The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
A SHAMEFUL CONSPIRACY,
To Rob the Silver Dollar of It's Legal
Wander QmnIitx=Read. Read,

Tender QuaIfty-Read! Read.
The Philadelphia Daily Item-God bless
it-hts our friend Rothschilds a hard rap
over the knuckles, and exposes one of his
sWeet-scented tricks in fine style
Here it is:
In ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain,' the Rothschilds ring are
peculiar
Here they are at work way down in Sa-
Vannah, Ga Evidently. they wish to dis
tract the attention of the West and South
from the growing antagonism against the
East, where they-tha ring notes, the peo-
pies oppressors-are being located.
The free coinage men, it is announced
in general press dispatch Chat has evil
IDENTIFY been carefully cooked and driedD.
of that part of Georgia have received an
unpleasant shock through the refusal of
government officials to redeem a slightly
mutilated silver dollar at more than As
cents
The National Back of Savannah sent
this dollar-which lad been slightly defaced
by fire but still of full weght-to the
redemption agent at Washington
Thereupon Superintendent Townsend, of
the mint of this city, RENTED 43 cents as
it's bullion value!
The bank thereupon wrote-to keep up
the farce-that, as the coin was full
weight. it failed to see why only 43 cents
was allowed, so long as no question existed
as to the coins genuineness, and it re-
tanned it's full legal weight.
The object of all this funny business
evidently was to give the ant-silverites
something to talk about from their side
of the fence, and they are not letting the
grass grow.
'Thiy correspondence the dispatch says,
has already been printed, and will figure
largely in politics, especially in the country
DISTRICTS where the Rothschilds ring has
not been heard Of.
THIS IS A FINE GAME,
''LtsiSas plain as the nose on ones face
that the ring intends to cast discredit on
the silver of this country by telling the
country people that all the silver in circula-
ton that is partly defaced is not worth its
face value at the minis of the United
States but only the value of old bullion
and they quote this correspondence to prove
it.
"Anything to make the people, for fear
any slight DETACHMENT may make them
suddenly lose one-half its government
stamp, dislike to see silver around.
"And-shame to say it!-The administra-
ton countenances and abets this nefarious
scheme to rob the people of a form of
money necessary to carry on the affairs of
the country, while offering no substitute in
it's place.
This action of the administration is worse
it is an attempt to stultify the legal con-
tract of the United States to stand by its
own declaration that the silver dollar Is
one dollar.
..This is out-and-out robbery-a form of
robbery that is the worst of it's kind; for a
government that refuses to keep its own
laws, it's own declarations, naturally is cast
into general discred1t
There would be just as much sense
and Justice in the treasury department re-
fusing to recognize mutilated greenback
Of unquestioned genuineness, and because it
was defaced, only allow it's value in the
weight of old paper it contained.
But sense and justice are not among
the attributes of the mentioned ring 1t Is
dollars they are after-dollars that will
give them control of political preferment;
dollars that will victimize and defraud all
people who are not members of the ring
not alone the people of the United States,
but the people Of the whole world"