Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-05-03


think Of cIiticling; for 10 Is patent
fact from he reading If the book itself
and also from the pro,pectu, Of the
work aud newspaper announcements.
Bat his arguments are not hctions.
The argument, of well known and
prominent men whicn hc dcmolishes
are in part if not all, selected,
from the public uitcrauces OF these
men. Neither are his facts. history
and statistics, fiction. Ihey are all alb
soluiely correct A. far a. they can he
aSceItalnod from The best authorities.
There was one error la the t. 5 re-
ports which wa, quoted by Coin" civ
inc the total amount IF silver coined
from the foundation of the government
TO 1873, at SOB ,0OO. 600, when it should
have been 81 5000. 000. aud is So given
in recent reports. But this error was
one favoring the argument Of gold
monometalli,lS, who have continued to
helttle the silver coinage prior to 1873,
and this correction is against them.
The Tale Of Two Nations" has, of
course, many fictitious character, and
some real ones but the work is am
nounced and given to the world as "a
novel; and ,addc>t commentary upon
our history is that the main features of
the conspiracy in the decentralization
act are terrible truths which blot the
otherwise fair page of American history.
The silver dollar-the Mexican dol
lar which i not bolstcrcd mp to the
two dollar point Of the American dol
lar-will buy a. much today as it ever
would. Yet the gold dollar by pro-
cess Of corneriug, making it the only
money Of ultimate redemption, has
been forced up till 1t is of double the
buying capacity il had twenty years
ago; and the gold-bug robbers and
manacs pirate of the iifty-cent dollar,o
the dishonesty of wanting 10 pay debts
by scaling them down one half. Pro-
fcssor Andrews of Brown University
says there are (Sl 100000, 100000 a
uillion and half of time contract, iu
the world, all changed in favor Of the
creditor by the constantly increasing
yalue of the gold standard unit. Yet
this bowling watch dog OF Pluto, Piu-
tocracy and hades, PIRATES of honesty
1t is honest 10 force the debtor to pay
more than he agreed, but it is dishon-
est 10 force the creditor 20 take less,
Bimctalli,ts seek 20 arrest the dishonest.
treacherouS. ruiuous decline of prices,
and pharisaical hypocrites howl with
rage At the bare prospect of losing lheir
booty. We can do no better than to
give the word picture drawn 10y Henry
Demarest Lloyd a. truly characterizing
the tendency and present stage of mod
ern civilization. The greatest of all the
trusts, "cOruerers, com binatiOns. the
mother of them all is the gold trust
He opens the first chapter of Lis book
as follows:
Nature is rich; but everywhere man,
the heir of nature, is poor Never in
this happy country OF elsewhere-ex-
cept in the Land of Miracle, where "they
did all eat and were iilled" there
been enough of anything for the peo-
pie. Never since time began have all
the sons and daughters Of men been
all warm. and all filled. and all shod
and rooted Never yet have all the
virgins, wise or foolish, been able to
ill their lamps with oil.
The world enriched by thousands Of
generations Of toilers and thinkers, has
reached "A fertility which can give every
human being a plenty undreamed Of
even in the Utopias, But between this
plenty ripening on the boughs of our
civilization and the people hungering
for it step the "cornerers", the Syndi-
Gates. trusts, combinations, with the
cry OF lover production too inu'h al
everything. Holding back the riches
of earth, sea, and sky from their fell
lows who fami,h and freeze in the
dark. they declare to them that there
is too much light and warmth and
food. They assert the right, for their
private profit, to regulate the consump.
ton 10y the people of the necessaries of
life. and 10 control production, not by
the needs of humanity, but by the de-
sires of "A few for dividends. The coal
syndicate thinks there is too much
coal There is too much IRON. too
much lumber, too much ilour-for this
or that syndicate
The majority have never been able
to buy enough of anything; bat this
minority have too much of everything
to sell.
G. II. CHASE.
Result of the state Canvass.
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