Year: 1878




be handed in early.


CAvING IN RAPIDLY.-One after an
other the single gold standard Senators
are caving in. Senator Bayard took the
lead and yielded his opinions to the de-
mands of the vast majority of his con-
stituents by declaring that he would
never by his vote deprive the people of
the use of silver as money and urging,
as a compromise, the limitation of silver
rs legal tender. This has given away
the principle of single gold standard
But it is far from coming up TO the de-
mands of the people. They do not mean
that the poor man who holds a bond of
$50 shall be paid in demonetiaed silver,
while the richer man who holds a bond
of 5000 shall receive his pay in unliIni-
ted legal tender gold. That will not do.
We want gold and silver to be used alike.
The holder of the $50 bond does not
claim either silver or gold, and will be
content with either, if both are treated
alike by Congress. Don't offer one man
silver and another gold. "Let the bles-





heaven, descend alike upon the rich and
the poor That 'Jacksonian idea runs
through the whole of the advocates of
the double standard. And it can only be
made applicable and general to the
masses by giving TO silver the quality of
unlimited legal tender for all debts public
and private. Let us be one people. We
cannot have one purse; but we can try
TO give all money the same value so that
if We have but little it will bear the same
proportionate value as though we had
much.


A good many strides have been made
towards classifying the people of late.-
Those of high degree now ride in palace
cars, to which negroes are not permitted
to enter and in the Senate and House
the elite are conducted to the gallery for
the Senator'S families, or the Diplomatic
gallery, or some other choice place,
while gentleman from the mechanic shop
or the farm, or the merchants store has
TO take his chance with the negro bloats
and whiskey-soaked tramps who sit and
sleep and make filthy the place which
was once the resort of the admirers of
talent and struggling patriotism with Il
degree of pleasure, to which for more
than whole decade they have been
strangers.


This in itself is enough. Let us now
have the old standard OF money recoined
and remonetized and circulated lust as
silver and gold circulated before the war.
Senator Blaine followed Senator Bay
ard in giving up the single gold standard
and came over in favor of the silver dol
lar with fervency that astonshed those
who hoped to find his eloquent voice for
the gold stand.


And last, but not least, comes Ben Hill,
of Georgia, who spoke on Friday, and
declared that he was in favor of the silver
dollar of 412l grains but he wanted a
limit ; he would not insist upon 500 as
the limit for silver as legal tender he
would be reasonable on this point
When asked, however, by Senator Nor
gan if he would favor the use of silver in
the payment of the bonded debt of the
Omted States or the interest thereof, he
refused to answer Here comes the diff
Guilty and this is what makes the few
Senators who take the various positions
OF the single gold standard advocates.
50 extremely Objectionable. And Mr.
Hill saw it ut once, but evated the ques-
ton as lie did many other questions
and among them was one from Mr. Sauls-
bury, that brought the Georgia Senator
TO fatal admission at once. Senator
salisbury asked Mr.. Hill whether the
position he takes, that TO remonetize sill
yer will not appreciate its value, is not
itself 0,ere assumption and Mr.. Hill
frankly admitted that it was mere as.
sumption.


MI Maxey said to Mr.. Hill when the sill
Yer dollar Is remonetizedit will be worth
more than the gold dollar. Mr.. Hill re.
ferredeto France and said she had pro
molted the coinage of dollars, and as
signed that as reason for their oircula.
ton on par with gold: But when asked
by Mr.. Allison how many gold dollar,
France had, Mr.. Hill said he did not
know, and inquired for the information
And this is the way with the gold advo
Gates They are not posted in the east
they hayein hand. They show themselve.
mere lawyers depending upon the elo
quence of their tongues and not on fact,
OF record, of trial and experience, whicl
should guide statesmen. Mr.. Allison
taught Hin what all his theory was wortl
by furnishing him with the information
of the amount of silver France had il
circulation, which is between S300,000,
600 and -i00,0O0, 900, and hence She or
dered her mints TO stop. Was there anv
thing unnatural in that? ? Now the Uni
ted States has about S20,000OOO of de
monedzed silver in circulation and Ii,
gold. And then Mr.. Hill declared he wa
willing to have silver. 81 am a silve