The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-02-20

No. Id Mean to the People
Of the south.
tho clearest articles The News
on' - soon on the financial question is
!" W. t1e pen of the editor of the Spring
i sd O Ohio, Farm News. The article in
'u ,,on is published below, and we
lS's .ond it to the careful perusal of our
S' %sn 7 Sterling Morton, secretary OF
n ,Y,Iture feels the criticisms that have
~ freeIv bestowed on his latest report
~ .ocoupt of the gold money argument
~ he has thought necessary to use in
-. position has been universally con-
mrad by the agricultural press of the
.n+,v and in trylng,to explain and de-
- his position he only makes matters
,,so Farm News was one OF the very
: ocricultural papers in the United
81 +,tes that asked suspension of judg-
,nt On Secretary Morton when he was
- amounted 3until he should have an
oortnnity to show whether he was ca
,bp Of administering his Office in the
.orosts of the farmers of the country.
. time when the agricultural press
r.s copdemning President Cleveland for
.onointing him, Farm News hoped that
he new secretary would prove to be a
man of broad thought and liberal princi
OIos hut we were mistaken even in hop.
mo for anything but partisan action on
+be part of Mr.. ;Morton, who is a politi-
oan first, last and all the time. In de
tending his position he says:
"But admit ting that the American
farmer would get twice as much in silver
far his product as he would get in gold
4 Il we we're on a silver basis, would he
not have to pay for all those things
which he is obliged to purchase like
wise. twice as much as he pays now?'
\ This is the same old gold bug argu-
mpnr over again. 1t has been proven
1 false time and again. If the farmer
would get twice as much for his products
ander a system chat includes both gold
and silver as money of ultimate redemp-
ton. and there is do doubt that prices
would rise under such system, he
would not have to pay any more silver
dollars for taxes than he does now; fees
and salaries of all kinds would not be
higher and Secretary Morton's salary
would be just the same as it is now.
There IS one great obstacle to the return
to bi-metallism. Those who hold office
|cOuld not buy as much with their sala-
rieS as they now do and to return 10 a
double standard means that those who
do business for The farmers and prOdu-
GERS of the country would feel the effects
'Ofit With double standard the farmer
would not have any higher interes5 to
pay than he now does, for if he borrOws
nov n0matter how good his security he
has to pay the same old usurious rates
Notwithstanding the government can
borrow at three per cent.
Another thing: When money is scarce
there is lack of employment for hundreds
Of thousands and the consumption of
farm products falls off simply because
men, women and children go hungry
from one day to another. The writer re-
members when he as boy got So day
tor working in the harvest field. Money
was plenty, cheap if you prefer, in those
Gays and every man who wanted work
could get it because business f1ourlshed.
The adoption of the single standard
0aS worked untold loss and misery to
One people of this country. Not to the
moneyed class; not to the Office holder;
not to the man who produces nothing,
Out TO the farmer, the workingman and
" 'nose depending on him. Men who
are still young can remember when
ramps were unknown; when groups of
'ulers were not on every street corner;
Wuen the labor of mems hands was in
U7lnand at prices that gave them every
VOnlort and convenient &c. Now tramps
swarm through the country idle, men
''ana everywhere with the gaunt brand
VI poverty on their faces and clad in the
atters and rags of penury. Women and
children go hungry and half clothed all
because the insatiate greed of the money
power has been giver full play by the
law maker of our lands.
tive every man in this nation the
vnance to work at fair wages and all this
would be changed. The tramp who is
now tax on the producers of the nation,
!9r he must be fed, would disappear from