The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-08-21

nc notes of comparison. Enere would L
4 wall Of complaint from the dudes. VIII
would prefer 10 be III tie opera or Il.
masquerade 10 attending to Legitimate
business: who would greatly prefer tip
ping tumblers in round bumpers to count
ine silver. Yet old father Agricola, viii
ms leather parsa or canvas bag. would b.
in high clover. for the world would hav,
a merry chime when the ready easl
awaited the product OF the farm, and the
heavy silver came in place Of the dirty
old memorandum book.
! Don't yoa see II
What Is true Of the farmer wcui,i hold
good III every vocation OF life. The Mi
ser's crease could no5 he put on the siver.
Oh! says ons. you said This ia your last
issue. Suppose we did. How of;su have
the ostensible tinanciers who attempt the
diseharagement of silver reiterated their
hyperbolical bosh, with the. vain hope
rhat pretext often repeated would
eventually pass for current truth.
We mean to say this: The Eternal well
understood mans idoliatry. For this rea-
son silver is abundant and gold scarce.
Do You notice the old patriarch Abra-
ham, arriving with his cameis and atten-
dants. Silver was the coin Of the an
clients, aud win be forever. Put il CIT of
use and the want of pinching poverty
will remand it into circulation
Only the other day business man said
to us the world would be demorslized By
silver. That sort of trouble was predicted
about gold when California was first dis
covered.
. 1t should be remembered that the arts
are using mp a large per cent OF the pre-
cicus metals, and thereis no likelihood of
either gold or silver ever becoming
cheap commodity of merchandise. Its
very abundance will never be burtken
70 the world.
The trouble with every gold advocate
who is really honest, is his distrust OF The
value of silver. Gold is worth tie full
face of it. but, by their logic, silver Is not.
If you had 10 carry a million in paper
or gold, which would you prefer to ac-
cept, greenbacks or gold? we care not
for the foreign exchanges. Paper |
will buy cotton. and cotton is gold on an |
English quay. Silver is merchandise
when in bars. but money in coin. The
outcry about silver is not an honest de-
nrr.
1t is gotten up by those who are after
silver, and the honest fol-
overs OF the junta's whcop are imposed
IN by their cfcdulity. They do not know
ie secret conspiracy is plotting their
ain by the effort to get silysr out of cir
.uistion.
Then gold would 5e the standard and
'ou would.see wreck and ruin in the wake
# the plot, such as 1873 was bnt ,neie-
ill to mountain.
we suspect the reason why the govern
aent does not send out that silver from
Washington is lest the vaultbe empty and
lie bond-holders would make dash on
1
he treasury for Siirer. They would
fant it very much if they were sure it
oud not be had They would fife diff
erent tune then. Silver would be the |
rand desideratum. They would get up
II outcry about the worthless bonds with |
o specie to redeem them. and it would
ave its effect. Just as the trade dollar r
as debssed, SO, too, would the bonds be ,
IN down by the clamor of The bears, and
he foolish would sell and the knayes
ny until the panic was over and confi- ]
ence restored. 7
II we had our way we would run the 5
rinting presses few hours and issue T
iough greenbacks to call in ard cancel !.
e bonds Baltiaore Herald.