The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-24
PBULIC

Everything zoe to show tina at
least some OF the gold organs have
made all the arrangements necessary
to enter upon a campaign Of fraud and
Misrepresentation: and to keep 1t up
from now until the congressional cleo
lions next year The INSCRIPTIONS
misrepresentation Of the position Of
Senator Stewart is only one instance
out OF many. That was easy enough
to run down. As our readers hav seen,
but there are others in contemplation
which 1t will not be so "a for the
truth to overtake. We. therefore, warn
democrats everywhere to pay no at
tention to any statement appearing in
the gold press which Is in the nature
OF an effort to misrepresent the pur-
poses Of leading democrats or the poll
cies OF the democratic party. Having
seen how far the gold organs will go
in their sinister scheme to misrepresent
public men, the voters Of the country
may we'll be on the alert for further
frauds. What lama and his agents
are now doing in the way Of corrupt
ing the voters, is to be followed in the
gold press by sinister and wholesale
Misrepresentation of leading demo-
crats.-Atlanta Constitution.
There is a funny Sde to this business
OF course, that appeals irreSiStibly to
that side of the average American citi-
zen, who is always ready to grin at his
own expense n TO guffaw at the ex-
pense of any of his fellow citizens or
other people who involve themselves
in a ridiculous position; and we SuS-
pect that Mr.. McMaster, his loyal col
laborateurs and their constituents will
have cause some day to regard their
joint product with great regret be-
cause of the reception it will receive at
the hands of their humorously inclin-
ed contemporaries. 1t must certainly
prove fatal to any seriously intended
literary work to have it promulgated
amid a continental laugh and the spec
tacle Of a gentlemanly purveyor Of
custOm-made history laboriOusly and
anxiOusly ~fashioning his materials, un-
der contract, to meet the fancies Of his
customers, and having the completed
garment returned to him to be 'let
out" here, and taken in" there. and
"pieced" elsewhere, for their satisfac-
ton as to it's fitting qualities, cannot
fail to excite the riSibilities of a gener-
alton that is far from being insensible
to even less suggestive situations
Charleston News and Courier.
Those great metropolitan dailies, The
Sun, Evening Post, and World, Of New
York, differ in many respect-differ
widely and radically-but they are
three Of a kind when it comes to lying
about the silver dollar and it's value
We may suspect The World of sheer
ignorance when it says that "a stand
ard silver dollar is now worth almost
exactly 40 cents" The World is not
remarkable for the extent or the accu-
racy of it's information. The Sun and
The Evening Post, however, are dis
tinguished for intelligence-as distin-
guished for that as for the vicious and
ignOble uses to which they sometimes
put it. They are perfectly aware that,
in saying 1.-The silver dollar is worth
but 4O.13 cents" they are saying what
is not true, and that deliberately. They
know that the silver dollar, bearing
the stamp of the United States, is
worth exactly 100 cents, and that it
will be received at that value by the
government. 1t simply happens that in
no matter relating to silver coinage are
these Wall street organs willing to tell
the truth. 1t is very unfortunate,
though in view Of the closing of the
worlds minis to the white metal it is
entirely logical and inevitable, that the
bullion value of silver should decline SO
sharply. The uses of silver, save for
money, are very limited. Like gold,
silver has little intrinsic value-that is
to say, it is susceptible of conversion
into very few agents of practical util-
ity. A man cast away upon an unin-
habited island and finding there a ton
of virgin silver would cheerfully ex-
change the whole treasure for a frying
pan, a jack knife, or an iron spoon.
The fact abou silver it that,
so long as it remains excluded from the
worlds minis, it's bullion value must
depreciate, but it is not true-it is alb
surdly n impudently false-that the
value Of the stamped coin has declined
or that it can decline SO long as the
to be solvent. The silver dollar will
buy just as much now as it did ten
years ago. 1t will buy 100 cents worth.
These New York newspapers, with the
possible exception of The World, know
that it will, and are striving only to
confuse the public mind and to dissem-
mate a lie.-WashingtOn Post.