The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-31
THEY DIE hard. BUT THEY DIE.

One OF the sound money Representa-
tives in Congress said a few days back:
The only men in Congress who have
any courage are the cheap money men,
They know what they want. and they are
determined TO get it. regardless of party
considerations. We sound money men
are so divided that we cannot make an
effective contest for anything, and we
are afraid to do anything lest 1t shall
hurt our respective parties"
That has been eminently the case here
tofore but it is not so much so now. We
mean as 1t applies 10 the cheap money
men. These people knew exactly what
they wanted. They wanted the country
flooded with dollars worth far less than
their face. because they believed that
properly would then double in its nominal
value and debts could consequently be
paid with one falf the effort now neces-
sary. They wanted this state Of affairs
brought about and they fought for 1t
openly. directly and aggressively. But
they are very far from being as agrees
sive to-day as they were a year ago.
year ago, every one of them mat you
met woyd ask you in a tone and with a
manner that was almost insulting,
where is that prosperity you promised
us?" Now, they rarely ask this question
at all. and when they do ask II, they are
at once met with the reply that a man
who has been desperately i'll for long
time never RECEIVERS his health and
strength by leaps and bounds. SO the
country cannot be expected 10 throw off
in a day or a month the awful plight that
their threat to degrade our money brought
upon IT, but that it is gradually recover
ing as the sick man does and will show
Itself perfectly restored IN a short time.
The old time annoyance of these cheap
money people was strikingly illustrated
a few days back by a letter published in
the London Daily Chronicle from John e.
Ballaine. Adiutant-Gcneral of the State
OF Washington. to that paper crticising
a book recently issued by William T.
stead. OF London. entitled "Satan's lnvis
ible World" Ballaine says OF Stead, that
he displays the densest ignorance Of
everything American" and proceeding to
combat Stead's argument that New Yorg
is a typical American city. he says the
real America of the West hates New
York as much as it hates London" In
conclusion ne SAYS Every genuine
American nourishes our undying hatred
OF England and will be glad when the
time comes To fight her"
Did anything as truculent and as bully
ing ever come before from an American
holding a position as high as that occupied
by this man? lie is an anti-gold stand
ard man Of course and this intense hatred
that he imagines to fill tho American
raind against London End New York grows
out of the fact that both OF them sit
solid,y i'm his path to block him off when
he seeks to degrade our standard OF value
and food the country with a deprecated
and degraded circulating medium.
That sort of talk was very common a
year ago, hut Mr. Ballaine is the excep-
ton now. Very few men are heard utter
ing Sutu StniliuthtS now anu even the
cheap money men pronounce one of them
selves a fool when they hear him talking
that way now
The battle has been fought and won,
and free silver. cheap money ahd Popul-
ism are dying. They die hard, of course.
and they may make death struggle in
the election OF COngressmen next fall
that will alarm many people. But the
effect of that will be most healthy, IL IL
will alarm the whole country and cause
all Of its conservative forces TO come to-
gether for the Presidential election OF 1900
when they will snow Populism and free
silver under and pile upon them such a
mountain of votes that this country will
be rid of their injurious and disintegrating
influence forever.
THE DIN NAPTH STATE