The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-20
Political Differences.

In u laSC Issue we discussed the
subject of political differences, and had
carried u discussion down to the
qnt stion of the standard or standards
on which our money should be based.
The question, in more familiar words, is
that between the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of Is to- and the single gold
standard. That this is the all-lmport-
ant question of the day cannot be de-
MED, that an attempt is being made by
one of the political parties to obscure
this issue by the forcible presentation
of MINOR issues, also cannot be denied.
Democratic victory means a free silver
victory. As n western Iowa demo-
GRAFT frankly told us, I'VE hope by rails.
ing the expansion question issue and
the anglo-saxon alliance bug-a-boo, to
drive the Germans into swallowing free
silver whether they like it or not" We
must say that we have a great deal of
sympathy with those who were led
away by the silver theory in 1896. Times
were very bad. The nation was sick
at heart. In times of profound peace a
huge loan had to be made by the gov
eminent. money Was scarce, employ
ment was scarcer, and the people were
ready to turn to almost anything which
offered relief. We have all seen sick
men trying n patent-nostrum after
another, trying water cures, magnetic
cures, any kind of a so-called cure in
order to find relief. In just such man.
ner did many people turn not only to
free silver but to a dozen other sup
posed financial remedies. Some pro.
posed a composite dollar, some proposed
a hat money pure and simple, others
wanted wheat to be the standard of
value-there was no end to the number
less schemes proposed. We say we
%sympaihize with those mislead il 1896.
just as we sympathize with the SICK
man, but we cannot sympathize with
them now, we cannot sympathize with
the sound. healthy man who fills him.
self up with drugs simply because some
vendor tells him to-.
The money question has been SO thor.
cughly discussed and ~re-discussed. that
it profits little to go through The de, ails
at this time. In 1896 the free silverises
made two distinct statements.
1st. That free silver would mean a
return of prosperity.
End. That prosperity was impossible
under a single gold standard.
These statements. run all Through
Bryan's speeches, they were distinctly
repeated in the Iowa democratic plat.
form of 1897, and specifically endorsed
In the platform upon which the demo.
cratic candidates are running to-day.
The second statement has been proven
false, utterly false. No matter what
caused our present prosperity, whether
1t was protection. or the return of con.
hdence, or war or pestilence or famine
IN other countries, the democratic con-
tention that prosperity was IMPOSSIBLE
under a gold standard has been utterly
%dlsproven. 1t is answered, no q
ment is necessary to prove what all can
see.
Do you wish a change? Do you wish
TO part with an assured. prosperity, do
you wishyto part from a dollar whose
value you know, a dollar that can be
trusted to do its full duty the world
over, do you wish to part with these
things for some democratic pipe dream
OF Utopia and a dollar, the value of
which you do not know? If you do, vote
the democratic ticket, for as sure as
there is q God above us, democratic
victory now and in 1900 means free
silver. If the people would only grasp
this idea firmly we do not believe there
would be, 500 democratic votes in Craw.
ford county. Keep these things before
your mind. Democratic victory this
year means a year of suspense in bust
ness Of every kind. 1t means an un-
settlement of all business pending the
election of 1900. 1t means that money
will be more cautious, fearing a change.
it g that it will be more difficult to
borrow money and that interest rates
will be advanced all over the country.
1t will mean that you want free silver
and that in 1900 free silver is bound to
come. Keep these facts in mind every
day, and when election day comes vote
for a continuance of present conditions
and present prosperity.
The next proposition is, at what point
shall the government interfere with in
dividuaI success, where shall it draw
the line between individual success and
public injury? The consideration of this
question we shall again postpone for
another issue.
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