The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-10-28

ENGLAND SAYS No.
This is England's answer to the
proposition Of the United States for
international bimetallism. She is un-
alterably opposed to international BIZ
metallism, and her answer is PLAIN and
emphatic. She even refuses to agree to
a conference between the nations to
consider the advisability OF interna-
ti0nal bimetallism.
Every body ought to have known that
England would never agree to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, and
surely Mckinley and his administra-
ton knew this when they sent Steven
son, WolcOtt and Paine as a commits
sion to England on their rainbow mis-
sion. The great Gladstone notified the
world several years ago in a speech on
the floor of Parliament that England
would never agree to bimetallism, for
the plain reason that all of the remain
der Of the world was in debt to Eng
land, and that it was to her interest
to have the gold standard and scarce
money, so that it would take more
pounds of cotton and more bushels of
wheat each year for us to pay the inter-
est on the debt which we and other
nations owe her. 1t is simply the
scheme of the money-lender to raise
the rate of interest, and to double the
size Of the debt by making money
scarcer and dcarer.
In the last campaign hundreds and
thousands of voters, if not millions,
were deceived on this question by the
Republican party. Mckinley pro-
tested that he Was not for the gold
standard, but that his party favored
international bimetallism, W hich would
give sound money. In the meantime
Hanna was secretly assuring all of
the gold men and monopolists that all
Of this talk was simply done to catch
votes, and that when Mckinley was
elected that he would stand sOlidly for
the gold standard. In this way he
managed to raise an immense cam
paign fund. Thus hundreds of thou
sands of voters were fooled by the false
pretenses of Mckinley in favor of in
ternational bimetallism, and, besides,
the immense campaign fund raised by
Hanna was used to corrupt and pur-
chase every vote that was purchasable.
And yet, in spite of this, Mckinley
was elected by the scratch of his
teeth" In the doubtful States of the
northwest, where the real battle of
the campaign was fought, the ma jority
Of the farmers are Republicans. They
are all for free silver; but they have
been raised to believe in protection
hence in the last campaign Hanna and
Mckinley appealed to them to stand
by protection and to trust to the Re-
Republican party to give them
free silver by International agreement
A change oftwenty- five thousand votes
in these doubtful States would have
elected Bryan. If another election was
to take place tomorrow, the change
would be from fifty to one hundred
times that great in favor of Bryan.
The people Of the United States ant
of the whole world are to be congratu.
lated that England has given flat ant
positive refusal to agree to interna
ti0nal bimetalism. We expected ant
feared that she would pretend to be in
favor Of doing something for silver il
order to help McKinly, Hanna, Sher-
man and Cleveland, and that stripe O
English Tories, to keep fooling thepeo
pie with the ignis fatuus Of interna
tional bimetallism.
The only explanation for England
fiat refusal is that the gold men hav
gotten so bold that they feel confiden
that they can carry Presidential cleo
ton in the United States in q straigh
fight for the gold standard. In thi
they are sadly mistaken; and in thi
folly of theirs lies the hope of unitin
the patriots of the country In the mex
should become frightened before 1901
England will then pretend that she
ready to do something for silver in OF
der to help the gold agents in Amer
lea to again fool and divide the peopl
There is some danger in a trick lik
this, but we have too much cOnfidenc
in the sincerity Of the American pee
pie to believe it can be worked agail
The situation is now so plain that e,
eryone, even though he be wayfarin
man, can see it. The United Stat.
must at once adopt international b
metallism Gree silver at l6 to } or col
tinue to be robbed by the English gol
standard and the allied trusts and m,
nopolies.
1t is free silver or subsection to En-,
land. Which?
The English gold syndicate is a
ready gobbling up our railroads. The
know that the clique that controls
nations money and a nations tran
portation will be able to control the il
dustries of the nation; in short, to D,
every line Of industry into q trust
will, and thereby so impoverish IL
people that they can own and run IL
government, leaving nothing but Il
name and shell Of republics despo
ism.in fact, with the Shylock playin
role Of King.
The people must control and CIV