Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Amerioan congress is true.’ I gave him my promise and he then continued: ‘I went to America in ’72’73, authorized to secure, if I oo’d, the passage of a billl demonetizing silver. It was to the interest or those 1 represented —the Governors of the Bank of England to have it done. 1 took with me $500,000, with instructions if that was not sufficient to accomplish the object, to draw for another $500,000, or as much more as was neoessary. I saw the committee of the House and Senate a*?d paid the money, and stayed in America until I knew the measure was safe. Your people will not now comprehend the far-reaching extent of that measure, but they will in after years. Whatever you may think of corruption in the English Parliament, I assure you 1 would not have dared to make such an attempt here as I did in your country.” Such is Ernest Seyd’s oonfes - sion ;suoh the history of the ‘CritAe of 1873;’ such the way in whioh the standard dollar was dropped from our coinage

Straugo and inoredible as it may spem, the platform of the St Louis convention maintains a party principle that the law thus passed by the intrigue of English capitalists must n*t be abolished without the conseuf of those Bame conspirators agmist the welfare of the American jieople! Our national hon* or, we pare told, requires that we must continue indefinitely to suffer die oVil results of that oriminal conspiracy. Every effort to free ourselves from the iniquitous burden is called repudiation. In view of these things, it is not difficult to understand ths intense earnesness and enthusiasm of tha common people at the Chicago convention and the brusque manner in whioh they treated the professional politicians, the political haoks. the pliant tools of the organized and conspiring wealth that caused the evils of which tho laboring people aro tho victims.

Oncd more we publish’an extraot from the London Financial News, in order that our readers may bet tor understand how closely related to the orime of 1873 is the effort at present being made to perpetuate the tvil consequences of that crime After reading these facts how can any loyal Amerioan vote for the WalUstreet-London oombine? The London Financial News says "Thofinancial situation in the United States is very serious, and it demands the immediate attention of British financiers and statesmen. The trade of the world is now in our hands, but it will not long remain there if the United States goes to a bimetalho basis with free and unlimited coinage of silver. “With the addition of silver to the volume of money everything in America would take on a new face; labor and industry would gain new life. The grip oL tht gold standard on the products of the world would be loosened and prices would rise. Great Britain would lose her markets in South America, Asia and Europe, and American ships would not be Jong in oaptunng the oarrying trade of the world.

“British creditors must now ap« ply themselves quickly to the Am. erican money problem. The American people are now thoroughly aroused and educated on the power and use of money ( and made desperate by debt and business depression, they are forcing free silver as the main issue. ‘Great Britain need fear no injury to her trade or investments if the Republican party can force ‘protection tariff’ as the main issue in the ooming presidential campaign, but if free silver dominates the American mind and carries at tho polls, it will bring about a change in England that will be ruinous from its suddenness and severity. The damage that can be done british manufacturers by a protective tariff is slight compared with the disasters that would be entailed ly a change from a single gold to a complete bimetallic standard.

“The success of free coinage will bring down the rate of interest on money, and cause an immediate rise in the price of all commodities. When silver becomes primary money the American mines will pour their produots into the mints, and a new era similar to that produced by the issue of greenbacks during the civil war will begin. Gold will leave the banks and enter into competition with silver in the avenues of trade and the manufactories of the Uni ted States whioh have been shut down or crippled since 1892 will again resume their fight for the English maikets. “ t matters not to Great Britain which party suoceeds if the gold tandard is maintained, but either