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Show THE SILVER "CRAZE." Our friends in the eaBt epeak of our western views of currency as the "sil-1 ver craze." It is bo easy to can Dames and so far as public sympathy extenda to make those names popular, but our eastern brethren may reBt aseured the currency question is not settled and never will be until silver is again recognized recog-nized as a standard of value at a ratio of 16 to 1. Severe criticisms have been made of the position of free silver advocates in regard to past legislation, and we are told we ought not to question the integrity in-tegrity of congress, but that we should take it for granted that there has been no fraudulent intent against the silver dollar, that it is yery unlikely that a measure of euch importance could be smuggled through congress, and that our "craze" on this subiect will soon pass away, that we ought to have an 'honest" dollar, one that is always worth a dollar everywhere, and such like arguments. Sow we eay, restore to the people what legislation has tafcen trom them; we do not like the idea when our property, that we are suffering for the need of, ii missing and we do not know exactly how it was taken from us, but we know it is gone and that we need it, and somebody else has has got it, we do not like the fellow who has got it, to say to us: -My dear sir, I did not know what I was doing when I took this. I intended your best good. You must not call me by hard names. lama gentleman, sir, and must not bj questioned. You are a greedy, grasping malcontent when you aek me to restore that which I innocently inno-cently took from you. You do not have any use for it. You are 'crazy,' sir, to ask me to put this back where I took it from. I did not intend to take it, but I find it so convenient to keep it lhat to aBk me to give back to you your own to keep you from starvation, will deprive me of a little luxury I have got used to. i cannot for a moment think of restoring this to you, I have a friend in Europe who will not get any further aid from me in robbing vouifl do this. Go to the devil sir. I can and will keep it. I have .a uio. v15it-&y--tQIitiSitrou it. This W- . - "Jtf oyer." Sow the first thing for those innocent in-nocent persons to do is to put our property back into the place and in the condition it was when they took it, and then we will feel like reasoning reason-ing with them. We do not so very much care whether they stole it or not, we demand it put back in its proper place. We are suffering for need of it, and their possession of it enables them to revel in luxury, and if we are "crazy" in asking our own back again. It is not the "craze" of ereedy desire to fatten upon the ills of others, it is the incipiency of the madness of hunger for our own to keep our life's blood flowing in the veins of our systems. The people of the U. S. have not time to call names, but this has all the effects of "robbeiy." We do not care about intentions now. One half our money is destroyed, and they haye nearly all the other half. We do not Care bo much whether they are called thieves" or ''financial gentlemen" gentle-men" what we care about is that we want our own back again just as it was when they took it. Do they see the handwriting upon the wall, that the sufferings of the masses produced by financial legisla tion, will not much longer be endured quietly? Do they far that their policy is creating in the minds of the people a feeling akin to the malness of despair, that they call this a just demand a 'craze?" It is not a "craze," a temporary ebuhtion. a something to be sneeied out of existence. It is the dawn of light creeping through the crevicss of the shutters which our so-called 1 statesmen have put up to keep God's sunlight out of the den in which they concock their schemes against society. It is a revolution that will revolve, and euch revolutions never go back until the object is accomplished. It is the premonition of the future. It is the light of the dawn silently extending, extend-ing, increasing and spreading until even dark corners are illumined, and it will penetrate even into the recesses of the hearts of those who have done the grevoua wrong to the people, and expose ex-pose their wickedness. |