The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-16

suggests an improvement in his financial
condition, and the capital of the country
IS coming directly into the money centers.
The rich men have taken hold OF all the
channels leading to the nucleus, and a
natural consequence is the massing of the
currency within their walls. Gold is get
ting scarcer ali the time, and the result is
. that we have to pay more for the neees-
sites required. 1t now takes two bushels
Of wheat TO pay debt that could have
been paid five years ago with one.
There is a state of unrest over the
American Nation, and the gold men are
absorbing all the money in sight. The in
dependence of the people Is sacrificed to
political emoluInent, and they are con-
stantly made TO suffer the weight of added
burdens in order that the bankers and rich
men may continue to gather the harvest
OF coin.
The single-standard men say for US to
get silver on a parity. Why don't they get
gold on rarity with something? Let
them get il on parity with labor and the
products of labor. 1t. has: been growing
upon a constant. disparity tor the last
twenty years, and all the laws of equal
lty have been defied.
LET us make the case clear. The law
says that;all men shall be equal. 1t does
not say that they shall be the same in
height or color or size or weight, but
of the law as men, 1t is the same with
money. 1t should have the same debt
paying power one time as at another. 1t
IS a question of sound money, and sound
money should take no more sacrifice TO
get it when contract natures than it did
when the contract was made. 1t is guam
tity We want. but the ldbugs clamor for
quality. If it is merely question of
quality, why not make. one perfect coin
and paythe debts of the world with it?
I'VE want Quantity: and we want the ap-
provai of the Government on silver so that
it VIII be on parity with gold. At pres
ent silver is commodity and is but one
want. Stamp it and it is all wants. When
stamped 1t purchases all things, secures
everything for sales everything for hire. Is
it good argument to compare one want
with the value of a thing that represents
all wants? Take a commodity, stamp it
and make it purchaser OF all wants and
at once everybody wants it. There is a
howl for more gold but there is not nearly
enough increase in the production of gold,
when counted up for a long time, to COM
pensate for the destruction of so much of
the money as was represented by silver
when there was a concurrent use OF silver
and gold. 1t is also fact that there must
be continuous fall in prices without any
limit whatever because of the insufficiency
OF the gold supply of the world.
on the question of free coinage?" was
asked the Senator?
'sWhy they will straddle it, of course,
and attempt to please US with words. We
will not be pleased with results, however.
In the Democratic party there will be
terrible fight, as the leading Democrats OF
the United States are leaning very strongly
toward the silver arguments that are now
being used in favor of it. A terrific politi-
cal war is approaching, and the battle
ground will be in silver camp. 1t is
there that the struggle began, and until
JUSTICE is done the Iaborlng classes there
will be some lively fighting for rights
al have always claimed that the world,
and particularly the United States, would
be in state of disruption until the people
were accorded justice, not only on the
money question, but on all others. 1t is
the only way to straighten out national
difficulties and threatened disasters The
best way to bring this about is to give
a proper circulating medium, and plenty
of it.
While the silver question is an ex-
haustive one and cannot be discussed In
detail Inc short time it nevertheless re-
mains that its great principles and the
great good of free coinage summed up In a
few words simply mean increased pros
perity all over the country and boom IN
business channels that would make us the
1--WE are constantly informed that the
silver dollar is worth but so cents. Should
you melt down dollar it's monetary value
is gone and it then becomes simple piece
of silver without the stamp of the Govern
ment; but you give us free coinage, so that
every 41211 grains of silver when stamped
becomes worth dollar, theobullion in its
crude state will be worth dollar, and
there will be an Immediate demand for it.
1t is lust the same as money and in conse-
quence there would be general reaching
out for it, whereas now its value is gov
efned by the demand created in the arts.
We would be able to drive Western Europe
to bimetallism or destruction. we have a
population of seventy millions waiting for
some satisfactory settlement of the money
question, and billions of products are
ready to be exchanged for silver or gold.
AT best the product of silver, like any
other natural product, among the precious
metals, is limited, and it will never be pro-
duced in such enormous quantities that it |