The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-04
SILVER ANO COLO.
silver Was the Dsarsr Metal Until 4
monetIEed ia 1873.

silver Was the Dearer Metal Until De-
monetIzed in 1873.
We are determined to force this sil-
yer question even at the risk of firing
our renders. The gold standard BUSH
ness is simply plutCcratic arrange
ment for the purpose of controlling
money and values in the interest OF
the plutOcrats and against the inter
ests of the people, and that is all there
is 20 it
They argue that we must not have
free coinage of silver because silver
is a cheaper metal than gold, and sil-
yer money would therefore be dis
honest money. When did silver be-
come cheaper than gold? In 1892,
congress declared that 8TI25 grains of
pure silver should be a legal dollar
and the standard of values The same
act declared that % 20 grains of pure
gold should be a dollar aud equal in
value to the standard silver dollar
But gold huCtuuted in value, and in
1884 congress declared that $500 grains
OF pure gold should be equal TO the
standard silver dollar Gold still huc-
tuated, aud in 1887 congress declared
that % % grains of pure gold should
be equal to the standard silver dollar
Thus these several values have been
put upon gold while silver remained
as Interchangeable as the laws of the
Modes and Persians. Gold continued
to dUctuate, and in 1873 the metal in
the gold dollar was worth three per
cent. less than the silver dollar, or. in
other words, the silve dollar was at a
premium of three per cent over gold.
Do you doubt it? Read on page II of
Comptroller KuCN's elaborate report on
that subject:
'The coinage Of the silver dollar, the
history of which is here given, is dis
continued in the proposed bill. It is
by law the dollar unit, and assuming
the value Of gold to be 155S times that
of silver, being about the same mean
ratio for the past six years. is worth in
gold premium of about three Ter cent,
its value being s. O3l2."
The gold-bugs had tried so long to
keep their metal up with silver and
failed, that they now conceived the
plan, aided by England, which had
done the same thing three years before.
of knocking silver out of COLDS way,
and while the people were asleep they
did it Now they howl cheap metal, %
dishonest money"
We don't care a cent about your metal
money. but we want money, ana we
want good money, money that viii set
the idle to work, feed the hungry, and
save the mOrtgaged homes TO the peo-
pie But we don't ask government or
anybody else to give the people money.
We simply demand that they shall have
a chance to earn It, and be permitted
20 have the benefit OF what they earn.
Progressive Farmer
The man who thinks that the CEN
trai idea OF this great reform move
ment is TO cheaper goods is badly in
the dark; and the man who is trying
to cheaper goods that he must buv Is
also trying to cut down still lower the
earnings of the people who create
them Vote for q system that will re-
move all the lesches, the land sharks
the loan sharks, the railroad sharks.
the trust SHARKS and all other sharks
and you viii soon dnd that wages VIII
rise, the products of labor advance
everywhere. wealth be better distrib-
Uteds the hours Of labor would shorten.
more time for reflection and zeif-im-
provemsnt, child labor srould vanish
there win be more comfortable homes.
etc IL yen want a better system yoss
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