Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-02-24
Hints to Democrats on the For
nation of Their National
Platform.
SILVER CENTS, NIcKEts AND DIMES.
Suggestions as to the DISPOSE
tion of the Vexed Problem
of Expansion.

Ueorge wilson, president OF the
Lafayette County Bank at Lexington,
Mo-, who is an ardent bimetalist, and
who is convinced that the Republi.
can party is SO thoroughly in league
with the gold-bugs of Europe that
they will always oppose the free
coinage of silver, offers some good
advice to the Democrats as to the
framing Of their coming platform.
He says:
"In our Civil War there were two
classes in the North-those who
hated slavery, and those who hated
the Southern people. The roots of
the latter passion are fastened in race
difference. and run centuries back
into Continental Europe and even to
Asia, whence the two stocks came.
John Sherman and Mckinley and
others belong to a stock that was
conquered and enslaved in Continen.
tai Europe by the warrior stock, whose
descendants settled in tidewater.
Virginia, and hatred has been hand
ed down much the same as the hatred
between the dog, mans first domes-
tic animal, and the cat, whose ances-
tors sprang upon the ancestors of the
dog from hiding places in the trees.
In the Southern stock of people is
the kernel of the love for and the
defense of a Republican form and
substance OF Government. In the
person of Mr.. Mckinley and his
Hanna-led Pretorians, and in Roths
child, who furnished the plan and
much Of the money-is the most
serious danger to continuance of a
Republican form of Government that
has ever been known in the history
of the world. The Beers. il success
ful. may cause a revolution in Eng
land. the expulsion of royalty, which
may go India, as Portuguese royalty
want to Brazil. and the establish
ment OF q British and an Irish Re-
public. and thus destroy Toryism
and the rising Royalist party in
America by that attack in the rear.
Thus the Boer success may mean life
to five Republics; their defeat death
to their own and to ours. And thus
the supreme issue in the coming
election is: Shall we elect McKin-
ley, the vassal of England, or free
American citizen? Feeling as deeply
as I can what the continuance OF this
Republic means to mankind, and
that its fall into England's influence
and empire is equal to going back
ten centuries, l offer some sugges-
tions as q financial expert on the
financial plank of the next Demo-
cratic platform, on which all can
unite.
1st. That all fractional silver
coins hereafter made shall be of
proportional weight to the present
silver dollar: the half dollar to
weigh 406 IA grains, and so on. The
nickel FIVE cent coins to be called in
and silver half dimes, one twentieth
the weight of the dollar, to take their
place.
I'd. Seventy millions of silver
dollars shall be coined each year for
five years, and a like amount of
United States notes. known as green
backs, shall be destroyed each year.
The silver thus used shall be exelu-
sively from mines in the United
States. One-fifth of the redemp-
tion fund in the treasury shall, at
the end of each year, be used to pay
off bonds.
Sd. That experiments shall be
made to decide II silver cent piece
of convenient size can be made by
spreading the metal or otherwise.
and if successful shall be coined to
replace the copper cent.
The question of national bank note
issues and State bank note issues
should be let alone till we get to that
part of the field,
The question Of expansion. which
is causing SO much discussion at the
present time. is disposed of by Mr..
Wilson as follows:
1st. II the people of Cuba wish to
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