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OCTOBER 23. ISSW.
THE TICKET.
For Prl Jnt:
WILLIAM McKINLKY,
of Ohio.
For Vlo-Priditit:
Q ARRET A. HOBAHT,
of Near Jorimy.
FOURTH NOTICE.
It baa become neoossary for business
men Id all branchet of trade to do a
strictly cash business, and aa tbat neces
sitates our paying caah for what we
buy we bave alao oonoludod to go to a
caah banlri, and will, on and after No
Tomber 10, 1800, dlacontinue sondlng
The American to all subscribers who
are In arreara. If their accounta re
main unpaid at tbat time they will bo
placed In the banda of a collection
agency for settlement We alnoerely
hope no aubacrlber will neglect to pay
ia bill on or Defore Novembor 10.
Look up your recelpta and If you are In
arreara come In and settle. Don't neg
lect thla matter. Attend to it to-day.
No Jesuits need apply.
Defeat a Roman by electing A. S.
Churchill aa attorney-general.
J. A. Piper haa made a food, capa
ble and efficient secretary of state.
There is no doubt of hla re election.
Don't only vote for Jam and Find
ley but get out and work for them
elect them. Stay with your friends.
W. 0. Wbitmore should have ton
thousand majority in Douglas for
regent He Is one of our boat friends.
Three weeks ago we endorsed P. O.
Hedlund for auditor. We still believe
he should be elected. Gives the Swedes
a chanoe.
There Is only one more day in which
to register. Don't fail to get your
name on the list if you want to vote at
this election.
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Don't neglect to vote for both Re
publican ju Iges, and also for the con
stitutional amendment relating to the
supreme court.
Both II. C. Russell and Prof. Cor
" bett bave made food officers. Every
body without a pjraonal grievance can
afford to vote for them.
Evert man in Nebraska knows
Orland Teft He is universally re
epected, and will have a majority equal
to any man on the ticket.
It don't ma'tor who says you are not a
true and patriotic A. P. A. If you sup
port either free sliver or the gold
standard we say j ou are. The finan
cial issue is not an A. P. A. issue.
There are about as many Roman
Catholics jelling for one ticket as
there are for the other. The church
Is divided. Now is the time for the A
P. A. to show its strength. Why not
go solid for one ticket?
We may not all agree as to which
candidate we will support on election
day, but we will all agree if he truckles
to Rome after he is elected we will help
turn him down when he asks for a re-
nomination and re-slectlon.
If WE have any Polish friends liv
ing in Omaha, they will be pleased to
learn of the elevation to the bishopric
of our old friend and their former
p-iest. Kaminskl. May be never agai
set his face toward Rome.
When you go to the polls just re
member that Hon. A. S. Churchill has
made an excellent attorney-general and
is entitled to re-election. You might
also mention it to your friends they
are no iloubt equally Interested in the
election of a man who is thoroughly
competent, and he has proved himself
to be.
WHERE THE A. P. A. IS AN ISSUE.
Some weeks ago we UUd tbat there
was no A. P. A. lama Involved in the
national campaign. Some things that
have transpired since that item waa
written have atreogthened ua la that
opinion. Two of those thlnge we will
mention. One wat the pronouncement
of Archblabop Ireland In favor of the
Republican ticket, the other waa New
York's Tammany and Prluat Nugent'a
declaration In favor of the DemocratU
ticket. Had there been an A. P. A.
Issue on either aide neither Ireland,
Tammany or Nugent would have been
found battling on the side It was sup
posed to be on.
For this reason we do not appeal to
the readers of this paper from an A. P.
A. standpoint to go to the polls Novem
ber 3d and east a vote for the men we
favor for president and vice president
We do not think we could appeal to
them from a higher standpoint but
sines we have no principle at stake, we
shall endeavor to convince them tbat
from a purely patriotic and business
standpoint their Interest will be beat
subserved by the election of McKtoley
and Uobart
McKlnley needa no recommendation
atourhanda to the American people.
They know him aa one of their fore
most and moat conservative and hon
orable citizens. They know him to be
thoroughly American and trustworthy,
as a citizen, as a soldier and as an of
ficer. They know he has had a long
and varied experience in the manage
ment of the affairs of state, and tbat
his record Is as spotless as It waa the
day he went into a publlo office.
