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LIKE A THUNDERBOLT
UN’ION PRINTERS FIRE THEIR
OPINIONS AT MARK HANNm,
foil of five Hanna-McKinley Organs
of Chicago Shows That Union Work¬
ingmen Arc Solid for Hrjan and
Altgeld.
From the Chicago Dispatch: Just to
pee if a fair and honest expression of
opinion could not he obtained from the
workingmen, the Typographical union
has caused a poll to be taken of the
mechanical department of the live
morning newspapers in Chicago. It
is needless to emphasize that the news¬
papers in question are, without excep-
advocates of the single standard
i dollar:
The poll resulted as follows:
Bryan. McKinley.
Tribune ......... .....63 Cl
Record .......... .....82 IO
Chronicle ........ .....60 10
Inter Ocean...... .....r>7
Times-Herald ... .....53
Total . 317 44
The vote for governor of Illinois
stood as follows:
Altgeld. Tanner.
Tribune ......... 71 4
Record .......... 86 1
Chronicle ........ 67 3
Inter Ocean.............61 8
Times-Herald...........59
Total 334 14
The result as above has been certified
to by seme of the officials of the unioi,
and is now on file at democratic nation¬
al headquarters. It is given out not to
demonstrate the law of power ihese
publications have over the convictions
of their employes but to show exactly
what the intelligent workingman
tUnite of the conditions now confront-
ing him. Of course, it also shows that
the newspapers in question cannot be
convincing in their arguments, but this
is not the point sought to be made, as
the democratic managers have long
since lest all faith in the local press
with the single exception of The Dis¬
patch.
HOW THE MANAGERS REGARD IT.
At any rate, the poll of the “typos”
caused the issuance of the following
statement this morning from head¬
quarters:
“The five big morning newspapers
of Chicago are engaged in an attempt
to show that organized labor is opposed
to Bryan and free silver. It may be in¬
teresting to the gold bug publishers of
these newspapers to know that of 361
men employed in their composing and
press rooms 317 will vote for Bryan
while but 44 will vote for McKinley.
These men belong to the finest labor
organization in the world, and cannot
be bulldozed or coerced into stifling
their convictions.
“If will be seen from the above bal¬
lots that the estimate made by labor
leaders in Chicago that nine-tenths of
the organized labor vote of Chicago
will be cast for Bryan and free silver
is a correct one, and that despite co¬
ercion and intimidation it will be
found in the ballot boxes Nov. 3.
WORKINGMEN ARE WITH BRYAN.
“Wherever employes have a chance to
express their views similar results
have been attained. Tn one of the Ar¬
mour shops at the Union Stock yards,
where an Australian ballot was taken,
the vote stood 675 for Bryan and 125
for McKinley. In another shop the
vote stood 287 for Bryan anil 17 for
McKinley. It is known that the Chi¬
cago Tribune, through its correspond¬
ents and agents, made a canvass of em¬
ployes in all the large manufacturing
towns of lllionit?. The result was such
an amazing majority for Bryan that
th returns were destroyed. They in-
di< ited a majority of 50.000 for Bryan
and oven larger for Altgeld. The only
consolation left for the McKinley man¬
agin'- is to take factory ballots in the
presence of officials and loudly pro¬
claim the result as a victory for gold,
despite the fact that all such ballots
are ci tminallv fraudulent on their face.
“McKinley organs and McKinley or¬
ators are wildly denouncing the plank
in the democratic platform which pro-
tesie. against federal interferenc' in lo-
oal affairs. They appear to forget that
the republican national committee
which met in Chicago in i860 and nom¬
inated Abraham Lincoln adopted a
platform which contained a plank ob¬
jecting to federal interference.”
Senator Allison tor Silrrr.
The affairs of this world cannot be
conducted upon the single luusis of
gold; and the war and the contest of
to-day is between those who seek to
destroy and outlaw silver and those
who seek to place It upon an equality
with gold. That is the contest; and I
am for the full and complete restora¬
tion of silver as one of the coin metals
of the world, and therefore I propose
to do whatever I can to promote that
most desirable object.
.loltn Sherman a Hold Bull.
The secretary of the treasury (John
Sherman) is the greatest bull in the
gold market, and every means at his
official disposal is emploj'cd to force
an exclusive gold currency on the
country, and to depreciate all property
—the accumulations of the industry
and thrift of the people.—Chicago
Tribune, Jan. 21, 1S7S.
