The Saline County journal., 1891-08-13
rpvcArror sorx NOES.

8DuoATI0N eOHH MORE.
Our worthy neIghbor whose bril-
liant light shines with refulgent
splsndor over all, takes issue with
NJ on the silver question and lnti-
mates that only those whose morals
are tainted advocate the free coinage
Of silver. and quotes . lengthy arti-
eie from the New Yofk PSess In OPP
position thereto. The fact that The
chief opposition 10 the free coinage
Of silver comes from the money lend
ers and the wealthy creditors Of the
nation, and the fact that the more
money the debtor can obtain for
what be has 10 sell the easier can he
pay his debts, are lost sight Of by our
contemporary In his eagerpess tn
show that he II In accord with the
advocates Of honest money.
When q large number Of the citi-
Gems Of this country advocated the
issue Of greenbaeks and urged the
payment Of the national debt, there
With we were told by those who are
now opposing free coinage, that we
should have nothing but gold and
silver coin as legal tender as Il was
highly essential to the prosperity Of
the nation that we should have Q
stable currency, one nf HHehdnge-
able value.
Had the men who were making
these assertions been told that with
In . few years they would be de-
nOunciug one Of those metals and In
sistIng upon branding it as unfit for
use because OF it's instability. the
charge would have been Indignantly
and vehemently denied. II there is
any reason why we should not have
free coinage OF silver except that IL
is decidedly TO the interest OF some
that money should be hard to get we
fail TO discover u.
The man who advocates the in
crease Of the quantity Of silver IN .
dollar because we are mining more
silver than we formerly did, would,
doubtless, II he dared, advocate in-
creasing the size Of bushel meas
ure when the farmers OF the county
raise an unusually large crop Of
wheat.
And In Il not little singular that
these men who ridlcule free coinage
becIuse gold IL apprecisting, should
never take the other view and advo-
cate the reduction Of the amount Of
gold 10 . dollar? The opponents Of
free coinage are seriously alarmed at
the growing disparity Of value Of the
gold aud silver dollar. Did any per-
son ever hear one Of them suggest
that as gold IL scarce and growing
scarcer that we had better diminish
the quantity Of gold In q dollar7 No,
that Is not In secord with their in
terests.
Let US for O moment consider this
bugaboo Of o debased currency. II
Is admitted by all that the United
States produces forty per cent. Of all
the silver Of the world. II Is also
admitted that the present silver law
which provides for the purchase Of
OF four and ons-half millions Of sill
yer per month provides for the pur-
chase Of all the silver mined In the
United States.
IL we should then coin all the sill
yer mined In this country we would
coin less than one dollar per capita
for every man, woman and child In
the United States, aud II we were to
coin all Of the silver Of the Vorid we
would coin annually o little more
than tWo dollars for every resident
OF the United States. So that 10 the
fearful calamity which il predicted
to follow the free coinage Of silver
should occur, we would actually have
esch yesr . little more than one dol
lar per capita more silver currency
than II We only coined our own pro-
duct. Again we have 9 little over
twelve million families In the
United States. 10 all Of the silver Of
the world were coined we would
have five dollars per family more
currency than 10 we only coined our
own product. Certainly the famI-
lies Of our country do average by
economy and industry . saving OF
five dollars per annum. Suppose
the families Of this nation should
annually withdraw from our circula-
tion five dollars OF the silver curren-
cy, and we were coming all Of the
silver Of the world what would other
countries do for silver currency?
Our ancestors refused to drink
tea when it served their inter-
est not to do so. Il Il possible that
patriotism has ebbed so low that our
families could not absorb, on an
average, FIVE dollars per annum In
domestic uses, II our interest re-
quires it?
As we think Of the numerous In
dustries that are langulshIng for
lack Of money to stimulate them; ~
we think Of the disaster that Invsri-
ably spreads desolstion when the
money ocRers refuse 10 be money
tenders, Il would seem that no pos
slble harm could befall the country
II money tcere . little more pIenti-
Jui.