Show TARIFF AND SIL SILVER T THE LATTER 18 16 THE GREAT lb ib SUE THIS YEAR the Pronoun ceil biagi admit it sois straw straws which show the tb way tir tile wind Is I 1 Il mowing lowing dividing the bartles senator carter has generally been regarded as one of the moet most conservative of the silver men from the mining states it as this fact very largely target coupled with his astuteness as a politician thai that led to hia his selection as chairman of 0 the national republican CO committee in therefore hie his speech in the senate on the alt waa was of the highest ance in substance euba tance and effect he charged the republican party with having haning abandoned republican principles plea in supporting the incent rt cent tariff bill with its horizontal rise and also with ath having been guilty guilt of the grossest dishonesty and fraud in ha its interpretation V the silver plank in the minneapolis platform conceding that the plank wae was not an unqualified declaration for free coinage it certain certai nl did pledge the republican part to tome kome affirmative legislation in the interest of silver restoration upon a platform quite similar mr harrison had been elected and it waa was universally regarded as a declaration that the republican pub itcan pirty party should take a step forward in the of silver re rectors tion the result was the shaman law ter for v aich every republican in cou congress cong gress reee voted and which ae as signed by a re publican president it was not what silver men wanted but it wae was b better ater than nothing and yet in 1893 a fittue it we more than two vears ears after its enactment we aln I 1 an overwhelming overN helming majority of the th 0 republicans responding to the demand dema n d or of a democratic president and voting tor for its repeal the last line of legislation rec recognize ing silver as a mone nione m tal was vaa thue thu wiped from the statute books of cf the th ignited united states in lit brief the democratic part pledged to the free use 8 of both gold and silver w without discrimination against either 1 or charge rge for mintage and the lean lican party pledged ged to bimetallism and mid the use of both metals as standal stan stand dirl rl mone Y have hale united and practically fastened the KeKOW sn single gold standard upon the country this aas as the main point of mr car and Sh hear 0 and gear struggled ln in vain ta to br break its force it is 1 a 9 highly significant fact that botone not one of abone republican republicans opposing 8 free coinage colna while claiming to be bl ogk metal listo ei er thinks of proposing any legislation lt looking toward the restora ora I 1 tion sa ot biler 01 their bime tallion con lists aurnt of opposing 81 e writhing evet eri thing DK which oven squints 1 ha fsr in n that th direction whenever the e extreme X tr e in e r elmr men are in the as 1 ecilda ley and a f free cohnn ge measure ia in eight 1 cheso so alleged always have hn some 8 16 countr counter opposition such as the allison n amendment 1 in 1878 1 and d the tho sherman law in 1890 both of these those were substitute substitutes for free conage but when there seems 8 to be no tate abilia of a freo coin ige enactment nt a step in the direction of bimetallism are they willing to take in fact they amor bimetallism that Is units science absolutely unknown unk TS in monetary donator sherma n sounds the key note for ahem and d whether they agree with him 0 or not they are nery careful never to suggest ally o ills idea of bimetallism ia expressed in the follow ing words I 1 believe that the policy of the united states adopted in 1853 of coin ing ss fictional silver coins in limited titles from liver bullion pur chased at market price and making a legal t lor for small sums Is the only way to presedo pr esero the parity of gold and silver coins at a fixed ratio this Is III properly called bimetallic money n his idea SL of 11 is gold its full legal tP rider with free coinage of that metal AJ alone and mall change in silver coinon on account and made 11 legal aro sro tender for s small sums if that be U the correct 10 of bimetallism then we hai e tri metal ism in this courtr cOu because we als 0 haye nickels coined r in government re count and legal tend er for small sums I 1 in fact we have re also hale cents of a differ beat metallic position U being e ande de chiefly of copper all A of these e minor coins bre struck on go account la sma small amounts and nd are e limited le legal tender so the they e embody all the on editions aich he sa s are requisite for bimetallism mr sherman a idea seems to be lat the ill important thing in a monclar monc tar Is parity 7 11 the SS iid i id doll ir I 1 aPPle clates antl it I 1 a actu edth 50 in products and the burden b ren of 0 debt I 1 Is increase increased sed if fit I 1 fold old n bod has all right to con cortil aln it nan other er forms otta of monel lone ire at a parity ith m tho as g 0 ld do 11 ar ile apparently thin that the sole use cicil koplo have for I 1 dot lars 1 to Ox chati xa at cpr npr tic in for ither senator teller quoting rom the tSe port ot of the english royal Com 1 gave the of true bibet a I 1 I 1 as follows a A bimetallic of cur currency be completely effective mut a view of those who advocate advocatt tai 1 II 11 InC BI lIll two essential failures o 0 it a ar 0 mint ready to coin an adv quantity either gold or silver n iy brought to it b the right on the he vt o 0 of a debtor to disch iree irre his lia liability biliti at hia his option in III either of the h tw metals at a ratio fixed by laa IA thia this IB Is the definition that la ia ji stance la is given by all they do not intend that any gilld ad sta 1 ardist shall define bibet illi im to or taz tt if mr sherman in 1 right there I 1 ig 8 noi not I 1 X gold 1 d standard country countr on the aup ico the burth tarth tor for they all wp rill 11 email small amounts and as limite ie tender but genuine placing of the two in a pi u closely equal footing in the thi mitte coinage and legal tender V t differ different eni in relative quantities twins being for by the ratio that is I 1 th the c quant llant q 4 0 of f the one which shall be 4 P 1 money to a riven given quantity 01 0 the othia As tor for example sixteen oune i ot i s I 1 ver to equal one ounce of gold thie this la is bi ind rind athen ben y 0 bherman shaman gives his definition as ai 3 ator teller broadly intimated be h I 1 either grossly 1 ignorant or grossly Tos sly ai d honest senator hoar hear era lery earnestly rep im I 1 dialed the idea that he be waa wu a p I 1 well thon A III hadi lf dot he mean by persistently ad adhering beriro to t I 1 monetary system based f eold cold and which Is defended upon N I 1 theory that the gold dollar IB is theoa n true and honest dollar delta of when did ho he ever evor propose N different from front what now nov exists t 1 de denounces cleveland as a gold jrr and yet every note ote h hi h h 0 cast upon the monetary question hit t been directly in line with mr clevi d lands land s wishes empt declamation declama toa ii fr favor of 0 bimetallism ot of an imagine eort sort ie Is never going to do any good ll 11 when accompanied by adverse stampa stamps the declaimer dec lalmer as a fraud absolutely the only differt difference ilet li tween sherman and cleveland Clev lath is WIL 0 o the latter ants to destroy destro the gwi bache backs directly while the former wa do it indirectly by locking them up L making them for gold aka V hila neither senator carter carte r so I 1 ator ter teller made an actual th bolting their language admits 0 cl t one interpretation it if the it part doea does not take a firm A genuine bimetallism there will bi b bolt that in all probability will p it in a minority it is impo sibl hit draw an other inference from jtb utterances utterance a at the same sime time it Is equally ea e pe that constituted as the republican pi I 1 ty is 1 with so larg a proportion of ot diala strength in states completely do doai etc bated abed by the money power it ell cam possibly take euch such a stand hn hem ter substantial break in the mat fort column seems inevitable at those who have carefully me this great question of money ire in the conviction that it con et bt overshadows the tarin tariff in import Im portia that while selling our great 1 too ar I 1 the foreign market in corn petition wa silver sill er using nation nations no etc teri serially ally improve existing condidou it Is therefore plain that the s il question la is to be the great 1896 and those who conscientiously hove lieve that the constitutional money tho the country should bo be restored 0 prepared for independent action |