Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-12-01
A SILVER REPUBLICAN.
Takes a Hard Fall Out Of the orsgonian
Editor.

taxes Hard fal Out OF tne OIeEoiila4
Editor.
EDITOR JoURNAL;-In last Tues
days Journal Truth" tells some very
plain facts about the editor of the
Oregonian. How weak the goldbug
cause must be il there is no way of
defending it without descending TO a
systematic course of misrepresenta-
tion, sophistry and personal abusel
Yet, though Harvey Scott is acknowl-
edged to be one Of the ablest advocates
OF socalled "sound money!, it seems
to be impossible for him To pen an
editorial statement of any facts bear
ing on the money question without
ringing in one or more glarlng un-
truths.
See his editorial Of the 18th inst,
"What Indian Answered Walcott."
1t is string of bald miss-statements
as to what the Indian government
replied to the proposition to open her
mints TO silver; and it has all the
brands and ear-marks of the stock
which regularly disports itself on the
editorial page of the Oregonian.
Among other things, Mr.. Scott says:
"Lord Elgin and his associates IN the
Indian government bluntly replied
that this necessary undesirable part
Of exchange was established by In
dia when IN 1898 she stopped the free
coinage of silver that had been her
financial curse for twenty years from
1873 to lS93." Now, according TO the
press dispatches from which, like the
rest of us, Mr.. Scott derives his infor-
nation, Lord Elgin and his associ-
ates in the Indian government did
not bluntlY reply any such rotten
balderdash, nor anything that could,
by any freak of an honest imagina-
tion, de construed into any family
resemblance to Mr.. Scott's version.
What they did say was to express 1.-THE
opinion that India is on the point OF
securing a stable exchange of 16 pence
per rupee" Not that she established
it in 1898; not that she has succeeded
in establishing in now; but that I'm
their opinion" she was "on the point"
of securing it. If an ordinary busl
ness man had as little regard for the
truthfulness of his statements as is
there displayed by the editor OF the
Oregonian he couldn't stay in busi.
ness 60 DAYS.
He says further: Lord Elgin
pointed out that the pecuniary af-
fairs of India and her people had ad-
justed themselves to the present gold
standard which India had reached
after a protracted industrial and
financial agony of nearly twenty-five
years" "The present gold standard
which India had reached" is good,
when any of Tom Tongues Grand
Ronde Indians must know that India
hasn't reached the gold standard,
never had the gold standard, and
doesn't profess to be trying to get the
gold standard, and that Lord Elgin
never made himself ridiculous by
using any such expression. Yet you
can find dozens of old dunderheads
right here in Salem who blindly
swallow Harvey Scott's "statements
Of fact"
Then he makes Lord Elgin and his
say that 'the ratio Of gold
10 silver must be determined by their
respective costs of production" AS
though Lord Elgin and his associates
would be such mutton-headed fools as {
20 make that assertion in state pa
Der when they know that the respect
We costs Of production bear practi-
ally the same relation to each other
low that they did when the CONNER
al ratio was 15l to /
But who can hope to follow the de- !
'ious windings of Harvey Scott's /
plrt of mendacity? The greatest
Wonder is that so many self respecting
\ merican citizens allow themselves to
to the support Of the falsi- .
ying old fish wife.
DAVID BURR CHASE.
Salem, Or, Nov. %, 1897.