The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-22

In 1896 we had the silver craze. that was nothing in the world but green backism in another garb, and In less whether the currency with which bus mess was carried on should be worth 100 cents to the dollar. Currency is to business exIctly what the blow IS 10 the hammer to the smith, the razor to the barber, the lexicon to the scholar a tool of trade. A good tool pakes a good job, if properly employed; pad tool makes a bad job however employ
 The issue was q business proposition and had no legitimate place in poli- ties. and If would never nave go! i into der, that will be abolished as soon as man becomes reasonably civilized. There is no legal tender in internatIon- ever the tariff fakers will allow 1t enough room. But though 1t was a mere business proposition, the cam paign of 1896 was the most turbulent It was sought to teach the people that every banker was'a HIalefactor whose sole purpose in life was to bankrupt every man who owed his bank dollar. thousands of men, forty years earlier. believed that Plus TX sought to set up the Spanish inquisiop, and exult In the Auto-da- in Maryland. Virginia, and
  battle of the standards" for double standard in currency is no more allow ed than a double standard in morals. The cheaper metal will drive the dear CT from the hints. just as the basel conduct will drive the chaster out of mans life. There Is just as much argument for an avoirdupoIs pound of eight ounces. as a yardstick of eighteen inches to be employed concurrently with the 16-ounce pound and the 56- inch yard by the cross roads store keeper as there is for the concurrent coinage of gold and silver at 16 to l. when the price of pig silver rules at any other figure than $1.29 and frac- tion of per ounce in the market. Keep the market price of silver at $1.29 and a fraction and every mint >in the worlc will open It's doors wide to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to l. But that can no more be than bushel of wheat exactly at the dollar mark
 Let us hope that there will be no nor, campaigns like that of 1896.
 Hardly had the silver craze giver way to the imperfect gold standard than the G. O. P. screwed its courage to the point of enacting-and that has founded on 16 to 1-when politics took l another it-the octopus chase that iA now going on hotfoot The Hon. Theo- dore Roosevelt is master of the hounds | William Jennings Bryan is master of the hounds that wants to get after the varmlnt, Editor John Temple Graves would have the Hon. Bryan go back in the rear and leave the completion | of the thing tc the Hon. Roosevelt, but 1 that plan failed
 The octopus is sorely pressed-serves him right While corporations have done wonderful thingA to edvance the | material interests of the American people they have practiced a deal oi l rascality to the oppression of the peo 1 pie They, too, are fiatists, for that l l what water in their securities amounts | to, They have established monopolies not to benefit the public, as they could 1 have done, but to reap where they ha not sown and gather where they ha not strewed, The Standard oil Oompan might have had friend in every voter it has not a single friend in the wid republic. The same Is true of the bee | trust It was easier for them to hay been benefactors; they chose to be op ! pressers And now the day of tudgmen
 has come, and as Ben Butler remar K eo
 Tt is a d--d bad year for the wick
 ed"
 But a corporation Is nothing but a | artificial person that can be manage
 as easily as a natural person If the gov
 ernment will go about it properly an
 put the Constitution and the law to 1 l There Ia 0Opular helipf that tranSpOl