Show free coina coinage 6 e wanted the country democratic press of utah and some of the professedly independent papers are fond of calling the enquirer a goldbug ng A little paragraph from the salina press has been going the tha ron rounds aag even the salt lake papers reproducing it which says saya the meanest goldbug paper in utah and about the only one of any consequence is the provo prove enquirer if being for the free frea coinage of silver by international agreement classes the enquirer among the then the paver paper must plead guilty but there are many sin cere silver ilver men who hold that the radical chicago platform plan of independent free coinage would simply debase our currency and puce place us as on a level with mexico and china the enquirer is among thit class of silver advocates and it feels firmly convinced that free frea silver coinage lu iu this country independent of other leading nations would soon euon result in siler our gold would be sent bent out for the wares of other nations and to pay our debts and we would have to i pay for the goods with the money used by the country from which we purchased mexico today when buy ing of the united states has to dole out two dollars of her money for overy one dollar debt contracted in in this country and tho the mexican has more silver in it than an american dollar contains in buying goods from europe as we would be forced to do under free trade we believe those rich old countries across the sea would not debase their currency to take our silver but rather we would have to do as mexico does today we are well aware that the united states is a great and powerful nation but remember that arrayed against it on the present currency basis are also great and powerful nations possessing the greater part of the wealth of the world we will give a few figures from the last report of the director of the mint showing the relative strength str inath of the bimetallic and gold I 1 using nations compared with those on a silver basis with free coinage of silver GOLD STANDARD COUNTRIES cound countries istock of voney money united gt states ates 70 4 0 1660 unit 00 france 38 1370 germany belgium 63 3 italy OCO switzerland MO 29 90 greece 2 spain 17 aw Par portugal KO OW romania 5 60 fervia 2300 tto OW austria hu gy aw nether netherlands ande 4 norway 2 sweden denmark 2300 2 1 i 3 0 0 OW ruesta Euw ia 1 O turkey 21 OCO aj Aust izia ia egypt japan 11 II 11 Oft lOCO conada 0 cuba ceba 1 IS sio COO htiu Ha iu bulgaria FREE arre COINAGE COUNTRIES countries population honey 0 02 62 ceal am states sooth am tafv 1000 loaia lD Tu aia dia ot ck a SM take a glance at the formidable arry arny rj of countries that now have the saine game i buney as we have bave and the few coughs coun 81 n a eivar basis with free and unlimited c nage nae of silver the mon ey an the form farmr r cun countries tries can buy just two da du as ars of the money of the latter count countries resin in most instances and yet yel the democrats and bolting I 1 reau ii caris tell us ua that the united states joining the countries with free and unlimited coinage of silver would brin bring up their silver as well as our own to a gold basis they maintain most ardently that our coinage system would lot be debased with all the powerful pew erful gold standard nations against us ns reader header what do you think about it do you not believe the safest way after all is the republican plan of free coinage by international agreement it seems to us the only safe way of I keeping our money as good as that ol of other leading nations SOME bryan republicans in salt lake are still charging senator arthur brown with having influenced the state committee in their recent action we can state that senator brown bad nothing r whatever to do with the committees work nor did he directly or indirectly even suggest to any of the members of that committee what they ought or ought not to do the straight out republicans generally throughout the state had for some time demanded buc such I 1 1 action and the members of the CO committee merely represented popular expectation on the matter cm the so called silver or bryan republicans hope to carry any office in the state or in any of the counties of the state without the assistance of the straight out or mckinley republicans public ans 5 they certainly cannot be so reek reckless less as to imagine it is possible for them to do so republicans must get together and those salt I 1 lake ake and ogden firebrands fire brands must submit to the action of the state committee THE salt lake tribune dodges the issue it complained of the state commit Omm ittes tea representation we said eaid it was the same as that of the national committee the national conven tion was not at all in question of course that is on a different basis |