Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-06-16
For years the Silver men Of the

For years the Silver men OF the
C )untry have been deaouncing the
coward.ca of their countrymen who
have insisted that the reconciliation
OF silver by our country alone would
be an impossibility-hat we should
at once 20 to silver basis; that
there would be a wholesale reppai 4
ton of debts; that our country would
be disgraced and dishonored before
the world, and our national credit
W ,uld be destroyed forever. Silver
m IN have pointed out how little all
the silver IN the world would be to
US; how easy we could carry aud
a ssimilate it, if necessary; what 40,
.0jO, 900 OF free men making a policy
N cans, and that to doubt the result
you'd be TO discount in advance the
m ljesty and power of our eteat r..
public. But now that the President
OF the United States declares his in.
t,ntion to fully restore silver during
his term wbie he is setting in mo.
tion the machinery t, try and com
pass that result. these same sly, r
men sneer from afar off and say it is
either cheat or d lusion; iii t it
can never be unless Great Britain
consents; that al that can be done
to whine and sneer aud doubt and
d bride for four years more. d. you
t iuk that an earnest demand on the
part Of the people of the United
Suites goes for nothing beyond the
SCI? Do the power and majesty o.
this country really count for moth
ing? Have they forgotten that res
,olu5ion, insisting thai bimetalism
must be restored passed the Com
mons OF Great Britain unanimously
only ID months ago? Do they reflect
that the same resolution was intro
duced in the House OF Commons of
Great Britain, in the Rtichstag of
Germany and IN the French Chamber
on the same day? Do they reflect
thai the Premier of France is AN
earnest bimctalist; that The strongest
men in Germany are ths same way;
that the last member of the present
Cabinet of Great B,itain has ceas d
to oppose the measure? d. they re-
fleet that the depression is as SCR II
England and Europe as it is here;
that the English agricylturists are
ruined that England is smarting
under the fact that the closing of the
mints of India took from the p ,or
wretches there the purchasing power
Of s57Q,OoO, 900 to S and off the fam.
ipe? D. they reaIiz. that the CAPT
talists OF England are right nov re-
a citing that, as events are crystaliz,
ipg ip America. the 500. QQp. 900 that
this country owes tn them is liable to
be paid in deprecated silver unless
they accept this honest request foran
adjustment of the silver question?
Fqat With every fail ia silver their
their trade and security in India suf-
fer? Our friends delight in explain.
ing. in their own confident way. that
In the event OF war. We could whip
Great Britain, yet there is not one OF
them but believes that if Great Brit
ain were to ask to have bimetalism
restored it would be done in month.
Still. when our Own country, which
FILLS al the space between the seas.
and holds within her grasp more
developed and undeveloped wealth
than p dozen Englands, prefers a re-
quest, before any reply comes they
all shout; 1t cannot bel It looks
as though they did not want it to be
until it can come in the name OF
party which they cling to, as though
thetf chief anxiety was for their pr
tvs success, end us though they fell
that silver at l6 to lwas the only
sbibboleth they dare rely upon.