The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-10
RESTRICTION OF SILVER COINAGE.

kEsThCTluh W SILVER CUlNAdE.
l have yet to find anybody who can give
q good reason why we should go on adding
to the tons OF silver dollars now piled up
in the vaults for the sufficient rea3on that
nobody wants them. A man who has the
good fortune to be able 10 carry with him
a hundred dollars doesn't want to hire q
push.csrt or a dray TO accompany him like
d tender to locomotive. Colorado was
swearing violently about Judge Kelley 3
measure, but II Colorado can get twenty
cen:s an ounce for her silver more than
she has been getting, am sure she will
have done with her wild.western profanity
and come down to the practical level Of
common people. Senator Morrill, has a
silver bill which ] believe Is something OF
the Rame purport, but have not seen HE
measure and missed my opportunity to
talk with him about 1t.
Judge Kelley will Of course be on the
Ways and Means Committee, but don't
think the folks on the other side will ask
his aid in the framing Of any measures Of
alleged revenue REFORM" They may
readily have his help in aa effort (which
they will not mlke) to abolish the whole
internal revenue system. Partly because
he desires the entire system swept away,
and even more so because he ia opposed to
the principle involved. Judge Kelley does
not oppose Mr. B!aine's plan to distribute
among the States the revenue from spirits.
Some letters from Europe and enc or two
perhaps more-magaztne articles BY
| AFf.. EIanapaa Kaltav tho anaat,, n1trt,n1
daughter Of the Judge, have attracted at
tention for their depth and force. Speaking
Of Miss Kelley In the presence Of friend
who is In correspondencew with her, the fol.
lowing extract from q letter Just opened
was read to me. II should be said In ex-
planation that Miss Kelley is now taking a
course OF postgraduate instruction at the
venerable paiverslty Of zlrich, sSitzsr.
land.
SOME POINTS ON P6hITIcAh ECONOMY.
The alluslon in the extract Is to the
character OF tho political economy taught
/ by Herr Platter, Deacon Of the Faculty:
"His national economy lectures would
delight your heart. Last week he quoted
Mr., Carey al great length and with pro.
| found respect; citizsd his controversion Of
the Ricardo theory Of rent as final. He
calls Smith, Ricardo and Nautilus the
classical school Of political economy; and
their followers the Manchester school for
which he has the profoundest scorn. He
saws, among other things which strike me
as forcible, the time is not far distant when
everyone will see that these men have no.
founded a science but have merely inter.
preted their own generation Just as Dick
ems has done. They have attempted tc
explain \, and TO prove that the phenome
ma which characteriSs Il are not special bal
general, universal, ThiG they have utterly
| failed to do, but, uhconsciously, they havI
voiced the philosophy and life o
the England OF their time Just q
1 Dickens has voiced the sorrows Q
ne same generation In "Hard Times,
and the cheerful aspect Of the came genei
alton In "Plokwiek," They have uncor
, eciously written history, They have b
i no means founded an adequate social, ect
, nomic or political system. What his ow
system may be, remains to be seen; II !