Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — WORRYING THE GOLDITES. [ARTICLE]

WORRYING THE GOLDITES.

by are the gold advocates so much wor ied over the TeibrMatthews resolution? They say that there is no u e in p.'ssing the reso’ution because the fact which it states is already era bodied in law. Tng New York World admits that the standard silver dollars “arebv law full legal tender‘for all debts, public and private.’ Moreover, a precisely similar res lubon was adopted by congress twenty years a> o, and it has never been repealed.” These re admissions of facts which the gold clique has been try ng to ignore. The Teller*, Matthews resolutions brings these facts before the public, and for this reason the gold advocates are worried. Thev would like to have the people forget that the silver d dlar « legal tender. They would like to destroy the silver dollar entirely ■ mon y of ultimate redemption One of their plans of monetary •reform” makes the silver dollar redeemable ia'jgold. Eve y trick known to shrewd money pah i s s being resorted to man effort to is< redit silver, destroy greenbacks an place t|ie no e ssuing power in the ba. ds of the bankers.

In discuss g this phase of the questio the Cminnati Enquirer .-ays, Jhe money speculators want tie oeo le o t-rgel the rea posi io of th silver dollar. They want to i- io el the reme iibrance that it buys as mu.h as a gold dollar will, and that under the i it is as good a re learning agency as the gold dollar is. They wa t eep in the background the fact ..j t s.lver is not use ! for redemp, tion simply because the secretary

i° “'' duri assu a.en the responsibility of giving a fe Wall -treet opeoit rs the option >f hav a g thei- United States notes redeemed in the scarcest metal, when t':e people do not want them ie» . pt’med in anything.” n Senator Teller’s resolution has 'xp -sed t de p lain n’ans of the go d lidoe to strangle silver sent. . i-iKMit. It was a wise and patriotic action m the part of the Colorado s indoi. The s atus of silv r car li b f > clearly defined. Tn» h !n;>— of the people cannot be made too frequently nor too eni< 'phatically. The senate will sub : tain the resolution, and the next i houpe of representatives will cop. 1 firm it.