Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-27
HOTSPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST u, 1897.

LIN Il NJ
iously mistaken, for bimetallists gave
notice the next day after election
that the battle was on again and that
these discussions of the question would
be continued right along, that the OBJ
,ject of public speaking is to aid in
better understanding the question.
Bimetallism hasn't had fair chance,
for it has been in the hands of hypo
critics and politicians who have tried
to dodge the issue for twenty years.
He declared that the republicans had
turned over the government to the
financiers, and questioned "why not
leave the entire matter to j. Pierpont
Morgan?" thus questioning the honest
purpose of republicans who voted their
convictions.
"Of all the great questions before
the American people the financial
question is paramount. If free coin
age means the detriment of the ma
tion's credit and honor, then what
question can approach it; if the gold
standard means the servitude of the
people what question can approach it.
1t must be settled by the people. do
not care upon what side you may be
or what are your views, this great ques-
tioil must be settled right. I do not
seek to enforce my opinions upon any
one else; l simply submit my views
for your consideration. want you to
believe that am in earnest in my be-
lief and if am wrong want to be set
right. In considering this money
question we must take into considera-
tion mans interest in it.. l do not
hope to convert man who believes the
gold standard is a good thing for him
1 believe that bimetallism is a good
thing for the American people and for
that reason / advocate it.
He said he had been out to the Cave
and enjoyed it very much and that the
idea came to him that as there are not
many caves it was valuable curiosity,
but that if there was 81 cave near every
town there would be little value or in
terest in them. But as it is this cave
is great curiosity and a great thing
for its proprietor, Mr.. Stabler. just
SO with anything-the value of the ar
ticle depending upon the numbers.
"My attention has been called fire.
quently to the phenomenal rise in the
wheat market and am asked to explain
it. never saw republicans derive so
much enjoyment out of anything as
they do the rise in wheat. The next
convention will point with pride at it,
and the famine in India that caused it.
They will say that the rise in wheat
and fall in silver are evidences that BIZ
metallism is near at hand. want that
dollar that is the best dollar. that is
the nearest approach to stability.
There are bimetallists all along from
the freezing to the boiling point, and
when they get to the boiling point you
can't touch them, and l want to raise
the temperature here and get you up
to the boiling point, and get you to
feel that bemetallism must be restored.
He compared the teeter board to the
rising dollar and falling prices, and de-
fined an ''honest dollar" as one whose
purchasing power is the same ycster-
terday, today and forever, and declared
that goldbug will tell you that an
honest dollar means a sound dollar:
and then when pressed further for
definition says that sound dollar is
an honest dollar. He said that when
he used the term goldbug he used it
with the same kindliness that charac-
terizes them when they refer to us as
lunatics. Bimetallism will not give us
an absolutely honest dollar, but will
be the nearest approach to it that we
can attain; that "tolerably"
honest dollar will satisfy me.
There are two plans now before the
American people, to try ourselves, and
attend to our own business, and the
other is to wait for the other countries
to do something for us. Can anyone
doubt which plan will bring the for
eigners to time?
The people have been studying the
money question. while the politicians
have been lodging it.
The law prior to 1873 included silver
and you never heard then that there
was too much money in the country.
They tell us now that we have too
much money, and still our money is
cut in two. If we have enough money,
why do not the nations get together
and prohibit the discovery of any more
gold. On the contrary our goldbug
friends are now raising cheer for
large amounts of gold discoveries in