The herald., 1896-09-27

We have now in hand and will have
, until the campaign closes a supply of
Democratic literature.
We invite the aid and cooperation Of
all commercial travellers in the United
states In spreading patriotic sentiments.
organizing Bryan and Sewall clubs, Sc
curing information of intimidating
methods and other campaign work. We
would be pleased to have sent us infor-
nation as to what concerns are intimi.
dating employees and as to how they are
doing 1t. 50 that we can take appropriate
action. Truly.
J. E. PITTS. Secretary.
JAMES W. JUMP, Chairman.
st. Louis. Sept. IL.
A SPECIMEN OF ANARCHY"
Editor Herald: AS the term "anarch-
ist" is being mouthed pretty freely by
the Hanna a-McKinley combine, and as
l am desirous of learning whom / can
reasonably fasten this bitter epithet
upon, l have just run across an article
In the Oceanside Blade, which denotes,
to my way Of thinking. the man, or the
class he represents, who richly deserve
| the obnoxious term anarchist" The
article l call attention to reads as fol-
| lows:
III. X. Wade, general manager of the
| southern California Railway company,
was in town last Friday. Mr.. Wade says
Tor the first time in his life he isgoing to
take more than usually active interest
In politics, owing to the fact that he
| considers the nation In as great peril as
In 1851. He Is for Mckinley and the
single gold standard. He made one
| statement that we consider rather re-
markable. and that to the effect that
there were two or three million people
in this country who never were gov
erned by anything but bullets. And"
| craze"
The above remarks, If true, coming
from such q source, ,empha tically demon
| strate to the most unthinking and care
less that corporate power is in this bat
tie or the ballots armed with more than
the elective franchise. That bullets are
to be used. If necessary, to Illustrate the
| elective choice of the two or three mill
ION people In this country who never
were governed by anything but bull
let's"
If such statements as have quoted
are not anarchy Of the worst type, then
this term ought to be expunged from ev-
cry language in the human tongue! The
class OF people this man alludes to in the
ABOVE insinuation cannot surely COM
prise that wing of the silverites who ad-
Vocate the national ownership of rail-
roads and telegraph systems" These
people are not spelling for Mr.. Wade's
bullets, and what Is more they do not
intend to expose themselves to that kind
| of drastic medicine. Perhaps Mr. Wade
| thinks the silver men deserve these lead
en- pellets for desiring the money of the
| constitution-"fre and unlimited COIN
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to l." Per-
haps he hints at the untold number of
| idlers In our great cities who are abso-
lutely dying In their frantic efforts to
| live. who intend to vote for w. ]. Bryan
to save themselves from utter extinc-
ton. Surely it7is not "organized labor
that calls for Mr.. Wade's ire! They are
| among the most orderly and law-abid-
| ing citizens we have in the United
| States. The fact of, ,the>matter IS, If our
| Interpretation Is correct, Mr.. Wade is
| whole-souled anarchist, as he has
plainly stated. and no doubt would take
| the initial step III governing by bullets
| and not ballots. Certainly no law-abid-
| ing citizen would make such an overt
threat as. that there were two or three
million people In this country who never
were governed by anything but bullets"
| These are the CALCULATIONS of q Herr
Most and should not be allowed to pass
unchallenged by the lawful authorities
Mr.. Wade, to my mind, is an anarchist,
and no doubt intends to put his ideas
into execution. and he ought to be placed
where he can do himself nor the people
any harm. s. e. FULTON.
Los Angeles. Sept. 21.
A MONUMENTAL PREvARICATOR.
Editor Herald: Again has Senator
John Sherman proved himself the mon
umental prevaricator of the age, utter
ly without conscience, and in whose
word no reliance can be placed.
In an Associated Press dispatch pub
lished in Thursdays Herald he is re-
ported as having said: But the silver
dollar was out Of circulation long be-
fore the law of 1873 was enacted. 1t was
thing of the past-lost sight Of"
What are the facts? In 1870 there
were coined 445, 1852 silver dollar pieces
of 4121s grains each. In 1871 the coinage
had risen to $1,117, ,136; in 1872 to 81, 49,
GOO. and during the few weeks of 1873
| that the free coinage law was in force,
prior to the act that virtually demone-
tized silver, 1926, 600 was coined. OF all
the silver dollar pieces we had coined
from the opening Of the mints in 1893
down to the" crime Of 1873" nearly one
third were coined during the twenty
six months just prior to the enactment
of the law which closed the mints
against the white metal Does this look
as though the silver dollar was thing
Of the past? 1t was the very fact that
silver was young giant that would soon
wipe out the great war debt that caused
Sherman and his Israelite masters in
grown strong enough to defy them.
In 1853 the gold product Of the United
States was So, ,0000 900 and the silver pro-
duct $50,000. A year or two later the
mines Of Australia commenced adding
enormously to the worlds stock of the
yellow metal. The money bags of Eu-
rope having fixed investments became
alarmed at the increased output of gold
and sought to have it demonetized, that
the debteor might be forced to pay his
loans in silver, the dearer metal. They
succeeded in 1857 in Austria and Ger
many, and would have conquered all
Europe had not France refused to bow
down to the golden calf But a change
came; the output of gold in the United
states commenced to decline, until in
1873 1t had declined to s36, ,000, 900, nearly
90 per cent, while the output of silver had
increased enormously. from s50,OOo in
1857 to s35. 100000 in 1873. Do you OBJ
serve the negro in the woodpile? The
output Of silver was increasing, its free
coinage was increasing, and if its DOW
er was not destroyed 1t would soon nav
US out Of debt and there would be no
bonds through which Shylock could rob
labor. especially American labor.
In the same letter Sherman saws that
the coinage of the silver dollar had been
suspended for time by both Presi-
dents Jefferson and Jackson. Why don't
he tell the whole truth? A half truth Is
often made to do the work of a vard-
| wide, all-wool lie, The facts ara q .iI