The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-09-11

tloh upon tuts question:, out 10 give
you the optnioh ~ some at the great
leaders OF our Organization, upon the
conss quences OF STRIKING down silver
~ money.
; The greatest political leader the
party has ever had, whose very mem
ory aud name inspires the true Re-
publican with patriotic emotions,
whose words OF wisdom will be treas
ured AS a priceless legacy as long As
the Nation lives, or the English lam
guage IL spoken, Is James Il. Blaine,
who now sleeps upon the banks OF
the Potomac, amidst the scenes Of
his gIandest triuinphs. He was tho
idol Of his party, and the great
leader Of the common people. His
words Of wisdom come to you aud
me to-day.
These words were prophetic and
their fulfillment has taken place
within our knowledge. Hear him:
Il believe the struggle now going on
In this country and In other coun-
tries for single gold standard
would, IL successful, produce wide
spread disaster In and throug
the commercial world. The des-
truction of silver and establishing
gold as sole unit Of value must
have a ruinous effect upon AL forms
Of property except those improve
ments which yield a fixed return in
money. IL is impossible to strike
silver out of existence as money
without results which will prove
distressing to millions and disas-
trous to tens Of thousands. Ibelieve
gold and silver coin to be the money
Of the constitution; indeed, the
money of the American people
anterior to the constitution, which
the great organic law recognized as
quite independent of its own exis-
tence. No power was conferred on
congress to declare either metal
should not be money. Congress has
in my judgement no power to
demonetize silver any more than to
demonetiza gold"
JANIS Il BLAINE, Feb, 1873.
Iwant to call up another witness
v ho has had more to do with shaD-
ing the financial policy of the gov
eminent than any other man In It
John Seerman, OF Ohio.
In. 1878, John Sherman said, in q
letter to Mr.. Groesback. During
the monetary conference In Paris,
when silver In our country was ex.
cluded from circulation by being
undervalued, was strongly In favor
of the single standard Of gold, and
wrote a letter, which you will find
In the proceedings OF that confer
ence, tating briefly my view. At
that time the wisest among us did
not anticipate the sudden fail of
silve: or the rise Of gold that has
occurred. This uncertainty IT tue
relation between the two metals Is
one Of the chief arguments In favor
of monometallic Rystem, but other
arguments, showing the dangerous
effect upon industry by dropping
one OF the precious metals from the
sta ndard Ut value, outweigh In my
mind I'll theoretical objections TO |
the bimetallic system" And In the /
Senate as late as May 81, 1892 he |
sal t:'When the law Of 1873 WAS
passed, the only trouble about IL
was that we were not as wise as the
Almighty Ruler Of the universe. |
We could not see ahead" In April,
1877, Mr.. Chas. 0rosvenOr, now the |
leader of the repub-
ljcans on the floor of the House Of |
Representatives, aDd.one Of Major 4
closest friends, q man
Of much aOtlftv. introduced In the
Ohio Legislature and advocated its
passage the following resolution:
Resolved, by the General Assem-
by Of the State of Ohio that CON-
non honesty to the tax payers, the
etter and spirit Of the contract
lnder which the great body Of its
Indebtedness was assumed by the
United States, and true financial
wisdom, each and all dema nded she
'estorat ton OF the silver dollar to its
ormer rank as lawful money
CHI. 0RosvRNOR,
speaker House OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
H. W.CURTIss,
President of the Senate.
Adopted April "a, 1877.
These three great leaders, McKfn-
ey, sherman and Grosvenor, have
rome squarely back on their most
oIemn utterauoe and the party has
,perig.. rerudiated it's former plat
orms, while the prophetic utter
Inces Of Blaine have been literally
uflfllicd In tie history and condi-
ion Of our common people.
And finally. my friends, upon this
branch Of the sublect beg you to
listen to the man who above and be-
,ond all others. is enshrined In the
,earts of the people; the great COM
noner, Abraham Lincoln, whose sole
rust was in God and the common
people. He who said: "You might
oof all the people for little while,
md some Of them all the while, but
-ou could not fool all OF them all the
ime.r He writes: 1T has been in
Iced trying honr for the public,
,ut I see In tire near future crisis
approaching that immerses me and
'auses me TO tremble for the safety
Il my country. As result Of the
war, corporations have been en-
hroned and an era of corruption IN
,igh places will follow, and the
money power of the country will en-
leavor to rrolong its reign by work
ng upon the preiudices Of the
people until all wealth IL aggregated
n few hands and the republic is
lestroy ed. feel ut this moment
more anxiety for the safety Of my
than ever before. even i'm
he midst ~ the war;" il IL not
TRANCE that In 1885 the leaders OF
he two gr. at political parties should
mite i'm this wanton destruction Of
he industries ~ the common people.
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