The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-08-19
TO FIGHT
FOR SILVER !:
Senator Stewart Says There is No
Time Like the Present.
IT'S FALL MARKS THE RISE OF
GoLD-THE NEVADA SENATOR
DENoUNCEs THE EFFORTS OF
THE GOLD PRESS To:MAKE THE
COUNTRY BELIEVE THAT THE
GOLD STANDARD HAS RAISED
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 1S-United States
Senator William NJ. Stewart, of Nevada,
telegraphs the Constitution that the
statement attributed to.him in newspaper
dispatches, that he had advised mis-
friends in the West to drop the silver
issue on the groun of the return of pros
perity, CIR on any other ground, is abso-
lutely and unqualifiedly false.
The fact that here are abundant crops
in this country and famine elsewhere,
which give temporary relief, is no rea.
SON., says the Senator, "why we should
not seek permanent relief by the only
possible means in our power. the remone-
tiZatlon of silver. The efforts of the gold
press to make the country believe sthat
the gold standard has raised the price of
wheat ond not short crops in every coun-
try but this is in keeping with their false
statements with regard to my position.
The low price of silver produced by ex.
GLIDING it from the mints, and particu-
larly the recent decline produced by de-
monetization in Japan, marks the rise in
gold, and shows the robbery and injus-
tice OF combining the money of the world
to the commodity gold. i When they
point to cheap silver as the result of their
conspiracy we point to dear gold as the
result of their rascality.
1.-The people will not believe that the
goldites control the seasons, and give the
United States good crops and c,use tam.
inc elsewhere. They know that it is the
work OF Providence, over which the gold
ties have no control. Their impudence in
demanding credit for it is in keepinp
with their entire system of deception, by
which they are enslaving the human
race.
Now is the time to fight for silver.
The temporary relief which Providence
has granted should inspire the manhood
OF the American people to vote theil
sentiments ut the ballot box. 1t removes
some of the excuses Of poveit y and star
Walton which voters made in 1896 when
they submitted to intimidation or yielded
to bribery and voted for their own en-.
slavement. The only danger is that the
small measure Of relief which the rise of
wheat has given will not lie sufficient to
free the voters of the Unitel States from
coercion and bribery, but It ought to aid
the cause of silver by restoring to some
eN tent the independence of the voters.
My correspondence with the people in
every section of the country is very ey.
tensive, and it informs me that the peo
pie are thoroughly alive IT, the situation
and the silver question is gaining every
day. The rise i'll the price of wheat ana
ehc i"ll III une price Oh silver Will Stimu-
late rather than retard the Irresistible
movement in favor of returning to the
coinage law of the better DAYS of the re-
public.
OWN. NJ. STEWART.n
London, Aug. 1S-The Westminster
Gazette this afternoon echoes the edito.
rial of the London Times this morning
on bimetallism, and says it sees nc
chance of the Indian mints being re.
opened to the coinage--of silver, adding
ITO fool any longer with President Nc.
kinlev's commission is surely unneces.
sary. in declining to abide by the market
value OF silver as the standard OF cur.
rency value India has taken Il step to-
ward demonetizing silver. Japan and
Russia have adopted the gold standard
and no one means to go back on It, Then
why not say so, and not be deferred by
the threats of a possible Bryanite victory,
and dismiss the question flnally?"