The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-16
iHE SILVER QUESTION.
WHAT THE TEXAS PRESS SAY.
Ths People " the South Bssinn.pr In
Understand bur True Interests
Xhe Gold Hugs aud their self
ish schemes true To-
wardness of Opposition.
rHE rEorLE's MONEY.

, lava ItVstitA VIII 10
leading one during the next session of
congress, there cannot be the shadow
OF & doubt. It will need the deep md
earnest statesmen, rs bearing, In its
complex attitudes, upon ths prosneritv
Anu eomtierclal operations of the
eouutry, and more particularly Tho
SOUTH Ino people are deeply aud
vitality Interested IA the proper soln.
llSn or thls leading topic lust now
| reXarksna STATES.
STANDARD SILVER DOLLARS.
In this Introductory article. il "a
proper 10 say THAI the Banner believes
III "honest mo ley," consisting of sill.
yer, gold aud paper of equal value.
We do not believe in fiat monev
Neither do we believe in iucreasiSg
inc amount OF meta, in our STANDARD
silver dollars in order that the hand
holdefs and money lenders may get
nore SILVER than their contracts call
fer GreenYills Banner.
SILVER AND TIE MONEY KINGS.
Il the gold dollar contains too mucb
metal, as is claimed, lei the weight be
reduced so that it's Intrinsic value will
correspond With tho ''old reliablep sill
yer dollar of our fathers. All our
hnaGcial legislation for tho past QUAR-
Ter OF century has tended towards
making mouey scarcer and OF greater
purchasing power. The result Ia that
me man that owes money--.on debts
contracted years ago-tinds that hs
mas 10 pay oouble value now. He pays
tue same number of dollars, but
the dollars have boon made scsrcsr
ana uSarer by legislation, and IL takes
double The amount OF corn or wheat
or cotton TO pay tho debts as whea IA
was nrsG contracted. The creditor ia
made twice as rich aud the doctor
tWlcs as poor ny tsiS oue.sidet-legis.-
isuon' The bondholders hsve mad
their riches doubled by ouch legisla-
non, White tho neople who mus nsy
tne ueo5 are made twice as poor. Yet
me money kings are not satisfied
Ths silver dollar of the people is MOI
GOOD enough for them, They demand
gold, or else that the silver dollar be
made heaViSr than it has ever been
since our government was founded.
SIMPLY, thas their gains may be in.
cfeasea.- Greenville Banner.
AN ERROR EXPLODED.
The farmer who sells his whes. or
cotton or corn aud gets his pay in
silver il swindled out of 20 $40 cents
on every dollars worth he sells. The
laboter who is paid his weeks wages
IN silver gets less by 20 PER cent. than
ne mas contrscted TO receive. Tho
dept-pHylnG classes are losers, not
Salners, oy the circulation OF a false
Gszstte.
II the Gazette cannot make bstter
argument against the silver dollar
Than tho above IL should "dry mn
Any school boy knows better, A
silver dollar viii purchase lust as
much az national bank unte, u green
oeck dollar, or gold dollar, and
more than that any bank in the coun.
Try VIII give the laborer or tho editor
OF tho Gazette gold dollar Tor dollar
III siIvor Tor the asking. IL any one
down IN Fort Worth THINKS silver dol
lars are worth only 50 cents each, let
nm send them up this ~ay-all our
business mon Will receive them at their
face value. We noticed the other dav
that taa Herala-News, OF this city. en-.
dorsed this absurd argument Of the
GSzette, and yet, il wa are not greatly
mistaken, the enitcr OF THE same pfs-
per, when editor OF the Sherman Cou-
iler, ten years ago or more, waa an en-
thusiastlc supporter OF Brick Pome-
roy's wild fiat money hobby Denison
Gazetteer.
"THE DOLLAR OF OUR DADpIEs.v
We think newspapers make &C.
rious mistake whom they speak OF sill
Vor dollars as "SO-ceut dollars" Our
standard silver dollars contain as
much silver as they did in tho days Of
our foretathers and arc really much
more valusble, because their purchns-
ing power ~ greater. a silver dollar
contains 100 cents IN silver, aud is an
honest dollar, Tho bondholders arc
Interested in ruling silver out. Their
ponds cali Tor a certain number Of
"uollArs." ii tnGy can demDnttiZe
silver and contract the amount OF
money IN circulation. Of course the
purchasing power of the gold dollar
becomes correspondingly greater,
thereby onrio'iiug the bondholder at
the expense OK the people. But il the
government pays tno bondhoders in
dollars TINT are So valuable now as 70
CARDS their purchasing power, as when
tho boads were sold, the dsbt liz
honestly and fairly discharged. East
ern bankers aud bond6olders are
making war on the silver dollar be.
cause they can make millions for
themselves II they succeed in making
.goiu the solo standard. This IL q gragt
question: ana tho interests of the peo.
Mn sfnuV.ltF A,
the silver dollar Is "bOb-tail dO'ler,p
an 80 cent dollsr,n or Ndisbope,.
dollar" ia false. a silver dollar will
buy 80 IN UGH, or pay "a uuch of a
deb, as ~ any tlme since our govern-
mont Was founded. II will purchase
~ much bread or dry goods or colt on
as gold dollar or paper dollar
lGreenville Banner.
POOR OLD SILVER DOLLAR,
"a friend (?)" to silver money
writes tho Gazette, TO say "thoso who
GEEK to Danish silver from the cur.
rency, and those who insist that tho
dollars of il2ll grains shall DO Tor ,od
upon the people, do equal misohief.n
In the first place, the silver dollar of
il2is grains will buy lust as much
bacon, flour, or other rlecessarles of
liio in Fort Worth as Will one OF gold
or greenbacks. In Laredo the throe
species OF currency indicated arc daily
exchanged upon an equality OF vslue.
uon. The silver dollar has not do
preciated, but the gold bugs have i'm.
parted a fictitious value to gold by col
fusion among tho banks To refuse all.
yer, in order that o margin for speou-
lation may DO malntained between the
two metals. Tho silver in a standard
Dollar IL certainly worth ~ much as
tho paper in a groenbaok dollar: val
tho latter is .quoted nc q par with gold
IN New York, aud sta premium over
gold in San Francisco. II tho govern
ment stamp imparts tho value 20 the
paper dollar, why not also To tho sill |
vor dollar, especially since II is IA.
sisted by the intrinsic value of the
latter. II the silver IN tho standard
dollar was increased ~. or ., pnnts