Blaine On Free Silver

If any man or any newspaper tells you that James G. Blaine ever favored free coinage of silver at a flxed ratio, you would be justified in telling them they lie, for it s a f&lsehood. However some papers muy garble and misquote what he said, they are simply lieing when they try to make you belie%re it. There are two paragraphs that are never quoted, by the Hilverites, that followed what they do quote, and materially chauges the meaning of their quotation. Neither the Detroit Tribune nor any other silver paper or speaker lias vet had the fairness to quote Mr. Blaine right. Here s what he did say in the same speech that the grabled extracta quoted by silverites is taken froin : "If I were to venture upon a dictum on this silver question I should declare that until Europe remonetizes silver we cannot afford to coin a dollar as low as 412 grains." "If we coin a dollar of full legal tender obviously below the curreut value of the gold dollar we are simply opening our doors and inviting Europe to take our gold. With our gold flowing out from us we will be forced to the silver standard and our relations with the leadiug commercial countries of the world will be not only embarrassed but hopelessly crippled."