The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-01-17
Nice Trick Exposed.


There's nothing mean about them. There
fore they make this proposition:
Put silver enough in the proposed dollar TO
make Il equal. at present i,G4ce> oi buIIIon, 10
The god dollar at pres MT qGuIaJ Tor coin,
aud, Win IA I,w "tn'r minor I, stIiciIOns, We
Will permit gu 10 1, nIoneI!ze H."
Now, let IL look sInarely into this.
Gold Is mOneiiZeu; IL Is recognized and
bolslercd up every device Known 10 law and
finance; it, and the notes rodeemable in il,
are the sole legal tender. Silver Is dcbased,
driven out, Il fugitive, an Ouicast, dishonor
al by Its own relatives. In this condition
of things il l. proposed to take both metals
al their pre-ent value, one as com, the other
as bullion; one iaborIng under every dis
advantage, the other favored by every ex-
pedient, and thus ,qualize them. No ac-
count H. made of the prospective enhance
ment of silver when IL shall be recognized
| is standard and legal tender, though the
London Tunes declares that the Immediate
effect would be to bring it 10 a substantial
par with gold, and MIR. Wells admits that
such would be the ease.
The effect OF coming a dollar such as is
| proposed, Therefore, would be TO take it as
| ompletely out Of circulation as ii is 10 day.
] and leave gold is the only mOuey.
When the dollar of ii2t grains was drop
| ped in 1873 it was worth .! cents more than
gold. he ratio between silver and gold
| with silver dollar oi AZ. grains, is six
teen TO one. More than hall OF the specie
of France is silver, and IL cir, ulates there
side by side with gold, though the ratio in
that country is l5t Of silver TO one OF gold.
There never was a more impudent propo-
sition. therefore, than that made by the gold
swindlers TO remonetize silver with this
enormous discrimination against it.
But how would it operate in some other
| respects?
We have say S2,OO0,00O,O00 of public
| debt, which We have agreed To pay in gold
coin at - $40 grsins To a dollar, or silve-
al Az grains TO the dollar. Gold having
appreciated by the decentralization vi silver,
we bind ourselves anew to pay that debt en-
tirely III gold, or TO add 10 every silver dol
lar which We pay on that contract onr-
tenth more OF silver than We originally
promised. This the gold swindlers Gail
honorable dealing"
Again, Chicago has debt of Sl7 600 600
contracted when dollar of 4l2i grains of
silver was legal tender. To satisfy the
| sharks whose insatiate NAV calls ever for
more, it is proposed row to pay in dollars
worth in the aggregate 81 400, OC0 more than
| the contract stipulated.
Once more: he great fire that desolated
| this necessitaied The Borrowing Of immense
| sums to rebuild. There were three kinds Of
| money in which those loans could be paid
silver, gold, or greenbacks convertible into
gold ami silver. But by a shrewd opera
ton those three kinds OF money have been
reduced in number TO one kind, there by
greatly enhancing the value OF the latter
Now to show our 'honor" land still more
our greenness, We propose to make dollars
worth ten cents more than those cUntem-
plated by the contract and pay our debts in
them.
Was there ever more stupid or wicked
proposal than this?
But il the 4l2! silver dollar appreciates
to the value OF gold upon being remOletized,
what difference can it make.
This is tie question asked by many
thoushtlIss persons, who if they would re-
fleet moment, could at once discern the
difference. Ii does not matter whether We
say that silver appreciates or gold depre-
ciates when the two are placed on an equal
footing. The great fact is that money, like
any other commodity, ceases TO he dear, so
10 speak, when one metal no longer
monopolIzes the power and the province OF
money Enact to-day that no kind OF meat
shall be sold or eaten save that of beeves
over three years old, and you Immediately
advance the price OF the latter and largely
destroy the value OF all other kinds OF
animal food. Repeal the law, and you in
crease the value OF pork and veal and NUT
ton, while at the same time you decrease
the value of the meat heretofore singled
out for preference,
1t is exactly so with money Gold has
become dear because it holds monopoly,
and other species OF property have shrunk,
and will continue 10 shrink, as this sole
standard becomes scarce and its power is
continued Ii must be dethroned, or gold
will become a tyrapt in this country more
autocratic and insolent than the tradition
airy Gar of all the Russiss.
Every man who has farm; every man
who has an acre OF ground every man who
has a mine; every man who has flock of
sheep or herd OF cattle; every man vino
has a store-house of grain every man who
has a stock Of goods every man who has
little home Of his own: every man who |
owns anything in the wide world, except
gold coin or bullion, is interested in seeing
this golden ryrant shorn Of part OF that
power which threatens otherwise to grind
him TO powder.
Ii you want to see business revive; If you I
want to see the pulse of trade quicken; II
YOU want to see the great iron wheels creak- /
ing and turning once more; If you wans to |
see the smooth shuttles gliding between the I
gGttering threads, and hear the hrm OF (
busy spindles and whirling looms, speak ;
and work for this great IN a-ure of justice. /
Call upon your Representatives to do their
duty. Take off your coat Tor the dollar OF
the fathers, pure and simple. Ask nothing 1
more; .ccept nothing l'ss. II this is To he /
a war to the bitter end between the grasp
ing money-changers on the one hand and
the people on the other, see TO IL that you /
are on the right side, and that the former |
are once more driven gu, of the temple 1
they would desecraie.