Show free coinage 23 and protection will the enquirer inform us why t the country must have free coinage if from a mckinley standpoint it can give one logical reason why free coinage is ia essential to prosperity we will guarantee to prove by the same reasoning that free coinage is more necessary to the welfare of this country than protection can possibly be either the enquirer la Is coquet coquetting tina with the silver sentiment of 0 the state or it is ia densely ignorant of the money question the moment a writer admits that frea coinage is a necessity or a sod thing that moment he be must recognize recoe nize it to be the paramount issue oden standard the enquirer ha bo jeays held that free co indge would ue e one of the essential features of permanent prosperity but wa want free coinage in a way that will make silver as good as gold in other words we want no mexican dollars or we might say in the words of the st louis lonis platform we nye are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our 7 country Weare we are therefore opposed to free coinage of silver silvar except by international ter agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world which we pledge ourselves to promote even the editor of the standard must muse realize that a country cannot have bave too much of the r noney money of the world the coins recognized in oll all countries the more this country has the better will be its condition that i is why we favor avor free coinage for this country has bas not enough money to do its business when pios y isberg is here bere for the last three or four years there has been enough money issued by the government but bus confidence was lackin lacking b and the money would not circulate it was simply hoarded in the banks now that protection is starting a business revival again the idle money will soi n be sot set in circulation and when it is al all out oat doing service there will be room f for jr more money eighteen or twenty dollars dallara per capita in a growing country like olirs ours is not enough we ought to lave have thirty or more dollars pei per capita and the best way to get it is by the free coinage of silver the republican publican Be administration recognizes izes this condition of affairs and while first turning 11 its attention to to restoring confide confidence and reviving business it will next turn its attention to the currency question secure the free coinage of silver ty international agreement and then stop the endless chain system of finance that has been drawing the geld from the national treasury all these reforms will be accomplished aud and the silver question will be settled before 1900 this country let us all hooe hod e will never be called upon to settle the silver question by the bryan method |