The Yale expositor., 1895-08-23

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/ the key to all kinds Of prosperity; but
twenty years experience has demon
strated that while Jacob has been get
J ting rich Laban has been shorn OF his
! wealth in exchange for gold The SER
! want has become the master OF all val
ues. from turnips to church steeples.
! Mr.. Horr informs us that Newton and
Copernicus foresaw the fail of silver
and the coming revolution in many mat
ters. 1t must have been when Newton
saw the apple fall. And so the law OF
/ gravitation simply means that silver
and all other products OF labor must
fall when gold was discovered to be the
best metal to corner this business o.
! falling. Copernicus, when he discoV-
cred the revolution of the earth on It's
axis, simply foTesaw that the power o.
gold as the best money metal-only a
/ little scarce-would work a revolution
in all commercial affairs. Why should
mt these antediluvians forsee the wis
dom that few centuries would store
up in the brain of Sherman and Hooper
to construct a law that would do 2
thing that no one supposed was being
done In 1878, but the wise men who dis
covered gold as the only metal fit fOg
legal money to run corners with OF
other products of labor-the law o.
gravtation must OF necessity attract
everything of the nature of value 10
the center of the universe of trade,
which is. of course. gold.
The law of revolution on its own axis
for mother earth is only another way
of saying that everything worth cen;
must Immediately revolve around the
gold axis of commerce to conform to
human reason and an honest imagin-
alton, which with our own supply o;
confidence can make money of paper
rags equal to gold until the bottom
drops out of confidence. Truly, Broth
er Horn, this is IAN age of wonderful
progress, when the shadow of gold can
be turned into bullion by printing pa
per and heightened fancy.
The congress of 1873 cannot plead
guilty to an indictment of ignorance
and retain self-respect, but they can
claim the wisdom of Newton and Co
pernicus and the moral honesty Of vori-
table Josephus. tempted. it may be. b.
wicked lobby-not Potiphar's wife
but as Copernicus and Newton believed
in gold standard to liquidate debts
made on a silver standard they could
not have been wrong in doing what
they did, and therefore they were
neither ignorant nor vile. Can't any
one see that suck reasoning beat:
Blackstone on the law of evidence IL
criminal practice?
We advise Brother Harvey to give UP
the contention at once. 1t would be SO
nice TO believe that no one is wanting
In brains or honesty. now that Col.
Strong and Gen. George b. Swift are
mayors of the two great cities which
have been ruled with such unimpeach-
able honesty for so many years. that
one may well wonder that 1.-The crime
of 1873" was ever invented by fertile
imaginations. There could have been
no motive for rovolutionizing the
monetary system of the world but to
enable the labor.ng man to get gold to
buy beer with-certainly not. Then
why should not Harvey and all goo0
Christians request that the congress o;
1873 be voted gold medal-every one
of them? II this had been done IL
Queen Victoria's country they would
all have been knighted before night.
that their fame might have been per-
petuated for the benefit of beermakers
and the dear laboring classes. Gold
medals, however, are better than
empty titles-for | remember when
Baron Grant took in bevy of English
lords with Utah silver mine, the stock
exchange remarked, THE queen may
grant titles, but title without honor Is
a Baron Grant," and presto. change.
Baron Grants mansion was priced and
sold, but the purchaser could not fill the
tainted dwelling place of baron, and
had TO tear it down because the said
baron was a barren field in which TO
find honor or anything else of value IL
the markets of the world Honest H.
dian. has not the gold standard proved
q mammoth pail of the public to the
gold barons who advised 1t for their
own purposes of deceit as to results?
Horr says commerce has settled the
question and not law. Harvey says law
settled it for centuries, so that gold
and silver were legal money until 1879.
Who is right on this question 1t Is NJ,
hard to find.
Would IL not be well to find out ratios
OF property to money. that is, to meas
ure it-past and present--and see
whether the products of labor in both
are properly protected? This is the
basis of any ratio that can be consid-
cred honest and fair to all.
Who paid for this famous debate?
Will it sell in book form to let botn
parties out, by the public paying the
bills, as in the sale of Coins Financial
School,?
Will either party rise to the occasion
and with sound and -consecrated COM
mon sense give us currency law that
the people can indorse when tho de-