Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-19

all the oliver In Mexico and in all the
world. We would take our 5l-cent sll,
yer to your mint and get your Gomez
silver worth 100 cents 10 the dollar IN
gold. Then we would get the gold ana
bring II back 10 Mexico
would not every nation do IT." /
asked.
your 75000.O00 Americans would have
to put gold under all commercial silver
In the world
ELI. "There are, according 10 our mint
reports, S3,s2i, 5Tl $40 worth OF silver IN
the world; S5l6ig6t0 900 worth OF silver
has been dug out OF the mines since
l79s Even governments like Japan,
which has 75.00Q,000 yens tdollarsl with
no gold under them, and each yen
worth 50 cents, would send a ship load
OF melted yens 10 our mint and get our
dollars worth 100 cents, and take back
s7b. 600, 900 In gold TO Japan. II looks
pretty 20 read about 75,0OOOOO people
with S75, 100000 IN sold In their treas
ury going into free colnagc- putting
gold under every debased silver dollar
OF 1900, 900, 900 people. II would double
the value OF all the uncolned silver In
| south America, Mexico. Asia, Europe,
and Africa. But II Is preposterous,
We could never do II,
"The farmer in China is selling his
| rice, SAT- ana tea lot at-ceHi Flif. -
Wages there have not. rhnF3,o1 mi
the laborer there opeyfN y,t,,,,.. IN c.nis
] 10 now rcttints ,F'-f BellhB ~ VeHNb
h,tr ti. ,n.sc cents He has lost
| "vvb, u -Fd ealth.
=, Mhg2.",ids lost in American why
| TX amer will lose II he keeps on min
Wing, but the wheat raiser and tho cot
ton raiser are selling their wheat and
cotton FOR silver worth gs much as
gold. They are on gold basis, Double
the value OF silver and the miner would
grow rich, but the farmer would stand
sttll,
"But." continued Ieli, I'VE are talking
about impossibilltlo7. This country u
It went Into free coinage, would so into
| bankruptcy IN a week The whule
world would unload on US, They would
get our little S7j,0O0OO0 worth Of gold
In a woolt, and we'd be the laughing
stock OF civilization.
by free coinage continued Mr.. Per-
kins the silver miners wealth would
| be doubled at the expense or wreck OF
our nation; but the wealth Of the cnt-
| ton aud wheat raiser would stand slill.
When 1 asked Sibluy ana Weaver and
the Denver bankers if free coinage
would raise the price OF meat or cotton
or gold they all said;
No, MOI OF course not but II Will
| double the price of commercial silver.
| II VIII not even change the purchasing
| power OF our coined silver, which Is
oI ..s nov y" , h"i5 nm 60, .,,,,,,. ,,o
| silvnr atatssN California NmvpIn Now
| Mexico, Arizona Wyoming Utah and
| Cglorado--,wlll go peil mel for free
/ coinage, / would go Scr 1t II l were u
people In tho corn, wheat and cotton
statos, on second thought, VIII not be
nsHH cay pn ,S5od XXX iS To S9uple tne
! moi inv AN tmposs'liliiv which vouid
| bankrupt the republic aud make us
| 'h' W"RNWB STOCK OF elNlhAAuon''
what am lncNhAustlhle Joker El' H.
| lnde'1f
Ia ono nrealh he tells us that We
coined hetweon lo'3 ana 1898 S122A44A2a
"t s'lN'r' 'nat 1t is not d'monetihcd-
ma ''NAt every dolloF mas Bold under
~ ~ was nara WORK. says Ell
uul VIZ u'' IT,
~ e''iy uol''r OF TINS SILVER mas
s'iu uhdor " can Eli explain the DIFF
ference between II ana gold bond
'Nv'p' '"ut II pears no lhterest' II
1t 10 merely eor''non'o that the gov
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