People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1896 — SILVER IN NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

SILVER IN NEW YORK.

Much In the Situation to Fnratab Enconr■cement— Our Present Gold Standard. Out friends iu two or three eastern cities who have been flattering themselves they were the American people are exceedingly surprised at the discovery of a tremendous silver sentiment at their doors. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire told them some time ago that the people of f ■ United States would not stand the single gold standard. Of late the goldites have been insistent on pressing forward the statement that we have the gold standard, using that fact as an argument against bimetallism, which, they urged, would be a change. If their course has served no other purpose, it has drawn the attention of the people to the fact that the gold standard has been insidiously pvt into operation without the consent of the voters of the country, and, as Chandler predicted, there is a rebellion. The interview given by Colonel John R. Fellows of New York indicates that the rebellion has invaded even New York state to such an extent that tho counties above the Harlem river will declare for free coinage. We are inclined to think that the bimetallic sentiment in darkest New York is not yet so strong as he suggests, but there is no doubt that it is growing rapidly. ****** It would be a somewhat interesting spectacle to behold the state of New York voting for free coinage, and we presume one of the results of such a thing would be the immediate removal to the British isles of those Manhattanites to whom an independent American financial policy is repugnant and full of ingratitude to the benevolent “mother country.” The declaration of the St. Louis convention that the existing gold standard must be preserved was one of the liest things possible for the cause of bimetallism. It asked the producers of the country to vote for a continnance of present conditions, and there are few of them to whom those conditions have meant anything else than continuously falling prices and continuously appreciating debts. Men are not prone to vote themselves into a further indefinite period of distress. The Republican plank is a pledge to hopelessness. It means that this country asserts its helplessness to do anything to remedy the palsy that has fallen upon industry and enterprise until Europe shall consent by international agreement that it may do so. The development of bimetallic sentiment among the farmers of western and northern New York means that they have been exercising the faculty belonging to intelligent men—they have been thinking. They have made up their minds that there is perfect community of interest between themselves and the west and south, and as fast as each earnest, hardworking eastern man has reached that conclusion there has been one more voter to whom the silly “crank” and “fool” cries of the Wall street press have come as a personal insult, inciting him to additional effort to bring others to his way of thinking.— Denver News.