Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-19
COMMUNICATIONS.
Questions Respectfully Submitted t.
 

Questions Respectfully Submitted to Anti-Siiyer Men. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: 1. Did not prominent anti-silver bankers declare, when we remonetized silver, that gold coin would again command a premium in our market in less than year 2. Was not the declaration made by them in 1878 that the United States would. be speedily drained of its gold, leaving us only silver?
 3. Did they not declare that the United States would speedily become the catch basin of the discarded silver Of Europe? 4. Are these gentlemen now quite certain that the remonetization of silver net important aid to our successful resumption of specie payments
 5 Do not recent reports of the mint di- rector show that we have more than doubled the stock of gold in the country since 1878 {!
 c. Has not the increase partly from our mines, but largely from importation and this in spite of the fact that the worlds decreasing production of gold is not now equal to the current requirements for that metal for coinage and arts, even with the present considerable coinage of silver2
 T. Have not now in the United States about six hundred millions of gold coin as against about two hundred millions of sil yer?
 
 silver than we have imported since we re- monetized, so that practically not 6 dollar of the discarded silver of Europe has come to us?
 g. Is not France one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the world, with much larger proportion of silver to gold than we have in the United States (and that silver coined at higher valuation than we give it in our coinage), and with such a cur rency IS not France steadily gaining both gold and silver?
 10. Has not nearly the entire amount of our silver coinage been put to practical use either in actual circulation or as the basis of silver certificates which are in circulation on an equality with corresponding gold certif catesa
 H. How can it be truly said that there is over hundred millions of useless silver in the vaults of the treasury, when the most of it is owned by the certificate holders (which certificates freely circulate on an equality with gold) and how is the silver thus rep resented by certificates more useless than the gold likewise represented by certifcatesa
 12. Was not the demoralization of silver in Germany followed by serious disaster to the masses of the German people? 13. Was not the action of Germany in throwing about hundred millions of silver upon the English market great folly as might be the action of Vanderbilt if he should throw an immense block of New York Central stock upon bear market un- less he wished to repurchase it at lower pricea
 II. Did not England profit by that Ger man follys
 15 Do not statistics show that the greater part of the silver, so discarded by Germany, found its way to India there to be coined in to rupees at the British bank of Bombays 16. Although that silver was bought at a reduced price, by reason of the precipitation upon the market of so large mass, was it not coined in India, at a higher valuation than we give to silver in our standard dol lar?
 ! IT. Is it quite certain that cheaper silver in the English market has not been an impor- l tant factor in enabling England to obtain Indian wheat on more favorable terms to herself than before? | IS. If we cease to- coin silver will not the I twenty-eight millions year which we now coin seek the English market and break the price still further and will not the moral effect of our action be to carry it lower stilI2
 l9. Will not India in that case continue to be- as heretofore, the objective point for most of the silver sold in the English 1 marketa
 | 20. Will not India in that case become a yet more formidable rival to us as wheat producing country than hitherto? 21 Shall we not in that case be obliged 1 to sell our wheat at lower price than ever be- ! fore, and in time be drained of considerable part of our gold to pay for imports for which we now pay in wheat, or submit to pay greatly enhanced prices in our then largely depreciated and discreditsd silyers 22. Should such disaster thus oyertake us, would it not be charged by some to our past coinage of silver? 23. Would not such a result, following such actio@ on our part, be more properly ehargeable to our having discredited our sil vera
 24. Is it not possible that mistake on our