Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-27
cvAsE's SARCASM.
c,,,,,n Who Is Too Much fol
P'a,a AZ satanic Majesty of Oregon
journalism.

"a FnIlOh ''"
,,ocss in the gold standard
q ,,, to be needed than the
liar s,yle Of argument adopted by
aodite speakers and the soldite
Although this style OF argu-
hardly seems peculiar in the
as,. for we are used to seeing
.o ~, will take the Oregonian
Illustration. Nine-tenths OF
or..pplan's campaign arRument's
v,e this: with great labor and
i,o mendacity, Harvey Scott con-
,,s . man Of straw, and labels
a, "The Typical Silver Man." and
I'M a great flourish of trumpetS' he
IN all passers-by to stop and see
ornlhllate the silver heresy.
0o he stands off ten PAGES, and
.cts on the poor, inoffcnslve mani
4. al the artillery OF that great
|, of his, until he has utterly de-
.l,sbed and wiped of the face OF
(. earth this nondescript creature of
4. ovr manufacture. Can any one
4 chat satisfaction the half-crazy
K. mariner Of anarchists derives from
4. performance? Does i've imagine
ID he is acceptably serving his
,,,tsares? 1t would be an insult to
4. intelligence OF our people to sup
4. that he really accomplishes any
I'M commensurate with the wear
N, tear OF his greay matter. Why
..,,ld he waste so much good ammu-
Lion in blowing up a figment of his
st imagination?
harvey Scott's man OF straw Ia
,.her, silver mine owner and politi-
b principally the latter. He is
b a repudlatlonist, an anarchist,
IA other dlsagreeable things too nu-
'ssOus too mention. He believes,
a.bng other fallacles, that the adop-
|oa Of blmetallism by the United
..ies alone would double the real
s|oe Of all the silver In the world"
a have this on the authority OF
|kisey Scott himself, and he ought 70
now what his own straw man be-
kles. Now, no sane man OF flesh
IA blood believes, or pretends TO be-
~ that the adoption Of blmetallism,
'en by all the nations, would double
'e real value OF all the silver In the
|a|d." The goldbug who tells you
AN blmetallists rest their faith on
a an absurd proposition either
1sn't know what he is talking about,
else he is plain, unvarnished liar.
'|petalllsts believe and know that
N coinage and equal treatment OF
= two metals, gold and silver, at a
k'|p approximately the same as the
I'Atiye quantities OF the two
''hls available for coinage (now IS to |
+ Fonld inevitably bring them TO q
|fty, and keep them there. We
NV that II would do this by de-
'aSng the exchangeable value Of
and Increasing the exchanEeable
~ OF silver Any man, whether
\ lelleves in II or not, who cannot
hat this is very different propo-
~ n from doubling the real value
! the silver in the world" must
ncapable Of performing the feat
b reasoning"
Is not the purpose OF this article
'sue the main question, but only
phtOut some OF the ways In which
icy Seott's straw man differs from
zeal silver man.
NNey Scott's straw silver man has
heard OF the Gresham law. so
Is a thing that paralyzes him
II Is brought to his notice
olmetallists know that the
nam law is simply a natural law,
u Sa vital part OF their theory;I
'hey also know what seems to
escaped the notice OF all these
Drained philosophers who train
wall street-that there Is a
81 to the Gresham law. When
all'Wise goldite abacadabras
seen the cheaper money drive the
out OF circulation they seem to
'OO much exhausted mentally TO
the Investigation any farther.