The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-06-11

sell without buying j. too absurd q
merit an answer. fhe trade Of the world
is nothing but an exchange Of products-
No country trades or can trade on any
other basis. Money simply represents
production, and its only value Is in thai
fact. You might be loaded down with
gold, but il you could not exchange il
for something to eat or wear. something
to add to your comfort. convenience. or
your pleasure, il would be valueless IN
voc. and you would cast 1t from you ~
freely as IL il were pebbles or stones.
We rs nation, by reason Of our great
resources, can come nearer living, IN .
civilized state, upon our own produc-
tons than any otner nation in the world,
and, besides, we produce near one-third
and near onc-half Of the worlds supply
Of gold and silver. and yet il we had
paid money for what we bought in 1889
aud 1890 il would have taken all the
gold, all the silver, aud all the paper
money we had 10 circulation.
ave purchased Of other countries to
the extent Of 81, 593. 924, 80, while
our entire circulation was only $685.
439, 3f9. II we cannot pay money
without bankrupting ourselves In two
years, how can We expect those eoun-
tries that have no mountains Of gold and
silver to do sol 1t Is not our gold aud
silver mines that enable rs to trade with
the people of other countries, but our
cotton fields, our wheat fields, and our
surplus of provisions. The market for
these is in the densely populated and
civilized countries OF Europe, and not in
the wild forests of South America; and
every provision that we enact that re-
duces their ability to purchase our sur.
plus diminishes the demand, lowers tho
price, and cripples the domestic market.
American manufacturers and their labor
can sell to American farmers and their
labor only to the exteut Of their pur-
chases from them. The agrlculturists and
those supported by them cannot buy
more from any class or locality than they
sell to them.
sit has been said that the industries
+ OF Europe are languishing since the
enactment OF the Mckinley law; that
their mills have stopped and their labor
UCCOLuC AuACg uuug tuCIOtOtCS We ihASt
certainly be benefited. Was there ever
before heard an argument of such cruel
sophistryf Their industries have been
crippled, many Of their factories have
been closed, aud their labor deprived Of
employment. Within the limits of our
country are idle hands, farms unculti-
waited for want of markets, ard these
architects of misery at home and abroad
clap their hands in joyful glee and ex.
claim that we should be happy because
they are suffering. Have the advocates
of protection gone mad in their ecstasies
over their Triumph
''This argument is only on par with
all the others that are advanced to bolster
up cause that is at war with every
principle of truth and justice. Every
blow that is struck at the wage-workers
of Europe with the design to destroy
their trade with our people is blow at
the agricultural industry Of this country,
and falls with the same force upon our
producers that it does upon their foreign
consumers. am of the firm conviction
that no permanent relief can come to US
through any other channel of legislation
than that Of a reduction Of taxes to .
revenue standard.