The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-20

Views We were moro interested in what
he had 10 say OF national politics.
Like Senator Daniel he is another Dem
oorat who sees nothing in the recent
election 10 discourage the Chicagoists.
The war with Spain, he says, obscured,
but only temporarily. tissues that sooner
or later will come 20 the front The
financial question cannot be kept down"
he says.
We quite agree with the Governor in
that
cial issue is one that is as far from be-
ing settled, to-day as it was in 1896. But
We don't agree with the Governor In the
direction which he thinks the future
movement for its settlement will take.
The great majority OF voters I'm this
country have come TO learn that the dol
lar occupies the same relation to COM
modiues that the yard stick occupies TO
cloth and that you can no more have
two dollars Of different value TO measure
the value Of cloth than you can have two
yard sticks of different length TO meas
ure the length OF cloth. This is per-
fectly elementary principle which is just
as fixed and determined as the PROPOSE
ton that IL you drop a zen POND weight
from a balloon it will fall TO the earth.
And It is not only one Of those immuta-
bic principles that are like the fixed
stars in their immutability. but. what is
equally important, the great majority OF
voters in this country have found out
that It is an immutable principle which st
is foolish in them 10 disregard The
Governor is. therefore. tagging behind
with the belated wanderers when he
thinks the future settlement of the dnan-
cial question Is going 10 turn upon the
idea that Government can make fifty
cents worth Of silver as valuable as one
hundred cents worth Of gold. The peo-
pie have passed way beyond that falla-
cy and they are now going to deal with
the financial question upon lines which
start out with the elementary PROPOSE
ton that there can be but one standard
of value and that. it must be always kept
inviolate.
The settlement Of the future. conced-
ing that elementary proposition, but adj
hitting also that there must be a more
abundant supply Of the media Of ex-
change dn the country district, where the
people cannot transact their affairs with
checks, is going TO address itself 10
plan for giving these country people
larger supply Of currency notes, redeem
able upon demand in gold coin, and,
therefore. Just as available for business
transactions as the gold that they stand
for. When they are given an abundance
Of these notes, they Will have all the
media Of exchange that they can use, and
the gold standard of value Will be pre-
served also. That is the way in which
the financial question is going to be set
tied and when Governor Tyler ties him.
self to the exploded theory that the cause
of sound money can be advanced by fore
ing a man to whom one hundred dollars
are due to accept what is worth only
fifty dollars in payment he yokes him
self TO antiquity and will soon find his
solitary companions tombstones and
monuments TO exploded ideas. He Will
soon find himself near TO whited sep
ulchre. full of dead mems bones.
We are sorry the Governor obstinately
refuses to join the procession. lie is an
amiable and lovable gentleman that we
ere unwilling TO leave upon the roadside.
But he will be left there unless he soon
falls into the line.