They know also that It was his de
sire that the cardinal principles of the
A. P. A. be Incorporates; In the Repub
lican platform, and that It is his desire
that protection be afforded the Ameri-
can manufacturers and the American
laborer the first by a high protective
tariff, the latter by the restriction of
criminal and contract pauper labor Im
migration. Whilo, as we said, there is no A. P.
A. principle at stake In the national
campaign thora Is one at stake In the
state campaign In Nebraska. The
Democratic party, which abounds with
able Protestant attorneys, went out of
its way to nominate for the high and
responsible office of attorney-general
one of the most raold and bigoted mem
bers of the Roman Cathollo church
who lives In tbat commonwealth to-day.
The combination Populist and Demo
cratic ticket also contains one and pos
sibly throe Romans as presidential
electors.
A party whloh would soil all the
other positions on Its state ticket to
the Populists for tho privilege of nam
Ing a Romanist for the remaining posi
tion is deserving of nothing short of
complete repudiation, and we trust to
the good sense and the patriotism of
the people of Nebraska, regardless of
party, to rebuke Rome and her sym
pathizers at the ballot box next month.
What makes this case mere aggravat
ing is the fact that C. J. Smyth, the
Democratic nominee, Is and has been
the paid attorney of the Roman Catho
lic church and the Society of Jesus for
number of years. To be the attorney
for as noisome a corporation as the Ro
man Cathollo church is bad enough,
but to be the attorney of such a damna
ble and unholy order as tbe Society of
Jesus Is a thousand times worse. If
you doubt thls.read their blood-thirsty,
antl-Chrlstlan oath, which appears on
another page, then, when you have
done this, go to the polls, If a resident
of Nebraska, and contribute to the elec
tion of every man ou the Republican
ticket.
FOR. THESE. REASONS.
In no other campaign that hasoc
curred since the establishment of The
American has the Interest of the peo
ple in measures other than those advo
cated by the members of the patriotic
orders been so intense as it is in tne
present.
People generally recognize that
crisis In our governmental affairs has
been reached.
They have heard and read 'talk of
secession and war.
Many ol them believe that we aro en
tbe verge of another Internecine strife.
and they are calmly and dispassion
ately settling for themselves what
course to pursue in order to save both
the lives and the property of this great
republic. When they have arrived at
a conclusion they will go to the polls
and register their verdict by voting
with the party which they believe can
best afford relieff from the present
financial distress and protection to
both the lives and the property of those
who contribute to the maintenance of
this government.
There is nothinsr. roslbly, which
will assist them in arriving a, a con
clusion more than the history of the
parties which are now battling for su
premacy. One of these parties has always stood
for the rights and interests and free
dom of all classes., the other has al
ways appealed to sectional and class
prejudices. The majority in one party
declared this Union, under similarly
adverse circumstances was one and in
divisible; the other, that any political
division of the republic, when its own
local interests were affected, bad a
right to leave the Union and set up an
independent government
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The earn queatlon, the same right,
la the ulterior object of one or tbo
parties la this campaign.
It therefore becomes the duty of all
loyal and patriotic clUtena to array
themselves upon tbe aide of tbat party
hicb, In the natlon'a darkest hour,
eat out upon the field of battle and
emonatrated tbat this waa a Union,
that It waa Indivisible, and that it waa
not the right or tbe province of any
atate to arrogate to itaelf tbe right
to aay when It would submit to tbe will
of the majority.
Tbe party that baa stood for tbe
honor and for tbe unity of tbla govern
ment haa been tbe Republican party;
the one that haa alwaya been for a
change, for a division, and fur a back-
ard step, haa been the Democratic
party. It declared In a national con
vention that the laat war waa a failure;
It leaders and iu papers bave always
been against pensioning the old sol
diers; iu pollcyy has been against a
protective tariff, and In favor of what
Irtually amounts to frea trade; It has
been and Is to day the champion of the
Roman corporation; Its members In
congress have Invariably stood for sec
tarian approprlatlona, and it conven
tion have alwaya declared against the
greatest patrlo'.lo association, the A.
P, A., which was ever organized In
thla country.
At the A. P. A. stands for nothing
but what tbe founders of thla govern
ment had In mind when they drafted
the. constitution, and as It also stands
for every principle for which the sol
diers of the late war risked their lives,
we shall In thla campaign take Issue
ith the Democratic party, and en
deavor to assist in returning to power
the only party which haa during tbe
last forty years successfully managed
the affairs of thla government
We do this, not because we are
member of the A. P. A., nor because
our father and his father offered them
selves as sacrifices in defense of the
unity and indivisibility of the Union,
but because ai an American citizen we
believe the perpetuity and the safety
of the government and its people de
pend upon a return to the government
of L'uooln, Grant and Grfleld, which
waa In truth and In fact a government
of the people, by the people and for the
people.
