Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-29
A TrIbute 20 NIexIcanIzatIon.

stitutional "-Nonconformist.
A Tribute 60 INSTRUMENTATION.
We produce elsewhere from the edi-
torial columns of the New York Sun,
glowing review of the prosperity exist
ing in ''silver-curst" Mexico.
When it is recollected that all the
force of the gold standard press, led by
the New York Sun, was directed against
the election of Mr.. Bryan to the presi-
dency of tue United States last year,
because his election would mean the
Discrimination" OF our commerce, the
Importance of this editorial pronounce.
ment will be seen. The charge waa
made that Mexico had been sunk into
the abaseinent OF silver monometalIismi
that her people were poverty-stricken,
and that general decentralization exist
ed throughout the republic. 1t was
vehemently argued that we had enough
5O-cent dollars, and that it would NOT
do to go any closer to the line Of Mex
ieanization" The cry caught many
timld people, and what is the resultH
The United States the foremost Eng,
disappearing nation in the world, and
the importer of all the English quail.
ties of industry and enterprise, has
stood for years as finished country.
Railroad Building has almost ceased;
business has been contracted and the
tendency is toward a reduction OF
wages, eliminating, in some places, in
the substitution Of colored for white
labor in order 20 get 1T cheaper, and
promising, il long continued, TO REL
open the gates to Chinese labor, SO
that the cheapest results may be OBJ.
tanned. We were told that the cleo
tion of Mr.. Mckinley, insuring the tri-
umph of gold standardism, would stop
all this, and that upon the fact being
known there would be such a rush Of
business activity that che past would
be forgotten.
During the period Of this discussion
The Constitution took occasion to in
quire into the Mexican situation, and
in the presentation of the facts, told
substantially the same story which
now appears editorially in the columns
of our esteemed contemporary of New
York, 1t was shown that in the pro.
portion that gold standardism had
squeezed the life out of business in the
United States, silver Mexico was en-
ioying a career of unexampled pros
perity. Railroads were being built IN
all directions; mills and factories were
being erected, and failures in business
were unheard Of. President William
q. Raoui, of the Mexican National rail
way. bore testimony to the fact that
the Mexican lesson had converted him
from gold standardism to the bimetal.
lie theory. Mr.. Samuel NJ Inmnu, one
of the most conservative business men
of the union, after a visit to shat eoun
try, gave expression to corroboratins
views
McIlinleyism Sks triumphed in the
United States, and all the efforts to b
worked out by that fact have been dis.
counted IN the practical completion Of
his first year. The result to-day is tn,
iron aud coal labor of five states in de
moralization. and an emphasis given
to the unfavorable conditions of LAS
year.
Meanwhile, as outlined by the New
York Sun, pro-McKinlcy enthusiast
there is ian extraordinary boom in
railroad building in Mexico" and
"there is at this time more activity IL
the construction of new railroads thar
10 any other country in the world
While the Sun recognizes this as trib.
ute to the "honor' of President Diaz's
government, why should not the hon
or of President McKinley's govern
nent be equally effective? But the
remarkable part of the Suns declara.
ton is that lit is tribute ON the part
of the capital and commerce Of the
whole world" to silver country, the
same world which, it was alleged last
fall, would desert the United States il
it went only half way with Mexico,
and placed the two precious metals on
that equality which the history Of
finance has given them.
There will be great many people
from now on, who win have their eyes
opened as 70 what INSTRUMENTATION
means.-A tlanta Constitution.