The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1895-08-10
QUESTIONS FOR sILvERrTEe.

mainly of denunciations of the
crime "of 1873" and abuse of the
gold bugs and money sharks.
When asked for a plain statement
of the effects of their cheap dol
lar scheme they dodge and wrig-
gle, but refuse to give a straight
answer. So long as they confine
themselves to accounts of the
good times which they allege will
follow the adoption of free coin
age, they may make some con-
verts. But as soon as their pre-
tences are punctured by sharp in
terrogation points, they collapse
and are heard of no more. When
believer in honest money is urg-
ed to vote for enriching silver
mine owners at the expense of
the whole people let him ask the
silverite some of these questions:
l. Has any intelligent busi-
ness man with the knowledge of
the laws which govern prices,
ever given an opinion that by
opening its mints to the unlimi-
the coinage of Silver at 16 to the
United States could raise the COM
mercial value of silver fifty per
cent?
2: Is there a country in the
world which permits the free
coinage of silver at any ratio,
which has not silver standard
for it's currency?
3. Is it not a fact that the
great majority of the business
men (merchants, manufacturers,
etc., of the country, who are the
men who carry on its commerce
ana industry, are in favor of our
present standard of value?
4. Is not the movement for
free coinage largely due to the
selfish motives of silver producers
acting through designing politi-
clans?
3. Would not the adoption of
a free coinage policy by the Uni
ted States drive all the gold out
of this country, thus contracting
the currency over 100000, 900?
6. If so--and that such would
be the result is generally admitted
by all leading silverites-would
not the effect be at once to bring
about widespread insolvency,
business depression, and general
disaster?
Z. Would not the result of
putting this country on the silver
basis be that debtors would be
enabled to repudiate one-half of
the money they had loaned?
8. Is there any country which
has the silver standard in which
wages are not lower than in gold
standard countries?
8. Would not the free coinage.
by doubling prices Gas based on
cheap silver money!, reduce wa
ges in this country through the
doubled cost of everything the
wage Garner must buy?
10. Admitting that on the sill
yer standard the farmer would
get higher prices for his wheat.
etc., would he not have to pay
more for everything.he bought in
exchange for his praduct? If so,
how would he be benefited?
III. If the farmers can iustlv
ask the Government to adopt a
currency systemwhich will enable
them to repudiate one-half of
their debt, would not the man
who own nothing be entitled to
have thr Government take away
half of the farmers property and
give it to those who have nonep
IL. 1t cutting the value of the
dollar in two would be a public
benefit, why not quadruple prices
by making twenty-five cent
dollars?
10. How would the man who
now has no money be able to get
some without working for it if we
had free silver?
ID. Under free coinage would
it not be the silver producers. and
net the Government, who would
regulate the volume of currenevp
IN MISSISSIPPI.