We do this because four years ago
the Demooratio party won by specious
promises to the farmer and the laborer,
and expects to win again by resorting
to the same despicable trickery.
We do this because the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one
is a delusion and a snare, which will sink
our wage earners and producers into
deeper want and more abjeot poverty
than they endure to-day.
Because the free coinage of silver
will enrich, will double the riches, of
the silver kings, without doing one
lota for the laborer and the producer.
Because the Demooratio party has
attempted to array class atralnst class,
and because the standard bearer of tbat
party was not enough of an American
to vote in favor of compelling New
Mexico to teach the English language
in the publlo schools when a bill for
her admission into the Union was
pending before congress in 1894.
For these and other reasons equally
as weighty we appeal to the patriots of
this country to go to the polls and do
their duty. For these reasons we ap
peal to the old soldiers and to the sons
of loyal fathers and urge them to place
their ballot on the side cf right, on the
side of publlo honor and national Inde
pendence, knowing full well that if
they do that William McKlnley will be
the next president of the United States,
BRYAN AND THE ROMANS.
Congressman Bryan ia booming Tim
othy Mahoney for United States dis
trict attorney for Nebraska. Is there
any special reason why Mr. Mahoney
should receive this appointment? Are
there not many competent Protestant
Democratic attorneys aspiring for this?
Yes. Mr. Mahoney hardly became a
cltlsen of Nebraska ere he was elected
to the position of county attorney for
Douglas county. He sent to Daven
port for Mike Vesuvius Gannon, and to
Des Moines, Ia., for Dennis Donovan
Both secured appointments as assistant
county attorneys before they became
citizens of Nebraska. Why? Mr. Ma
honey haa been well taken care of al
ready by the Democracy, drawing in
four years, ten thousand dollars salary
from Douclas county. jinwrtcan.
March Si, 1S92.
And those fellows were all Roman
Catholics.
HURRAH! The United States has a
minister to Cuba who is made of the
rlo-ht stuff. His name is L3e. Last
Friday the bloodthirsty Weyler wanted
the captain of an American steamer to
surrender a Mexican who was claimed
as a Spanish subject, and when the re
quest was denied, Weyler threatened
to train the guns of Morro castle on
the steamer and sink her if she at
tempted to" leave; the (harbor without
aeoedlnff to bis demand. General Lee
told the captain to put to aee, and, if
the Spaniard dared sink hla boat.
United SUte warship would be bom-
carding Havana la a few days. Tie
eseel weighed anchor and put to sea.
As ahe did so, signal were aeen pass
ing between Weyler' cattle and the
fort d the guos were being trained
upon the American vessel whlcb waa
flying the Amerlcin flag and signalling
the fort that she was leaving tbe port
Aaaheakamed onward, a signal wa
wafted from Weyler' castle to the
commandant at the fort to let her go,
and a she steamed Into the blue water
the Spaniards gave her the signal that
meant good-bye.
IN each campaign the voter is
met on every hand with rumon of co
ercion, and the present is no exception
to the rule. Tbe corporation or other
large business interest la usually a tar
get for these attacks. In thla campaign
tbe railways, street car companies and
other large employers of men are said
to be tbe ones who are dictating the
way their employes shall vote on elec
tion day, white In western states It U
tbe mine owners, smelting works, man
ufacturers and wholesale business in
terests who derive their business from
the mining Interest who are said. to De
the dictators. We do not believe in
coercion in any form and condemn it in
any form. The right of every Ameri
can citizen to cast his ballot as he may
see fit is inalienable and that right is
protected by the Australian ballot law,
Every citizen has a right to express his
opinion, whether to his employes in
private or in public, but no one has the
right to attempt by threats to force his
employes to do anything against the'r
will.
The story that the editor of tb!s
paper said or published at any time
that Jack MacColl was a Roman Catho
lic is a falsehood manufactured out of
hole cloth. We did go out in the
state a MacColl's request, visiting Fre
mont Columbus, Grand Island, North
Platte and Lincoln, to correct a story
which MacColl told us Jones had cir
culated to Injure his candidacy during
1891. We paid our own expenses. Any
man who says this Is not a correct
statement of the easels an unmitigated
liar. MacColl is the Republican candi
date for governor. He is a Protestant,
and no man need vote against him
through fear of voting for a RomanlBt.
