Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-29
A TRIPLE STANDARD.


In these days when financial sciences
II being discussed as never before Ia
modern times, II at all In the woTli'l
history, data that will help 10 eluclda,e
ita problems IL being sought Tor every.
where. Financial, like political
science, must depend largely for ils
development upon lessons drawn from
the experience Of mankind, aud H.
study must consist mainly IN ascertain.
Ing what those lessons have been. Ono
OF the strongest arguments Ia favor Of
the use Of silver as money Is drawn
from the history OF our race, which
shows that, from the most remote ages
Of antiquity to the present, II has been
10 used, generally II not always In
connection with gold, and with benefl-
cent results.
There Is In existence an authentic
history Of an ancient people who had
not only the double standard OF gold
and silver with which to measure
values, but third standard, Via grain.
The natlon here referred TO houriahud
on the American continent, before tho
Chriatlan era, and was called Ne.
phites. Some account Of their fiscal
System Is given In tho eleventh chapter
Of Alma, one OF the Book OF Mormon
writers, from which we quote the nrsl
nineteen verse;:
Now u was IA the law Of Mosiah that
every man who was Judge of tho law,
or those who were appointed tn DO
judges, should receive wages according
10 tho limo which thoy huorcd 10 iudro
those who were brought before thom 20
be judged.
Now II a man owed another, and ho
would not pay that which hO dii owe. lao
WAS complained ui 10 tho Judge, and tho
judge executed authority, and sent forth
officers that tho man should BOO brought
before him; aud no Judged tho man
according tu tho law and tho evidences
which wore brought against him, and
thus tue man was compelled 10 pay that
which ho owoi, on BOO stripped, or be- cast
out rom among tho people rs o thief and
r0bbor.
And tho judge received Tor his wages
according 90 his time, fouiuo OF gold
for "a day, or "a Henum NJ silver, which Is
equal To d s0nine Of gold; aud this rs un-
cutding TO the law which was givOu.
Now those arO tho unmOs OF the dll.r
ent pIcc0s of th0ir gold, and ~ their bile
Yer, according TO thoir value, Aud tho
names utu giyou boy tho Nuphilu,i Toe
they ala not reckon amor tho manner nl
tue JoWs, whoWcTu go Jerusalem, Mother
did they measure after tho manner ~ tho
JuwH, but they altered thulr rHCk0uiu.
ami ihulr moisture, according 60 tho
minds and tho circumstances ol the pO1-
pic, iu uyury generation, until tho ruigu
n lho judge; hey having boon csIab.
li-hcd 10y King Mosiah
Now tho reckoning s thus: sOuiuo OF
gold, soon of gold, "a shum OF gold, and
"a lmnah OF gold.
A scnum OF silver, am amuOr ~ silver,
an ozrpm of silver, and ana omit OF silver.
A rouum of ri.NUr was equal Co % huu-
mo Of Eoldi and either Tor % mDsufo %
barley, nuu also tor a measure " pyory
kind OF grain,
Now the amount ofa Soon OF gold W.s
twice tho value ~, o souiup;
And shum OF gold WAS twico tho value
OF "a HOOni
Aud g limnah Of gold was tho Value Of
them AN;
Aud an amuor OF silver was as goat as
two souums;
Aud an ezrom of silver was as groa, as
four senutns;
Aud an on'l was as great as thom all.