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Show Tlitt 0J 'Hi 'CAT QUESTION. For twaaty-. years this preat, rich and prosperous nation has been reeling upot ILe very brink of bankruptcy, bank-ruptcy, public and private, due con-feeewily con-feeewily to on cause, a short money supply, fro : the destruction of one half of our store by the demonetization demonetiza-tion of silver, and the want of confidence confi-dence and that sense of security which is almost as valuable as actual money ltseif. JJotwithstanding this fact and its broad acceptanoeall oyer the nation, na-tion, yet the friends of silver are met everywhere and obstructed in their efforts to restore silver and the supply of money necessary to do the business of the country profitably, by .American business men men who have and ought to feel a vast, interest in complete com-plete restoration. Why is it? What are the causes impelling men to thus throw themselves between the people and the only chance which appears in sight? These men are either the plutocrats pluto-crats themselves or they are the bought and paid lor servitors of the rich. We can come to no other conclusion. The b.iet informed men in the cant admit that the crippled money supply is the one only cause of the financial stringency string-ency and the pinching times we haye suffered so long. This crippled condition condi-tion of the miney supply is the result of the demonetization of silver in 1873, ae surely as that two and two make four. Yet these Bame men suffer and see the volume or business and the margins of profit grow less and less and narrower and narrower day by day,and still they shout the false and deceptive cry "honest money," which means the permanent destruction of eilver and the permanent short supply of money as well ad the continuance of the present hard times and panic conditions for all the future, so far as we can eee. Talk to these men of American independent in-dependent action on the question of re-monetization re-monetization and they grow Dale and neryoaB. What is it they fear? Why will they consign the country to eternal panic waiting for international action? The only answer to these inquiries is: They are bought. They have been Bold to the money power. They do not express their own sentiments. They express the sentiments only of their masters. I: is not that we can do with lees money er that silver has become mere dross, but it suits not the purposes of the masters who are leagued with Rothschilds and the Bank of England, to make themselves richer ' t by reducing the once happy and pros perous laborers of this country to a bondage more hateful than that which held the negroes as slaves in the south before the war. With the conditions now prevailing theie is no hope whatever for either the poor or those who are in debt. We may eat the meagre bread of the bondsmen, bonds-men, but as to the incentive to labor which once existed the chance of bettering our circumstances that is gone forever, unless we, as a nation, have more money, unless the chances are more evenly divided between the rich and the poor. We can only do that by remonetizing sliver. Yet. we are told that we cannot do that unless Europe joins us in the policy. England Eng-land went on the gold basis nearly one hundred years since, because she is the creditor nation ct the world. She did not hesitate and wait until Europe and America would join her in the pol icy. She saw her chance to grow rich on the margins between the money of the double standard in which her borrowers bor-rowers cot their money from her, and the gold in which they were compelled to pay, and she went for it without more ado. Now our chance comes to us in returning to the double-standard as it existed before '73 and we are told by our plutocrats that we cannot and must not return to the double standard stand-ard until Europe is ready. Small consideration con-sideration is Europe entitled to at our hands. We must have gold and silver both whether Europe wishes it or not, and without consultation with any nation na-tion whatever. I |