The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-25

Making graHH tpial olssAL'-N'u-'''Vv
Each and every dollar OF which repre-
sents 100 cents In gold.
II will thus be noticed that while
there Is to-day. In the treasury. Sil.Agl-
900 silver dollars. there Is In circulation
tas abave} only 55,OOO.OOO.
The careful reader viii note this re-
maFkabIe disparity between the num-
ber OF silver dollars In the Treasury ond
the number In actual circulation: and,
II honest with himself. will stop long
enough to inquire into the reasons
therefor. And yet we hear daily the
plradings from the Populists fOr the
free and unlimited coinage or silver at
Is To l." and they tell US that they want
silver RESTORED" to its happy conit-
ton Of and before 1873. They will not
tell their readers that during the whole
eighty years OF the existence OF our
government up to 1873 there had been
coined only about 100000 silver dol
lars, and that since 1873 there has been
coined more than 4OO,O00000. They are
carcfui ia conceal. as far as they can.
this eloquent fact. They gestlculute
wildly and VoclfsFously for 'bi-metal-
ISM" and yet fail to tell you that since
1873 IL the only lime that this country
has ever really had blmetalIsm in It's
pTUtLlEIl. livery uul tApSllNhNNt
II 5O-urnt silver dollars are the great
blessing thnt the UNLIMITED" silver ad-
vocatcs claim. why do they not put into
circulation the $40 millions that are
now and have long been lying unused
in the treasury vaults In Washington,
Notwithstanding the eloquent fact that
the secretary OF the treasury has had
a standing proposition to express, free
OF charge to any part OF the United
States. whatever amount that may be
asked for. II GO millions out Of $40 mill
lions silver dollars or about eRe-sevs
enth, Is the largest amount that the
government has ever been able TO beg
the people TO take, why Gun there be
any sound. practical business reason tn
pile up in the treasury, with the al
ready redundant three hundred and
sixty millions, further unlimited
sum, asked for by impractical men,
who surely do not stop to consider the
Illogical and inedcienslble position that
they have taken? And why does any
honest debt-payins man, especially In
the southern states, want the govern
ment to buy from the silver states n
metal worth 90 cents and have 1t
stamped 100 cents? Why, especially.
should southern cotton growers b. will
Ing to give one dollar for siNty-two
cents worth OF silver unless they can
get also one dollar for siXty-two cents
worth Of their cet,on2 Mississippi
grows cotton, while Nevada grows sill
yer. Is there any sound reason why
the former should not ask the govern
ment OF the United States to buy their
cotton on the same relative basis Of
renl value that they would pay to Me-
vada FOR silver bars? IL there any sa-
cred preference to b. shown to Nevada
over and above Mississippi simply be-
cause the former produces raw silver
while the latter produces raw cotton7
Both products are mere mCrchuntablc
commodities: and silver is no more 10
be worHhipped because 1t may be by
law, converted into a circulating rcdt-
UNI. And yet the sound money" men
would not discredit silver TO the extent
OF It's Issue in any limited amount that
can be kept Mt 4 parity always with
gold.
why are our 400 millions silver dol.
lars not readily passed Mt par, while the
silver dollars Of Mexico, containing
much more silver than ours, can bc eN-
changed for ours Mt two to one? It Is
for the sole reason that ours nfr at OPP
ton rcdsomable by our government in
gold while the Mexican dollara are not