The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-11
THE ROANOKE TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL IL. 1896.
THEN HE COULD SEE.
Conversation Between n Farmer and
Mechanic About Sound Money.

Conversation Between Farmer and n
Mechanic About Sound Money.
a farmer returning ono day from
town, where he had been to deliver a
load of wheat, sold for GO cents n bush
oil, overlook mechanic and invited him
to ride He got up i'll tho wagon, and as
they drove slowly along tho country road
the following conversation occurred:
Farmer-Why arc you not at work
today?
Mechanic-I'm laid off. I've been
laid Off more than half my time for tho
last two or three years. Times are so
hard and seem to DO getting worse. L
hear that you are Populist and think
that free coinage of silver ut &c to l
would be benefit.
Farmer-Yes, we believe that it
would. We know that it would raise
the price of wheat and other products,
which would help us farmers, and ex
perience shows that when we are get
ting along we'll all other industries ben
eft by it.
Mechanic-Yes. 1 believe that, but
our currency.
Farmer-It would make our money
cheaper. That is what we want. The
trouble now is that our dollars are too
dear. 1t takes too much labor and prod
ucts of labor to get one Of them.
Mechanic-But they say that we
would have, if we adopt free coinage,
dishonest dollar, and we ought to have
honest dollars, sound money, good all
over the world. Don't you believe in
sound money?
Farmer-Yes, believe in sound mon
ey, but not the present double priced
money. believe i'll sound money, but
not so sound as to be beyond the reach
food; but, if all of us were obliged to
use one article of food, would not like
it to be canvasback duck or terrapin, for
then most of us would starve. I believe
in sound clothing; but, if all men We're
obliged to wear one kind of cloth, |
would not like that to be broadcloth, for
then most of US would have to 90 naked.
Sound money, according TO the bankers
idea, like Canvasback duck and broad
cloth, is very good thing for bankers
and millionaiIes, but most too expensive
for ordinary people like you and me.
a poor man Ginning in with million
aires and bankers about sound money
and honest dollars reminds me of the
woman who started out to buy dress.
She had only So, but she was determin-
ed to have only the finest quality, which
she asked for. The clerk showed her
some very fine silks, one of which she
selected, and then she inquired the price
: Ten dollars yard, said the clerk.
: Oh i said the woman, L have only So for
my whole dress. We'll, ma'am, can
sell you very nice cloth dress for that,
said he. No. said she, I won't have
anything but the very best quality, and
which would be recognized as such
throughout the civilized world I can
sell you half yard of this silk for your
So. said the clerk politely. Well, said
she, cut it off. And she paid her so
and went out happy. She had sound
goods, her half yard of silk would be
recognized as such throughout the civil
liked world, but it wasn't of much use
for dress, for she hadn't enough of it
to make an apron as big as Eve made
out of fig leaves.
Mechanic-I think l understand yoa.
You mean that we ought not to have a
money SO sound, that is so dear, that the
mass Of the people cannot get enough of
it to provide themselves with the neces-
saries and comforts of lifel
Farmer-Yes. that's it,
Northumberland, under the present
single gold standard, money is too dear,
and that this is the cause of tho hard
times and the suffering and want which
so many are enduring.
Farmer-That is the principal cause.
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