The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-04-14
THE SILVER QUESTION.

They are BOuTOoDs enough 70 nave ioEeo1
ton several things. First, that silver, a.
we'll a. gold has been the worlds money
from time immem0rial; and second, that
the ratio here named has been established
b. the experience and experiments OF cen
turie, - be the nearest 10 the equaIlty OF
values. The assumption Of the nonometaI-
I ists that there ought to be more SILVER IN
x the dollar than at present, Is all Prelehce-
jackson CLARION
The ratio here named has not peeh es'IC
Ii,hed hy the experience and the eXpe1-
rna,,rs If centuries to be nearest 70 the
equality of values Just now the eA pen
80. ~ the commercial world proves thal
rbe rafi9 j. not the correct one. sixteen
NJ siIve, bullion cannot buy one OF goiq
bullion in aav ofthe markets OF the world
TIE CLARION is wrong as to the present
and Is wrong as TO the past.
In the reign OF Alexander OF Macedon the
.ttjo was ten to one The ratio inscribed
upon the ruins Of karnac, and dating back
to sixteen hundred years before Christ i
thirteen and one-third 70 one. In English
history. from 1917 to l7lS, the total mean
average for five hundred years was 1871 to
4. Ia the reign OF Charles III it was 40 to
/, and in the reign OF George ! II was 100 to
Coming down to late years when the min
INC o! silver has outstripped that OF gold
when Germany, Denmark and Sweden have
deuUuetized silver, and when the Latin
Union have limited their silver coinage ez-
cIu-lFsly 10 5ro75,'l 80 ao ~ ~ ha.
gradually increased until in 1877 it was L.
y 10 J., ,,..-.-.I.. I'm,
o., M $50 80, rhs ratio between
silver and gold has Guctuated since the
lav- when thc EgYptIius built harnac.-
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r. r,+;o ,f tha instance If tba monome
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c,;o.,ao # .;Iva,. entirely than 70 pur
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l 4
{ Jhieu 0tHies' the lIe7t'l IL i''tio VI SIiN u
/ to gold. Is greater than that OF any
o+I,,,. ,...,,,,4.,- ..>c,,,t Mexico notwitb
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standing the loolS OF the bohouoIheiS'
With Gacraf,,.v sherman nj their head
% at. -. IL,
are III the """it 81 ''''l''l7 nv
dollar Of the country, q dishonest dollar,
;, tn ,;l,-l,. aalla,. ~ tha
I
United States Is made IN the ratio OF 10
of silver to / Of cold while the ratio OF
r,.. p.lu;,,,., l,,-;+,o,I,rI TtoI,-
= ith'e' Deg i"lii' ~" 10
Spain and Germany Is l35 OF silver to
Of cold and of Russia Is $40 of sill
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there ougiIt 10 be more silver in the dollar
than at present is al pretence. 1t will be
Prlne n ru n r%I 'g ne, 7 t5a 4Ia 81 silver
dollar be made with more silver in it; but
that ITS eo'"4ge De suspended. ms Is the ne
dem;aI tLat the nrasent silver dollar is Of
precisely the same weight and value that it
was Wen tIi ''n ,I ho ' nnntr r,',v wa.
formed that it should be paid in coin Of the
value then existing, To increase the val
y u 4i ,' toois of the banJbdIJers woud be
the robbery of the debtor class to that
amount ON e'efy collar II "ouio asgIe-
ga, 49, ,.', I'll anIi+ :, str;ot
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