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Show f PLAIN TRUTHS. ItnlTOR DEMOOIiATi I The financial question is and wly bo.next yc.ir, tho main political lwue. ttOor pr at monofary law s hre satlsfaciory to mi one " " . tie mnia inflni'iitlnl Iloimhllcan loadors are ovnlnntly ilctormlnoiLto force iito finale gold Mtindard, to retire the 'greenback, and to haWacufrency trolled by tho banks. The best lenders of thought In tho Democratlo party, re-enforced by a good ptny Independent Republicans and Populists, aru demanding blmotallam, and ttitall forma of moooy and currency, except tho national bank notes now lu ixisicnce, bo Issued directly by tho general government. Free coinage of silver Is not necessarily blmetallsm. If tho free coinage of silver would bring tho eomuiorclnl valuo of gold and rJrer together In th? market ut tholr coinage ratio, that would be blme.tallsui. If It aid not do so, It would drive us to a silver standard, and gold would (Ijappcar from circulation as gold and silver both disappeared from 1801 to 0, although goid, silver and greenbacks were of cqunl valuo before tho luw. offer the following bimetallic system of Uuance and coverumcnt control of I ie currency as a just solution of tho ilnaticial problem: I, Any person depositing at any mint of tho United States any gold bullion bul-lion of tho required fineness can have In puymont thnroior gold coid of tho Unl ltd Slates or demand notes of the United States, payable In coin. II. Any person depositing at nny mint ot the Untied Stales any silver bullion bul-lion tit tlio mill I n-d flnenens can hnv In payment therefor at Its market price in New York City silver coin or demand notes of lliu United States payable In III. Any person depositing In the United States Treasury at Washington itj bond of tlin United Slates can have In payment- therefor national currency b denominations as required payable In tureu po' cent, bonds, when presumed lo turns of one bundled dul.nrs or any multiple, thereof. u IV, -Said coin, domaud notes, and national curreucy shall be received by b United Slates for all taxes mid dues. V. llcrealtor nothing shall bo a legal tender in payment of debt except Ose'pnlrt nntt diver coin of tho United Stales. This lluaiiclal system cat be supported by pmctlcally all of tho Democratic party and also by the bln.otallo Republicans and Populists us against a Ropub. llcan gnld-atatidr.nl platform. If this system should be enacted Into law and honestlv administered In the iplrlt of Its plain provisions, tho whole cniumercl.il world would immediately be upon a blmctallo basis, and out mouoy would be tho most popular circulating circulat-ing medium of the world. Any party or public man altomptlng to make tho United Stales pull down Iti flag and ovHcuato any torrltory legally held by It beforo bucu territory lias been reduced to order will bu repudiated. - Any party or sot of men asking the American people to refuso to meot and bear tho responsibilities legitimately following their acis as a nation, and seeking seek-ing to run n presidential campaign on such Issue will meet the buiiio fato Uie Democratic party aud Gon. McOlollan met In 1801, on a peace-at-auy-cost plat farm. Respectfully, M. M. KELLOGG. |