Evening star., 1893-07-28
QUICKLY CAUGHT.
A Young Man Who Stole q Watch and
Chain.

| Chain.
This morning when the steamer Wash
ington arrived from Norfolk Charlie.
White, one of the colored deck hands, lef,
the cabin and went to breakfast. When HI
| returned he was told that a strange mar
had been seen to leave the cabin. Hurry.
ing to where he had left his coat and vee,
White discovered that his watch and chair
had been stolen and he hastened in tn.
| direction of the stranger. The latter
| proved to be James Phillips, a young col
0red man who works on the steamer Leary
ne was wearing the stolen articles and was
chain.
Policeman King was called and he re-
d o bie yeuns ssrf man Of his tmePece
nrst prisoner called in the Police Court
this morning.
other man." was the excuse offered by
| Phillips.
What's the mans name?' asked the
Il don't know" was the prisoners re-
sponse.
Judge. your honor" shouted the prison
| er. give me one chance for my life."
He went down.
was given as William West. was accused OF
having taken pair of shoes belonging to
Charles Sims. West had been in court be-
he was accused of having been too well
acquainted with another mans chickens.
He denied that he had taken the shoes
from the stable. as charged. but the proof
was against him and he is now on a thirty
days vacation.
Falsi1cations Upon the Silver Question.
To the Editor Of The Evening star:
When the advocates Of a given policy
persistently and egregiously falsify the po-
sftion Of its opponents, such faisehoods af-
ford fair presumption that those who
utter them know their cause to be weak
and their position untenable. refer to the
letter given to the press by the COMMITTEES
metallic convention to Be held held in in Chicago
next week 1t says (of gold and silver
II either of these metals cease to be money
1t must result in a readjustment Of the
values OF property. greatly to the injury
of the debtor class. If
the only money in circulation was gold the
present evils would exist with distressing
exaggeration."
1t will be observed that these jeremiads
are uttered and woes predicted as the result
OF a financial policy that there is not the
member Of either house Of Congress. or
public speaker, no newspaper. no person
asserted, ever advocated condition of af-
fairs in which the 'only money in circula-
ton shall be gold or in which either gold
or silver shall cease to be money" The
most radical and heroic measure proposed
by any person who believes in adhering to
q metallic basis at all de, excluding the
advocates of fiat money! Is the uncondi-
tional repeal Of the Sherman law. With that
law repealed We should still have s500.099.-
900 in silver in circulation or in the treas
ury as the basis of circulation; at least, on
the Ist of last November we had All. .S76.-
9S5 silver dollars and 81, sos, 74S in subsidiary
currency. making total of s495. us. 1873,
and have since been purchasing silver at
the rate of 4.5O0.OOO ounces per month until
the 1st of July. l am not aware that any
body proposes to destroy this silver cur
rency, or to so legislate that 1t shall cease
to be money" or in any way provide that
"the only money in circulation" shall be
gold. The evils of our financial system
cannot be so serious after all II its oppo-
nents are compelled to invent wholly i'm
aginary and utterly improbable ones
against which to make a quixotic assault.
J. L. McCREERY.