THE OBSERVER.
PAYETTEVIUiE. N. C.
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1896.
E. J. HALE, Editor and Proprietor.
E. J. HALE, Jr., Business Manager.
A STRAIGHT ISSUE.'
The New York World says that Major
McKinley has made a grave mistake in
his Ohio straddle on the money question.
It adds :
"The money question is one of the ut
most consequence just now. The people at
last understand it. They are divided into
two bodies. The issue is simple enough.
The people on both sides of this question
are asking parties and candidntes the
categorical question, Are you or are you
not in favor of free and unlimited silver
coinage at the ratio of 16 to i and without
waiting for international agreement ? No
attempt to answer this question with
equivocations is likely to satisfy the men
on either side of the controversy. We
have passed beyond that stage."
In the main the World is entirely right.
The issue has come just as any student of
politics must have known that it was
bound to come, ever since the elections of
'94 rebuked the Democratic President and
Congress for misusing their great oppor
tunity. Descending to details, a better
statement of the issue than that given by
the World is that it is bimetallism against
the single gold standard.
Many advocates of free coinage would
be content, perhaps the majority of them,
with a different ratio from 16 to i, if they
only knew how to ascertain what the true
ratio should be. In the absence of such
knowledge, they demand that the status
quo before the unconditional repeal, be re
stored ; and that their servants at Wash
ington then proceed to open the mints, as
required by the Democratic national plat
form, to gold and silver on equal terms.
As the alternative provided for in the
platform that of a settlement of the ratio
at the then impending Brussels confer
ence has failed, the other alternative re
mains, viz. : to restore free coinage by
legislation. As the legislation referred to
is domestic (American) legislation, and
the American ratio, already established
by law, is 16 to i, 16 to i is the ratio at
which it is necessary to resume the coin
age. If that turns out not to be the com
mercial ratio, after a reasonable time, it is
very easy to change. But the platform is
mandatory. It leaves no alternative on
that point. The alternatives laid down in
that instrument have reference only to
details. The administrationists say, in
effect, that they can't carry out the main
point the platform's command to restore
the equality of silver with gold at the
mints because they are uncertain how
the details', stfbuld be treated. It is to
meet this wrejtched dodge that the definite
cry of 16 to ji has arisen. As we have
said, the cry Is for that specific ratio be
cause it is tile only ratio known to our
laws a verjF natural thing to call for,
one would say.
But the most interesting feature of the
World's statement is the fact that in
common with the rest of the single stand
ard papers it abandons the pretense that
the ''silver craze" has died.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
This is St. Patrick's Day, the day of
the Patron Saint of Ireland, and is held
sacred because on the 17th of March, A.
D., 469, St. Patrick died. Various other
dates are given as those of his death year,
but the best authorities give the one we
have mentioned. f
It is not surprising that circumstances
connected with the life of a person who
lived 14 hundred years ago should be
clouded with uncertainty. So it is nat
ural that even His existence should be
doubted by some, especially aejradition
calls for three Patricks : Succat Patrick,
Patrick Palladius, and Sen n Patrick. The
better authorities agree that Succat was
the Saint Patrick who christianized Ire
land. Other accounts ascribe the birth-place
of St. Patrick to Gaul (FranceJ, to Corn
wall, to Wales, to Ireland itself, and so
on. The best authorities say that he was
born in the province of Valencia, which
was the territory comprised between the
walls of Antoninus and of Severus in the
southern part of Scotland. He was of
noble Roman ancestry, as his name (Pat
ricius) would indicate. He was the son
of the deacon (magistrate) Calpurnius,
who was the son of Potitus, a priest.
When he was about 15 years of age, and
in the year 411, he was carried off, with a
number of his neighbors, by the Scots and
Picts, who made then one of their incur
sions into Valencia, and sold as a slave
on the opposite coast of Ireland. Here he
remained in hard slavery, tending cattle,
for six years, when he made his escape.
After his escape, he conceived' the idea of
devoting himself to the conversion of the
Irish to Christianity, and prepared him
self for the priesthood at Candida Casa,
St. Ninian's monastery in Britain.
He was probably 30 years of age, that
is, it was -in the year 425, when he re
turned to Ireland as a priest and began
his mission. He was made a bishop in
441, and from that year to his death in
469 he preached and administered his sa
cred office throughout Ireland . He found
there 3 millions of pagans, and left them
at the end of his 44 years of work, christ
ianized if not christians.
CTTBEENT COMMENT.
Our administrationist friends are not
coming up to the rack in the way their
recent brave words would require them
to do. They say they won't bolt if the
national convention adopts a free silver
platform. What we need first to know is
whether or not they will submit loyally
to the action of the State convention if
it should decide not to send delegates to
Chicago. The State convention comes
first, and the first test of loyalty may
occur there. Again : they should be more
specific with reference to free coinage
Will they remain loyal, or will they bolt,
if the Chicago convention adopts a 16 to
1 platform ? They must not take our per
tinacity amiss, but the fact that they have
no condemnation for the Kentucky Car
lisle bolters renders them open to criticism.
Campbell and McKinley. ;
Washington Letter. 1
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, who is
regarded as in line with the democratic
presidential lightning, if he doesn't get
struck, is in Washington on business.
He has been observing the McKinley
boom and thus sizes it up : "It's a pretty
strong boom, very healthy and vigorous
right now, but whether it will pan out
next June is another question. I hardly
think it will. If the convention were held
to-morrow or next week, doubtless Gov.
McKinley would be the nominee, but
there is a lot of time for the other people
to develop counteracting booms. Then
there are the Southern delegates that
some people think will bear watching
they are a factor in the St. Louis convention."
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