The Chicago newspapers state that
a poll of the Elgin Watch company
shflwed the following result: McKiu-
le 801; Bryan, 8. The poll was
tnjien by the superintendent taken with and fore-
man. An actual vote great
care by fellow workmen in whom the
men had confidence, gave the follow-
Inf result: Bryan. 486; McKinley, 244;
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"if mv father could vote today he would
tote for Bryan lor President of the United
States.'
Ihe above words are from the lips of
Jesse Grant, favorite son of Gen. IU S Grant,
Hie son has left the Republican party just
lus lather before him left the Democratic i f.tr-
ty when it made a compromise with the slave
power. In his farewell to the Republican
party Jesse Grant writes:
"I believe honestly in the ‘great advant-
to this country of the free coinage of sii-
\\r. It does not mean repudiation of our
debts at home or abroad. Those debts will
Jiuve lobe paid in products, and anything, that
jvill benefit raise all the classes, value of “if them will, double I believe, the
we can
price of a silver rupee we have doubled
the price of the wheat that comes into com-
petition with our wheat, and therefore double
our wheat as to its debt paying capacity The
" ie Hrtf t P ' S0
of the Latin-Amcncan countries and the price
«oar meats;and live stocky 1..holds <rooA.
00 in the silver ruble and the price of oil “
holds good in many ways too numerous o
mention.
“Instead of foreigners purchasing the
product of our silver mines at tlTe rate of 70
tents per ounce, and with this silver buying
petition produce, some with of which comes in direct com-
America and the our productions, they would from have South
orient, to
pay at the rate of $1.29 per ounce.
Th,* Only Honest Dollar.
The fight is to restore to its old place
the wrongfully-ejected silver unit,
viz.: the 37114-grain dollar. The (Chi¬
cago) Evening Journal pretends that it
is in favor of silver remonetization.
But how? Why, it tvould bite off from
a silver bar chunks each worth a dol¬
lar—in what? Why, gold! and each
chunk it would call a dollar until gold
fluctuated and went higher, and then
it would call in all the outstanding
pieces, and bite off larger chunks of
silver. But this would not be the
American dollar at all, and that is just
the point in the case. The old Spanish
milled dollar of 371 !4 grains was a
standard dollar and unit of value in
parts of this country from 169D to 1775,
when the Continental congress adopted
it as the standard dollar, on which to
morrow money to carry on the revolu¬
tionary war. That war debt was in¬
curred in dollars of that exact weight.
The revolutionary debt was paid in
silver dollars of exactly that weight.
The debt of thte second war with Great
Britain was incurred and afterwards
paid in silver dollars of that exact
standard. If anybody had called the
money “a 91-cent dollar,” he would
probably have been rotten-eggod for
liis slanderous malice.—Chicago Trib¬
une, Feb. 11, 1878.
Gold Standard Means Dankruptrr.
To undertake to do the business of
the world on a single gold basis of
measurement and equivalents means
loss, bankruptcy, poverty, suffering
and despair. Debts will grow larger,
and taxes become more onerous. The
farmer will receive small prices for
his crops; labor will be forced down,
down, down, and there will be a long
series of strikes, lock-outs, and a sus¬
pension of production, Those who
own proerty, but owe for it in part, v,fill
see their mortgage increasing in pro¬
portion as gold acquires new purchas¬
ing power, while the property itself
will be shrinking in value. There will
be no relief, it must be kept in mind—
for gold will be the only recognized
equivalent of values, the stock of gold
with its power will be constantly grow¬
ing: and the circle of wealth will be
uniformly contracting.—Chicago Trib¬
une, Jan. 16, 187S,
Ihe Silver Dollar Ahlr Defeniint.
What is a whole dollar? Who says
that a part of a dollar shall be a whole
dollar or wants it to be? Four hun¬
dred and twelve and a half grains of
silver is a whole dollar, and was so
fixed by law in 1792. It never was any¬
thing else, never can be anything else
under the law. Whether at present
that weight of unlegal tender silver is
worth as much as a gold dollar of
25 S-10 grains in London, no one cares.
Four hundred and twelve and a half
grains of silver coined and made legal
tender is just as much a dollar as the
gold dollar.—Chicago Tribune, Jan. 19.
1S7S.
