The Irish standard., 1897-09-11

with pride to the famine as an evidence
that the Republican party is redeeming
its campaign pledges and will the Re-
publican party pledge itself to use it's
best efforts to continue the famine
abroad. as it pledged itself to promote
international bimetalism?"
These questions throw the Chicago
Tribune into Mysteries, and in a column
editorial ii roasts Mr.. Bryan in all the
modes and lenses, saying "his day is
over; his sun is set; he Is a demagogue
uncrowned." But Bryan goes on in the
even tenor CT his way and tells the
readers of the World that "a general
rise in wages"
He next takes up the silver question
and declares that 1.-The law of supply
and demand explains the fall! in silver
as we'll as the rise in wheat; that the
action of Japan has lessened the demand
for silver. and the United States has
not yet made sufficient progress towards
international bimetallism to strengthen
the market"
The Chicago Tribune gets irritated
over this statement and declares most
emphatically that the currency of the
United States will be maintained on the
worlds gold standard, and not be slump
ed to Bryan's rotten, debased, dishonest
silver standard of 39-cent dollars made
retroactively legal tender for all exist
ing gold standard debts
Mr.. Bryan quotes from the agricul-
tural report of jerry Rusk in 1890 to
show the relation between wheat and
silver, and then says that legislation
can raise the price of silver by increas-
ing the demand for it. 1T is the con-
tention Of bimetallists," continues Mr.
Bryan. that the opening OF our minis
to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio Of 16 to / will fix q
mint price for silver, just as mint
! price is now fixed for gold. They fur
Their contend that the demand thus
created by law will be sufficient to uti-
lie all the silver presented and thus
the bullion value will be raised to the
coinage value.'
He asks what the Republican party
has done to bring prosperity to the
American people. If prosperity comes
at all it must come from the Dingley
bill. International bmetallism cannot
bring it until an international agree
ment becomes more probable than it is
now. He concludes by saying: Moth
ing can better disclose the weakness of
the Republican position than the JOY
manifested by Republicans over events
for which their administration and their
policies are in no way responsible
The Chicago Tribune is alarmed at
Bryan's talk and says that business
men and capitalists expect congress at
its next session to place the national
currency on so strong gold redemption
basis that nothing under heaven can
cause currency panic like that of
1893. There is no doubt the Chicago
banker who is acting as secretary of the
treasury will leave no stone unturned to
do exactly what the Tribune of the
Windy City advocates A permanent
gold standard and not international BIZ
metallism is what the party Of Mark
Hanna wants. Let it go ahead and car
~ out its financial scheme. Let it re-
tire the greenback. withdraw all gov
eminent paper from circulation and give
the national bankers the sole control of
our finances. And then the American
people in their wrath will arise in their
might and bury the perfdious party for
ever underneath an avalanche of votes