The Progress., 1893-07-29
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4. ANSWERS ]. A. I.

my first question as propoUnded
your Issue Of the 18th inst. despit
his high sounding expressions nc
/ only shows his want of intelligence
and common sense, but also MS utter
lack of appreciation Of the ordinary
amenities by at oRce indnlging in
personal abaue. As usual, Ignorance
and presumption go hand in hand,
and to this well known fact | ascribe
that piece of impotence which speaks
of the opposite party to an open
question as either u kuave or fool
To this kind of people the idea that
they may after all be wrong. never
occurs.
Now as far as my question is con-
cerned, the only thing "vicions" in it
IN the eyes OF j. A. T. must be the
fact that he is unable to answer il
without conflicting with his net argu-
ments. Anybody who has, the least
smatterlnS of the points under dis
cus5ion. unless he ig nncOmmonly
stupid, must see It's drift
Now this question and the
one following are intended to show
that the silver producers and The SO
called silver baron5 are not entitled
to receive from the government, by
the operation of free coinage act,
one full dollar for what can be bought
in the open market for abUut halt
that price. The government has no
more right 20 pay double valne for
their property than it has to pay SOC
for 25c worth Of potatoes.
Further, J. 4. l. is in favor of
plenty of homemade" money; now
merely to illustrate how this demand
for plenty OF money by the free coin
age of silver may work in practice, i
asked the third question, showing the
possibility Of the volume of money
decreasing instead of increasing un-
der free coinage by the Withdrawal of
gold through boarding and export
Where is the viciousnessi
Now j. A. +. instead of answering
like a man these reasonable queries,
which are open for discussion, flies off
at a tangent, denounces the authcr
and makes pitable exhibition Of his
mental obtuseness; but he regales us
with high sounding phrases picked
up, no doubt, from peculiar species
Of Western literature SO much read
by our country population and known
generally as Sockiess Jerry literature
! have heard before now II these
stale and absurd reasonings III red
soDinskcan be called and Therefore
cannot stand with mouth agape suF
eyes wide open at this mans deep
philosophy and high intelligence AS
probably some of his bucolic neigh
bors DO. They must certainly agree
with him that he is very profound
and knows it all.
Ii could not see by j. A. Us ex-
pressions--explaining for instance diff
ferent kinds of values IN very learn
ed way that be is mere copyist,
would offer the following specimen
brick of his profound wisdom
as original; bnt as it is l will merely
call it unique" with the remark that
if a school boy of IL years who has
brains enough to work out an exam
pie In the rule OF three, would utter
such balderdash he, would deserve to
be sent to bed without his supper
SPECIMEN BRICK.
''Gold circulates in all countries as
money only under restriction of law"
With such nonsense people will
rush into print!!l
In conclusion l will offer j. A. T.
some free advice, being perhaps older
than he is: Never turn fanatical on
any subject. Almost eve~y man
knows something; nobody knows it
all; you 81. A. IT, certainly do not.
We may be positive that we are right
and may be wrong nevertheless Al
most every question has two sides
10 it.
/ wish also to remark that shall
rot notice anything further emanat-
ing from j. A. L. H.
FOR RENT.