The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-09-28

goes deft; he leaves the domain of
reason and gets his inspiration from
the stars. His idea is, by increas-
ing its ponderosity, it will be able
to take itself by the seat of its
breaches and lift itself up to par.
Applause. What we need in this
country is good able bodied fool
killer, and he can swing his club
until he wears himself out; and he
will hardly make beginning on
the work that the people have out
for him. (Applause.) The man
who would rush this country over
the precipice of free and unlimited
coinage at Is to l exhibits faiGh
sublime and judgment as weak as
the HindOo mother, who filings her
smiling babe into the turbid water
of the Gauges to appease the wrath
of an imaginary god. On the 9th
er hand, L want to show you that
opening the minis of the world to
the free and unlimited coinage of
silver would be the most fatal blow
ever struck against silver. 1t would
not even temporarily enhance its
value. If the populists were to
come into power, the tinanceers
of the world would at once foresee
and discount the oEerproduction of
silva. o,,J +bo ,.os,xI+ ,,o,,1d 10 +bo%-
silver would go down, even before
any bill was introduced to have free
and unlimited coinage.
| Now, on the other hand, there is
rational way to deal with silver.
Limit the coinage of it. The ma
tions Of the earth are great custom
ers of mine owners and they have
stopped coming it and the miners
will stop producing it, or, at least,
limit the production, then silver
will rise in value. When we stop
ped raising cotton during the war,
it went up to dollar pound in
New York, and many of you
sold it at so cents pound after the
war because it was scarce. If the
governments of the world would
quit coming silver, it is bound to
go up to par; and then we can have
our international agreement. How
do the manufacturers do? They
are the shrewdest men in the world,
and when they find there is over
production of certain article, so
that they cannot manufacture it at a
profit, they make combine and
let certain mill or a certain num-
Der of them stand idle until the de-
mand for that article comes up to
the supply. Here are lot of fac
tory owners and they meet together
and say; "There are toe many match.
es produced in the country. Every
store is full and our factories are
piled up with them. What will we
do?" Now, suppose one fool facto-
ryman would get up and say, "Gen-
tlemen, my deliberate judgment is
that the way to raise the price of
matches is to have free and unlimit-
ed coinage of Matches" Why,
they would catch him and put him
into lunatic asylum, would they
not? (AppIause.) Now, why
won't it work on silver? The gran
dest combination in favor of
silver, the foremost friend that
silver eyer had in the world
was certainly the Latin Union. In
1865, France, Belgium, Italy, and
Switzerland formed the Latin I'm
lion. Afterward Greece, Roumania,
Seryia, and Spain joined in it, and
then Austria adopted similar sys-
tem-148, 100000 of people linked
together to protect silver! By the
unlimited coinage of silver? They
said we will stop the coinage of it.
They did do it, or at least, only al
lowed a small amount Of ii to
be coined. They have no l6 to |
cranks over there, They have float
ed it all right by limiting the coin
age of it, and that is the only way
under heaven or among men to raise
tie value of silver or to keep 1t as
money: