Show DISPUTES ITS OWN TEACHINGS Ina rather elaborate explanation of its libandonment of the silver question the lo a Republican organ falls naturally natur-ally and gracefully into the ways of gol bugs generally First it misrepresents the position ofintelligent bimetallists in its summary sum-mary Second i makes use of the stock arguments guments that goldbugs have employed since 1873J Third it ignores the fact that there have been temporary periods of prosperity pros-perity at irregular intervals ever since the demonetization of silver followed invariably by periods of financial depression de-pression In 1S96 the contention of sllverites was that the increase of population the increase of productiveness the increase of trade in this country required an increased in-creased volume of money ThIs was necessary according to the silver authorities au-thorities ot 1896 for the stimulation of industry the development of the country coun-try the maintenance of prices And this position has been strengthened since 1896 by the unexpected increase of the circulating medium Goldites told us there was enough money for all purposes In 1B9G Yet they are rejoic lifg because the volume has been augmented aug-mented by reason of famines abroad and gold discoveries in the Klondike Butthese are artificial stimulants The gold fields of Alaska are already losing their attractiveness The gold that comes from the Yukon costs more than it comes to The demand of famine stricken countries for United States grain is liable to cease at any time Every goldbug knows this Every all verite feels that depression can a suddenly sud-denly and as dreadfully follow the temporary prosperity of today as the panic of 1893 followed the socalled ban nor year of 1892 Yet our neighbor ha sllF time and again that the panic of 1893 did not have its origin in any change of administration but sprang directly from the financial legislation of 1S73 The Tribune wants to know and its question is a notice served upon the people of the west that it prefers McKinley Mc-KInley to Bryan and will support the Harina organization henceforth in spite of all previous halfhearted denialsit wants to know why voters should drop everything else and vote fot a certain candidate because he advocates the rehabilitation of silver We might refer It to its editorial expressions from time immemorial up to the day last April that i suddenly discovered that the buxom free silver lass It had been sitting up with was a corpse but our neighbor has reached that stage of existence istence and frame of mind when It likes nothing better than to contradict its own utterances and quarrel with itself I isnt proposed as we understand under-stand i to invite voters to drop everything ev-erything else and Vote for silver I isnt the ntention to ask them to drop anything that is right or io take up anything that is wrong But no man who regards the remonetization of sil ver as essential to the welfare of this I I republic who feels that accidents or no accidents it will have to come will I ever b able to justify himself in his oVn eyes or in the eyes of the public by abandoning the principle now to take up with the gold standard or any other unAmerican policy that the money powers are trying to foist upon the American people CThe Tribune lays particular stress upon the action of the financial committee com-mittee of parliament which is dominated domi-nated by the same influences that dom mate the goldbugs of the United States Our neighbor has said so time and again But now it reiterates the dumping dump-ing tground argument of Sherman Cleveland McKinley Gage and the whole gang of yellow metal champions whose effigies it has figuratively burned in cracklIng ire for more than three years I says India has been the great absorbent I of silver for centuries She has vast stores of silver according to the best authorities quite two thousand millions of < Ha worth She wants tQ dispose dis-pose of enough of this to obtain 200 OOQDOO in gold with which to fix a basis for in effect her putting efect gold standard Of course should the United States adopt the double standard and open her mints as the were prior to 1S73 to both the precious metals this silver in shiploads would be sent here for coinage coin-age and when coined would be interchangeable inter-changeable with gold The shipping of that silver would bring It in direct competition with the American silver miners product Itlays that the United States cannot can-not maintain the part of the metals because the Indian government has 2 COOOOO worth of silver she wants to trade for gold This Is a mistake The silver ver in India isrdivideb among S0 ZOO 000000 of people I js hot enough for the ordinary commercial needs of the S inhabitants There isno intention oft the part of the government to ga her this up and send it away Such a proposition is absurd The object of S xe single standard in India is not to supplant the silver in circulationSwith olc but to make gold the standard andS and-S establish ratio between the Indian I rupee and the gold of Great Britain I There a at least two other points Involved In this Indian mint question that our neighbor overlooks and which expose the fallacy of its present position posi-tion perfectly In the flrst place it treats the dosing of the mints of India to the free and unlimited coinage O silver a something that h just taken place I happened In 1S93 since which time the Tribune has howled Its loudest for the rehabilitation of silver in this country undismayed at the dangers which have driven it into the gold camp this r The report of the parliamentary par-liamentary committee on Indian finance was practically a decision to allow the work of six years ago to stand Noon No-on who advocated the free and unlimited un-limited coinage of silver five years ago or three years ago or one year ago can suddenly take fright today at what took place six years ago and make people peo-ple believe it is a genuine scare In the second place silver miners who refused to be influenced by the dumping ground bugaboo three years ago are fairly proof against I now In 189456 the silver miners of this section sec-tion knowing that the Indian mints had been closed to the coinage of silver sil-ver favored bimetallism in the United States and the socalled oracle the I selfstyled pioneer in the cause did not warn them that with gold mono metallism in India we couldnt risk bimetals bi-metals in this country for fear all the silver rupees in circulation in India would be gathered up sent here and dumped upon the American market But there were those who made this claim They were the educated idiots idi-ots and the accomplished blackguards black-guards who ground out Infamous falsehoods for a subsidized press and they are still at it |