Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-11-16

tartan question. Would this tendency.
only too visible, not be increased by
adding to the electorate numbers of
women voters, habitually inclined to
look at events and measures in Il ten.
der. poetical, sentimental way"
That recalls The part which the
Times played in 1896. Its political
editor knew these facts:
That the movement TO demonetize
silver originated in the brains of a few
Bond street, London. and Wall street.
New York, thieves, at the time when
the intercst-bcaring debts OF the Unit.
cd States and United States CORPORA
tions amounted TO $4,000, 900, 900, d
sum greater than all the worlds mon
ey at that time, and that the object
Of the movement was TO compel the
people OF the United States TO pay the
interest on that sum forever.
That there was no publice demand
for the decentralization of silver.
That the Legislation OF 1873 was
framed by fraud and pushed through
congress by a sneak.
That the seeming fall in the value
OF silver IA but the infiatioin OF gold
as measured by any kind of property
values. and that it was due not TO any
surplus of silver. but TO the withdraw
al by the government Of recognition as
primary money from the white metal.
That II speciouS arguments put
out by Edward Atkinson and Profess
scrs Sumner and Mclaughlin, revers
ing ali the established facts OF politi-
cal economy, were but transparent
plagarismS OF The style OF argument
advanced by shysler lawyers when de.
tending III the police courts men &C
petty larceny to rape.
But the Times suppressed all the
facts and endorsed all the f%alsehoods
When The crime was finally con.
summated the Times saw those same
thieves compel Mr.. Cleveland and Mr..
Carlisle-much to their enjoyment
TO issue and sell $3.50 600, 600 in bonds,
which the people are still paying, in
tcrest on the principal. not having
been reduced one penny.
And the Times approved it. And
was what Mr.. Bryan said sentimental
bosh?"
Let us see. Every man who owed
40 per cent of the value of his pro-
perry lost it all.
Ever man who owed anything had
half his capacity to pay taken from
him.
The closing of the India minis was
part of the conspiracy, and while Mr..
Bryan was talking in 1896 and in the
following two years two million men,
women and children starved to death
in that distressed country. more than
mony OF English officers who saw
them, died not for the want of Todd,
but because they could not have their
boarded silver coined into rupees.
And the Times was unmoved by the
dreadful fact.
1t knew that in 1896 those same
thieves supplied Mark Hanna with so
much money to corrupt, brighten and
bulldoze the voters of the middle west
that. try as he did, he could not spend
il all.
An outside failure of food crops
brought t this country in 1897, 80
and 80 more than 1000, 100000 in
gold.
An undreamed of reinforcement OF
the worlds gold came from Cripple
Creek, South America and west Aus
tralia. But as Mr.. Bryan predicted,
all the surplus gold in the country
to that same Wall street
And the depression caused by ii has
never been lifted. More, by the re
verse action of that same law of 1893
our export trade to half The inhabi.
tants of the earth has bccn killed, and
were The war in Europe TO suddenly
stop the business of this country
would be PROSTATE in a fortnight.
Meanwhile the inver cd pyramid
which rests on n point Of gold has In
Europe had piled upon il during the
past fifteen months sixty billions of
debt. How long befor" that pyramid
viii topple and fall? Was Mr.. Bryan's
talk Sentimental bo"h?"-Goodwin's
Weekly.