The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-12
JONES, WHEREABOUTS.

the Post-Inteiligencer was irreverent IN
asking the question: where is John p.
Jonesg" We discIain any such unbecom-
ing levlty. Had we asked. Where is
John r. Jones att" there might have been
some ground for rebuke. but we would as
soon think Of asking so fippant ques-
ton as to the venerable editor of the
News himself. We cheerfully concede
that. long as the jovial senator has been
before the public. nobody ever speaks Of
him-as they do of another free silverite
candidate for the United States senate
as 'Jonesy.''
The question was a very innocent one;
this is the season when senator's visit
their constituents. and the inquiry Is per-
fcctly natural. The News replies that he
is at Gold IIili. Nevada. We accept that
answer as correct, although he might be
at his fine home In Santa Barbara county
California. In the matter of domicile,
Senator Jones, the free silverite, votes at
Gold Hill. bat like Senator Brice. of Ohio
and Network, he Is a double-standard man
on the home question. While his heart is
California. and anybody desiring to adj
dress letter TO him, when he is not at
Washington City, is only exercising pru-
dence when he inquiries. Where is John
p. Jones?" 1t would be foolish to address
an urgent letter to him in Nevada IL he
were not likely to be there until little
while before election time. Its failure TO
as.h hi iat.t
convenience.
The editor of the Seattle News modestly
acknowledges that il is due In some meas
ure to his efforts that Mr.. Jones occupies
the exalted position of United States SEN
ator from the Sagebrush state. and that
fact increases our respect for the senator
Ia respect that is not lessened by the
other fact that he represents a state
whose population is considerably smaller
than that Of the city of Seattle.
The profound knowledge. shared more
or less equally by Senator John p. Jones
and the editor of the Seattle News, of
that phase of political economy which
recognizes silver as 1.-THE poor mans
money" is not an ordinary, commonplace
|. crankism. 1t has an element of sentiment
about IL. IL has large warm-hearted re-
gard for the silver metal which we hope
the silver metal reciprocates II is a sort
of religion. fetishness-if we may be al
lowed the expression, which endows Silver
with psychological attributes. which re-
CARDS IL as taking direct. personal and
spiritual interest in the welfare Of the
workingman and of the oppressed debtor.
and protecting them against tie demo-
niacal Vaccinations OF rapacious cold
This pleasing veneration for an inani-
mate object has the highest classical orr
gin. IL is dying out in the materialism OF
the nineteenth century in Occidental ma
tons. but stili survives among the ancient
Farsees, the Aztecs and the Hottentots
and in its highest form-which IS. no
doubt. that OF John p Jones and the edi-
tor of the Seattle News-may be described
as the effort OF the human mind TO erasn
the divine essence or the ultimate reality
of things.
The manifestation OF this solemn reyer-
ence finds readest expression in "the
divine ratio" which. after all. is subject
to the defect Of all human syllogisms bo-
cause ratio signifies a relation and if
there Is divineness in the ratio of silver to
gold It must exist In COLDS ratio to silver
and that would make gold no less suner-
nal than silver except in its diviner es-
sence. sinre its oneness concentrates a
divineness equal TO the sixteen-ness Of
silver
We feel deeply impressed with the pro-
iundity OF the subject when we deal with
II as the philosophy of John 7. Jones' ard
the editor Of the Seattle News. the FORE
most living authorities on monetary sci
ence. and treat IL with hat-in-bar1
poiysyilahic respect that we do not deem,
necessary when discussing IT as sn every
day. commercial. not TO say common
sense topic. which ordinarily refuses -
arise to the transcendentaI heights Of al
s'ruse numismatics or the hypothesis ~
primordial apocatastssis as TO aurfsro,,s.
ness and srgeatiferouSness.