Hon. D. H. Mercer is still detain. d
in Washington on account of the very
serious illness of his wife with typhoid
pneumonia. This will defer Dave's
home-coming for a time, if he comes at
all during the campaign. In the Interval
he Irsbjen busily engaged preparing
his work In the interest of the Trans-
Mlsslssippl congress, which he will
push immediately upon the convening
con cress. In the meantime his
Omaha friends will push his campaign
with as much vigor as if he had been
here to personally look after it
The law firm of Mahoney & Smyth,
of Omaha, is in politics up to its ears.
One of the firm is candidate for attor
ney-general on the Democratic ticket
while theother member is making gold-
bug spjeches. Whichever side wins,
this firm proposes to be in the swim.
They are both Romans, and the people
who do the voting understand the plan
Secretary Carlisle was pelted
with decayed eggs while making a
peech in one of the free silver strong
holds of Kentucky last Thursday night.
This sort of warlare savors very
strongly of the methods resorted to by
the pope's followers to prevent free
peech. 1 1
Mrs. Senator Thurston has pre
sen ted an elegant flag to the Republi
in county central committee which
was flung to the breeze across the street
t front of the headquarters in the New
York Life Building Wednesday after
noon.
There has been a largef number of
old soldiers placed upon the election
bDards in this city than ever before
The old veterans seldom fail to receive
recognition by the Republicans when
in power, acd they are entitled to it.
Charles E. Casey Is a man of wide
experience and great financial ability
His election as state treasurer Is gen
erally conceded. You can make his
majority one larger by placing an X
after his name on the official ballot.
After a careful examination of both
the state tickets in Nebraska we have
concluded that the Republican ticket
is the one we can most heartily recom
mend to our readers.
Nobody will accuse Jim Allan with
being tinctured with Romanism. His
vote and work has always been on the
right side.
Shall Jesuitism or Americanism be
enthroned in the attorney-general's of
fice? Read the Jesuits' oath and then
decide.
Are you about to have any Photo
graphs taken? Visit the studio of
Hughes & Sandberg,
205 North 16th. street.
Now is the time to subscribe for The
American.
TARRIF and finance.
In a former Issue we agreed to dis
cus the tariff and finaarui problem
for the benefit of our readers.
We begin the discussion with some
misgiving, because th-n are questions
which have tx-t-n ably bandied by but
few men; still, firm in the belief that
we have epouaed the right cause, we
shall devote to it our lest effort and
trust to an All Wise Raler of the den
tines of men and nations for guidance
and aid in the presentation of the facts
which are the foundation of our belief
and argument.
Uy common consent the year 18i3
la accepted aa the date from which
this discussion should proceed.
The statistics which we have been
able to gather together both aa to the
price of products, population and
money, show some very strange things.
In the first place we find that the
United States had a population of 41.
677.000 In 1873, that tbe circulating
medium the same year was $751,881.-
809, or $18.04 per capita, and that the
price of wheat was $1.25 per bushel.
We also find that the money of the
country consisted of $25,000,000 in coin
and bullion In the United States treas
ury and $749,445,610 In paper money
We also find that the population of the
United States in 1895 waa 69.878,000,
that the circulating medium was $1,
601.908.473, or $22.93 for every man.
woman and child In this great big coun
trybeing an increase in the circulat
ing medium of more than 26 per cent
for every man, woman and child. This
circulating medium is derived from
$1,260,987,500 of coin and bullion in
the treasury and $1,137,619,914 in paper
money, and shows that our coin doubled
Itself more than 54 times, and our
paper money almost doubled Itself,
while the population only increased a
little over 66 per cent. According to
this, then, our circulating medium In
creased a fourth faster than our popu
lation. In other words, If we had good
times In 1873 and prior to that time
when there was but $18.04 for each
man, woman and child In the country,
and it was the supply of cheap money
that made times good, how do you ex
plain why times are not correspond
ingly better today than they were In
1873, since we have $4.89 more for each
man, woman and child than we had in
1873?
