The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-09-30
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gold standard, OF the banks, the trust
and the monopolists. On the one
side We find the statesmen, the bank
ers and tie public press of Europe,
aided by the banks, the commercial
press, the political bosses, the rail
roads and all other monopollsts Of
the United States; and on the other
side the American people. The con
fict is not doubtful !Le American
people uever have been bought or in
undated. In every struggle against
despotism they have been victorious,
and there can be no doubt Of the re-
suit iu The present conflict. The or
ly reason why the money powers,
stock iobbers and gold gamblers have
been able to transfer SO large part
of the earnings of the American peo-
pie to themselves and their associates
is, because the American people
trusted Congress and the President,
and did not believe that their public
servants would betray them; but
when the Republican party confessed
that it had been guilty of deceiving
the people for more than twenty
years, in pretending to be IN favor OF
the money Of the constitution, the is
sue was made. The Democratic con-
veDtion took the side of the people,
and the question to be determined
in November next is, whether we
shall have a government of the peo-
pie, for the people and by the people,
or government of gold monopoly,
for gold monopoly, and by gold mo-
nopoly.
The effect Of the regenerated De-
mocracy which the people are de-
termined to have means prosperity.
Those who believe that it will create
ffty.cent dollar will be mistaken.
The friends of financial reform be-
lieve that the unlimited mintage of
of gold and silver by the United
States would stop falling prices and
start the wheels Of enterprises. They
do not anticipate, and have no reason
to anticipate, great riso III prices,
because all the silrer now produced
is used in the arts or coined into
money. L would be impossible for
.1ao United States to obtain sufficient
Of tie output Of silver to more than
keep pace with population aud busi-
ness and maintain stability Of prices.
Continued falling prices means stag
nation, misery and want. 1t means
enforced idleness, poverty and bank
ruptcy. It means an unearned in
crement for those who deal in money
and bonds, which are money futures.
we have had falling prices for twenty
years. The purchasing power OF
money has more than doubled. The
weaIte OF the masses has been trans
ferrel 10 a very small class. If this
process cannot be stopped civilization
will be destroyed, as has frequently
happened.
lie effort to friyhten the people
by telling them that the United
States would be the dumping ground
for silver is in keeping with every
prediction that has been made by
gold politicians and the gold press
for the last twenty years. They can
not point to one prediction which
has not failed. They have been false
prophets from the beginning, ard
when they say that spectators would
buy silver in other countrias for S.
cents an ounce and sell it here iQf
S1.29. They presume the people OF
tie United States are fools. Every
one k.s&s, or ought to know that
silver has Deen and always Will he
The same price throughout the world,
less the difference of transportation,
aud that it Lever will be transported
from Que country to another uuless
it is taken there to be exchanged or
sid fer the commodities OF tne
country,
| have heard in the Senate Of the
United States the argument used
against the RECOMMENDATION o: silver,
tia. tie Asiatics would met ,beir
idols uai UruS them to this country
ana nave tl:cm coined INTO dollars,
an! tyKe them back an i have taew
reforlued into iuOls. These are the
arguaents whlch tie gol,ii;es u;e to
deceive what they assume to be an
ignorant people. Since the Republi,
can patty plead guilty to tie crime
of the standard there has been
movement in this country which sur
prised all golaites and all politicians,
because they did not know tuat the
people adhered to the old parties,
because they would not believe that
the leaders of their party were whole
sale liars. They believed that they
were voting for silver, but when they
found that they were not they have
shown that they understood the ques-
ton and knew what they wanted.
The reason why the Republican party
is beaten and discredited is because
it has furnished the proof itself that
it had practiced deception upon the
people and could no longer be trusted.
If Whitney and Company could have
controlled the Democratic Conven-
ton it would have been just as odious
as the Republican party, because the
people make no distinction between
such men as Cleveland and Sherman,
Morgan and Carlisle, or any of their
associates or abettors. But when tue
Democratic party raised the Ameri-
can standard and drove from the
Democratic assembly the Pharisees
and money changers OF the bond
! oo1;r ~ et,.;pa tboir cotton wac on