The San Francisco Chronicle may be the most widely published newspaper on the West Coast of the United States, but its main readership is concentrated in northern and central California. As long as you please local California readers and the report gets the attention of local readers, then you will not worry about sales at all.

The day after Zhou Hexuan's speech, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a headline with the headline "The Silver Act Is Pushing America Into the Abyss."

Not only that, but the American left-wing writer Philip Rahv also took the opportunity to open fire, publishing an article in the magazine "Partisan Review":

"The promulgation of the American Silver Act is, first of all, a manifestation of the loss of national dignity. In July 1933, that is, last year, the United States, China, India and other eight major silver-producing or silver-using countries signed the "International Silver Agreement" at the World Economic Conference in London, in order to stabilize the international silver price, stipulating that the US government should not buy more than 35 million ounces of silver per year. However, less than a year after the signing of the International Silver Agreement, the United States promulgated the Silver Act, which was tantamount to unilaterally tearing up the international agreement. ”

"The United States has violated its international obligation to stabilize the price of silver, which will inevitably lead to a series of international problems. This kind of unilateral breach of the treaty is not something that a major country should do, and the United States will gradually lose its international credibility and influence. ”

"Some might say that as long as it helps the United States out of the Great Depression, then all the betrayal is worth it. But the Silver Act did more harm than good to the United States, and as more and more countries abandoned the silver standard, the value of silver actually fell. The United States, on the other hand, relies on laws and state purchases to raise the price of silver, which is equivalent to using the limited state treasury to buy silver whose value is decreasing. Judging from the trend of silver prices, the U.S. government's investment is earned, but in fact it is not, the U.S. can only keep buying silver to maintain the price of silver, and once it is sold, it will inevitably cause the price of silver to plummet. It's a bottomless pit, and only the silver group makes money. ”

"The rise in the price of silver has raised prices to a certain extent. This is what the capitalists would like to see, because it can stimulate industrial production and help the United States out of the economic crisis. However, we should realize that although prices have risen, people's incomes have not increased correspondingly, but have made people's lives more difficult. ”

"In the Far East, the United States is provoking hostility from China because of the financial chaos caused by the Silver Act. The boycott of American goods by Chinese will inevitably lead to a reduction in the export of American goods, and only Britain, France, Germany and Japan will really benefit. ”

"The evil capitalists are putting a rope around the neck of the American people, and President Roosevelt has been kidnapped by the Silver Syndicate. The Great Depression in the United States is not over, this is only the beginning, and the capitalists are using another way to rob the American people of their last penny and snatch their last loaf of bread......"

During the Great Depression in the 30s, the United States belonged to an era of demons dancing wildly.

Not only did liberalism and civil rights rise up, but left-wing ideas also flooded like a flood, and countless Americans began to study communism, and some even shouted: "Only communism can save America!" ”

Partisan Review, on the other hand, is a left-wing magazine that, although it has only been published for half a year, has already become a stronghold of American public intellectuals.

Everyone knows very well what public knowledge looks like, and the most important thing to do during the Great Depression in the United States is public knowledge. They often criticize the government and policies, and even openly question the legitimacy of the American political system, and the more they scold, the more readers like it, who made life so difficult for the American people.

In the United States at this moment, there is a sign of a leftward shift throughout the country.

Of course, the right-wing forces in the United States are also strong, but the Silver Act is undoubtedly contrary to right-wing ideas. The right-wing advocates laissez-faire economics and hopes that the government will intervene less and less in the market, which is in serious conflict with Roosevelt's New Deal.

As soon as the newspapers began to question the "Silver Act", the left and right wings of the United States jumped out at the same time and began to blurt out the current administration. The left-wingers carried with them the duty of "asking for the people's lives," while the right-wingers were purely opposed to Roosevelt's New Deal, which offended too many people.

Zhou Hexuan only made a speech, and he directly ignited the beacon of public opinion in California, and continued to spread to several neighboring states, and the effect was so good that even Zhou Hexuan himself couldn't believe it.

The Great Depression America was a powder keg of public opinion.

In addition, Zhou Hexuan also played a huge role in it. He is an internationally renowned scholar who has successfully predicted the economic crisis, and he has written the popular "Titanic" in the United States, which has attracted the attention of the American media in every word and deed.

If it is replaced by Song Ziwen, it will definitely not achieve good results, because he has no one to pay attention to in the United States at all.

On the sixth day of Zhou's arrival in the United States, demonstrations took place on the streets of San Francisco, followed by countless people in Los Angeles, who called on the government to repeal the Silver Act.

