The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-05-14
The Irrepressible Fight.
lPlain Dealer

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league for the purpose of maintain
ing the gold standard in the United
States. Every now and then the
leaders make speeches, essays are
sent out and the great bond dealers
are constantly trying to impress
senators and representatives that
it is idle to think of returning to
bi-metallism in this country. Their
aiders and abettors in England say
plainly that we may rest perfectly
assured that the English people
will have nothing to do with BIZ
metallism. They tell us that Eng
lish bi-metallists are weak party
and that they hope that the United
States will never return to BIZ
metallism.
The Republican party pledged
itself to promote the free coinage
of silver by international agree
ment. The president and his lead
ing advisers have said time and
again that they would use every
means in their power to secure BIZ
metallism by such international
agreement. To that end congress,
by an overwhelming majority,
voted for commission and author
lied the president to appoint such
Il commission to secure, if possible,
international bi-metallism. Thus
the congress of the United States
and the present administration
are pledged to bi-metallism. or
course we acknowledge that ad-
ministration bi-metallism has an
international string on it.
Thirteen millions Of the voters
of the United States, at the last
election, voted in favor of bi-metall-
ism. Had the question been put
plainly as to whether we should
have a perpetual gold standard or
the double standard, the gold stand.
ard would have been showed uu-
der so deep that nothing could
ever have dug it up. Yet in the
face and eyes of all this the leading
monometallists tell us that inter-
national bi-metallIsm on the basis
OF unlimited free coinage of both
metals is a sheer waste of time and
money. Not so did they talk in
1867, nor did they so talk in 1873,
or in the Republican convention
in 1896. In all those conferences
bi-metallists were greatly in the
majority. The whole world was
was educated on the line of BIZ
metallism. When the money lend
ers, bond dealers and consol own
ers decided that they wanted to in
crease the value of their holdings,
they did not start out and tell us
that fact; they went quietly to
work 10 dethrone one-half OF the
money Of final redemption. They
did not openly discuss the question
as to whether they would demone-
tize silver or gold, but they never
faltered in their determination to
demonetize one or the other of the !
two metals. No conspiracy in the
history OF mankind was SO fai
reaching in its effect. Men may
cry "Peace, peace, but there is no
peace" when such vast interests
are affected, when all mankind are
affected by this great question.
One may see prices settling steadily
down from year to year to the
gold standard, but 1t is not done
except by immense loss to all who
own property. Is it any wonder
that men cry out: ain whose in
terest is this done? To what good
Is 1t aiming?" 1t Is the wounded
bird that fiutters and the land all
over is covered by the wounded,
the dying and the suffering.
The good times promised have
not come; people begin to doubt
hat a great high wall around
leld will raise crops. They begin
% think that it is necessary to TIL
he soil, to have some fertilizers
'ut upon it in order TO produce {
rops. There is no such fertilizer
nown on earth among men as a
arge volume of sound money, y,good |
edeemable money, money that the /,
eople are willing to accept In their
iterchanges with each other, |
ioney that is elastic, that Will in +
rease in proportion to the popula- 1
on, money that is good in every a
ate In the union. Such n money e
ia not diliicult to manufacture in v
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