Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-19


do not that day viii be lost. and after
a man has passed the 18th mile post
'Unslffe's road he has but few days to
lose, and if you will allow me space in
your paper, will endeayOr to be as
brief as possible. for / do not believe
that when the voters of Trego county
understand the coinage laws they will
tgo for relief TO the same crowd who
have gotten them into all the trouble
of the past three years and cast their
votes in their favor. But the curb
spreading information and misinfOr-
nation concerning the great issues of
THE day. But. my friends. do not fear
them. for the best of them dare not
face you as was thoroughly demon
strated to me on Saturday evening.
September 9Th However. it is uni
versally admitted that something in
the present policy of our government
has largely contributed to bring hard
what change ought to be made to
restore prosperity The popular de-
mand is strong in favor of a radical
change from the present policy and
such a change must inevitably change
our condition for the better or for the
worse 1t is. therefore, the duty of
every voter to strive to understand
what is the true interest of the coun-
try. 1t is not only a duty of patriot
ism, since the nations honor is in
volved: but selfish duty. since the
issue at stake involves the purchasing
power of every mans wages. As a
voter / am seeking to know what
measure will best promote my inter-
est and my country's welfare The
curbStone orator has made some as
sertions that do not appear to bear
the test of reason and history 1t is
the duty of every one having the
country's good at heart to do what he
can to counterfeit the effect of these
false arguments in order to prevent
any from being deceived.
/ have been asked by conscientious
advocate of free silver, is not gold
and silver, coined at Is to 1, the money
of the constitutions
The constitution does not specify
what shall be used as money All it
says is that THE congress shall have
power to coin money, regulate the
value thereof, and of foreign coins
Congress may therefore coin money
out of any metal that it finds adapted
to the purpose. and regulate the value
of such coins to suit the intrinsic
value of the metal used. The only
to gold and silver in the con-
is found in the list of powers
that individual states are prohibited
from exercising: mo state shall coin
emit bills of credit, or make
but gold and silver coin
tender in payment of debts"
Another free silver advocate says:
1--WE need the dollars of our dad
dies" What kind of a dollar was
that? 1t was dollar authorized be-
fore the constitution was adopted 1t
four and five-twelfths
present dollar. At the values then
this dollar was intrinsically
worth more than dollar of gold, so
the silver dollar went out OF circula-
tion- After about five years, in order
to restore a parity and keep silver in
the weight of the silver
dollar was reduced to the present
standard The dollar of the dad
dies was not Is to 1 dollar.
A question causing some confusion
is a. to the position given the silver
dollar by the law of 1192-the first
coinage act under the constitution.
That act in enumerating the coins
concludes with dollars or units, each
TO be of the value of Spanish milled
dollar. and to contain three hundred
and seventy one grains and four-six-
teenths parts of a grain of pure sill
YER etc There is nothing to indi-
cate that silver was intended to be
the standard money or preferred
above gold, but the dollar was the
unit by which to count values. and the
silver dollar being the only dollar
coined was the unit. Contrast with
this the act of 1873, which in chang
ing the unit distinctly asserts that
the gold dollar shall be the unit of
value, and it seems to me plain that
no especial significance was intended
to be attached to the clause in the
act of 1892 establishing a unit of
value.
The curbstone orator Is especially