"How did things move so fast?" Song Ziwen flipped through the newspaper in surprise.

"Yes," Fan Heyan also said, "the newspapers are all against the Silver Bill, and public opinion is almost one-sided, saying that no one is pushing behind it, who believes it?" ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "Of course someone pushes it." ”

Fan Heyan asked curiously: "Mr. Zhou has many friends in the United States?" Are they helping to spread the word? ”

"How can I have that kind of ability," Zhou Hexuan said with a playful smile, "We seem to be involved in the political struggle in the United States." ”

"What's the situation?" Song Ziwen was confused.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Someone wants to attack the silver group, and we just provide an excuse. ”

"Who?" Fan Heyan asked.

Zhou Hexuan said uncertainly: "It may be a non-silver group senator, or it may be Roosevelt himself." ”

Fan He said: "I still don't understand. ”

Zhou Hexuan explained: "There are 49 states in the United States, each state has two Senate representatives, a total of 98 senators, and the seven provinces of Silver have one-seventh of the seats. The Silver Act certainly infringed on the interests of some states, but they reached a compromise through political bargaining. Now that we are standing up to stir up trouble, naturally there are people who are willing to take the opportunity to give Baiyin State eye medicine. Of course, it may not have anything to do with the states, maybe it was Roosevelt's order. Roosevelt had long been dissatisfied with the Silver Seven States, and it was no problem to do it. ”

Song Ziwen shook his head and said, "Probably not." American politicians are all about rules, a set of rules that they set themselves. If there are any contradictions, they can be resolved through private consultations, and it is simply impossible for them to be made public in society. Once this rule is broken, it is tantamount to flipping the table. ”

"Huh." Zhou Hexuan smiled and didn't speak.

Politicians cannot be trusted more than capitalists, and their discipline has no bottom line at all.

Politics in the United States is interesting, and if you want to enact a policy, it is simply that the president proposes a bill, and the Senate passes or amends it. It is often the case that the Senate vetoes a bill from the president, the president vetoes a resolution from the Senate, and the Senate rejects the president's veto from the Senate. Endless ......

The Senate represents the interests of various groups, which are not corporations and consortia, but interest groups composed of many corporations and consortia, known as "extra-corporate". For example, the silver group is a typical out-of-house group, which is a collection of interests in the seven silver-producing states of the United States and occupies one-seventh of the voting rights of the U.S. Senate.

Roosevelt had to make compromises in order to implement his New Deal smoothly, but he himself already hated the Silver Group. And other out-of-hospital groups in the United States, there are also many that look at the silver group unpleasantly, such as the "American Farmers Alliance".

The Silver Act seriously harmed the interests of the "American Farmers Alliance" and caused agricultural products in the United States to become more and more unsalable. Originally, the "American Farmers Alliance" pinned its hopes on opening up overseas markets, such as selling grain to countries on the silver standard, because the silver bill would cause the value of their currencies to rise, thereby improving the overseas competitiveness of American agricultural products.

However, I never expected that as soon as the silver bill came out, many countries on the silver standard announced that they would abandon the silver standard. Even countries that did not abandon the silver standard did not necessarily have to buy American grain, and the Soviet Union took the opportunity to grab many orders - the Soviet Union raised money for industrial development by selling grain.

So the "American Farmers Union" was confused, the domestic market shrank, the foreign market did not expand, and they were also victims of the Silver Act.

There is more than one out-of-hospital group like the American Farmers Alliance, such as the American Chamber of Commerce. Their losses were even greater, and they found that after the introduction of the Silver Act, the amount of Chinese imports of American goods did not increase as expected, but decreased! It is also for this reason that Britain later took the initiative to act, and the silver bill caused the sales of British goods in the Chinese market to plummet, which was the result of the destruction of the Chinese market.

Both the "American Farmers Union" and the "American Chamber of Commerce" hope that the damn silver bill will be canceled as soon as possible.

Zhou Hexuan just provided them with an opportunity.

Historically, the Silver League of America split in the late stages of the Silver Act, because the external political pressure was too great, and various exchanges of interests led to internal strife in the Silver Alliance. Roosevelt completely subdued the hungry wolf of the Silver Group through the contradictions of the various groups outside the hospital.

Even if Zhou Hexuan doesn't make a move, things will develop in that direction, but it will drag on for a long time, a full two years. For China, the daylilies were cold at that time, and I don't know how much profit was lost.

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