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Will America Barter Her Honor For

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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alilvr ? Will shie dea.ud her laborers tfaat silvcr mina owners may prosper ? The aniswer is wttíh the verter. Coniptrodler Ockles of thíe United Sfates treasury has made a ea-nivass and i'oumd tbat the bank, trust companiíes, etc., of tadls ooiuntry, hold all told, $404,441,470 oí gold coin. VLsilors should take alomg sod vnd r&JSOd McKiinley's front yard.- Grass L.ake News. Kfot iiecesBary. They are doing just what ib wanted-jpaTiing it witih gold vates. GtOT. Alteid, who1 tías beeni claimng 100.000 majoiity in Illinois for the momgrel ticket, tíos kniocked ofl oinje-tialf, and oow only claims 50,000. Itt three weeks mfcirei he vrïU duWE. the oOher half. As a rabi'd 'f ree trader Mr. Bryan, v!hiü iti congress, Víid mínr íor Engiand and Englfëhi "wnarbmffa tihan any other man in that body. Now lie a hjO-wlling about England and the Bnglisïu miolnex standard. Very conaisbent. ; Editor E. S. Aadrews, of the Wiliamston Enterprise, h,as been noinoated for tli.e legíslabure oq the repuiblican ticket. He is a clean, girare, uprigtit yoimg man, and will be an honor to that bodi, íor he wHP suely be elected. As soon as tfhe people are Onlüglhteiiedas to 'wihat tihe free coünage oí Hilver ac.tually mean,s, tïiey drop tïte t.hi)ng as if it wals a red, hcit brick. The masses are honest and do not belieT(! in decepti.oia Icuud tirickery, corruption or {raud, Bryan tías asserted and reasserted i his speeches tbat the prices üf wTieat and silver hiave always stood togetier, and yet just aow sSlver staads at 53 cents, aa &unce,jv-lniíle wihSat is up to 71 cente a !uöhelHte tlieory don't -orfe Thie farmer wtuo fchünfes ha will be beneíited by a chjeap doalar fools hiim-soH. Tii ase whi till thO soil in oai'r sister repuWib of Mexico, wjiiich is unuer íree BÜver, are the most abeet and debased oí ta' laborer. A lifty ceut dlottlar never yeb hfilped the man whiO produces olí wealtih. Pleast; reniember these faets : Tliere fe not a ffold standard country in th,e woi-ld but uses batlh gold and s!lver &4 money. There i noit a silver standlard coaiiitry ín the vorld th,at uses anytíhimg but silver as money. ís Th.ere any b.'imetialiBm in free s!iivOr? Dont' be fooled about the b:imtallic cry. Am electrón occure in Georgia, today. The Tribune claims that it will be a greater in-diilcatilcMi ai the (sentiment f the people on tibe mcmey quefeti.on than was tibe Madne electiorc, and ye-l it says thab it 'W göimg ïr free silver beeause the sound miotiey republicans are 'diivided, and have done more 'to lielp tfbat cause than have tibe populóte. Süme of tiLe popoeratóe orators are maklnji the statement i"a their speeches abcu't t-Ms couny tlhat silver is not a legal tender. Tlhat is false. Silver is to-day, a full, u-nlitmited, legal tender, for AX-L, DBBTS publ'.c and private, TO ANY AMOUKT. Our silver advocates slhould not teil ialseioods to help bolster xap tlieir' rapidly deollning cause. B any oi the gentlemen -n-oiuld like tO' know wbere to firnd this statement tbey can, find It iin tihe act af coogress proviüing for tihe re-coiiiage oí ttie Bilver dollar, passed Féb. 28, 1878. Wüll tUe papers tihat have been1 givIng place to Prince Bissmarcfe's alleged letter to Gov. Culberson, of Texas, have the falrness tagive the fact that its translatiou was a forgery, and íhat Bismarck never -svrote the seartdmeotfe expreesed thereim favoring iree siilver? guch. is tíhe truth, but H people f md out tihe trutih It will liave to be by readjng different papers trom ühose tlhat have pTiblhed the foa-gery. By tha way, Hon. Andrew D. Whiite's letter to GiO'v. Oultoerson, th.ouKh not im answeir an nquiry, Is pretty good reading. Aoy diemocrat wto canswallow the d'osé put up foir him tlhls iall must hiavO a politica! stomach of cast iron or brass. Thiere is hardly an outand-out deniocrat ooi tlh ticket. ït ia coroposed of republicans, populista and pro'hibitionlsts, all jumbled together ín an indescribable mass ; any oombiiiation that represented any votes was allowed a place on the ticket. Talk about principies ! Merciful gracious ! Tiiere are no' principies Ín sucli a combine ! Tlhe last time that Gen. G-ramt was elected president the oppositioa cry was : 'anything to beat Grant." Now it is "anything to get t)he offices." Il tlie country should be so uníortunate as to wi'tness the success oí unis combi, wouldn't there be a killkenny cat ffg'ht ovei tin; spoils, though ?

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