Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-09-06
DEMO SILVER PLATFORMS.


Demo-Silver party platforms shows
a batch of dead issues; it states
We deny that silver is a dead issue.
Many of those who are now acting with the
Republican party admit that what Is called
Republican rosperity is In reality the result OF
more money in circulation.
That silver is dead issue is man.
Tested by the admission that pros
perity is in reality the result of more
money in circulation. There is no
great public sentiment demanding
silver. The argument That the vol
ume of money must be increased in
order to restore prices has lost all
its force, for the great Democratic
iamentation is that prices are too
high. One need not be professor of
political economy nor a philosopher in
order to know that when commodities
of all kinds, real estate and prop
erty of every description are com
manding ready sale at high prices,
with factories and furnaces operating
at full capacity, trans portatiou lines
unable to handle the enormous traffic,
when labor is in demand with wages
on the increase, that money is cheap.
Never in the history of this nation
was there such volume of money in
circulation.
The great argument in favor OF
silver was to add to the money vol
ume of the nation when it becomes
inadequate. To know if the money
volume is sufficient or not, we have
to look to prices if they are high
enough-and the Democrats say they
are away too high that is sure
sign that money is abundant. 1t is
the criterion by which the money
volume is determined, for when
money Is scarce it is dear, property
i on, prices are low, labor is unem-
ploped 1t has become a chronic
scunplaint Of our Democratic friends
q Deiaeeratic malady-that prices
are too high This they charge to
the Republican policy of Ir 'tection
as the incubator of trusts.
The Republican doctrine of pro
ection has always been the object Of
Democratic attack to it has been
attributed every possible ailment of
national atiliction. 1t has been
charged that because of the tariff we
are unable to compete with Europe
for the carrying trade of the ocean.
That has been shown to be a willful
perversiou of the truth. The tariff
is accused of being the parent OF
trusts, yet in free trade countries
trusts are more numerous and tyran-
nical than here. The Standard Oil
trust, perhaps the most intoleraDt OF
all, has the control of a product
which is not in anyway affected by
the tariff. The reason for high prices
is the abundance of money - the
greatly increased volume OF money
that this nation has accumulated
since 1896. The director of the mint
places the value of gold coin and golC
bullion now held in the United States
at subs tantially one billion dollars
this is by far the largest stock o
gold ever held by any nation. We
attract and hold this gold because
the volume of our nations bushes,
transactions exceeds that of any
other nation, and our SURPRISES APP
pear largely in the form Of gold Nc
such stock of gold could be accumu
lated except by prosperous people
Ii we add to our stock of gold, oul
stock of coined silver, and our paper
money, we shall find that we are
amply supplied with the medium o.
exchange We also have the salts
faction of knowing that our dollar
whether it be of paper or silver, /,
on substantial basis, exchangeablt
at par for gold, The free coinage o
silver is not nor can it be considered
an issue in this campaign.
The Fusionists would not mention
silver except for their poverty o
principles Their trust racket vii
not win, their humbug, Imperialism
will be taken for what it is worth
Silver is used to beguile the voters
1t is used as political football kickeC
into a crowd to create stir.