The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-08-28
Senator Stewart and Silver,

6CAaeS& 800
The asound-money" people have
been very busy recently making
affirmation that the accident of our
unusually good crop of wheat and
corn this year in the United States,
taken in conjunction with the failure
of the crops in wheat-growlng coun'
tries in other parts of the world,
must be the death-knell of the ssh
YER heresy," of "BryaDism," ETC.,
and that the erst discontented pro-
ducers will now with one accord
bless the existing financial system
and its upholders for what it and
they have brought them.
Among the wonderful things
which these .'sound- money people
have adduced TO show that the "sil-
yer heresy" is on its last legs is, as
they have alleged, the "recaatation"
of Senators Jones and Stewart, and
the advice these .stalwart advocates
of binetallsm are credited with hav-
ing given to their friends in the
| West to .'drop the silver issue.
iOf course anybody who knows any
thing of bilnetallism and OF Ssna
ltors Jones and Stewart in connec-
jtlon with it, knows at once that the
alleged recantation is but weak IN
ventlon of the ehemy--one OF the
manifold inventions which the
"sound-moneyn people trump-up
4 from time to time to divert public
Iattention from the straits to which
| they are reduced for argument to
Sustain their monometallic case.
| The ORGANIZATION" has not had
Hong time to get-in its work; for
although Senator Jones has evident
lily not thought it worth bis pains to
!. deny the absurd story, Senator
Stewart has put his foot on it in his
!, well-known vigorous fashion. Here
is what Senator Stewart has to say
on the subject:
| New York, Aug. 17.-Any state
ment that have changed my position
on the silver question, or advised my
friends in the West; or elsewhere, to
drop the silver issue on the ground OF
return of prosperity, or on any other
ground. Is absolutely and unqualiiiedly
false. The fact that there are ahund-
ant crops in this country and famine
elsewhere, which gives temporary re-
lief, is no reason why we should not
seek permanent relief by the only pos
sible means in our power-the remone-
!. tization OF silver. The efforts OF the
gold press are to make the country be-
licve that the gold standard has raised
the price Of wheat. and not short crops
, in every country. but this in keeping
, with their false statements with regard
to my position. The low price of sill
yer. produced by excluding it from tht
minis. and particularly the recent de-
t cline produced by demonstration IL
Japan, marks the rise in gold, anC
shows the robbery and injustice of con
filming the money of the world to TIT
o commodity gold When they point t
4 cheap silver as the result of their con
spiracy. we point to dear gold as thu
:. result of their rascality' The peopl
q will not believe that the oddities con
troll the seasons. and give the Unite'
States good crops. and cause famin
s elsewhere. They know that it is tn
: work of Providence. over which tn
: oddities have no control. Their impu
L lence in damaging credit is in keepin
/, with their entire system of deception
i in which they are enslaying the huma
race.
), Now is~the time to fight for silver
IS Tie temporary relief which Proyidenc
, has granted should inspire the mar
: hood of the American people to vot
>. their sentiments at the ballot box.
ut removes some of the excuses of povert
q. and starvation which voters made
1896 when they submitted to intimid;
ton. or yielded to bribery and vote
Tor their own enslavement. The onl
- danger is that the small measures |
ID relief which the rise OF wheat has give
be will not be sufficient to free the vote
Z LOT the United States from coercion an
bribery, but it ought to and the cause
IN silver by restoring, to some extent. Il
n independence OF voters. My CORE
!, pondence with people is very extel
sivc, aud it informs me that the Peep
us are thoroughly alive to the situate
's- and the silver question is gaining eve
~ day. The rise in the price of whe
q and The fall IN the price Of silver W
au stimulate, rather than retard, the irI
a. sistib!e movement in favor of rctur
l;nr ~ TIM COINAGE law of the bett