Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-04
COMMUNICATIONS.
q The Silver Question.


 To the editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: The Palladium of the 3Oth contains an edi- torial the silver question. It is wordy article, yet contains few facts. The author asks, sCan tive things which are in them selves unequal be made equal by act of Con- gresss Can legislation make eighty cents equal to one hundred cents?" Leaving the author to answer his own conundrum I would ask: Can nonsense be made good senses What is money? It is gold, silver, copper, paper or whatever a nation adopts and coins into money and making it a legal tender, the wealth of the country back of it for it's face value, and neither of the above are money until the nation makes them so. Let gold be demonetized through out the world and what would gold be good fors Almost nothing except for ornamentation. It is soft metal, not intrinsically worth for use as much as iron. So that this talk about gold having a fixed value is the veriest bosh. If this be so why this hue and cry against silver? Why parade the fact that we have S15, ,O0O, 900 of silver out of circulation? What an appalling fact A little over S3 for each inhabitant of the country and they say we are coining two millions month; almost fifty cents year more for each of us, the dear people, and yet Tam O;Shanter's mare could not have been more 1f1gn oneQ than some or our SOlO k1pSS are at that mighty heap of silver.
 But there is a cloven feot beneath all this outcry. Money is only the representa- tive of property, and there is about an equal amount in value of gold and silver in the world. Our goldskings say, demonetize sill yer if possible, if not cripple it all you can. Ctppling, ite:Ineans contraction, and that means shfmkage of values, higher rate of interest, more money in the lenders pocket and less n-the borrowers; good times for the-rich, hard times for the poor, and as near, the last pound of flesh and the last drop of blood as can be had without taking life. We went the instigation of England demonetized silver, and our government was rapidly call ing in the greenbacks. Thanks, glory and honor be to the GreenDack party, who stopped that monstrous crime and saved hundreds of thousands of absolute ruin.
 Why is it that when our great metropoli- tan papers blow their bugle horn, for which they may be, and probably are, well paid, our country papers should pipe up their penny whistles and cry "buzzaId dollar" 'teighty.cent dollar, " etc., etc.a Both the ap- parent wisdom of an owl, but only the sim- pliciIy of, B geose
 The day EasS passed when a feudal lord held all the people in the surrounding coun- try in serfdona and the reign of gold is pass ing away. Men are asserting the rights of manhood Man as man is mounting the throne and they propose under God to rule all things here below, even geld, and make it the servant, not the ruler of man. l am not communist in it's broad sense. be- lieve in property and it's right, and if all the people would live within their means and save something every year it would bring heaven very near to earth. I do not believe any man has moral right to hold his mil lions and in his will leave the bulk to one or two of his numerous children Such men and such fortunes do great harm in the world. ONE OF THE PEOPLE.