Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-04
GENE Opinions on silver.

It is all we'll enough for gold !
standard men to talk about the |
depreciation IN silver as merchan-
disc and attribute it to the increas-
ed supply of the metal, but silver
men will not be content to have
the ratio between the metals fixed
while they are on such an unequal
basis. Demonetize gold and then
see IL it maintains Its present val
ue when it ceases to be useful for
coinage and becomes only mer-
chandise. Or remonetize silver
and see if 1t does not at once at
tain to a much higher valuation
than it now holds as merchandise.
In ascertaining the comparative
worth Of two articles they must be
placed on the same basis for meas
urement or computation, aud it is
idle to calculate ON the just ratio
between gold and silver while one
is the pampered pet of Legislation
and the other is systematically
outlawed. In determining the
relative fistic ability of Corbett
and Mitchell it would be as just
to put one of them in the ring
with one hand tied behind him,
and then calculate how he could
have fought if he had been free.
1t is clearly more just to give them
both the same opportunity to dem
oustrate their worth under equal
conditions. In backing silver, we
simply demand for it fair play
and insist that its coinage arm
shall be released as we'll as the
merchandise arm, and that it shall
enter the mint upon exactly the
same terms as gold. This being
done we will hear no more of n
seventy-cent dollar.-Augusta
Chronicle.
Under ordinary circumstances
most men pay little attention to
theories of currency. They imag-
inc that the money question is
largely theoretical and that the
country will get along fairly we'll
with any kind Of currency. Now
they are beginning to realize that
it is of the greatest practical i'm
poptance. They are beginning to
learn that there is q radical defect
in our currency, and not one that
is to be mended by temporary ex-
pedients; that it is something that
is affecting the civilized world, and
not this country alone; and that
other countries are waking up to
the necessity Of a restoration of
bimetallism as we'll as ourselves.
Unquestionably it is well to take
a little time for earnest thought,
and we trust that the people
of the east will not waste it.-In-
dianapolis Sentinel
IF congress will, when it meets,
give orders to call in all bills un-
der FIVE dollars and at the same
time order the mints to be opened
to the free coinage of silver, and
coupled with this that silver shall
be made an absolute legal tender
for all debts hereafter to be con-
tracted, the money question will
be settled; silver will be at par
next morning and the business of
the country viii undergo an imme-
diate transformation; within a
week the oldest and most bitter
doubter will wonder how it was
possible for him to be so long de-
luded; how he ever grew to un-
derstand that silver money was
not just as good as gold.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
The masses may be trieked in a
good many things, but they are
determined that there shall be no
Legislation that will demonetize
silver or contract the currency,
The politicians may try to beeloud
the real issue az much as they
please, but back of them stand
their constituents with their inn
perative demaud for bimetallism
and more money instead of less
money. The politicians who are
working in the interests of Wall
Street will have to yield with the
best grace possible. AS Mr..
Cleveland says: "The people
rule. Atlanta Constitution.