The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-08-12
Consistency is a Jewel"

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| Inconsistency is Jewel"
/ The increased scarcity of curren-
cy has developed many anomalous
features in the situation. Ex-
changes between cities are exceed
ingly deranged, and such expedi-
ents as the collection of domestic
drafts in cash through express COM
panies have been resorted to. At
New York the unsupplied demands
for funds from outside institutions
has temporarily made currencyf of
all kinds an article of merchandise,
brokers paying premium for it,
and reselling to the concerns which
require it. The same tendencies
have forced the banks to turn in
gold certificates to the Sub-Treas-
ury in exchange for bills until the
Treasury's free gold is once more
above the $1OO,OOO,000 legal tender
reserve limit. More notable still is
the fact that gold is circulating
freely, the New York custom house
receipts for the past ten days in
Guiding II per cent. of gold and
gold certificates, while, on the other
hand, the Treasury, having no
more silver dollars on hand than
the amount Of silver certificates
outstanding, has been actually re-
fusing to deliver silver dollars to
applicants in exchange for gold
and gold certificates Bradstreets.
The above, from one of the lead
ing gold bug papers in the United
States, is strong free coinage ar
gument. But the consistency of
these eastern calamity howlers" is
really amazing. Bradstreets starts
off with the acknowledgment that
there is an increased scarcity" OF
currency, yet editorially it demands
that congress cuts off one-half of
our circulating medium. Again
this exponent of monometallism
says: 1.-The treasury having no more
silver dollars on hand than the
amount of silver certificates out
standing, has been actually refusing
to deliver silver dollars to appli-
cants in exchange for gold and
gold certificates. Still, with this
fact staring then, in the face, these
gold fiends want the coinage of sill
yer stopped entirely. With silver
in Wall street demanding pre-
MUM of 2 per cent. in gold. as
circulating medium, these money
cars, these monometallic "ghost
dancers" the single standard "ca-
lamity howlers," demand that gold
shall be the basis of all money, or
the nation will be bankrupted.
Their object is too apparent
They are afraid that the people
will get hold of some money that
they do not control, and free them
selves from the industrial bondage
which is rapidly and surely push,
ing them to the same level as the
masses of England and other sim
| gle standard countries. It will not
take another decade of this grind,
ing monopoly ofthe nations money
to fulfill the prophecy made by ex-
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas, the
other day, in conversation on the
financial situation. ingalls, said:
This day is balmy and eunshiny
in comparison with the clouds and
storms just head Of US. The ulti-
mate result will be redistribution
of the assets of the country. The
millionaire of to-day will occupy
the hut Of the pauper, and the pau
per will in the noar future ride in
the chariot of the millionaire. Col
orado and the other mining states
should be blotted out as states and
added to the Great. American des-
ert from which they were taken.
The devastation Of yellow fever In
the South was not nearly so disas-
trous as the situation in Colorado,
| produced by the closing of the
mines. Thousands of people are
walking in the streets of Denver.
Like the lowly Nazarine said,
Foxes have holes and the birds of
the air have nests" but the Color
ado tramp hath not where to lay
his head. On every street corner
in Denver goes up the piteous cry
for bread on Wall street goes up
the piteous cry for gold. When
these two panicky conditions come
together in the great Mississippi val
lev, chaos and anarchy will follow"
Mr.. J. G. BOSWELL, one of the best
known and most respected citizens OF
Brentwood, Texas, suffered with diarrhna
for long time and tried many different
remedies without benefit, until Chamber
lains Collie, Cholera and Diarrhna Rem
edy was used; that relieved him at once.
For sale by Frank ]. Stone.
| Harrison Fog Horn: The Min
neapolis Journal says that there
are 63, 600, 900 people in the United
States, 1900, 900 of whom are inter
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