Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-27
PETER PLUG OF POSSUM TROT WANTS TO KNOW A THING OR TWO Poor Solomon Was Unfortunate in Not Having a Silverloon Sheet and Copy
 of "Coin."

To the Age-Herald:
 Since tis the fashion, I'll have a crack at that same blue bottle." the financial question.
 Introduction.
 l am Peter Plug of Possum Trot with no aspirations higher than making corn and cotton and cussin and discussin' the silver question; the cussin' part 1 leave mostly to my friends, the pops.
 1 am stout and able to work, therefore do not wish to be put upon the county, either in the poor house or in an office, and, unlike my friends the pops. and sll. Veroons, do not expect the government to legislate meat and bread into my mouth and furnish digestive apparatus to assimilate it.
 Now, MT. Editor, we Possum Trotters are poor as regards the amount of circu- lation, and, of course, not aVerse to an increase of our per capita; hence we come to you for information
 We are not entirely devoid of means of instruction. First we have the Bir- mingham State, AwhoSe editor no doubt, spends many sleepless nights and sheds barrels of tears bewailing the helpless, deplorable condition of the down-trod- den, goldbug- ridden farmer. We also have that fountain of all wisdom, Coin. What pity Solomon could not have had a Jerusalem State and a Coins Fi- udncldl pcnOOl, when the Olu plutocrat got silver in identically the same condition in which that English sympathizing Cleveland has put it.
 We read in II Chronicles, ix, 10, And all the drinking vessels of King Solo mon were of gold and all the vessels of the house of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver it (silVeO was not anything accounted of in the days of King Solomon" Oh the goldbug The bloated plutocrat! The -
 hA Doe T,of 1f ls.nf is entirely inadequate to express con tempt for man of Solomon's oppor- tunitieS who would let silver depreciate in such way. Just step over to the of flee of the State and borrow few pop ulistic epithets and fill the blank. While you are over there call the atten- ton of the editor to the oversight in not speaking of the crime of Solomon in connection with the crime of '73. My purpose in writing this is to get the opinion of the Age-Herald with respect to the proposition that "the prices of commodities are governed by the amount of money in circulation, and if the money is increased the prices of other things will be increased in proportion" Now, is this so? The State says so, Coin says so, the populites say so. If it is really a fact, Peter Plug is going to improve his condition right away. There is Thrifty beat over in the valley, where they have $10 to Possum Trot's $1. Now I get $25 per bale for cotton raised in Possum Trot; ten times S25 is $250, which I would get in Thrifty beat.
 Ned Tate, silverite, says the rule won't work in beats and counties but is applicable to a nation as a whole. If that is the case, what a fix the Mexican farmers are in, with only $4 per capita. It is suggested by another silverite that the rulee applies only to the place of final purchase. If that is the case please suggest to the State that he has commenced the fight at the wrong end of the line to benefit the southern far mer. Tell him to pick up his battery and, move over across the waters to the place of final sale. He might take along the Jeffersonians and populites. He will find them valuable assistants in the calam- ity howl business I have no doubt that the country would be greatly ben- efited by the change of base.
 I will defer other questions on the finance until l see how you answer this.
 PETR PLUG,
 of Possum Trot.