The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-11-06
The PASSING OF fsEs SILVER.
Change I'm the War Cr> Of the Demo-
Gratis.

Change I'm the War Cr> Of the Demo-
CRATE,
One Of the Interesting Developments
Of The camps; 81 wh!oa ) ncW yer!
lear its close is the absolute a!>ap-
pt2ranre Of The silver issue, oae wear
ago it MAS The leading feature in the
campaign. Three months ago i WAS
determined ~ ;Av silver leaders iAai II
must he The leading !S$ae IN The sam
paiCn 81 iSg. wherever state ana .oca.
campaigns Mere 10 he made. In Ohio,
in Iowa. il Kentucky ard IN sardry
other states i WAS made The leading, II
may be said. the chief feature 81 the
democratic platform IN 1891. In Mary
land, tie astuie German. seeing the
turn Of pubic sentiment; against The IS
sue which was so popular year ago,
adroii,y she!yed il n the platform
which the State convention framed less
than 90 days ago. In New York il was
adopted by egmen; OF the democracy.
In Massachusei:. the George Fred Wa
l.ams element OF the democrats adopted
it. In OHIO. Virginia, Kentucky. Iowa,
Nebraska and p;her states il was made,
as already indicated, the chief. and in
many cases, the sole issue Of the state
Platform.
Allth;s happened within the past four
months. In that period the democratic
conventions in 4 half dozen leading
cities in the union made the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver the chief fea-
ture OF their platforms. and in every
state adopted declarations which point
Cd in that direction 70 say the least.
Within 80 days of that action on their
part the republican congress passed the
Dingley protective tariff law, repdb-
liean president signed il, aud 1t became
TIE law of the land.
What was the result? Factories
started up all over the United States.
Where thousands and hundreds Of thou
sands of men were unemployed, where
labor had been without occupation, sud
denly the smoke OF factories made its
appearance. the busy hum of industry
was heard, aboring men by the hum
dreds of thousands found employment,
the demand for the products OF the farm
increased, and prosperity prevailed
among not only the laboring men in the
manufacturing centers, but among the
farmers OF the country, Prices adj
vanced. Not alone the price of wheat in
which there was shortage abroad"
but the price Of corn and rye and bar
ley and wool and tobacco and every
thing which the farm produces.
Simultaneous with this advance in
farm prices silver went down. IN ounce
OF silver, which in June, when demo-
cratic conventions were assembling,
was worth 60 cents. dropped by Septcm-
Der l to 81 cents. and did that in the
face of a continuous and vigorous ad-
vance in prices Of all farm products.
Everything produced by the farm adj
vanced in those short months of June,
July and August, and while this was
happening silver dropped per cent.in
value.
The resu!; was a paralysis of the sill
yer issue. Ii had been made the leading
feature Of the state platforms in nearly
all of the leading states in which cam
paigns were 10 take place. The plat
forms wgfelmade and could not be re-
called. Yet before the campaign could
open had come fall Of IS per cent. in
the price Of silver and a large advance
in the prices Of farm products.
As result there was nothing 10 do
but TO dodge-in fact abandon-;he sill
Yer issue, although il had been made
leading feature Of the platforms. Ad-
vices from all the states in which cam
paigns are in progress show that this
programme has been adopted. As has
already been Indicated, Chairman Jones
and other leading lights in the silver or
ganization have advised the abandon
ment Of silver as an issue. And that adj
vice is being adopted. The leading adj
Socates of the silver cause are rig!d!y
excluded from the states in which cam
paigns are in progress. y strict quar-
antine has been established agains: Mr..
Bryan, Mr.. Towne and other statesmen
whose voices have been exclusively de-
voted TO the service of the silver trust
during the past two years.
This rapid transformation in political
issues by the party which year ago
was compelled TO abandon its time
honored principles of free trade, and
the simultaneous reaching out for new
issues which then threatened the peace
Of the commonwealth and destruction
Of law and order are the subjects of
comment and attention and anxiety
among statesmen here and among the
most thoughtful men of all parties. If
these developments mean the abandon
ment Of fatism and the free silver
cause, of the disintegrating democratic
party as conceded, what it means as TO
the future Of its principles" nobody is
yet able 10 determine.-To.edo Blade.
GThe democratic orators who were
expecting TO make mincemeat of the
feature of the Dingley law relating to
expectation OF American manufactures
have lapsed into singular silence. Nor
are they making comparisons of the
expectations under the new law and
those of q year ago under the Wilson