The advocate., 1892-03-09

collars 70 equal Wn&b Cn0 receiver Oh p6nHlOu
has 20 pay 9T2.OO for. You personally may moi
DO receiving o pension, but there are many
worthy men In your Post who are, and It would
appear 10 be duty which you owe to them and
70 the cause Of humanity and justice, that you
should write or telegraph aG once TO your mem
Der Of Congress, and TO the Senator's who repre-
sent you here, to oppose this scandal0uS measure
Of class legislation IL will be no waste Of timo OF
money Il you both telegrSphsnd write, nor should
an hours time be lost by you in doing so.
would suggest that you personally telegraph
and write irSt, and that you then call meeting
Of the Post and take prompt Ofiiclsl action. Rs
gpectfnlly, MICHAEL d. HARTER.
Fifteenth Ohio DistriCt.)
N. B.--I cannot urge upon you too strongly
INSTANT action. This coinage question should
not be one Of party politics. 1t rises above par
tlSanship. The honor Of the country Is at stake.
It's business interests for ocean to ocean and
from lake to gulf are jeapordIzed. It's good faith,
not only TO It's living soldiers Is brOughtin ques-
don, but II s0called free coinage bill becomes
law, the widows and orphans Of the nations
dead win be robbed by the laws Of the land they
died to save. The law would work monStrOus
wrong, for from the moment It goes on the
statute book, It represents over &46,OOO,O 600 per
year taken from the ex.soldierS, their widows,
and their orphans.
United and instant formal action on the part
Of your Post Is clearly both duty and privilege,
and as the commander Of Post your per
SORal remODStrance by telegraph ought to reach
your Congressman and Senator Within fOrty-hve
minutes after you read this letter.
The hepropOSed law does not permit the penSlOner
to say whether he or she win take this debased
money, but cOmpels It's acceptance by making 1t
legal tender. No penslOner In the land would
touch 1t except forced to do 30 by dlShOnOr-
able government and an ungrateful country.
The power to prevent this great wrong. the
chance to protect your comrades and shield
their widows and orphans In your hands, but to
make It effective you must exercise 1t at once de-
clSiVely. M. d. II.
There are old soldiers whose intel
ligeAce is Of such a quality that it will
not be insulted by this circular. This
is evident from the fact that they are
responding to it in the manner de-
sired. But any soldier who is not in
suited by it must be quite incapable
Of insult from any cause. Listen to
this:
allude to the proposition to give to STA
grains Of silver legal tender value Of 100 cents.
1t lS called free coinage. This amount Of silver
bullion Is worth to-day less than 20 cents, and,
owing to the rapid production Of silver, 1t 10 not
unlikely TO fan until the value OF 371h grains OF
silver will be less than 60 cents.
This simply means that II free silver bill be-
comes Q law, veteran who now gets pension
OF "a per month would receive actually but $3.50,
with the chance Of going down to an actual
value Of $40.
There is more downright sophistry
and absolute mendacity crowded in
to the above statement than is often
found in the same number of words
While 3713 grains Of silver bullion
are worth but 70 cents in the gold
bug market, is not the silver coin
bearing the imprint Of the United
States mint, worth 100 cents in gold
to-day? Is the soldiers pension dis
counted 80 per cent now because oi
the gold bug law that was framed
specially to provide for this speCula-
ton in bullionG The fallacy Of this
statement is apparent to the meanesi
intelligence from the mere statement
Of it. and the hypocrisy of it appears
from the following:
Under free coinage act, II reports Of the re
markable richness Of the mines at Creede, Colo