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AUGUST' 7, 1903.
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As to intrinsic Value.
A passing allusion in a recent edi
torial in the World has drawn this
inquiry from the Hon. Charles A.
Towne:
"To the editor of The World: Will
you allow one who reads your editor
ial columns with much interest al
ways, and with profit often, to ask you
a question or two apropos of your
editorial in this morning's issue en
titled 'Democratic Principles?' Among
these principles you mention:
"1. Sound money meaning a cur
rency based upon a dollar intrinsical
ly worth 100 cents in all parts of the
country and in every part of the
;world.
"I am writing in no controversial
epirit and shall pass the opportunities
furnished by this quotation to raise
c subject-matter of contention. I wish
to ask you, in perfect good faith, to
be kind enough to state editorially just
what you mean by the word 'Jntrin
Bically' as used above, and by 'in
trinsic' as applied to value in your oc
casional discussions of the money
question. Respectfully,
"CHARLES A. TOWNE."
When the World used the word "in
trinsically" it meant just what the
democratic national convention of 1892
meant when it said in the platform on
which Cleveland was elected:
"We hold to the use of both gold
and silver as the standard money of
the country . . . but the dollar unit of
coinage of both metals must be of
equal intrinsic and exchangeable val
ue, etc."
It meant what Webster meant when
in his dictionary ho defined "intrin
sic" as "inward, internal; hence,
true: genuine; real; essential; inher
ent; not merely apparent or acciden
tal opposed to extrinsic; as, the In
trinsic value of gold or silver."
Of course we understand that Mr.
Towne can make a subtle argument
to show that it is not rigidly logical
to apply the word in this sense that
an intrinsic quality is one inseparable
from the substance, while value is
merely the expression of a relation,
and may vary from time to time and
from place to place. But if we are
going to be so pedantically accurate,
what quality is not relative? Even
the weight of a piece of gold, which is
an intrinsic quality if anything is,
would not be the same on the moon
as on earth, or on the top of a moun
tain as at the sea level.
A value that has attached to a cer
tain metal everywhere and always,
Eince before the dawn of recorded his
tory, may reasonably be treated By
the modern legislator as being, for his
purposo, an intrinsic attribute of that
metal, even though in the last analy
sis it be only a relation dependent
upon supply and demand. And when
we find that 25.8 grains of gold, nine
tenths fine, will bring 100 cents or its
equivalent in New York, in San Fran
cisco, in London, in Moscow, in To-
kio, or in Buenos Ayres, whetkesJ
stamped with the American eagle
or melted into an ingot or ham
mered into a ribbon, we may say, with
sufficient accuracy for the purposes of
ordinary discussion, that the dollar
eo composed -is "intrinsically worth
100 cents in all parts of the country
and in every part of the world" espe
cially when, we are contrasting it with
a silver dollar, whose value would bo
knocked down from J.00 cents to 42
cents by one blow of a sledge-hammer.
New York World.
A Lincoln Pardon,
United States Pension Commissioner
E. F. Ware, who is in Topeka, brought
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Union Pacific can secure berths in
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City Office, 1044 O street, Lincoln, Neb.
with him an interesting relic of Abra
ham Lincoln and the civil war. It is
in the form of a pardon issued 'by
President Lincoln to one David Levy,
a deserter from the federal army, and
the story of It goes as follows:
In the summer of 18G1 David Levy,
a private soldier, was sent to one of
the army hospitals while Buffering
from some small ailment which, how
ever, was sufficient to Incapacitate him
for duty. One day he disappeared
from the hospital. It was found later
that he had deserted and gone home,
his later explanation being that he
thought ho could recover his health
quicker if ho was among his own peo
ple. In due timo he was apprehended
by the military authorities and re
turned to the front, going by way of
Washington.
While in Washington under guard
and awaiting trial for desertion ho
managed to bring his case to the at
tention of President Lincoln. The pres
ident sent for him, heard his story,
and closed the incident by giving him
a pardon, and from hero the story
skips some thirty-eight years.
In December last the pension de
partment receded an application for
a pension from David Levy. In look
ing up the records in the adjutant gen
eral's office it was discovered that
David Levy was carried with the word
"deserter" opposite his name. He was
informed by the pension officials that
pensions were not for deserters. He
replied that it was true that he had
been a deserter, but that he had been
pardoned by the president and had
served faithfully until the end of the
war. The pension authorities answered
in turn that if ho had a pardon ho
must produce it, as the records bore
no evidence of the existence of Buch a
document And thereupon Levy sent
the pardon, just as written by the
president, together with the statement
that he had kept it safe all the3e years.
The pardon is written on a bit of
pasteboard about the size of an ordi
nary visiting card. The writing,
though dimmed by age, is clearly
legible, and would be recognized at
once by those familiar with the reg
ular hand of the martyred president
There is no circumlocution or legal
verbiage about it. It goes straight to
the point as follows:
"If David Levy shall enlist and
serve faithfully for one year, or until
otherwise honorably discharged, I will
pardon him for the past.
"A. LINCOLN.
"January 12, 1865."
It will bo observed that technically
considered this is not a pardon, but
only the promise of a pardon. How
ever, David Levy was able to show
that he had faithfully carried out the
conditions fixed by the president, and
the pension department corrected the
records and granted him a pension.
The matter was brought to the per
sonal attention of Mr. Ware for deci
sion. He became much interested in
the case, and when the pension had
been granted he wrote to Levy ask
ing him if he could be induced to part
with the Lincoln document Levy an
swered that he would sell it for $5,
and it was purchased by Mr. T are at
the price named. Kansas City Jour
nal. Paragraphic Punches,
Milwaukee News: It is suspected
that the "speak softly" warning has
been heeded by the disgruntled that
insisted on exposing things in the
postoffico department Tliere isn't a
peep heard of the scandal these day
and the big stick has fallen on the
floor with the thud of a stuffed club.
Columbus Press: These frequent
trips by Mr. Hanna to the strenuous
president, who sent a message from
Walla Walla that made Hanna wal
low wallow, portend that there is mis
chief afoot "Hands oft! Hands up!
Hands down! Hands on your pockct
toolc! Hands in other people's pock
ets! Wo know our business. Speak
softly, but carry a big stick."
Philadelphia North American: The
best use to which the Manufacturers'
association can put tho fund it is
raising is to provide for tho education
of its members, in order that they may
give Intelligent consideration lo the
causes of industrial disorder and pro
moto rather than obstruct rational
settlement of the labor question.
MemphiB Scimitar: The suspected
grafts in tho war department will be
investigated by tho war department
But Secretary Root cannot expect to '
find as many as Brlstow and Wynno
have found for tho skeptical postmas
ter general. The postoffico department
lc probably tho limit
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