The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-07-24
ARP GETS NEW LIGHT.
He Has Boon Reading Coin and Learned
EInch

He Has Boon Reading Coin and Learned
Much
have just finished reading Coins
| last book, up TO Date" II somebody
| doesn't answer it and provo IL a lie IL
Will shake this country from center to
circumference. The bankers and spec
ulators and money kings will be over.
thrown and the danger is that the
masses will 60 too far in revenging
their wrongs and. like Samson, pull down
the temple and crush all alike. When
he shows up the inequalities of taxation
and how the rich escspe, it makes the
blood boil with indignation.
Aside from the silver question. he
gives certificate of David Gore, the
suditor Of public accounts for the State
OF Illinois, which shows that all that
the bankers and brokers Of Chicago had
assessed for taxation WAS only S44 900
OF money, while farmers OF that county
were assessed SS4. 900 for agricultural
tools and implements. Think of 1t !
The farmers tools are assessed nearly
twice as much as all the money credits
and securities Of all the banks, bankers
and brokers of that great city. And all
the diamonds and jewelry In Chicago
were assessed at git, ESQ, when It is known
that single families live there who own
diamonds and jewelry ten times tina.
sum In value. The money of these
banks amounts to hundreds OF millions,
but through the manipulation Of mu-
ninicipal politics the rich control the
assessors and escape taxation. Can this
be true? II II ia false, why doesn't Ell
Perkins say so? see that he has taken
the field against Coin, but can't tell
exactly from his last piece whether he
is lying or joking.
de closes 1t by saying that after he
had shown Coin his errors and fallacies
Coin gave 1t up and the tears rolled
down his cheeks and he dismissed his
school and declared he wasn't Rwine to
teach any more. l like ELI. like any
lie that Is funny and harmless. 1 used
to like to read Baron Munchausen, and
like to read Eli now. l confess that ii
strains my credulity to bellove what
Coin writes about the Chicago bankers'
tax, but there Is the certificate of the
State auditor. Surely there Is some ex.
planstion Of all this. We know what
Solomon and Paul and the Savior said
about rich men, but 1 never believed
THAI our rich men we're that bad.
Now, the Chicago gold-bug hava
called meeting to see II they CAM
stop sll this rumpus about silver, but
they might az we'll try to stop tornado.
ancial affairs, for had read so much on
both sides that it made my head swim,
and 80 when friend sent me Coins first
book took 1t up with prejudice against
1t, for 1 supposed that Mr.. Harvey WAS
a Chicago Yankee and was paid by the
Inter Ocean to write on that side, and
80 fortified myself against being sc.
duced by his book.
read it rather hurriedly, watching
for traps and triggers, but I didn't find
them, and found SO much information
that wss news to me that read II more
carefully the second time, and came to
the conclusion that Coin WAS very
smart man. or l was very great fool
one or the other His Last book Is bet
ter than the first, and II these two little
books are made up of fallacles the gold
bugs had better get somebody else be-
side Ell to expoae them-Eli's forte Is
fun, not fioauce.-"BHL ARR" in At
lanse Constttu .ion