Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
Br'er Duncan Lights Onto Hall.
HE TAKES ALL THE STARCH OUT
OF RILEY'S COLLAR AND THEN
JUMPS THE PRESIDENT.
Our Good Brothers Opinion of the
Clark-Hall Mexico Debate Re
minds Him of the Traditional
Irish Feline Fight.

MEXICO, Mo-, Sept. 14.-To-day W.T.
messed the battle between the champ
ions of the money question, Hons
| Clark and Hall. In the contest each
one claimed to be truly and Logically
in the Democratic fold, yet both, IKE
tho quarrel between the pot andkettie,
denounced each as fearfuily bedauoed
with Congressional filth and smut.
The entire performance was a g
hinder of the Kilkenny cats, That SO
far obliterated each other as to cave
only the tails and they continued to
Jump over each other. Clark main
tanned that the worlds product of gold
and silver combined was wholly in
adequate to transact the commercial
business of the entire human race. If
Hall made any reply to this it has es-
| capped our memory. Hall said that he
opposed the free and unlimited coin
age of gold and silver at the ratio OF
1G to / because such an act would
bring this country to the single silver
standard and drive the gold out of
| circulation. He read from Jefferson
and other great lights to show that
| the commercial value of the two
metals should be considered in any
attempt at ratio. To-day he said the
commercial value of silver to gold was
80 to 1, and he conld not advocate The
l6 to l ratio because it would destroy
| half the value of all debts and double
the paying quality of every dollar so
I coined, and as the cheap money would
be sought after the result would be TO
drive all gold, the dearer metal, out
of circulation. The writer then asked
Mr.. Hall if he would vote for a bill for
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of 30 to /, which he
had said was the present commercial
value. His reply vas he would not,
and gave as a reason that the differ
! ence of SO to 1 was too great but that
he would first, by some unexplained
method, set to work in some way at
some place and somehow and try and
persuade the gold to slide down a few
notcbes and the silver to slip up just 4
little and by this "Veto, presto, Jack;
change, you dog, you," principle he
would reach a point where this ratio,
like the laws of gravitation, would be
Interchangeable. Hall will not accept
tine 10 70 nor VIII ne agree TO stand
on the platform of his own making,
viz: the commercial value, 80 to 1.
The silver advocates have offered to
change from 16 to 1, II to 1, IS to 1,
even 30 to 1, in order to settle the
question and save the Democratic
party from utter and hopeless de-
struction in the house of its friends
Each and all of these propositions
were spurned with contempt from
their presence as unworthy of con-
sideration. If Is to l would make sill
yer too cheap and drive out the gold
would not 80 to 1 have an opposite
effect, al Hall says that ratio is toe
dear, and cause gold to flow into our
vaults?
If the pretended friends of silver
money will not accept 16 to 1 nor 20 te
1, nor the commercial value of 80 to 1
does it not force the conclusion to the
mind of every rational being that they
r not sincere in the declarations
that they are bimetallists? Is this no
the highest proof that they are max
ing this claim for the purpose of de
ceiving and defrauding the homes
yeomanry of the land by a mere shan
and p%retense? Does not the further
fact that neither Cleveland nor any o
his followers from that ever-memor
able John Gilpin Carlisle down to the
smallest cross roads postmaster in tn,
country has ever dared to name an.
betio at which they would accept FREE
he d unlimited CO.. of silver Prov
". 1t their III friendship TO
up wlvhin a few feet of 81 is false
to man, drew a pistol and fred, but I,
,is man struck the pistol, and the
that wood above his head. About
horse eat it? - Hf
To any honest, consistent man who
stands on the English idea of a single
gold standard we make no complaint,
He is not only consistent with himself
but is free from any faint of hypo-
critical and political pretension, while
all bimetal ~pretenders of the Cleve-