Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-26
spuRNs THE SACRED RATIO

Baltimore Sun (dem.): Governor Boies
is to be congratulated upon his aban-
donment of the 16-to-1 theory, even if he
still maintains that something must be
done for silver"
Minneapolis journal rep): If Mr.. Boies
studies the subject little more he will find
that his wish for the unlimited use of both
gold and silver in This country, would leave
the country, If actuali2ed, stranded on the
singe silver standard and depreciated dis
honest currency. Mr.. Boies is getting light,
but he has a deal to learn yet
Philadelphia Record (dem0: Evidently,
since he failed to get the nomination Tor
president at Chicago in 1896, Ex-Governor
Horace Poles has done great deal OF care
full thinking, His recent announcement
that under present conditions the free coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to / would
not be desirable even If attanable" puts
him entirely out of accord with the Chicago
platform and ths Bryan idolators who stil
think that there is enough life in the silver
question to make another hopeful presiden-
tial campaign in its behalf.
Des Moines Leader (demJ: The Dubuque
Telegraph proposes that Ex-Governor Boles
be disciplined. 1t says that tho state COM
mittee should do one of two things: Re
woke its commission to Mr.. Boes to address
audiences as duly accredited democratic
speaker or INSIST, II he Is to continue on
tho stump as a party orator, that he shall
say nothing about. i6 to if he cannot talk
in its favor, and that he will relegate his
own peculiar theory to the rear" 1t is safe
to say that the state committee will honor
this advice by disregarding it.
DoIes, in addE, ssA,g a democratic meeting Ing
at Marshallto&n. la, reiterated an opinion
he had previJtlsl& Expressed that free coin
ago of silver at the ratio of 16 to / was not,
in present coiffi tiohs, within the reach" o.
the the. friends friends 2i,Spyer He irst expressed
and silver had parted company, and while
the market price Of silver bullion still hoy-
cred near the quotation of last November
Tho dellVeranqSi therefore is not to be read
in tho light OF recent developments. 1t WIS
not necessary fbr wheat to go to 81 and sill
yer bullion to reach the lowest figure re-
corded in its history for the distinguished
lowan to discover the error of last years
democratic intention.
New York Tribune Gep): To cover his
complete abandonment of the falling cause
OF free silver coinage Ex-Governor Boies OF
Iowa has pushed to the front the storage
warehouse scheme OF government silver pur-
chases evolved by Secretary Window in
1889 but quickly abandoned aS purposeless
and impracticable by both friends and enc
mics OF silver coinage In congress. By
this scheme silver bullion is to be deposited
in the treasury and market value certih-
Gates issued on II, redee mable on presenta-
tion in bullion at the later market rate
No silver Is to be coined and bullion IL
merely to be dealt In specuatiyely as an
out-and-out commodity. To what a trivial
and shrunken compass has the ex-governor
OF Iowa reduced the all-embracing silver
program OF 1896. Such heresy can be little
less odious in the eyes OF the true believer
than an actual condonation of the Crime
of 7s."