Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — A Wise Suggestion. [ARTICLE]

A Wise Suggestion.

The sound m iney advocates adopted the following resolution at the Memphis meeting: We favo. the re'ention as part of our money the silver now coined, and in order to give a wider field for the us j of silver we favor the funding of all money othei than sliver and silver certificates below the denomination of $lO into higher denominations, so as to make our entire circulation below the denomination of $lO either silver or silver certificates, and to this £nd the secreta y of the treasury should be authorized by law to coin, from time to time, as the people may require them, silver dollars, until the demand of commerce for monev below the denomination of $lO is at all times satis., fied. The adoption of such a plan wo’d lead of necessity to the more gens eral use of silver. The gospel of sound money is thus expounded by the New York World: “The sound money c. usade is simply an « ndeavor to keep all our dollars at par, to see to it that the wage-earner shall b« able to buy a dollar’s worth jwitl- each dollar that he earns. It has noconcernto exalt one metal or to discredit another. Its sole purpose is to prevent a depreciation in our money standard, which, if it w. re permitted, would briDg disaster upon the country and especially impoverish those who are already pool. There is no fad or fancy in it. It is aot in tne in erest of any clas3 or section, bu* of the entire country and of all the people. Its aim is to keep all American money worth its face and acceptable everywhere at its face, so that no man, rich or poor, shall give a dollar for less than a dollar’s worth of goods.

Some people think that the Democratic party is divided on the silyar question to a more injurious extent than the g. o. d. This is not possible. Democratic stren 'th is not in the west. It is ia the oast and *he south. Senator Carter, of Montana, present chairman of the Republican national committee is a determined advocate of free silver. In a recent interview he said: “The western demand must be met in the national platform. 59 electoral votes depend on this.— Those votes will not go to any mac not willing to pledge himself to sign the silver legislation sent to him by congress. ” The Democratic party has nothing to gam by yielding to the demands of the silver mine owners. Let the Republican party—the party that has legislated in the interest of tne classes—provide protection for the mine owners. Every member of congress from the silver states is a republican.