The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-09

ready shown that congress did nothing Of
the kind IL follows that congress never
ssdvanced any such reason. but Coin"
having introduced II in this deft way, re-
ours to II at frequent intervals as a set
tea tact that gold is the rich mans money
anu shVer the poor mans money. Argai,
yer. y. o'-
This IS very plain as long as you do not
Sonsider what The poor man wants money
as Sr an ne %am,s i as Fay for his services
reliance In old age, ne wants the hest
money going, not the worst. II poor money
Is the right thing for the poor man, there
aIe several kinds poorer than silver.
copper for example. This was once legal
tender and II had a legal ratio with silver.
In the Roman republic the ratio was 240
10 ], and the contemporary Greek ratio
was go to l. Is there any more reason
Tor poor men having poor money than for
having ragged clothes. bad -four and ran
cid butterY Is there any reason why the
poor should not have the same standard
OF value as the rich, just as they have
the same Bible the same sunlight, and the
same atmospheric For II is not the mere
handling Of gold that is of importance
here, but the value OF the thing handled
| This may be copper nickel. silver. or pa
per- and most commonly VIII be those
things. since our people do not like 70 car
~ gold. II wears out their pockets and
their pockets wear out the gold. 50 long
ms the various things they carry
| viii bring gold on demand. and 30 long
/ as a stability Of value is secured TO them
equal 10 that OF gold (be the same more
or less) ali requirements are satisfied. II
| will be easy now to erase every sugges-
ton In Coins Finacial School" that the
| poor man needs different kind OF money
/ from the rich man, and when these are
all erased a large part of the book will
The next piece OF lucidlty we find Is
/ akin TO the last. II is on page I6. N
at (congress) then deprived silver OF
its right 10 unrestricted free coinage and
destroyed II as legal tender money in
the payment of debts, except to the
amount OF IS"
This is accompanied with a picture OF
| Senator Sherman cutting off the head of
woman called silver, whose blood
spouts in every direction-a valuable aid
to a people earnestly seeking to know the
truth about a momentous public question.
| To all such lpt II be said that silver Is not
a woman, that IL is not a human being,
that It Is not even an animal, and hence
that Il has no more rights" than head
OF cabbage and that nobody but a cab
bage head would be deceived by such nom
sense. Yet a considerable part of
COINS" collection Of funny pictures and
comic literature is made up of hints, sug-
| gestions and assertions that silver has
been treated with cruelty and oppro-
brium, while gold has been petted and
pampered. If we should say that corn
has been mostly banlshed to the cattle
yard ana pig pen, while wheas mas been
and should make this the foundation OF a
demand for equal rights for cereals, the
| logic would be the same. What sort OF
! conception can anybody have Of the INTEL
iigence OF the American people VINO think
that their blood can be stirred by pic
| ture Of silver as Cock Robin in the throes
of death from an arrow shot by gold?
| This Is called making the science Of
| finance clear to the common people, just
as the Rev. John Jasper did with the
science OF astronomy.
The next contribution to clearness is a
| picture representing "Bimetallism. 1872
I ana Accommodation, 1884, the former
showing the workingman and his little
| child in a high state of prosperity and
| contentment and the latter showing
| hom in the last extreme Of famine ana
wretchedness. This does not require
! much notice. The printers devil might
have changed the, labels, in which case
the picture would have served equally
well so far as any intellectual purpose
goes But one fact ought to be borne In
! mind In 1872 we had neither silver nor
gold. There was no metallism'' In IL.
Specie payments were not restored till
seven years later. Therefore the label
''Bimetallism, 1872, . is itself lie, without
regard TO the condition of trade and In
| dustry at that time. This was, in fact.
} quite as bad as IL was In 1894. being on
the eve of one Of the most disastrous pam
! les in our history.