Show UEIILVSIXG Tim GUIULEHY The Republican national convention declared for the gold standard and against free silver It was about its position in regard to these two metals that the country was most anxious The financial plank when carefully analyzed Is what would be called in I the expressive language of tire gamins or the street I a dandy The third sentence of the plank lads We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or j impair the oredit of our country That Is a sentiment which every patrIotic j pa-trIotic American will indorse Following Follow-ing this declaration in favor of sound j I money comes this remarkable one IWe are therefore opposed to the I free coinage of silver except by international inter-national agreement with the leading i commercial nations of the world j i I which we pledge ourselves to promote I and until such agreement can be obtained ob-tained the existing gold standard I must preserved A rather inno I cent inconsequential paragraph if i appears ap-pears It I to be at first glance What is I the inference to be drawn from the I two declarations It is that the free coinage of silver by the United States alone would te to debase our currency and impair the credit of our country The debasement would come from the injection of more silver Into our cur lency It being Inherent in silver But if an international agreement to debase de-base our currency and the currency of the leading commercial l nations of the world were made it would be all right theta would be no immorality in It Of course it will be answered that free coinage of silver under International agreement would not be a debasement of the currency Tlvsn why would it be without such agreement |