Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

needed. sIt is a waste of sweetness
on the desert air" because we nave
no monometallists in the United States
of North America, Grover Cleveland
being chief magistrate. They all swear
by all the gods in Athens that our sill
yer dollar is all that the widest IN
thusiasts claim for it as far as it goes,
but they say it don't have enough III
it. They compare themselves with
themselves and measure themselves
by themselves-the gold bugs do-and
conclude that a silver dollar has only
about sixty cents worth of gold value
in it, and they say if you will take the
gold yardstick and measure OIL enough
silver to make the silver dollar equal
to one hundred cents in gold then it
viii all be right. Suppose that be done
how long will it remain equal? Just
so long as gold remains as 1t is to-day
and silver remains as it is. Should
gold greatly increase or diminish or
silver increase or diminish then in
either contingency the parity is gone
and all measure of values becomes as
tickle as the winds and as changeable
al the moon.
If these advocates of intrinsic value
in the silver dollar carry out their plan
and make a silver dollar as large as a
| dinner plate then its size would for
ever forbid it's use and that would as
| effectually demonetize it as if q law
were passed, making it a crime pun
ishable with death to be caught hand
ling one, for no man could put one in
his pocket. This is the reductio ad
absurdam of all.the intrinsic silver dol
lar advocates. With equal propriety,.
they should require every paper dol
lar to have a dollars worth of rags in
it, then if it proved to be counterfeit
they could sell it to the rag man and
come out safe. Modern Democracy
has. gone off after all the false gods
that recent years have produced until
it has no resemblance to its original
founders. It's only model now is the
Colossus at Rhodes and its daily prac-
tice is straddling. The Louisville con-
vention is the latest feat when it made
poor Hardin straddle and stretch him
self all over Cleveland and Carlisle
with all their bond sales and gold
standard ideas and then to make a
pretense of advocating free silver coin
age in order to be elected Governor
of Kentucky shows how a fellow can
be strained for a small Office.
Hear the conclusion: The present
silver dollar 16 to 1 is large enough for
any sort of practical use. Before ii
was demonetized it was at Il premium
over gold. Now restore it as it was
prior to 1878 and let alone. Parity
will take care of itself just as water
seeks its level. For Democrats to OBJ
struct the way of this time-honored
silver dollar of their dads is simply to
play into the hands of the Republi-
cans and enable them in 1896, like
1860, TO sweep every State in the
Union-presidential, senatorial and
congressional. If Democracy persists
i'll the present course and will heal. no
~entreaties and accept no terms of set
Element on the silver question, it re-
quires no great foresight to see that in
1896 there will be a free silver candi-
date, a gold standard Democrat, a Re-
publican candidate and a POpulist
candidate. Out of this quartette there
will come the successful man and now
he resembles a Republican.
| NJ. Y. DUNCAN.