The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-10-22
THE SILVER WAR.
What It Means and What
Is It's True Inward
ness.
Il ID Not the Material Of Which Money Is
Made, but It's Valu,, Which Constr
tutes the Gcldites' Target.
from the Chicago Express


A recent issue Of t'.c si'estera Hl;ral
contains o eany $3.50. al well-writ-
ten article, from Is STANDPOINT, on the
silver question Row .stat!ng the coun-
try, but it fails II 70 t. t.3e bottom Of
tho subject, So as u H.. the true in-
wardness Of the opposition to further
coinage.
The Western Rnra' thoroughly ex-
poses the fntiliiy OF Tic arguments put
forth by the golt!..es in iasti.ic ation of
their war upon silver.
In reply to Mall street cla,aar that
SILVER cannot 'e .n"ci no circula-
ton" that us 60 ...n#e,i poiaara wi
drive god ifofa tie coa Try etc., il
says:
The Government al ut the begin
ming of AUS, IN words OF the
Secretary OF lie II asary, total avail
able for the reduction If the public
debt, 3. IT, n,3+..t u; and tho Treas
ury contained the cRor lou, balance ON
hand" of slcn. 10 ~. ID. Now here
are plain statements by the Secretary
Of the Treasury. 1t is not always an
easy matter to get mt the real condition
OF the public Treasury from the Secre-
tarys report. It usually requires So
we're brain wol k To uaieyel tie compli-
Gated form which is used hy the de-
partment. But Ill this report We have
found the wor $ and figures which we
have quoted. We lave found that the
United States Treasury, by the ac-
acknowledgement of the Secretary, con-
tains total available for the reduc-
ton of the public debt OF $50, -3o,-
$685.. Therefore We II We the right to
expect that the debt will be reduced
by that amount, have We not? II tho
Government Nc
use for the reduction 81 the debt-and
il says it las--it ou9ht 10 pay that
much on account and put that much
money into creul ton, should it not?
Certainly. i:it What AS it doae? The
report says + j auring the month
| there was de , sse oi the debt to the
amount OF : a.,.9s. That il TO say,
| while the Government had S'-oo,2 o.
| 50. -. which i, uoaiesses could 10 used
for the payment Of its debts, it only
paid tic comparatively insignificant
gum Of s.. to-, 1896. And yet every
! farmer IN the count /, is suffering be-
cause the amoal.: Of money in circula-
tion il limile,..
! "TLere vii. be. i'll fact. no danger Of
admitting silver to free coinage. AS q
matter Of TACT, it is silver we must de-
pend upon Tor coin money ii the masses
are to escape bondage 10 Wall Street.
It is all perfect nansease t. talk of de-
pending upon gold. Illc., Is lot gold
enough il ,te world to make its
money. Slice {. there has net been
gold enough p,noueed for consumption
| in the arts, /, Il rom taas date to loT4
tho gold pre-. e,t.on went down and its
consumption IN the art, increased.
From Isl the production has some-
what increas, ii, hnt not enough to
! meet the consu,ap'iun in the arts. It
/ is clear-cu. ma.'ness, therefore, for
this country TO consent 10 BIO ticl down
! to money that is made Of a material
| not produced ~ II sufficient abundance
! to satisfy the demands even Of the in
dustriss. Rnt i. the people can be
brought to ocasent to .at they will be
| Just wh,re the money.deaers want
them. Ii il what VIE street is after,
and If il 5 ceeds it iasteas its clutch
up ey.r. arm and upon every in
dustrs III iir rat on.
"Thcrc is not M intelligent man in
the cpnutrs Who does not know that
! the SILVER dol III has answered every
/ oh c..r tuat ha, i9oa made against
/ it. /; nao said .e.oie liz coinage was
out cl ii that u would drive gold
out Il the country. And yet it is
the well-knoYu TACT that there is il