The Monticellonian., 1895-06-28
Farwcil, the Millionaire Chioa go
 Merchant. on s IYer.

RecettIy, Mr Farewell. the Chi. easo millionaire merchant and philaathropist, delivered an eloquent speech on silver. of which the following is a brief synopsis.
 The statement that there Is enough gold for money is false, for gold has constantly apprcciat- cd since 75, though the cost of its production has lessened quite as much as with other things.
 The expansion and contraction of metal money are always con- temporaaeous with prosperity and advcrsity respectively. Hence goidbngs have claimed that the characterization Of silver was not contraction.
 Naluo is brain and brawn ex- pressed in the results Of labor. Since '73 value in gold has re quired constantly increasing quantity i'll any other product 10 equal t.
 Gold has gained S4.000, ,000,000 in eXchaHgeable value. and all other property has lost Sl00, ,000,- 0O0,0 estimating on the basis that silver has lost 5Q per cent. in value since B and that the four million dollars of gold k per cent, of the property. Such is the result ot the honest @ legislation of f'73 in order to preserve the stability Q of the monetary stand ard, and this on the assumption that silver was overprodueed. which was not true, comparing one century with another.
 But all this is but part of the evil. A London banker said: ..ft there was uo gold in existence Iar currency purposes he wouid >II be for q gold standard for all coz tracts" and let business depend on bank checks and notes for ex. change. The enormaus gain et the owners of the gold will absorb all values and leave the world wholly dependent on the banks. Legislation ostensibly in the in- terest of stability. producing such results is moHstrons, aaj the few selfish non.producers who secured the act of ls73, mnst be taught that constitutional government will correct the evil. Suppose Nc grant that 73 couli not have pro duced these evils. because money is an ideal medium. ahd bank cheeks al notes woai3 doas well. does tLis relieve the aet '73 of making taId twice aS valuable as betore2 Legislation which thus makes the rich richer. though by our Hypothesis it does not make the poor poorer, yet is not T government before which all have equal rights.
 But it is not true that the poor are not made poorer. or that the property interests have not suffer- ed. Never has such currency tampering and contraction failed to produce general otagnation, idle capital, idie labor, and strikes and misery. Capital and labor, as es- scntiaI to each other as life and air, are thus at war. Of all such evils is the law of B the cause.
 Is rot law in this land the vox popult! Did our people ask con. gresS to make gold standard, or did the holders of our war bonds make the request? In the light of these facts the man is either an idiot or q knave who claims that currency laws can have no in fuence in controlling values. IL these goldbugs are right, '73 should be called the year one of the worlds jubilee of freedom from the rich mans silver.
 Carlisle has learned his lesson well when he hired the magnates of Wall and Lombard streets to break the corner on gold and let up on him for q time so he could instruct the south how to vote.
 Many ot our ablest and richest bankers at home and abroad are bimetahsts and are faithful to monetary truth.
 Here we leave our case with the jury, the people, confident that neither silver nor gold will be ex-