The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-09-29
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England have been made indirectly by this

| England have been made Indirectly by this
government through the Wolcott bimetallic
| commission those propositions or sugges-
tons were made not for the purpose of en-
abling this government to open its minis
! to free coinage, but directly for the pur-
pose of averting the danger of free coinage.
If the bimetallic commission has made
any other representations in England it has
exceeded its authority. 1t is not believed
possible that Senator WOlcott, eX-Vice
President Stevenson and General Paine
have used any other argument in London
than that the wisest thing the gold stand
ard advocates could do would be to make
some concessions to silver by means OF
providing for an enlarged use Of that metal
IN order to satisfy the more moderate silver
men in the United States and thus avert
what at one time threatened to be MONS
tary revolution in this country.
1 The truth is that this argument wac
used by the bmetallic commissioners in
| England, and with some force and effec-
| tiveness. The information reaches Wash
| 1ngton that this was the principal argument
| OF the commissioners in all their work in
| London They assumed of course that Great
| Britain did not want the United States to
! fall to silver standard. on account of
enormous English investments in this
| country. and they proceeded to make the
most of the fear that such a thing might
come to pass.
| They pointed to the result of the cleo
| ton of last year, and showed how easily
| the verdict of the people might have been
reserved. They declared with great posi-
! tveness and no doubt with sincerity that
! unless better times should come to the
| United States. SO that the prevailing dis
| content might be relieved. future elections
| might show a result quite different from
| that of last year. In this way the COM
| missioners were able to make impress
| sion upon the financial men of London
| both official and unofficial
Among propositions which they submit
| ted was that the Bank of England should
! increase the use Of silver by holding a part
! of it's reserve in the white metal. Fortu-
| nately the bank was authorized to do this
| by an old statute. and when Senator VOL
| colt and his colleagues left London, a
couple of months ago. they had hopes that
| the Bank of England would take this step
Previous to their visit to London the
| commissioners had been in Paris. There
they met with a warmer reception than in
| London. Premier Meline of the French
! government is an ardent bimetallist. and
| he was willing to promote the of silver
both by means Of using it a reserve and
by increasing it's legal tender power. The
only condition he imposed was that Eng
land should also make some concessions
So the commissioners proceeded to bring
all the arguments within their power to
bear upon England. They proposed that
part Of the reserve should consist of
| silver. that the Indian minis be reopened.
and that the legal tender power of silver
sition suggestion that the minis of
France and United States be opened to
coinage in the United States was the in
the contrary. to avert the danger of free
coinage in the United States was the in
ducement held out to English financiers.
The meaning of all this is very plain.
The Republicans in their national
convention, last year, resolved in favor
of the reconciliation Of silver, with
the consent of the great European
powers, especially England; and then
they sent a commission across the At
lantic to procure that consent. But it
seems the commission was instructed
not to procure the reconciliation OF
silver, but simply to throw a tub to
the whale and a small tub at that.
which would keep the fool free silver
Republicans in line, so that silver might
continue to be slaughtered in the house
Of it's pretended friends.
And thus, while the Republican edi-
tors have been shouting for the open
ing of the minis to the white metal,
the Republican commissioners were in
structed not to do anything to open the
minis
And now Mckinley and his gang are
Mortified to find the fat in the fire. and
silver rising in price through the labors
of his commission.
They are like the preacher who, in
dry spell down East got his congre
CATION to join with him in a prayer for
rain. He prayed long and vigorously
and earnestly.
That night the rain came in floods;
and when he looked out of the window
of his bedroom the next morning and
saw that his barn and hen house and
fences were all swept away, he nudged
his wife and exclaimed: my dear, l
fear l overdid that business last night
And so we are ready to believe that
Mckinley has cabled to WOlCott: Come
home, for Gods sake, you old fool!
Come home! You have Overdone the
business!"
What a terrible struggle it takes to