It I* Now <ts»«* as Blind a* a B»t
Daylight.
Tho folly of advocating the single
gold standard of money must be
obvious to every one not blind as a
bat in the davlight.—Chicago Tribune,
Jan. 5. 1878.
The Indianapolis convention has been
described as the “finest array of bank-
ers. raiiroad men and attorneys for
corporations and trusts ever got to-
gether.”
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“As to repudiation, why, we have practi-
rally failure repudiated already, D’id if bankruptcy means
to pay debts. you ever think of
what an awful debt America owes today?
debtedness. V'iTr All the millions gold and of mortgaged silver in the in-
world would no. pav one-third of this single
item o mortgage mdehtedness. and under our
present arrangement of things the awful dis-
paragement between the ability to produce
and the power of money to accumulate inter-
est makes the breach between this country
and solvency grow wider every veaT. Prices
go down, money going up. Interest eating, eat-
mg all the time. How can it ever be paid?
The free coinage of silver 1 do not believe tit
be a panacea for all our evils, but 1 do believe
HILL FOR SILVER.
WRITES A LETTER TO THE AT¬
LANTA CONSTITUTION.
He Advocalcd Imlr pemlent Action for
This Country——I’ropliesletl Victory for
the Adherent* of Free Coinage in
J 89«.
“I am in favor of bimetallism as the
issue of the future. We should seek to
keep that issue to^the front. We should
not strive for temporary success or
compromise. We should be for free
coinage under an international agree¬
ment, if it be possible to procure one.
and, if not possible, then for independ¬
ent bimetallism. This is the great goal
for which we should strive. It cannot
be done at once. Our friends must not
be impatient. The people must be
educated. The unexpected action of In¬
dia and the general sentiment of the
monied classes conspire against us at
this time. I do not believe in the Bland
bill or any other measure which
guarantees anything less than
the unrestricted coinage for gold
and silver alike, as pledged in
the democratic national platform.
Let us prepare not for the present vic¬
tory, but for victory upon that issue in
1896. The repeal of the Sherman law
will not give the relief which is antici¬
pated. It will aid business temporarily,
but in a year times will be hard, and the
demand for permanent financial relief
will be irresistible. We should con¬
tinue to hold out free coinage as the
goal which the country must ultimate¬
ly reach. The triumph o-_ the mono¬
metallists will be but temporary.”—
Written on July 13, 1893. to the Atlanta
Constitution, and published at Senator
Hill’s request.
Act Done Secretly and Stealthily.
In 1873-4, as it was two years and
more later discovered, the coinage of
this silver dollar was forbidden, and
silver dollars were demonetized by
law. This act, which was done secret¬
ly and stealthily, to the profound ig¬
norance of those who voted for it, and
of the president who approved it, had,
without the knowledge of the country,
removed one of the landmarks of the
government; had. under cover of dark¬
ness. abolished the constitutional dol¬
lar, and had arbitrarily, and to the im¬
mense injury of the people, added
heavily to every form of indebtedness,
public and private.—Chicago Tribune.
Feb. 23, 1878.
Dollar Defined.
A dollar's worth of silver is 412^2
grains standard (with alloy), or 371 1 i
of pure silver. This standard weight
was adopted by Congress in 1792, and
has never been changed; 371V4 grains
of pure silver constitutes exactly a dol¬
lar's worth of silver.—Chicago Tribune,
January 17.1878.
Silver Ha* Not Denreolared-
Siiver, even as bullion, has not de-
preeiated since it tvas demonetized, as
j compared with property or labor. Chi-
eago Tribune. February 6. 1878.
-
,
i Some people ihink it awful for this
; government to coin free the product of
j American silver mines, but all right
i to coin free the product of the South
i African gold mines.
it a step in the right direction and tor the
best interest of the American people.”
Signed. JESSE GRANT
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mt Hi (; campaign amrrhist committee rcnnHiamr are
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They Are Organized.
On Saturday, April 27, 1895, there
was a banquet of bankers in this city
(Chicago) at which Mr. William C.
Cornwell, president of the New York
State Bankers’ association delivered
the principal address. Among other
things he said:
“If, in 1875, 1S7G, 1877 and 1S78, the
bankers and sound money men had
been organized as they are organized
now, and had spoken out as they are
speaking out now, had started on a
campaign of education as they are
starting out now; the greenback would
long ago have been wiped out; the sil¬
ver lunacy, before it had wrought in¬
calculable damage, would have been
confined to the asylums, where it be¬
longs.”
