The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-20
STILL A LIVELY CORPSE.
Blmctaiiis.n Keeps ON ResurrecttnH
-Non't stay Planted When
It's safely Buried.

out In cold death; how often the coilir
lid has been screwed on good and tight
how often il has been consigned 10 III,
grave by willing hands; how often i
( has reappeared suddenly and uncxpect
eddy fun Of lusiy life TO the astonishes
I gaze of lis would he murderers u seal
their starting eyeballs-all this pass
eth my mathema tical powers 10 tell.
On the 9th OF Novem Der every gold
bug paper in the land declared tina, a
last the deed was done. the job com
pleted. the country saved. We hac
heard the last of the silver craze Tn,
.unatics were knocked out for keeps;
the senate was safe for ten years; the
single gold standard was fastened or
the country forever and a day.
That was the hattering junction. which
the propaga udists Of the English sys-
tenn OF finance on this continent laid
10 their palpitating hearts.
Gen. Grosvenor. in a burst Of conf.
dence and with prophetic ken. strok.
ing his venerable beard. his eye in fine
frenzy rolling. declared that we would
now have a whole generation Of rcpub-
lean presicents-presumably from
Ohio.
SO with wassail bout and popping OF
corks and the uproarious strains OF
music, and much enthusiastic if maud
lin oratory. The goidites celebrated the
wake over the corpse of bimetallism
They said TO each other gleefully. dia-
bolically ghoulishly: Its dead this
time. good and dead. deader'n a smelt,
deader'n a doornail. beaded than-the
deuce. What is that awful noise -
And it was o them an awful notes.-the
sound of bimetallism bursting fire. m the
tomb. with Hon. William L. Chandler.
of New Hampshire. Puritan statesman.
republican senator. In the role OF chief
resurreciionist! Macbeth's terror
wasn't circumstan nee TO theirs. After
all their labor and fussing and flaming
and boodling and bulldozing and crow
ing and bloviating and guiding and
hurrahing they come out of the same
hole they went In at. They have 10 be-
gin at the beginning and do it all over
again-start in alb initio. de novo from
The stump at the bottom.
The unanimi'y. alacrity and bitter
ness with which they will damn Chand-
Ter would eclipse the sulphurous glory
of "our army In Flanders" If what
they are saying about Chandler could be
taken down stenographically il would
make rare and racy reading. but would
be excluded from the mails uncere mont
ously on account of its profanity and
obscenity. They may "cuss' ali they
please. but the fact remains that the
New England senator has started a
brand new debate on bimetallism
which will be cond ucted at every fire.
side in the land. Now. if some defeated
democratic or populistic candidate for
congress had written en- elaborate in
terview in favor OF bimetalism the
goldbug press with one accord would
have denounced il as driveling .liocy.
but they can't so fiippantly dism IS the
well-considered words of New Hamp-
shire's senior senator. He halls from
the east. the habitat Of wise meL. lie
is one of the high priests in the tenn
pie of repu blicanism. That he l. mis-
chievous as a monkey may be admit
ted. but that lie is smart as a whip is
known of all men; that he is mbitious
as Julius Caesar is suspected by many,
and that he aspires to the presidency is
believed by some. His post election in
terview. portion Of which quote be-
low. has set many people hereabout TO
using their thinkers as they never used
them before. for Chandler's shrewd-
ness and dexteriiy at floating with the
tide have become proverbial.
Il am more convinced than ever" he
said. ''tha, the gold standard is not TO
be fastened upon the world. ! acknowl-
edge that just now it looks as if the
recognition of silver was far post poned.
but this is because we happen I D be in
a position OF creditor nation We
have exported Sl,O00,000. 00o worth of
produce more than we have imported
aud while we have not received all the
difference in gold. it has come Is US in
various other forms. and we have felt
no strain. Suppose. however, that the
tide had been running the other way,
and we had been compelled 10 pay out
this vast sum. No one would then have
animated that the silver question was
dead. No. said the senator emphaii-
cally. lit is not dead. and while the
fight may last for % years. ii will con-
tinue TO be fought. With England face
10 face with the Indian problem, and
with her failure TO borrow the gold
with which 10 supply currency for In
dia. the question is still very much
alive"
You still believe. then. in the posi-
bility OF international bimetallism ?"
TO such an extent" replied MIR.
Chandler, that II were President Nc
Kinley ] would appoint another com
mission. picking out active and earnest
men like Charles A. Towne. for in
stance. men who would endeavor 10 Sc
cure favorable result and would no
tify Great Britain and France of my
action. | would not send the commits
sioners abroad at once. but would wait
Tor them 10 be invited. In my opinion.
Great Britain would soon request their
presence. and cooperation might also
he expected from France. il that coun-
frss a.. II q T.