The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-01-15
Silver Republicans State Some
Cold Facts.
AN APPEAL FOR UNITY
Silver Forces Advised 10 Unite
Against the Common Enemy
Of the People.
Webster. Hlain and Mckinley Quoted as
,uthority-rhry We're all silver Men
and >taunrh BimetaIists-
Combination Advised.

huc oittr rihS duuFcN~ WAS prOmuISd
Ted ASA 9decfarati IN of principles .
the silver republicans:
believing it has never b .en the u
tention of the common voter of the
republican party to lend that grea
organization to purposes of evil, anG
that the true followers of Abraham
Lincoln will be as quick to correct
errors of their own as To rebuk-
wsongs OF others, we invite the careful
consideration of republicans to the
present political position OF our coun.
try.
True TO the traditions of the old
party, and the principles OF lincoln,
the silver republicans of the Uaited
States have kept the doors of the old
home open, that all who will may
assist in making greater the great day
that shall wress the old party from the
hands of its despoilers. We ask you
to consider:
"Silver is money of the constitu-
tion; was attacked by hostile legisla-
tion, and is entitled to free and un-
limited coinage, as you declared in
your state platform in 1890.
1.-THE party or power that attacks
the mintage rights of silver is guilty
of a violation of the constitution. as
has been declared by Tie princes of
American statesmen.
Daniel Webster said; I am clearly
/ of the opinion that neither congress
nor any other authority can legally
demonetize either gold or silve-. II
one coin can be dethroned as money,
then the osher one c,n be, and thus
the constitution can be overthrown.
The command to congress is to coin
money, lot to destroy 1t; to create
legal-tender money for the use of the
people, and the grant of authority to
create money cannot be construed to
destroy money
flames q. Blaine said: Il believe
gold aud silver to be the money of the
constitution indeed, the money OF the
American people. anterior to the con-
stitution, which the great organic law
recognizes as independent OF its own
existence. No power was conferred
on congress to declare either metal
should not be money. Congress has,
therefore, in my Judgment, no power
to demonetige silver any moro than to
denonetize gold.'
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country, and its use as such with gold
is tradition of the republican psrty,
as We, as u harmonious party, declared
in cur national platform in 1862, a.
followsi Tho A Anerican people. from
trad .tion and interest, favor bimetal-
ism, and the republican party demands
the use of b,th gold and silver ~
standard money
The demonetizAtiss Of silver 10
wrong. and the Republican party, In :
its natiosaI pistfora In 1888, eoadema- !
ed the efforts Of President Clsvelaad's +
administration to denohetize it, ~
follows: The rspabliesn party 10 in /
favor of the uss of both gold and eil-
Yer As money, aad essde mss the
policy of the democratic adniaistra-
ton in its efforts to demonetise sil-
ver.'
president Mckinley, on February
IL, 1891, as q meabe- Of congress, ia
the house, said: During all OF Grover
ClevelAnd's years at the head Of the
government he was dishoaoring one OF
eur precious metals, enc of eur OWE
great products, disereditin. silver aad
enhancing the pri>s Of gold. He en-
deavsred, even before his inaagure-
sion 70 oncs, to step the coinage of
silver dollars, and afterwards, and 10
the end OF his administration, persist
emily used his power to that end. He
was determined to contract the circu-
lating medium and demonetize one of
the coins of commerce, limit the vol
ume of money among the people, make
money scarce, and therefore dear. He
would have increased the value of
money and diminished the value of
everything else, money the master.
everything else the servant
"You witnessed in the last campaign
the most cruel coercion of the laboring
vote by the money-changers in charge
of the old party-a coercion that put
the lives of wives and children at
stake. by threatened withdrawal OF
IL the voter did not forgOe
his own opinion and vote the senti.
ments of his employ ers. This cannot
be Lincoln republicanism.
"You have witnessed the unblushing
of their promises to strive
for international bimetali-m by this
same aggregation of greed, as soon as
it had obtained power under promise
so sOlernnly made to a nation, which it
did not intend to perform. This can
not be Lincoln republi,anisn. You
heard their promises that all should
h v environment at increased wages.
a d nov 81. that the trust- they
( ,.t. I'D have reduced wages; more
:hH $1,000 cOtton-mill workers have
L..,.t.- vit.;im'Z-d within the past few I
d ~ h, pr missed TO protect and {
k+. p 9" d all the denominations OF
nur9 money. and they now propose to
r tire it all except gold. and the paper c
IL oney OF theft private corporations, Z
nv incurring a greater public debt t
than that was requi ed by our fore l
fathers to build the nation. The i
power of greed only promises; it never b
'uIfills. Bu5 Lincoln republicanism
never promised what il did not fulfill.
You cannot expect to get the old O
party back through the aid of the "
power that despoils it; you cannot ex- :
,ect mere mbine of greed to save Il
Is fair name from the infamy that a
Always attaches to the agency of F