“It is time to tear off disguise. In¬
ternational bimetallism is a traitor in
the camp. It is a. false fraud. It can
never be accomplished. It is a ‘will
o’ the wisp’ dancing above the deadly
marsh. It is as illusive as a dream of
magic, as idle as the pursuit of per¬
petual motion, as dangerous as the
delirium of fiat money.”
The Cause of Present Distress.
Does not this New Jersey governo
(McClellan) know, as we have already
stated in these columns, that an ounce
of silver to-day can be exchanged for
more of any given commodity than it
could live years ago when it was at
a premium with gold? As far as stabil¬
ity is concerned, the value of silver has
remained comparatively stationary as
compared with other property. As a
measure of value it has fluctuated less
than gold. It is the enormous and
alarming enhancement of the value of
gold that has squeezed out the values
of property, paralyzed the trade of the
country and produced the present dis¬
tress. If there is to be a choice be¬
tween the two metals, the people prefer
that metal which most nearly retains
its equilibrium in relation with other
commodities.—Chicago Tribune, Jan.
19. 1878.
It Was Astonishing Information.
When Alexander Hamilton and
Thomas Jefferson devised the system of
American coinage, they adopted the
metallic plan for the express and direct
purpose of securing to the American
people, as a protection against all fiuc-
tuations in the relative value of gold
and silver, the option to pay debts in
coin of either metal. We continued the
system ifh this country until 1S76; the
people were astounded with the inform¬
ation that in 1873-4 we had abolished
the coinage of the silver dollar, and de¬
clared it no longer a legal tender.—Chi¬
cago Tribune. January 25, 1878.
Mint X«*v«r Be Surr«« 4 ereJ.
Hamilton and Jefferson concurrad in
the wisdom and necessity of having a
double standard, the purpose being to
confer the option on the debtor to
pay in either metal at his pleasure.
Those great statesmen clearly foresaw
the trouble and disaster that a single
standard w ould bring upon the country.
The retention of the option by the
debtor to pay in either silver or gold is
vitally important to the welfare of the
whole American people, and must
never be surrendered.—Chicago Trib¬
une, Jan. 14, ISIS.
The moneyed classes first array
themselves against the masses, but the
masses musn’t squeal about it and
array themselves against the classes.
That's high treason,
Senator Allison writes a friend in
Washington that he fears Bryan wul
carry Iowa. And well he maj.
OUR FARMING LAND.
WOEFUL DEPRECIATION IN
PRICES THEREFOR.
Mirk Haiti :»u«l III* Crowd o ‘ l.ut»or
r'rnsliei-s Imagine That Deellulng
taloes Keep the Agriculturists—-A Yeti
Talc Senate Report-
Aceording , to the Senate report on
"Agricultural Depression.” iu Illinois
improved lands feli from $20.81 in 1873
to $11.18 in 1S92; wheat fell in the
same time from $1.10 to 69 1 cents a
bushel: cattle dropped nearly 60 p r
cent; horses and mules went below
that: hogs fell 50 per cent, and sheep
per cent.
in Nobiaska imp rot cd lands ha\t-
fallen mote than 20 per cent since 1$85
and live stock about 40 per cent.
In Kansas the tenant farmers in-
creased 30.363.
In the Pacific and mountain states
and the territories, the number of ten-
ant farmers increased 20.330.
Iu the Middle states the number of
owning farmers decreased 42.304, anti
the tenants increased 24.075.
In fifteen Southern states there was
an ir. tease of 390.275 tenant farmers.
The .Middle West, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois gives evidence of the same
change, and the group lost 31.259 own¬
ing farmers , and gained 48,86 i tenant
farmers.
In Illinois the tenants increased to
36.72 per cent of the whole. In eight
states of the Northwest the number of
tenant farmers increased 108,307.
,
In Pennsylvania farm lands have
fallen 23 to 30 per cent in less than
twenty years.
In the New England states, farm
lands have fallen 30 per cent since
1875.
In forlv-seven states and territories
the number of tenant farmers increased
599,337.. In 1880, 25.62 per cent of the
farms were cultivated by tenants, in
1890, 34.13 per cent of the farm families
were tenants.
