| Show HARRISON AND SILVER for the benefit of those thoe republicans who seek to cast odium upon the democratic party because of Clev Cleve elands linds attitude on tile the silver question que 2 tion we would respectfully call their attention to the man anin for whom they tossed their hats hate and shouted last campaign our republican friends frienda und undertook to elect an anti silver man mail who according to sherman carnagie gie and others othen would have vetoed any free coinage measure that nii might lit have come before him in ili his message to con congress ress as reported in the Cong congressional al record he said id upon this subject I 1 an still of the opinion tb that at the free coinage of silver under existing conditions would disastrously affect our business into ests cats at home and abroad we ave ronld could not hope to lo maintain an equality in their purchasing power of the gol cold 1 and silver dollar in oar four own inar markets kete and in borei forcin a trade the stamp gives no added value to the bullion contained in coins tile producers of the country and its farmers and laborers laborera have the highest interest that thab avery cv ery dollar p rid issued kofold aila bhail I 1 bo As ito ire na any uther if there thare is ono one less valuable that another its sure aure and constant errand it nill ill be to pay them for their tolls toil and their crops the money lender will protect himself hy by for payments in fold but tho the laboi laborer er giai aas never been a ble to ilo do that to place business upon a silver basis would mean a sudden and a severe contraction of tile the currency by the withdrawal of gold anil and silver r notes and such an unsettling une ettline of all 11 values as would produced a commercial panic then how hon much better off would silver have been under republican rule than it is today to day silver had no greater foe than this same benjamin harrison and yet the republicans of tho the west stood up in felid line for him the following comment from a great republican organ shows that harrisons hostility to silver was known to his party before his nomination fora for a second term when a journal like the lie london times timer liaa has so enuch lucli to say bay about america and am Axne american affairs it is bound to bo be nearly u i ight ht sometimes and so we fine find it asserting assertion that president II ll arrigoni amson rumored negotiations for a silver conference aio obviously an evasive anil and illusory attempt to tem poi ponze ize witt with the so boft ft mone partisans while escabi escaping ilig a rupture ith the mercantile interests ill in the eastern and central states tan san francisco francieco chronicle |
