The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-16
Nm Are They Tr,InE 20 Prove.

What Are They Trying 20 Prove:
The efforts Of the silverite organs to
prove that prices are no higher in Mex
. leo than in this country are amusing.
Just now everything they can get
/ hold q 70 show that Mexican silver dol
Z Lar vii buy as much Of the necessaries OF
I lie in Mexico as an American silver dol
[ lar viii buy in this country, they publish.
and every American doing business in
{ Mexico. who visits this country. and who
viii say about what they desire to pub
l.sh relative 10 the purchasing power Of
the Mexican silver dollar. they inter-
view
BEt why DO they want to make it APP
pear that prices IN Mexico are no higher
than prices in this country Until re-
Gently their main argument was that the
/ opening OF our minis TO the free and IN
| limited coinage Of silver would cause a
great rise In prices. That argument was
an effective one with a certain class OF
I producers and made silverites of them.
Now. all al once, the silverite organs are
bent on proving that free and unlimited
! coinage Of silver has not caused rise OF
prices in Mexico. and hence. free and IN
limited coinage Of silver would not cause
a rise of prices in this country.
II free and unlimited coinage Of silver,
and. consequently. the silver standard.
would not cause a rise in prices. who
would II benefit? II certainly wouldn't
! benefit the debtor. because ne would get
no more for what he has to sell than
he now gets. II what these silver organs
say about prices in Mexico is true the only
change that would be effected by free
and unlimited silver coinage would
be change in the char
/ acter Of our currency "a change
from a sound TO a deprecated currency.
1t would be interesting to know how such
a change would benefit anybody in this
country.
! 1t is a fact worth noticing that the
people who furnish information about
prices in Mexico are interested in rail
roads or mines in Mexico. and they are
extremely anxious that this country shall
adopt silver as the standard of value.
| Why is this? It seems TO us that the
silver organs leave a good deal unex-
planned.
The truth is the silverites have discov-
cred that all the wage earners of this
country are against the free and unlim-
tied coinage OF silver. and they know
that with the wage earners occupying that
position there isn't ghost Of chance
for free and unlimited silver coinage. The
wage earners have studied the silver ques-
ton, and they know that with a currency
based on silver the cost OF living would
be nearly doubled. and that wages would
remain at about what they are now
Therefore. the wage earners are against
free and Unlimited silver coinage.
If the silverite organs continue their ef-
forts to show that if our minis were
open to the free and unlimited silver
coinage a silver dollar would purchase
Just as much as silver dollar does nov
It will not be long before every farmel
in the country viii be an earnest soun'
money man II he isn't going TO get an!
more under a silver standard for hi
crops than he gets now he will not b.
able TO see any reason why the burdens
Of the government should be vastly in
creased, as they would be II the revenues
were received in deprecated silver anC
the interest on government bonds wer'
paid in gold. That is the condition o
affairs in Mexico. and a very burdensom
condition It is.
The fact is the silverites are gaining
nothing by holding up Mexico as an ex
ample for this country to follow. Mexic,
would get on a gold basis mighty quicl
If she could.