According to the report of the secre¬
tary of agriculture for 3893 the value
of an average acre of wheat that year
in the United States was $6.16. and the
cost of raising it was $13.48—a net loss
to the wheat-growers of ihis country
of $5.32 for every acre cultivated that
year.
The report also says the average an¬
nual value of an acre of wheat for the
fourteen years from 1880 to 1893, in¬
clusive. was only $9.73. while it cost to
raise it per acre $11.48—a net annual
Jose to the farmers of the United Slates
of $1.75 for every acre of wheat pro¬
duced since 1879.
The same report shows that the cost
of raising an acre of corn in 1893 was
$11.71, and that the value of an acre of
'lorn that year was $8.21.
How to Destroy Public < r.-Uft.
If the government has been paying
gold interest, it had that right by the
original agreement, and it may here-
after pay silver interest by the same
right. The option is in the government,
and it has never been surrendered and
never will be. How often must this be
repeated before Hie goldites will con¬
sent to accept the fact? We have had
enough Shylock talk about “public
credit,” “good faith,” “honor,” “under¬
standings.” “expectations,” anil “sup¬
positions.” The surest way to kill
“public credit, good faith and
is to smash down the price of property,
paralyze business, pauperize labor,
bankrupt enterprise, and drive the peo-
pie into poverty and despair; and that
is precisely the role the gold-yelpers
are playing.—Chicago Tribune, Janu¬
ary 16, 187S.
The A nr lent Unchangreahle Dollar.
A correspondent asks us why we
give so marked a preference to the sil¬
ver dollar of 371 1 i grains of pure sil¬
ver, and reject the proposed “Christi-
ancy dollar,” or ihe “Blaine dollar,” or
the trade dollar? YVe shall not under¬
take now to repeat or restate all of
them. But the first reason is tHat the
dollar of 37114 giains pure silver has
been the monetary standard or unit
of value in this country from
1792 until 1873, a period of eighty-one
years. It is the ancient, unchangeable
dollar of this country.—Chicago Trib¬
une, February 11, 1878.
Tlie Silver Dollar the t nif.
The silver dollar was not changed.
In 1792 congress enacted that 371U4
giains of silver should constitute the
American dollar; that this doliar
should be the unit of value of Ameri¬
can money, and be a legal tender in
payment of all debts, public and
private. During the eighty years *hat
followed, though the size and quantity
of pure metal in the gold coins were
changed more than once, the silver dol¬
lar. the American unit of value, re¬
mained unchanged.—Chicago Tribune,
Feb. 23, 1S78.
The Double Standard.
In the controversies with goldites it
is proper to point out and keep con¬
stantly in view the fact, which they are
so anxious to blink, tfiat this country
always had the double metallic stand¬
ard from 1792 till 1S73, when silver was
clandestinely dropped.—Chicago Trib¬
une, Feb. 11, 1878.
T li«» Tribnne and Workingman.
A laboring man would infinitely pre¬
fer to be sot at work earning silver dol¬
lars than to starve waiting for employ¬
ment on a gold basis.—Chicago Trib¬
une, January 9, 1878.
This campaign is not so much a con-
test of political parties as it is a pro-
test of a large majority of 70.000,000 of
liberty-loving people against financial
slavery
A GOLD BUG OUTFIT.
A PrfTate Car Loaded with (ioarr-jU fo
Storm the D>*t.
General Alger. General Howard.
General Sickles, General Stew m and
General Sigel are touring the ' wintry
in General Algers private tar- They
will travel through Michigan. !fi ffnois.
^ isconsin. Minnesota, Iowa N
ka. Kansas. >ras-
Indiana K< nt md
Ohio. They have a mission to per-
form and propose to enjoy themsaivet*
while at it.
It is the object of these gentlemanly
generals to expound the gold standard
theory of money in all its i pin Th
know all about its benefits, and wan St>
able to explain them to others as thus,
who have personal knowledge if th r,
general utility? in a general w
doughty warriors know of coulee
there are some people, us of the
common classes, however, who io -not
approve of the gold standard rhey
have also heard indistinct mmors f
<
suffering and hardship among ■he or-
dinarv people who are so la t king .n
foresight and common sense ns c toil
f or a living, but as for anvthin-
n j te j n that way penetrating t ir tsri-
•
rate car why. it wasn't built th way.
