The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-17
LETTERS FROM IHE PEOPLE,
This ks it Very Kind.


Editor Constitution: I notice that The
Evening Journal today has the following
from Washington:
washington, April Ex-senator Gordon, OF
Georgia. expresses the belief that his new
colleague, the Hon. Patrick Walsh, although
he does not like the Wilson bill and will
seek to amend it, will vote on the bill as 1t
is if he fails in that attempt. Others do not
think so. Eight democratic senators are
now mentioned as likely to vote against the
wilson bill if the income tax rider is not
knocked out of the saddle.
1t is very kind for Senator Gordon to an
nounce for Senator Walsh that the latter
does not like the Wilson bill, and will seek
to amend it, but ii he fails will vote for it.
But the writer wishes to inquire by what
authority this statement Is made! MI
Walsh has announced time and again that
he favors and will vote for the Wilson bill
Why seek therefore, to discredit the candor
of his statement, and to make it appear
that if he votes for it he viii do SO under
duress?
Hurrah for Pat Walsh, He is a senator
on whom Georgia may well depend to care
for her interests Just watch his record
on the Wilson bill and everything else, and
if it is not more fully UP to the standard
ana expectation of the people of Georgia
than that Of Senator Gordon, then just
write my name down as DENNIS.
silver and Gold-lST3 and 1898.
Editor Constitution-Just after the close
of our war between the states two conted-
crate brothers left Georgia and cast their
lots in Mexico to better their codition- Ihey
bought lands and began farming ana STOCK
raising. In 1873 of the brothers moved
across the Rio Grande and settled in Tex
as. 1t so happened that botn brothers
thought it advisable to mortgage their
farms for the purpose of improving them,
and each placed mortgage respectively
on his lands and borrowed $l,000, which was
I,ajI n in Mexican silver dollars, which
were then current and as good as gold in
both Mexico and Texas. These mortgages
matured III December, 1873. The brother
in Texas was forced to pay off his mort
gage on the gold standard OF values. The
brother in Mexico had on hand $500 in United
States gold coin, with which he bought
one thousand Mexican silver dollars and
paid off his mortgage these being u leS$l
lender in Mexico in 1899 as they were in
1873 when the brothers received silver for
their mortgages. The brother in Mexico
discharges his obligation with $500 of gold.
while the brother in Texas discharges his
with $1,000 of gold; or the first paid off with
LOCO Mexican dollars, while the second is
pay 1000 Mexican dollars, although he hor-
rowed and received only one thousand sill
Yer dollars. This is the practical working of
the single gold standard-to force the
debtor class constituting % per cent of our
people to pay to the creditor class @ per
cent Of the population two dollars for every
one dollar borrowed or contracted for. The
gold coin has been dOubly enhanced in
value compared with silver and all
other commodities, by dishonest legislation
in its favor. as against other values, TO
give the money power the advantage over
their fellow men.
Again. the brothers required in their bus
mess the same agricultural su. )lies and
implements, and both bought in the United
States, but by reason Of the protective
manufacturers for his plows, hoes chains
rakes, threshers, sewing machines, etc, etc,
from 40 to 50 per cent more than the brother
in Mexico paid for exactly the same arti-
cles. and not only this, but almost without