
/ When the leaders of party assem-
bled in convention depart from its ira
ditional principles and advocate doc
trines that threaten the integrity of
the government, the social order of our
communities and the security and
sounaness of our finance, it ought to
split, ard it dignifies itself when it
does split.
No doubt OK President Harrison has
more respect for political independence
Low than be had four years ago. when
it encompassed his defeat. But he has
given utterance to a sound truth, as
applicable to his own party as to any
other, in the words, "a party that can
not be split is a public menace.
Here is voice from Europe that
decidedly favors free silver coinage by
the Unitd States alone. 1t is from the
Nachrichten, paper published in
Berlin:
What, then, would the victory of the
American silver party mean? In the
first place, it would furnish us mag.
niticent opportunity to get rid of our
old thalers. In similar manner, other
nations, too, especially France and
Belgium, would dump their super
abundance of silver, which gives them
SO much trouble, upon the American
market, and-like other nations, too
use American free silver coinage to
carry out the unavoidable transition to
the gold standard. Furthermore ii
would be very profitable for the refin-
ing works and arbitrage houses to ship
| their silver, and to exchange for II
American products at half the price
which American consumers have to pay.
Oh, yes, free silver coinage would
give the countries OF the old world a
fine opportunity to Hood the mints Of
this country with their deprecated sill
yer coins. They would doubtless profit
by the transaction, but where would
the people of this country derive any
benefit?
The Delaware Justice of the peace
who wrote TO the New York World de.
Tending the whipping post on the
ground that il provides well-merited
punishment for wife heaters, was wide
of the mark. The post is not used
upon this vicious breed of offenders,