The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-03-20
LIVE ISSUES.
TELLER WILL BOLT TOO.

the OlQ PaftleS-Onoer Lne
Leadership of Sherman the
Republican Party will be
a Party of the Past.
Among many other good things
said by Senator Teller in the repub-
lican row in the Senate recently
was the following:
eve are not crying in the West
nor in the East for what the Sen
ator from Ohio chooses to call the
best money. What is the best
money? The best money, according
to the gold standard definition, is
the money that will buy the most
of human sweat, of human toll, that
will buy the most of human produc-
tions and if you can put wheat
down to ten cents buShel, the
Senator from Ohio will consider
that the best kind of money that
will buy it at that price. If you
can buy the laborer's labor for ten
cents day, that will be the best
money, and that" he says, the
people of my State will cry for.
When they do, and when they are
so dishonest, when they are so ig-
norant, | wish no longer to repre-
sent them ON this floor with feel
ing that I represent a great, free
and intelligent people. The Amer
lean people believe in bimetallism
according to the writers on political
economy for hundred years.
"Unless the American people
plant themselves upon the double
standard, that will maintain, not
only the equity of contracts, but
the stability of prices, we cannot
have prosperity, for it is the only
thing that will bring to this coun-
try prosperity and progress, that
will put an end to the discomfort
that is rising up in every part of
this country; that gives you a dem
ocratic majority one year and a
republican majority the year after.
Our safety lies in honest, sound
money, made up of the two metals
that have been in use from time
immemorial. He, who says l am
dishonest, because l advocate this,
is either dishonest himself, or ig
norant of the fact that silver money
has always been the money of man
kind, the money that has touched
more hands of toll than the gold
dollars; the money that has done
infinitely more to move the wheels
of progress than all the gold that
has ever been entered into the cir
culation of the world.
'Mr. President, we will not dis
card silver. 1t may be that, for a
time, the advocates of the so-called
sound money, may deceive the
people. They cannot do it long. If
the republican party puts itself in
the lead of the Senator from Ohio
and adopts the gold standard, it
will be party of the past and the
glory and splendor of its achieve
ments will be obliterated and de-
stroyed in the infamy of that
transaction
Everything here points to the
desertion by the South and West
from the old parties and while del
egations from these sections will go
to the national conventions, there
is but little doubt that they will
bolt the conventions and enter into
the new silver party. 1t is fight
to the death, which all of the silver
men of the West are willing and
anxious to enter.
''The Senator (Sherman) speaks
of the death of silver" exclaimed
Mr.. Teller, "but / warn him that
he will find it a lively corpse to
rise up and haunt him."
'The safety of the republican
party" concluded Mr.. Teller, "lies
in adherence to honest sound money
made up of the two metals, side by
side, as from time immemorial.
"But if the republican party"
added he, ''puts itself under the
leadership of the Senator from
Ohio (Sherman) it will be party
of the past and the glory of its past
will be obliterated by that infamy. !"
Farmers Tribune, Des MOines,
Iowa.
-$SOS%-
The Infamous Gold Standard.