The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-27
BRooKHAvEN, MISSISSIPPI, TUESDAY, AUGUST q, 1895

tim, the government will redeem Il at
one hundred dollars" She says; "Wcll,
II l can get my money back cn Il Mt
any time l will take It," The jewelrr
viii unload the cut glass On the old
sisters, and the old sisters will soon
| unload the whole business on the gov
ernment,
Is the government able to make gold
| and silver of certain relative valre, or
continue the parity of 16 to II 1 don't
believe it is. No government, so far as
my knowledge goes, on the face of the
earth can long maintain parity with
free and unlimited coinage. | am BIZ
metallist in the sense that want both
| metals as money, but one standard only,
and that the gold standard. am will
ing for all the silver in the world to be
coined at any ratio SO long as the parity
of the two dollars ean be maintained.
Like Attorney General Harmon, every
American ought to say: Il want our
| dollar as good as anybody's dollar,
whether it be silver or gold" believe
that the best thoughts and profoundest
views stand squarcly with the gold
standard. have said to the farmers
that l have glanced over the fields
passing through the country, and /
| found that weeds were hurting them
| worse than decentralization of silver,
and debt was hurting them worse than
the gold standard. | am not a gold
bugger or a silvcr-diggcr, but am for
the strict parity of the metals on
basis such as that the government can
maintain its parity without damaging
its credit.
There arc many false views as to the
powers of the government. When we
touch the financial question the gov.
crnment has no capital or credit apart
from the people. The government is
like an infant child in the mothers lap.
1t cannot care for the mother; the
mother must care for it. The govern
ment cannot take care of the people;
the people must take care of the gov
crnment; and l don't believe that the
parity OF the metals is possible with
free and unlimited coinage of silver 16
to 1.
met an old darky at the Ruston
Louisiana Chautauqua. lie said that
he was in favor of free and unlimited
coinage of silver l6 to /, IS to the white
nan and to the negro. l reckon he
might be considered a fair average sill.
verite.
This great government of ours for
three years has been passing through
the channel leading from one sea OF
conditions to another sea of conditions
The channel has been narrow. 1t has
taken master-hand to keep the old
ship off the rocks; but soon we shall
pass out into a broader, deeper sea OF
prosperity than ever before. l would
that we had the patience and common
, sense to see conditions and meet them
as they are. 1t don't pay to pine,
! and "growlcrs" don't get there
But il the farmer will stick to his
plow, the merchant to his store, the
lawyer to his office, the preacher to his
pulpit, the mechanic to his shop and SO
on, there are no problems which can
not be solved and no difficulties which
cannot be overcome. If l know my
own heart and feelings, j an with the
mass of laboring people in this coun-
try; and Iebelisve it to be to their in
tercsts that money should be sound
and our dollar should be as good as
anybody dollar.
Gods sun never shone on such poor
mems country as America. 1t is fact
that the merchant prince of America,
A. T. Stewart, was once country
sclool-teaeher. The leading railroad
magnate of the world once kept
ferry. The leading financier of Amer
lea once peddled rat traps. The lead
ing manufacturer of America was once
hired out as an office boy at dollar q
week. The most thoroughly literary
man the world ever saw learned his
letters by the light of the pine knot
burning in the furnace of his black
smith shop. The man who holds the
highest political honors in the history
of America next to George Washington
was a poor ungainly Illinois rail split
ter. And so it is; America is the only
country in the world where all profess
sions have been headed by the poor
who started in humble circumstances
of life SAM ?. JONES.
P. S.-Some of us can remember the
days of plenty of money. Then we
could go to town with basket OF
money and get basketful of goods as
follows:
One barrel -four. .........."......SlS0 S0o "
One p7ir boots. ................... oW.U1 "
0ne ch,,x tohacco- - 2.cG
One fool OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .0l
Fools don't go up or down with the
currency. >. -.
A Soldiers Answer.
Emperor Napoleon, after one OF his
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