Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-15
LIGHT IS DAW.NING.
PEOPLE BEGINNING TO SEE
GREAT FRAUD.
Free and Unlimited Coinage OF Silver
the Only Remedy for the Present
Hard Times - Senator Stewart on
Chandeliers Hopes.

ternational bmetallism, the will-o'-the-
wisp which has been used by the Re-
publican party on every occasion when
the people demanded the free coinage
of silver by the United States alone.
This cry OF International 5imetallism
| Is made to divert the attention OF the
people from the wicked acts OF the
goldites who intend to perpetuate the
gold standard against the oft-expressed
will Of the American people. This sub
terfuge was utilized before on three oc-
casions, namely: in 1876, in 1881, ana
the last in 1892. The attempts OF the
American Commissioners at these con-
| ferences to secure the cooperation OF
| Europe in opening the minis to the 1ree
| coinage of silver equally with golo
were frustrated by the action or the
English delegates who were controlled
by the Rothschilds combination. 1t Is
absolutely impossible to procure the as
sent of England and Germany to the
adoption of free coinage as long as they
have a corner on gold, and as long as
they can make the world pay them
twice as much as the contract calls Tor,
caused by the appreciation in the value
of gold and the depreciation in the value
OF commodities in which the obliga-
lions of debtors to creditor England
must be paid.
Senator Chandler is one of the lead
ing international bimetallists in the
Senate who believes that there is yet
chance to secure the assistance OF for
eign nations in establishing bimetal-
lism. He Is one of the statesmen who
thoroughly realizes and appreciates the
hardships and disasters which follow IN
the wake of the single gold standard,
and who knows that there can be no
permanent improvement in business
and no amelioration of the sufferinSs
of the people as long as the gold stand
ard Ia maintained. He confesses that
the people of the United States have
sufficiently informed themselves to be-
lleve that the quantity of real money,
and net the money which must be re-
deemed in some other money, deter
zSSsas the prices of the worlds commo-
dities; that the decentralization OF half
the worlds real money is slowly reduc-
ing prices and pressing debtors, and
that the use of only gold as non-re-
deemable money is placing the great
instrument of exchange in commerce
upon such narrow basis that the pres
ent depression in production and trade
will continue for an indefinite period,
and with manifold evils to the human
race the world over"
This is partial exposition of the ef-
fects of the single gold standard. He
might have added that the large army
of the unemployed, which has been es-
timated to equal half the laborers
in the United States, will, under the
gold standard, have no hope whatever
of finding employment to support their
families, and that this great army Will
be gradually increased as times become
harder and business more stagnant.
The single gold standard takes from
man all hope for the future and leaves
him with no consolation whatever. Sec
rotary Carlisle wildly described what
would happen if one-half of the metal
lie money of the world were destroyed.
He said:
"The absolute and instantaneous de-
struction of half the movable property
of the world including horses, ships,
railroads. and all other appliances for
carving on commerce, while it would
be felt more sensibly at the moment
would not produce anything like the
prolonged distress and disorganization
of society that must inevitably result
from the permanent humiliation OF
one-half of the metallic money of the
world"
The language of Mr.. Carlisle may, to
the unthinking. seem very strong, but
his portrayal of the effects of the gold
standard is not in the least overdraWn.
Ever since 1878, when silver was de-
monetized the people have been feeling
| the cold and merciless effects OF a
shrinking volume of money. Instead OF
regulating the amount of the circulat-
| ing medium so as to keep pace with the
growth of population and business, the
goldites by their wicked scheme struck
down one of the precious metals and
| compelled trade and commerce to de-
pend upon the contracted volume OF
money which gold alone furnished.
Since 1873 prices of all commodities
have fallen one-half, while the value OF
gold has correspondingly increased.
The people of the United States have
attempted to remedy the evils from
which they suffer by passing free coin
age bill in 1873 in the House of Repre-
sentatives, but their will was defeated
by the Senate, which changed it from a
free coinage bill to silver purchasing
bill. The demands of the people since
the Bland-Allison law was passed for
the re-enactment of the coinage laws
of Jefferson and Jackson which existed
prior to 1873, have been met by the
goldites suggesting the holding of an
international conference for the pur-
pose of getting foreign nations to join
us in restoring silver to its rightful
place as money of ultimate payment.
The people want the free coinage OF
silver and they are entitled to 1t,