Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-24
The Silver Dollar.

GD. ClTIzEN:-ln recent issue or tht
 Star IS an article depreciatory of silver
 and Tn which is com batted the common
 assertion that silver is more particular
 ly the money of the people, and it fin.
 ally sums the matter up thus:
 The fact Is that everybody, except the
 oeggar and the thief, sllghts silver dol lars; but everybody needs and wishes | silver change. The result is that nine
 tentns Of the white dollars are driven | out Of clrculation ana are stcrei up in
 me vaults of the treasury. So far from
 belng the poor mans money. they are
 avoided by all.
 NOW the above assertion, even in view
 or tho astonishing general ignorance concerning the nature and functions of
 money, ought not to mislead any one. Of course the carrying of ten or twen-
 ty dollar hilver, green back or treasury
 note IS more convenient than to carry
 the coin itself, so also one hundred or
 five hundred dollars in gold is more con-
 venlently carried in note, aud for that
 reason gold also as we'll as silver is sighted, but only to the extent that
 people prefer to carry the greenback
 that promises to pay those metals on demand, in preference to the more weighty metals themselves, which is supposed to be or is On deposit in the treasury or the bank, ready to exchange for those notes on presentation; or does the Star mean to say that if the coin WAS not immediately behind the paper It would be equally accepted; If so it must have become very recent convert to the greenbac theory, that it is the stamp and fiat of the government that makes money, and have become one of the fiat lunatics at which the gold standard men raIl.
 Further, whilst in this country, leav- | ing the silver in the treasury to redeem l tLem, Americans prefer to carry tregs- ury paper notes promising to pay if, yet | the silver using natioDs, comprising about two thirds of inc inhabitants of | this world, use silver coin almost exclu- | aivel! yet the Star sGye silver is net the | money of the poor man. CT of the mass es. France with population not much | more than half of ours, has much more | silver coin than we have, including all | our uncoined bullion represe nted by | paper, and silver coin Is there as else V here, where they people have not been robbed of it, the money of the masses.
 he Star eays there is not enough sil- Ter iE circulation in the United States today to more than pay the wages of the working people for about two days: then surely we need more silver, and why has silver coinage been stoppd? The true answer is If has been stopped to benefit the few, and not the many; he userer and not the borrower; the and not the people. It IS no ess than treason, even If unconscious treason, to rob the people of half their money, silver. It Is treason, gross treas )n, to issue bonds. enslaving our poster ty to pay back the pricipal and as much again Tn interest, to the Rcthschilds and lsurers of Europe in order to borrow money to carry on our government in ime of peace, and refuse to coin ana ssue our own lawful moneys Tn lieu hereof. IT the Star does not yet real ze these facte, it will probably learn hem by the ides of November 1896.
 A great deal has been also sad in gold phIJtTS dDOut purchasing silver; it has really rever purchased one ounce, the officials simply yave paper treasury receipt for it, lgreeing to pay back in silver dollars a ,Crtlon of the silver they received. The government made sent irsge or profit ,f over fifty millions by thus shaving he miners and depTeciating the bullion product of our own country.
 Those treasury notes gre payable only n silver dollars or gold at the option of ,ur government, but our unfaithful treasury officials give that option to the ,old bankers of Europe ard allow them o present silver notes by the million md raid and rob our treasury of its gold md then issue bonds to replace it in an endless chain. In France it is consid 'red criminal to discriminate against my form of French money, and France pays silver or gold at its discretion on te notes and would quickly impeach it's ,fficlsls should they dare to act as our treasury officials have done. A. II. N.