Private cars are usually built wpi\ an
eve to the purpose of excluding Gie iis
greeable characteristics of life, md suf¬
fering, destitution and starvation le
generally included in tin. r < gory.
In order to make them effecti\ ia ac¬
complishing their purpose th ,rf*
also built in such a way as to ex lie
the common people because it. s only
among ihe common people that the
stupid habit of suffering for want o£
something to eat ever prevails ) any
extent.
It is well known that it is the duty
of a general to command, and eq •. iiiy
the duty of the private to
and when five generals
-heniselves together and start on t«>
give commands it may bo takm for
granted that t lie privates will fine
themselves up, right about fa«'*\ 1 v: ie
Quirk, charge, just as they are o: i < -'d
to. Thur it would seem that our Mur¬
ing generals have an enormous advaat-
age on their side from the start. .. ip
only needs that those condition . which
are the acknowledged proper o;i-s. be¬
tween generals and privates sltoui i ob¬
tain to make them preeminently <•; -
cessful in fulfilling their mi SSI 5 )
However, there is some differ-'-!,
between a ‘political campaign : !
war campaign. One difference of .,j
siderable importance, too. is tht* )G
litical generals have no means of .-'im¬
pelling obedieneee .o thoit comma u i.-
and therefore have lu reiy enlirely on
their persuasive powers to aceontpHsh
their end. This fact ma; nor sot. wel!
with the quintuplet who are riding n
General Alger’s car and whose ;x du-
sivo surroundings naturally will ap¬
pear incomplete unless accompanied
with all the attributes of tuilinieed
power over their fellowmen whi< h the.
j seem to imply, but they will h ive io
J put up with it. It does seem a little
i hard that a silken-rlad general from
! the environments of a palatial private
j car should be reduced to the level of a
! ! Sockless Simpson or "Stump'' Ashby
j in liis dealings with the private voters
| of the country, but this is one of the
' inconveniences of popular
i government
! which the Alger crowd will have to
I endure. But this is nor all nor j>er-
I haps the greatest, obstacle they wM
j find in their pathway.
of the demagogues and r.gl-
1 fa * ors with whom they will dk dy
come * n contact have traveled ho far
, alonff the roa<l tha J leads to
anir
as t° Question seriously the right of
any r man or set of men in avail them¬
selves of exclusive privileges at + he
hands of monopolistic railways whose
very roadbed was acquired through
public condemnation of private prop¬
erty on the pretense that such con i-un-
nation was necessary for the benefit of
the public. These “anarchists” are
actually demanding that the govern¬
ment shall take possession of all the
railroads in the country and thus de¬
prive the few God-favored ones of the
free rides which they now enjoy at the
expense of the people. Alger. Sigel &.
Co. will have to put up the best fight
they can and even at the best, if is
likely that they will not find their path¬
way among the ten-cent corn raisers
of the west spread with roses.
Give t * More Solid Money.
The prime object in remonetizing
silver is to add to the solid substantial
intrinsic money stock of the country.
There can’t be too much hard money-
real money—in circulation. Such an
inflation is stimulating and invigorat¬
ing. It is at once a sign and prop of
national and commercial prosperity.
The simple remonetization of the ,li¬
ver dollar, with proper provisions for
its coinage, will contribute a steady
stream to the money resources of the
United States.— Chicago Tribune, Jaa
23. 1878.
I BELIEVE THAT THE STRUG¬
GLE NOW GOING ON IN THIS COUN¬
TRY AND OTHER COUNTRIES FOR
A SINGLE GOLD STANDARD,
WOULD IF SUCCESSFUL. PRODUCE
WIDESPREAD DISASTER IN THE
END THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
THE DESTRUCTION OF SILVER
\S MONEY AND ESTABLISHING
GOLD AS THE SOLE UNIT OF VAL¬
UE MUST HAVE A RUINOUS EF¬
FECT ON ALL FORMS OF PROP¬
ERTY EXCEPT THOSE INVEST¬
MENTS WHICH YIELD A FIXED
RETURN IN MONEY.—JAMES ■}.
BLAINE. (CONGRESSIONAL RSC-
ORD, PAGES 820 TO 822, 1878.)
The November election will prove
that Carl Schurz, who has acted n
turn with the republicans, democrats,
and mugwumps, does not carry • m
German-American rote in his po v ‘t