Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — CLEVELAND AND SILVER. [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND AND SILVER.

[lndianapolis Sentinel.] V e publish elsewhere a letter from an ! old friend who has returned to the fold | »ftor a digression iu 1894, which h explains to have been due to a belief that Mr. Cleveland was “try ng to force the party into a ein> legoid standard party." Unquestionably a great many honest democrat s were put inti a dissatisfied condition in the fame way, and it is not surprising, sot when w* find hundreds of men who rank as statesmen and hundreds of newspapers that are rated asab'e, who do not understand the rudimentary pi inciplea of the silver question, uo one can expect to find a satisfactory understand, ing of it among the. people at large. And yet there are a few fundamental principles which, if carefully kept in mind, wo tld dispel much of the common misunderstanding on this subject. Of these the first and most important is that this country was put upon a gold standard by law in 1873, and has been ou a gold standard ever since. It cannct by any possible legislation go to a g<dd stand aid any more than it now is, and hasbeei sii oe 1873. The only change it can make is to goto a silver standard or to a bimetallic standard. T ere is no possible half-way business about a standard.. It is absolute. The standard is the money by which all other money is measured, and in wuich all other money is ultimately redeemable. A second principle is that the demonetization of silver consisted in takiuv away its quality of being standard money. It makes no difference, as to demonstration,

how much of it is coined or to what extent it is a legal-tender, or whether it is used to redeem naper money, or whether it is forced into circulation, or any of the other things that silver nouometallistn have been getting excited about. As soon as it ceased to be standard money d was demonetized, and it cannot possibly be remonetized until it is again made standard money. Anyt ing less than that is mere child’s play, and nas no effect whatever on 'ho evilsof gold monometallism. Until silver is made standard money it remains token money, just like our nickel and cop er coins. The only reason it circulates on an equal value with gold is because the government ‘maintains the parity,” or, in other words, oonstnnlly redeems it in gold. The Sentinel would especially impress on its readers the fact that Mr. Cleveland is not a gold monometallist. No one oan point to* word he has said intimating that he is a gold monometallist. He is a bimettalist, but ho realizes th .t free colna eof silver bytnis country alone means silver monometallism, and not bimetallism. He understands that international action is necessary to Hecr re bimetallism, and to secure the fixed value of any kind of money. He understands that artificial efforts to bolster up silver must not only be unsuccessful, but must result in encouraging European countries iu adhering more firmly to the gold standard. Two years ago The Sentinel predicted that Mr. Cleveland would prove a better friend to silver than any American statesman living. He understood whst he Was doing. He has been acting in abso.ute accord with t e most intelligent bimetallists in this country. The proof is at hand. In two years he has made more impression on European sentiment than all t e makeshifts of the last twenty years had made. To-day we have the remarkable result of Germany, France and England all asking for an international congress for the re monetization of silver. In each country the movement is backed by organized political forces that are pushing forward both education and practical political work at a rapid pace. What more can you ask of the president's policy? Is it not at least woith while to stop and ask you. self if it is not possible that ho is right, and the Bryans, Blands, Joneses and Stewards wrong?

Women Kiss Each Otheb Now —“A vulgat display of mawkith affection* used to be the unkind comment that oame so often from kindly folk a. the sight of women kissing in public. ’Tie odd enough, but since her Majesty Queen Fashion ha t announced that she not only approve!, but recommend .kissing in public, > oone hears on any hand the old sneer at the affectionate demonstlation. 'Tin the fashion now to kiss one’s hostess when calling, to kiss one’s guests—women guests, of course—who airive tor an informal cup of the best Oriental brew or for a stately dinner-party. Give the salute lightly, like tht touch of a flutterfly’s wing, just in the center of the cheek; give it ihe sound of swaving silk draperies or falling rose p tale, holding one hand of the woman iou kiss. Only ealute relatives on the lips; older women kissyouitg girls on the brow. On the street it is perfectly proper to kiss a woman t' roufh your veil; or very prettily the kiss is given by lifting the gauze a bit and pressing a li tie kiss on y ’>ur companion’s chin, just below her lip.—From ‘‘Soci iyFads,” in Demorest's Magaz ne for Msy.

An insidious attempt is made to create a prejudice against the advoc tes of a safe and sound curr ncy by the insinuation, mor<- or iess directly made, that they b - long to financial and business classes and are. therefore, not only >ut of sympathy with the common people of the land, but for selfish and wicked purposes are willing to sacrifice the interests of those outsidv their circle. I believe that capital and wealth, through combination and other means, sometimes gain an undue advantage; and it must be conceded that the maintenance of a sound currency may, in a sense, be invested with a greater or less importance to individuals according to their condition and circumstancs. It is, however, only a differ* ence 11 degree, it is utterly impossible that any one in our broad lam , rich or poor, whatever may be his occupation and whether dwelling in acentreof finance and commerce, or in a remote- corner of our domain,Jean beireally ban?fited by a financial schema, not alike beneficial to all oar people, or that any one should bo excluded from a common and universal interest in the safe character and stal l value of the currency of the country.—Grover Cleveland.

A curious ad. was that Inserted the other dav by a oae-legged New Yorker.— He wanted to find a man minus the other leg and with a foot of the same size, so that they could make one pair of shoes answer for both.