, 1898-08-25
MONEY QUESTION
A FEW WORDS OF ADVICE TO
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN
FREE COINAGE.
How the Democrats Are Footing the
Silver Advocates Into Supporting
the Candidates of the Party Of Per-
dition-They Do Not Believe In
Free Coinage Themselves.
Communicated

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Laramie, Wyo., Aug. "a, 1898.
l suppose there are a few voters in
Wyoming who have formerly been
identified with the republican party
ard have now gone over to the democ-
racy, swallowing all its binders and in
constituencies of the past and its absur-
d.ties Of the present, only for the sake
of voting for free silver coinage. They
do not believe in a single principle Of
the democratic party. except that one,
and they do believe in the glorious rec
ords. and in all the principles OF the re-
publican party except the n principle
that We will have, and make, all the
money which bears our government
stamp. just "as good as gold" all the
world over.
These men talk glibly of 1.-THE crime
of 49," when silver was "demonetized."
The dictionaries define "demonetized,"
ito cease to use as money, to deprive of
ment cease to use silver as money in
1873? So far from this, the govern
ment has coined more silver money ev-
cry veal since 1873 than was coined in
a hundred years before that. and we
now have more than 700 millions Of sill
YER in circulation.
The term single gold standard"
which so frightens my silver friends.
does not near gold recommendation but
only that We will insist that all our
money shall be as good as gold"
Cheap money has a very allurlng
sound but do you want "cheap money"
gentlemen? If so, go back to the laws
of L%ycurgus, who made all his money
out of iron. and 1t took a horse team
to haul a few dollars worth of it.
l notice the Colorado papers now are
bowling "bimetallism," and seldom say
anything about Cheap money"
Haven't we got bimetallism, and al
ways have had it? l believe in BIZ
metallism. and want to see just as much
silver coined and used for money as
possible and have it worth a hundred
cents on the dollar. Do you, gentle
men, want more than that? Do you
want a dollar to do business with which
is worth only so cents-or even 80
cents-and thus drive all money worth
a hundred cents on the dollar out OF
circulation?
But there is another feature to this
matter. Gentlemen, you are being
egregiously fooled. The democrats no
more believe in putting this nation on
a silver basis than the republicans do.
But you say six and a half million vot-
ers voted for Bryan and the Chicago
platform" No, they voted for Bryan
because he was the nominee of their
party and in spite of the Chicago plat
form. Leave out the populist cranks
and not one in five Of the democrats be-
lieved in free and unlimited silver coin
age at 16 to I, nor, If their party had
been successful in the election, would
they have made any effort to bring it
about.
My Silver republican friends, you
are simply being made fools Of. You
are selling yourselves for naught."
o are sacrificing the glorious record
OF the party you love and in whose
achievements you have shared, and all
its grand principles in which you be-
lieve. for an ignis-fatuus, merely held
out to catch your votes and help your
political foes into office. Knowing, as
you do. how little the democratic party
ever regarded as binding it's pledges or
its platforms, it is surprising that you
can be so easily gulled. $50