The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-20
THE HONEST DOLLAR.
The Secret and Insidi0us Danger That
Threatens Silver,

WASHINGTON, January 15.-There is a
little too much preachment of the propo-
sition to put 100 cents worth of silver
bullion, according to gold measurement. in
the t''ano- I'D dollar, just at present, to suit
bime, ,tallists nei. In the flush of sanguine
estin iaCes OF congressional strength it is be-
coming tne naoiG TO lnciu1a men who favor
this as 'silver advocates" whe~ their pla ce
ia no thing more or less than u strong legal
recoa milton of the gold standard. The plan
docs not even provide for the free coinage
of th. .ese standard dollars, but legalizes the
results OF the conspiracy for deprecia ton
and caves the way as clear as ever for q
stilI further depreciation. It has been ex.
nIainGd often enough that the relation
Of s;Il l,er to other products has not changed
in any appreciable degree, while the dis
tance between gold and all commodities
HAS INCREASED VERY LARGELY.
Tn spite of the operations of the Bland
Bill there is nothing hich can be called BIZ
metal lrism in this country. The double
stand, ,trd is pure fiction. Silver is treated
exactj} as wheat or iron is-it is bought for
it's price in the market and this price is
regulated by gold. The entire aim of BIZ
metallism is to show that this is false
system and that, had it never been sub
jected to malign and artificial influences,
the forr rher relation between gold and silver
would never have been materially dis
turbed. It's further aim is to prove that
when tn ese malign and artificial influences
are neu tralized by free coinage the only
heroic 4nethod which can be applied-the
former relation will be restored. The in
tention ts to take silver as nearly as pos
sible
OUT OF ALL DANGER
OF the a Auctuation to which it is liable as
long asik is dependent upon another metal.
To put,E hundred gold cents worth of sill
yer in a Standard dollar will be to estab-
Iish all that the single standard men are
fighting for. It will definitely ind.,rse the
national conspiracy, and encourage the
capitalist to make q fresh experiment of
the same sort the country has been suf-
fering under since 1878. It will be simple
declaration that silver has no value as
money, but is simply bullion dependent
upon gold for it's market quotation. 1t
will surrender all that bimetallists have
been striving to have restored.
Many Of the men who are quoted in
favor of the silver dollar do not seem to
see this, however. They have been
CAPTURED BY THE sPECIoUs CRY
For an "honest dollar" They do not see
that the gold dollar is the dishonest dollar
the pawnbroker's dollar-that it repre-
sents a 25 per cent. fictitious appreciation
brought about by combination of cap
ital, and that to increase the bullion in
silver dollar would be to crown the efforts
OF the combination with triumph. All the
energies of the bi-metallic association are
being directed, at the present time, to the
work of making this point as clear as pos
sible. The proposed silver compromise,
about which so much is being said, has the
overwhelming OF the standard silver dollar
in view, and it is being cheerfully, though
secretly, nursed by the single-standard
men. 1t is simply
NEW FORM OF THE OLD SNARE.
1t would be vastly better to do nothing
at all than to be victimized by as trans
parent trick as this is. The cry all along
the line should be the free coinage OF silver
in the ratio of 16 to 1. Anything else will
be change for the worse. KoTHAKER.