Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-11
WANTS more MONEY.
4 sinn.sots FARMER Tell. How Gold
standard Editorial ''rstes" with MIN.


4 ainne.o,s Warmer Tell. How q Gold
standard Editorial ''Tstes" with MIN.
How does II talse;r should think
that mere idle curiosity would suggest
the above inquiry, though you really
had M Interest or did not care. have
Inference 20 your financial editorials.
Well, they do not take with me. You
presume too much on tho ignorance of
the people. know, for Instance, that
know very little. but when man tries
10 ride over and trample down all Of
tho obvious truths which are obnoxious
TO a theory. there ia remote possibility
that some one will bring him 10 the reali.
zing sense that there IL not always a
monopoly In ideas. Your reply 10 the
query concerning the price Of gold shows
clearly desire 20 "bcar" tho source u
truth. What would person think Of
mo u In reply TO "What IL tho price o.
potatocsg should say "You might Ne
well ask me how much does u quart
measure holdf7 and should further say
that in reality the price Of potaiocs IL
the amount Of wheat, pork. boots or ma
ohinery they will purchase. | would reap
contempt for such treatment, rs well
should deserve
This reply Ia exactly parailelcd by
yours. Something must be done. In
your estimation. 10 make men believe
that gold Is the universe In whom there
il no variablencss or shadow OF turning.
You arc determined 10 have stand.
ard Of value" thing which neither
time. nor law, nor men, nor any combina-
ton Of mon, can ever inatefialize. How
can there be a standard when all tho
factors which arr involved In products
and values--vik.. want. labor and sup
ply-are pcrpctually on the cbb and fowl
Every day Of our lives VIZ arr brought
face TO face with tho fact that the stand.
ards are ~ numerous ~ the individuals
Of tho race. No matter what wc buy or
who buys or sells. We shall run across
soms ono who will remark Of our pur.
chase, "You paid too much" while an.
other viii nay, lyon got that cheap
But you insist that gold II standard u
value and Il tho standard Of our cur.
roncy. Isuppocc, then, that that accounts
for tho fact that potatoes wcrc worth
hAh'4A '"hN' - Nftta NAV lNU INV
worth seventy cents bu-hel. or that
butter was worth fifteen cents In Jane
and Ia now worth twenty-five. Perhaps
your gold IA Of uniform value. but can
get number Of dollars more OF thcn
with 100 bushels oi osta than could -
year ago. | eau got less OF them with
hay than throo years ago. In what sense
Is anything a standard that can never bc
valued twice alike any day or agoi
Your idea that there h body Of poo-
plc clnnoring for an ''infcrior- money
IL not snppoaablc oasc. has no right 20
b. clasacd ~ a superstition or hypotho-
siA Tho attitude Of person toward
the grconback shows the attachment tc
the country, measures tho patriotism
Thoac opposed To IL AZ enemies Of tho
country. ~ u IN tho personihoation ~
tho ideal currency. il the only honest
money VIZ ever hal, tho only money that
stands by IA In all emergencies. tho
money which came forth In our peril M.
ter gold had vanished.
am totally opposei 10 tho "gnb-
treasury" scheme, Am farmcr.--R. X.
Lambert In st. Paul pionecr-PrcSs.