The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02

The Cincinnati Enquirer has the
following to say in regard to inter
national agreement upon the silver
question:
AT the first session of the Repub-
lican Senatorial caucus, held during
the first week of the session of Con
gress, a committee was appointed to
devise Legislation for action at this
session of Congress, looking to an
international monetary conference.
The committee, which was appoint
ed by Senator Sherman as the Chair
man of the Republican caucus, con-
sists of Senator'S Wolcott, Chairman
and Senators Chandler, Hoar, Gear
and Carter. All these men profess
to be bimetallists. Wolcott has
strongly advocated silver coinage.
So has Carter. The others are on
record as believing hat the nations
of the world can be brought to an
agreement on bimetallism.
Senator Wolcott is authority for
the statement that this committee is
in earnest, and he believes that a
bill providing for an international
monetary conference will be passed
at this session, so that the new Ad-
ministration, when it comes in, will
be able to act Immediately on the
subject.
The project has our best wishes.
Every silver Senator is bound to
vote for an effort to secure an inter
national agreement. Equally is every
silver Senator bound to relax nc
effort for the immediate and uncon-
ditional restoration of silver coinage
in this country at the ratio o. Is &c
/. A vote for the bill which Mr.
| Wolcott's committee will report will
not be a step backward. 1t will not
be a surrender. 1t will not be ar
agreement on the part of the silver
men to postpone action. 1t will
only be a helping hand to those who
claim that the cause of bimetallism
can be made successful by another
method. Let all the methods be
tried, and all at the same time, sup.
~plementing each other. Let all sucl
measures have the hearty support o.
the silver men. If Mr.. Mckinley
can compel an international agree
ment on the European ratio of ffteer
and a half to one, or on the Ameri
can ratio Of sixteen to one, that is al
the friends of silver coinage want
Let it not be said that they pulled
backward on a movement in tina
direction. The way to prove tina
international bimetallism is impossi
BILE is to go to the fullest length in
the efforts to procure it.
We have valuable information
which indicates that such a solution
of the silver question by In inter
national agreement is very bright
At former international confer
ences conditions we're such, that tn
world was not ready to enter into al
agreement. But since then fnan
cial distress, which has been so gen
eral, has so aroused all nations tina
at the present time 1t looks yer,
reasonable to expect something tc
be done. This information that w,
allude to is that France is ready te
join us; the German people are wit
us, the Emperor of Germany alon'
being an opponent of bimetallisn
and in favor of gold mono-metall
ism; Russia will join and with
proper combination of these powers
it is not impossible to bring Englan'
into the combination. 1t happen
that every member of the BIRTHS
cabinet save and except only tw
stand strongly in favor of the restor
alton of silver. The common peopl
of England believe hat silver shout
be restored, the commercial classe
so believe, and the money lender
of that country alone cannot Away
make their opposition effective.