People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — SILVER MEN REPLY. [ARTICLE]

SILVER MEN REPLY.

Answer of Denver Chamber of Commerce to New York Institution. Denver, Col., March 18.—The Denver chamber of commerce has mailed a reply, of which the following is the concluding paragraph, to a communication received from the New York chambei of commerce: “We are in full accord with the sentiment that the time is past for any halting or doubtful phrases to express the meaning of political parties upon any public question. The issue is between the producers of wealth and the manipulators of the exchange. Prosperity is impossible without a sufficient and a stable money circulation. Thi3 can only be secured by the free coinage of gold and silver. By destroying the latter we have placed a bounty upon the staple products of silver-using lands and Compelled them to manufacture foi themselves. They are progressive, we are stationary. We cannot improve out condition by praising an honest money that is dishonest, or by denouncing a cheap currency that is not cheap. We earnestly invite the co-operation of all in the effort to convince the people that the free coinage of both gold and silver is the primary essential to permanent improvement, and that the continued degradation of silver can only benefit our foreign competitors, the lenders, the annuitants, the possessors of fixed incomes, and must ultimately destroy as it now seriously injures the welfare of the nation and the citizen.”