The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-10-14
Is THE SILVER ISSUE DEADp


Since the price of silver bullion has been
advancing in the London market, and since Il
has been recognized by the bank of England.
the penny whistle Hanna gold organs in Ohio
are not so loudly proclaiming that the silver
issue is dead and that Bryan and Bryanism
are defunct These Hanna servitors may be
wiser If they live long enough.
There is more silver sentiment in Groa,
Britain than some people like to admit. On
the 18th of March, 1896, Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, the chancellor the British Excbeouer
declared that while the ministry was ready 70
reopen the Indian mints, the gold standard
would be maintained in the United Kingdom.
This declaration was called forth BY the
presentation of the following proposition in the
House of Commons:
The house is of opinion that the instability
Of the relati &c value of gold and silver, since
the action Of the Latin Union in 1873, has
proved injurious TO the best interests of this
country, and urges upon the government the
advisability of doing all in its power to secure
by international agreement a stable par of
monetary exchange between gold and silver. !"
lhls resolution was unanimously adopted by
the House of Commons without amendment or
division, being due to the prudence of the
chancellor of the exchequer in accepting the
motion. Declarations of opinion are much
less Objectionable to the monometallist than
laws to put them in force.
In France four years of agitation have re-
suited in strongly committing the government
to international bimetallism.
During the last two and half years, the
French chambers, the German reichstag and
Prussian Diet and the British House of Com.
mons, have decidedly proclaimed for bimetal.
lism. The power of the money lords and the
Bureaucracy in those lands have prevented
action in those countries Just as in the United
states. Even now gold standard commission
Is sitting in Washington formulating currency
measures for congress. When shall we get
away from this scheming and knavery?
cable special of September 90 says that
the journal des Debats' Of Paris, intimate
that the French mint may possibly be opened to
the free coinage Of silver at the rate of 151 to
This excites great deal of discussion in
London. 1t seems that France has agreed to
| re open her mints if Great Britain will adopt
measures favorable to silver, such as the re.
opening OF the Indian mints and the use Of
silver as a part of the reserves of the Bank OF
England NJ Meline, the prime minister Of
~ance, is pronounced bimetallist. NJ
Leroy-Beaulieu, a distinguished French author
writing in opposition to France re-opening its
mints to silver admits that the United States
will find great advantages in bimetallism,
being the largest of the silver producing
countries, and being very little exposed to
the chances of war, but he argues France not
being silver producer, and forced to maintain
costly ornaments, would be foolish to venture
on the reopening of its mints to silver coinage,
From all these circumstances it is very
evident the silver issue is not dead, much as
some interested parties would like to have II
80. The currency of the world today, as
formerly, is silver, even in this gold standard
country. We take it that the silver issue il
not yet dead, and we prophecy that Hanna
this administration and the g. o. p. will all
pass away long before silver.