The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-14
MORE ABOUT SILVER.

worlds silver being dumped down 10
this country in case Of free coinage
ia moou-shlne. This buster Is made
to scare the timid and bull doze the
weak and ignorant. If sll the silver
in the world we're dumped down 10
this country tomorrow We would Re
that much the richer, II We bad any,
thing to give in exchange for 1t, End
the world would be that much the
poorer. Now suppose the world
should unload all tue silver upon Us,
would not that enable Us absolutely
to remonetize silver, control its vaue
tx their value, could we not dictate
their prices with despotic lmpunity?
There is not and cannot be any dam
ger from that contingency.
But upon the other hand, We could
not receive all the silver OF the world
il the world were disposed TO send it
here, because we could not give val
ue in exchange for 1t. We hs,e
nothing to exchange for so much
silver.
But for the sake of such arguments
suppose that we did get all the silver
into our possession. Then what
How wonld other nations pay as the
balance of trade, which | believe has
been two billions or more dollars
since 1866 1t was $l85, 100000 in
our favor the last two fiscal years.
THAT'S, we exported to other coun>
ries that much more than they lm>
ported to this country. OF course
they would have to pay US this diff
erence back in gold.
Why =? Because nothing but gold
and silver or their equivalent would
be legal tender in this country, and
we having all the silver, they would
he compelled to pay us In gold. SO
| YOU see the gold would of necessity
continue to low from other countries
/ to this country as it has done and
will ever do. When nation sells,
as we do, more than we buy from
other nations, we will as cation al,
WAYS have money. 1t takes money
to settle the balance between nations
as we'll as between individuals
| When an individual sells more than
he buys, be will always have on
hand the difference IN money In his
pocket. What is true Of one person
is true Of multitude of persons. Il
really appears to my mind that al
this refined reasoning abont silver
IS for the purpose and no other, thar
to becloud and hefog The minds OF
the people and leave them in d"ub
and uncertainty. The Democratic
party ought to meet the silver queS
ton like men, and settle it forever
If not, then it ought to declare in it,
next platform that it is opposed tt
free coinage, just as the republican
party has done.
All this demagoguery. halr-split
ting, and trimming, and lodging OF
the silver question, had as we'll com
to an end.
Silver will, and that not far 10 tn
future, assert It's favor and claim it
dominion and receive its crown. |
wealth Of this country is, as is claim
ed, eighty billions, place silver on q
equal footing with gold and it vii
soon be worth more than one hun
dred billions.
All this fuss and cry raised by tb
New England and Middle states an
the money lenders everywhere abou
debased currency and an initiate,
currency is bosh and twaodle.
It is absolutely impossible to in
fste the currency with either gold o
silver. There is not enough of eth
err, or both, to answer all the de
mands Of the arts and money funC
lions Of the earth. The moneyeC
LORDS and kings of the United States
who have killed and made alive f.
the last thirty years, bad as veil dis
cover now as at any other time. tina
there are some other people in this
country besides themselves, who sr'
coming to their senses, who are be
ginning to understand their rights
and who will at all hazards dare
maintain them. And this is ne
threat to moneyed men. They have
as many rights as other men but nc
more. They have an lnalienable and
indefeasible right to their accumula
lions and earnings. But they have
no rights to use their wealth to op
press and destroy. And if there is
not check put to the combination
of wealth for the purpose of swind,
ling and depressing, by some legal
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