The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-18
ANOTHER SET OF VIEWS.

hlCkS The OMAHA PLATFORM To
FLINDERs-LET SOME ONE ANSWER
HIM.
Editor Representative:
The following points believe will
be admitted by all as facts without argu-
ment:
First-That the poorest money al
ways forces the best out of circulation
when the two are on one equal footing
SO far as legal tender qualities are con-
cerned. (This is true because the debtor
will always hand over the cheapest or
poorest dollar in payment Of debt and re-
tain the most valuable to use when it
will buy more.)
Second-That in round numbers the
amount of gold coin in the United States
is about 100000. 900 and Of silver coin
about the same quantity.
Third--United States silver coins cir
culate today on an equality with gold.
They are not refused by merchant.
tradesman or laborer. In fact are not
demonetized. True, the coinage Of silver
is limited, just as the coinage of gold
would be limited, il 1t were demonetized
and the monopoly classes allowed to fix
the quantity to be coined.
Fourth-"Gold Bugs" want gold to
remain the standard Of value so that they
can COMPEL all other producers of wealth
to come to their terms.
Fifth-"Silver cranks" want the white
metal to be the standard or that they
can be in position to dictate terms.
Sixth-The wheat, wool, cotton, sugar.
tobacco, pork, corn, beef and the thou
sand other producers of commodities are
just as much entitled to have their par
ticular commodity made legal tender
at specified price as has either the gold
or silver owner.
Seventh-That the commodities which
are made by decree of government a
full legal tender for payment Of all debts
both public and private" are at once
placed in special class and their value
greatly enhanced
If these points are undisputed facts
then we can readily see that the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver 16 to with
legal tender qualities Is delusion and a
snare, because silver would drive gold
out of circulation, it being the cheaper
commodity by half. If this result should
follow then we would have no more
money to do business on than now, in
fact not so much because now we have
about equal quantities of each in circula-
tion Money monopolists are "onto" this
fact hence the formulation of "gold and
silver clubs" Populists will please look
into this matter carefully so as not to
be caught sleeping.
What do we care for gold or silver, 1t
is wheat, cotton, corn, wool, pork, beef,
necessaries of life in fact which the mill
lions are looking after. In order that we
can get these things at a fair price and
in order that the producers may have all
that there is in 1t, as reward for their
industry, we must have a safe, sound
and flexible currency" and such a cur
rency can only be made and forced into
circulation by making it a secured paper
money, redeemable in at least ten or a
hundred representative commodities.
Farmers and laborers are "chumps' to
be caught in the mine owners drag with
gold and silver clubs" handled and
picked over first by bankers, lawyers and
spectators.
The producers of wheat have just as
good a right to demand that No. wheat
be made legal tender at 81 bushel as
have the silver men demand that their
commodity be doubled in price by being
coined free and unlimited 16 to / and
made full legal tender.
The laborers have just as good right
to demand that their COMMUNICATIONS
be made legal tender at So day(double
it's value, measured by gold as has sill
verites to insist on their imitation
scheme. If cheap metal money" is sure
to bring prosperity (Which deny why
not coin copper free and unlimited and
make 1t full legal tender at 81 lump,
about the size of a silver dollar. Away
with such nonsense.
G. B. MABEN.