If it is an abundance of money an
Increase in the circulating medium
that Improves business, why in the
name of common sense are times not
better now than they were in 1873? Wo
think we can explain this point to
your entire satisfaction. From 1861 to
1865 this country was in a turmoil
war was raging; improvements were
being destroyed, fields were being laid
waste, towns, cities and villages were
beine sacked and burned; hundreds of
thousands of men, and millions of heads
of live stock were killed; the granaries
were empty, the stock In stores were
run down, factories and shops were
idle, and the whole people were Im
poverished. Suddenly a peace was de
clared. The farmer went back to his
field, the carpenter to his shop, the
smith to his anvil, the painter to bis
staging, the printer to his case, the
laborer to his work. On every hand a
cry went up for men to do the work.
From every quarter came a demand for
the farmer's grain. The wheels ol
commerce were set in motion, the fac
tories were reopened, the shops wore
in operation and labor was employed.
There were few if any idle men.
Everybody was working Everybody
was contented. Everybody was happy.
The merchant was prosperous because
the laborer was prosperous, and the
farmer was prosperous because those
two classes were prosperous .and not
because we had cheap money.
How Is it today. Your country is in
a turmoil. The mills are closed, the
shoos are empty, the laborer is idle,
the merchant is doing but little busi
ness, while the farmer has no market
for his crop. Yet we have more money
than we had Jn 1873. More money for
every man, woman and child than we
had then. Surely, then, it is not tne
scarcity of money that makes these
times so hard. It must be something
else. It must be because the laborer Is
unemployed. But how can he be em
ployed? By opening the mills, start
ing the factories and shops and other
avenues of trade. And how will that
affect the farmer? It will give him a
home market for his produce. How do
we know this to be so? Because we
have lust demonstrated to you that
labor of every character was not idle
but was enjoying the fruits of its toil
during the years which the friends of
free silver tell you they desire to re
turn to. And the good times of those
years were not the result of an abun
dance of cheap money, for we had less
money then than we have today a
great deal less, 26 per cent less, or, to
be plain, $4.89 less for every man,
woman and child in this country.
It is not more money we need to
make us prosperous. It is more work
for the laboring classes. Of what bene
fit to the farmer Is a man in the city
who is out of employment and out of
money? Can he buy a peck of apples,
or a bushel of potatoes, or a pound of
flour or meat? No, sir; he cannot. He
is of use to the farmer only when he
has work. He cannot get work while
there Is any show of the country going
to a silver basis, because capital will
not seek investment in enterprises now
struggling to exist or in those in con
templation of establishment while this
agitation for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver continues.
Now, what is the difference between
the way we have coined silver up until
a recent date and the way it would he
done under the free and unlimited
coinage plan?
Under the law that the last congress
repealed, the government bought
monthly 4,500,000 ounces of silver bul-
lion of those having it for sale, prin-
cipallv from the silver mine owners in I
the states lying west of Nebraska, Kan-j
sas, Texas and Oklahoma, at the same
price those mine owners could sell
their silver for to any other customer,
Would the farmer want more from the
government for his products than he
could got for the same thing from a
private individual? Certainly not. But
these mine owners do, and we will
show you why 4n a minute.
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nartmcnt boueht Sliver Duuion m ua
market value so much per ounce, and
as the market price of silver was but a
trifle over 92 cents per ounce the gov
ernment would give the mine owner
hi nav In notes which were a It
trader for all debu. public and p rival,
unless otherwise stipulated in the con
tract This taw was enacted solely to bfn
fit the silver mine owner. It was done
to bolster up the price of silver, but
from the day of the enactment of that
law until lbS silver steadily decrease
In value. As a consequence the actual
value of (he bullion in the dollar was
not known from one day to another.
In 1S7S an ounce of silver was worth a
little more than 1.15. Ten years after
it bad dropped until It was not worth
!4 cents, and In 1S93. when the law was
repealed. It was worth but a trifle
more than 78 cents, while in 1S9S it
was quoted at 05 2-5 cents. Had the
government continued to buysilver and
bad It dropped to 50 cents and less per
ounce, we would have been able to coin
two dollars out of one dollar's worth
of silver one of the dollars would
have paid for the silver used in both
dollars and the other could have been
hoarded In the United States treasury.
Under free coinage how would It be?
Silver was quoted at 65 cents last
Saturday In the Cripple Creek Daily
Times. That would mean that a dol
lar containing 371'4 grains of pure sil
ver would be worth In the neighbor
hood of 63 cents. Then, if a silver
mine owner, or a speculator in silver
not the laboring man, not the farmer,
not the merchant or the artisan but
the monled class which has grown al
most as rich mining sliver or specu
lating in it as the Goulds and Van
dfTbjlts have in manipulating rail
roads; almoBt aa rich as John D.
