Show THE GOLDBUG GOLD BUG sur ARGUMENTS wf we approach the eve of this intensely interesting campaign we behold a spectacle never presented in our political con contests teats since the days ot oi the revolution the advocates of the single monetary system an re looking r upon the commercial which aneil lr g system hu has wrought and brazenly i endeavoring deavo ring to perpetuate it by hy yoch auch ap appalling pallin cr and unwar unwarrantable ranta ble methods asa is a system systematic atie coercing of the voters of the country heretofore m political campaigns some exin extreme partisans parti tans have a sought buot to nn anly influence those who w hereim ere immediately under their conneol cont eol att at this time not only has the homble dy day labo laborer been made to feet aeo fiat to receive a continuance of bu 41 ready scanty means of aliver a livelihood upended upon his voting to 0 1 i the ringle sin ie standard standi staD dard Ws bat 11 tome onie of ot the more of life have the same iron hand a i t jetle croal e them about m in i th their 4 political 04 We ferments pre ments recent exam jj la kisters ini aters of the gospo descending the e pulpits where they W pre acihl mg peace on earth W men fatios 0 o ul 60 vill ul and take kupia up atheme leme calling rt it honest and holy the blind and ea e A s rant of the R 75 7 5 r eq a K the e professors or COD begea aud and other have beail R 1 ta tay uey should ba 0 J aas aks in S tetter better are tor aai t ax U M he mt ment of extending the low loan bat lv i g iw he threatens to seu sell he debt itt of all his possessions 1 abe barj dartt rote his convictions corpo the e creatures of law wind have received gifts of lands ancK money from the public seek to become the master and are using their combined power to prevent men from voting their convictions under threats of being prevented from having the means of earning a living this system of bulldozing imil and coercion is a result of an awful fear which has seized the advocates of sound money they realize it is wrong in principle and can on only y be main bained where might makes right and that the question of the day being left to the calm deliberate judgment of the american people the way would be paved to the adoption of both gold and silver not only in the united states but throughout the world and the single standard policy would perish from the earth the inconsistency of mckinley and his supporters becomes apparent to the most casual observer hie following is a passage taken from speech on silver in the fifty first Con congress grew two things mr speaker have been made dear by the discussion during the last two days the first one is that it is desirable and necessary that the country should have an increase of its ift circulating me c the he that jha tv in providing for this circulating circulation medium the silver product of the united states should be used and employed p I 1 have listened attentively now for the third day and I 1 have heard gentlemen ou on both sides of the house Honse without exception 9 repeatedly peat J idly edly declare in favor of these two propositions first that we need more money and second that that money should be obtained by the use of the fhe silver product of the united states it is true that different meth methods have been suggested to reach these ends it is true that on the one hand there are those who would have unlimited coinage of silver from every quarter of the globe at the present ratio and again in there are those who would limit the coinage to the output of of the united states and still others who would increase this coin of the bullion at aga 29 e by a purchase the tn market ket value and I 1 there are am those who would strike from this bill what is known as the 0 or r any bullion redemption on feature making maing the notes redeemable in coin only and there are am those who would confine their redemption to silver saver alone but bat all I 1 gem agree that we must mast have bave a larger volume of money and that the added volume shall be silver based on sil 61 its equivalent 0 or r W after sach anch liberal support jn in ago in favor of er and a chiai W resent atti attitude tude oscur 0 to o that thenea edich th nencho nen rho aalst j people ii their coercive pov barer 1 while rhile mere talk tak a rat it endara andara was the peau awk J Ayob R S 03 I 1 ss Fj 1 al 1 lan bere ansing h rere ais iii about t hea 4 OR nas a are 0 c tail e U anios il 1 I W WWW verdantly vert antly dropped and they at once began by saying sayin g silver a R ver is dishonest dishon es t money maney itis it is cheap money moncy what has hag changed silver to make it dishonest in 1896 more than it was in in 1890 when mr mckinley was so much in favor of it the sound money advocate says to the farmers you yon have been the most loyal class of citizens in this republic and therefore we do not want free silver for fear that it would injure you scarce has the farmer got out of hearing when the same men are loudly telling the wage worker and men earning a salary the reason they are against a double standard is because the wage workers are the bone and sinew of the nation and the double standard will increase the price of farm products one half and thus injure the buyers and consumers of provisions they turn to the money lender and say subscribe more to the campaign for you will wi soon find a better market with higher interest for your money next they turn to the debtor and borrower of money and say vote our oar way we are going to make it easier fr you to get money at more reasonable rates of interest verily if consistency is is a jewel j then it would be in vain to search for it in the sound money camp another favorite argument used by our opponents is ostrich like to point to the decline in in the price of wool arta and fail to td see zai round them a decline in a proportionate manner of all other staple articles would it be reasonable to have the prices of all other articles decline and have wool remain at its former price he who cannot see that wool had to necessarily decline along with all the other common necessaries of life has been more successful ful in raising a crop of it over his eyes than upon his sheep the man who is in debt should not be satisfied to listen to the argument that money is going 0 to be easier easier at a lower rate of interest he should repudiate such rot and demand a fair chance to so succeed in his business as to t 0 enable him to pay off that which he already has obligated himself to do without any additional borrowing or increasing C his burden reference to the decision of the supreme kae court by the chicago platform is made the basis of charging us with being in league with anarchists ests yet vet there s not a sentence in the platform to justify the charge the sound money men are the lawbreakers law breakers for the coercive measure which they are now employing plo ying violates both the letter and spirit of our law and no other measure ram um could be more effective to destroy popular free fm vw gorem men ment t than it is if success successfully faRy carried arrie out the cry 0 of f chi cheap money cannot alarm the student of our present needs because theobal the total otal amount of gold and silver saver used as money in m ahe hii as given by statis statistics q is I 1 only five dollars nine cents for easl person inthe in the world it would be foolish to fear that the tolver aw could part with their sana send d it ib co A k ca airee coinage law ehe ft ff 6 A 4 save us Us amin am in need of aam k Z laange oA ange told dunles oun les Q 4 Tel J ise r vs rt sa A ant hak V w TM I 1 tv abt vo invest it he here re by buying our pro du aucta bt which of course means that rade e will be all the more increased cre the charge made that the mine owner by reason of free coinage will get a big price for his silver n is fiade ad e by its opponents and in the next breath they declare that free coinage will not raise the price of silver it would be easy to go on bounting bo inting out the ludicrous and untenable position of the single standard dard advocates but su suffice tuce to say ay that when adverse silver legislation was enacted the country was as prosperous and there was no need of any financial legislation ana and since then the commercial depressions pres has steadily and constantly harrasser harr assed the people besides all this any measure which does not appeal to the people 1 but have to be forced upon the them M by use of large sums of money and abid coercion is a fit measure to be rejected and without such being done dane free institutions are impotent pote n t J H MURPHY salt lake city oct 23 |