The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-20
The Issue of Free silver.

The Finance Committee Of the Senate
has adopted a resolution declaring United
States bonds payable in standard silver
dollars. Paying the bonds in silver would
not mean free silver coinage or actual Re-
pudiation, since to-day the United States
silver dollars are, like all other currency,
as good as gold. But this resolution Is the
work of the silver men, and Is regarded by
them as the first forward step in the rein
vigoration Of their crusade to substitute
the silver standard for that of gold.
OF the five Senators voting against this
resolution every one is Republican, namely,
MORRILL, Of Vermont, ALLISON of Iowa,
ALpn1cH of Rhode Island, PLATT Of Con-
necticut, and BURROWS of Michigan.
or the eight Senators voting for it, six,
or three.quarters of the total number, are
Democrats, namely, VEST OF Missouri.
JONES of Arkansas, WHITE Of California,
WALTHALL of Mississippi, TURPIE OF
Indiana, and DANIEL of Virginia. The
other two members of the majority, VOL
corT of Colorado and JONES of Nevada, are
In many respects Republican, but they are
more regularly and distinctly identified
with the silver interest.
lDIb EcBOluJlOu " pans SobStSoos
for the reason that the House of Repre-
seutatives will not agree to it, whatever
may be done with it in the Senate. But 1t
Involves the real issue Of the day, and
points to the wise way for the party
OF honest.money men to proceed, as clearly
rs though it were the platform itself around
which Reputation and the national credit
were to join battle.
1t would be q national benefit of inlmcas-
urahle value If the Senate were OF a COM
plexion to crush the resolution to pay the
bonds In silver under another formally put
ting the Senate's sanction upon the present
policy of paying the bonds in gold, a practice
which the Government has continued non
orably for upward Of sixty year,, and which
has been relied on justly by every buyer
Of It's securities. That being impos-
Bible. however, the supporters of hon
est money must do the next best
thing, which is to put aside personal n
mositles, suspend the spirit of factionism,
suppress the prejudices of secondary parti-
~sanship, postpone all schemes of confusion
or ENHANCEMENT or hindrance, n come
together again, with greater resolution and
more perfect harmony than ever, for the
maintenance of the gold standard and of the
general body of political and social doc
trine threatened with humiliation by the
Democratic party.
Traitors TO the cause of the gold standard
under the guisc OF party fnctionism must
be ticketed aud put out. Mugwumps, cur
rency rcformers, and cranks of all sorts,
all the men of ono idea whose idea for the
present does not happen to be the defeat Of
Reputation and of the underlined but
incendiary aud irreclaimable vicious
ness Of tho Chicago platform, must be
suppressed beneath public indignation too
powerful ;or them to carry on their inju-
riols Vaccinations in open view. And the
great aat!-Dryan party, the Republican or
Panization, must be acknowledged and
trusted rs the party to lead in defending
and preserving the national honor and COM
mercial peace and prosperity.
Honest-money men canno understand too
soon that they must rally vigorously. and
faithfully to the support of the Republican
party.