The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
A NEW
Gold Ruggery at the Cole

men that has yet been invented eUuQ
proposition to coin up all the a., we
mined in the United States. Tb aeF
not only apparently friendly tn sI R
but is a sugar coating of anna.
protection to the silver industry wb;I
may even deceive Or buy up the M
owners themselves. To stop ct s,,oS
half way station will be ultimateIv
fatal to silver as the Bland and O.
man acts which made silver q ~
modify by having only SO much NJ y
bought and coined a month. The M"
ing of American silver will still Io,~.
a difference between the actual vol,'
of the gold and silver dollar of aho''
Is or 20 cents, and confusion Of Nv
standards of value will be cont;rrss
until n or the other is driven Ont y,
circulation. What we want ia n ~
culate both metals. 1t will take all
can get of both and much more n,,y
ably to do the business of the count,u
"The dumping of foreign silver in,
our country will be the greatest }ros,
ing that can possibly befalI it. W.,
want as much of it as we a get onS
will thank the Lord for it. We WON
silver coined free and unlimited inst -.
gold is. Then the value of the tr.
metals at a ratio of sixteen TO ono Mill
be so nearly equal as to be more readir
adjusted SO that neither one will dri7o
the other out of circulation. If tho
free coinage Of both silver and poId
and the issue Of certificates upon such
money for the convenience of the ne.
pie does not give us enough money vo
will have some greenbacks issued alan
Our standard of value is now like q
seventy. two Inch yard stick. 1t meas.
ures off twice as much of any given
commodity as it ought; it must be re.
duced back to thirty-six inches. The
only way to do this is to increase the
amount of money in circulation until
the spectators cannot make money
any kind a commodity. As soon as
you have a small fixed circulation
whether of gold or silver r both, the
spectators can corner the money mar.
ket and vary the standard of values
one half in twenty-four hours.
They make money tight in the fall
when the farmer has to sell his pro,
duce and they turn it loose at other
times when they are unloading their
specUIations, and they call this a re.
vivaI of business. The men who favor
a gold standard, because as they say
it is invariable, are fatally Ignorant 0!
p~erverseIy blind. The most variahB
standard on earth is the gold. The
true scientific way to make a variable
standard is to limit the circulation 10
one metal. The spectators a then
hoard that metal and double its pur.
chasing power any time they desire
it. No heather in his blindness who
bows down to wood and stone is any
worse deceived than the man who
falls down and worships the invari
ableness of gold as money. Mr.. Car,
Isle knows better and Mr.. Cleveland
knows better. They cannot pass by
each other without smiling at the
ignorance Of cupidity of those they
deceive. They are like the priests who
used to get into the belly of the idols
and give cut the oracles. They under.
stand the joke. The man who regards
MI. Cleveland or MI. Carlisle as hon.
est is simply amusing if he believes
what he says. Honest men do not
speak in doubtful phrases and keep
people deceived as to what they really
want until it is actually accomplished.
These men are the arch traitors Of the
Union, and after the game is finished,
they willb be regarded by the majority
of people in forty four states as worse
traitors than Benedict Arnold.
understand that DR.. KigO, pFe5l'
dent of Trinity college at Dur
ham, says the free silver idea is non,
sense. Told his guests and pupils scat
his commencement. I wish Mr.. Ed
tor you would open your columns 70
him to show why it is nonsense. VINO
has so imposed on his credulity2 Ana
1 notice too that his sentiments were
applau6ed by somebody else besides
Paul Means at the Chapel Hill banquet
Somebody may have been sowing goa
buggery up there too. And 1 shall
raise no objection to the preachinga
any lie at any educational irst'
tuition if the truth has an eqGal show
ing. Let them grow together, !" is The
language Of the Scripture since The!
are both here. But II bnhOOVe5 tl0