Rockefeller has in manipulating the
Standard Oil Trust, and almost as rich
as Carnegie has by the management
of his mammoth iron works those
people, the silver plutocrats, the silver
barons, could take their silver to the
mints and have it coined into dollars
and every ounce of pure silver would
net him give him a profit of an
other silver dollar, If the price re
mained as high as 65 cents per ounce,
and if it fell below 50 cents, as it did
in 1894, his profit would be even great
el" about $1.05 on each dollar's worth
of sliver he took to the mint and had
had coined. But the price of silver will
go up If we get free coinage; you say.
That is merely an assertion and proves
nothing. We might contend with
equal reason that free coinage would
drive the price down. That also would
be an assertion and would prove noth
ing. The thing that will regulate the
price of silver will be the law of sup
ply and demand, the same law that reg
ulates the price of wheat, of potatoes
and of cotton. If there is more silver
produced than can be used the price
will naturally go down; If there Is
less produced than can be used, the
price will go up, because those need
ing it will bid one against the other in
the hope of obtaining what they need;
whereas if the supply exceeds the de
mand, those buying will Jew the owner
of the product down to the lowest pos
sible figure.
Let us look for a few minutes at the
silver "crop" since 1792. From 1792
down to 1879 the output, the produc
tion, or the "crop" of silver did not
exceed $56,000,000 in value; From 1870
to 1894 it had increased, according to
the United States currency statistics
quoted on page 38 of Sound Currency,
to $213,000,000. In other words, for 78
years next preceding 1870, the mines
of the United Stats produced hut $56,
000,000 worth of silver, while from 1870
to 1894 twenty-four years they pro
duced $157,000,000 worth of silver. To
be plain, the mines of the United
States produced $717,948.72 each year
up to 1870, and they produced $6,541,
666.66 each year from 1870 until 1894.
And now, to further illustrate, the
mines of the United States, prior to
1870, produced but one-tenth as much
silver each year as they did from 1870
to 1894. Or, probably it would be
plainer this way: The mines of the
United States produced, after 1870, and
up until 1894, $5,823,717.94 more each
year than they produced each year
prior to 1870.
Do you wonder, then, why silver is
cheap after reading these figures? Sup
pose each farmer in the United States
for 24 years would raise nine times as
much wheat as he raised this year, and
the population of the country d'.d not
double itself once, would not cae price
of his product fall? Most assuredly it
would. You could not consume nine
times or even four and one-half times
as much flour each year hereafter as
you are consuming today. And if you
did not wheat would be a drug in the
market, the price would go down, and
the farmer would be compelled to stop
raising wheat or sell It at the then
current price. We venture the asser
tion that if such a state of affairs did
exist you would not hear of the farm
ers getting up a scheme to have the
government pass a lasv authcrlrinz the
purchasing -nid grinding of all wheat
in order to keep that cereal at a stip
ulated price, as you see the silver nine
owners are doing today.
We might carry this discussion of
the silver question to a greater length,
but as this article has already ex
ceeded the space we had allotted to it,
we will bring it to a close in a few
short paragraphs.
We will ask you, however, before we
close, what you understand by free sil
ver? If you do not own silver, or a sil
, ver mine, how will the free coinage of
I silver benefit you? If you get a dollar
i of it you will have to work and earn it,
or you will have to sell something.
That is the only way you will get It.
And if you work you will get your pay
in a dollar which you do not have the
lpast assurance will be worth even fifty
1 cents six months or a year after it i3
coined. Money is worth only what
people will give for it. Not a bit more.
; If we deal with a man in England or
Uermany or t ranee ana ne win iukb
our mouey omy iin wimi. ua uumuu
value is, and that bullion value Is but
one-half as much as its face says it is
worth and you desire to buy some of
his goods from us, do you suppose we
would sell them to you for one-hall
what they cost us simply because your
coin said it was worth twice as much
as the law of supply and demand said
it was worth? No, sir; you would pay
the difference you would stand the
loss. If you had sold your wheat or
your stock, or if you had labored and
had been nald in silver dollars which
worth half as much as their face said
they were worth, every merchant in
the country would mark his goods up
100 per cent and you would have to pay
twice as much for everything you use