Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-07-23
(C,rrsspondsncs of he Bsaeon.)


Nhicabo piasiOTh las Any ciause IN
IL even remotely suggestive Of an
archy, tell him he 10 either q knave
or fool and that he does not know
the definition Of the word anarchy.
That's what | tell 'em.
You might think such language
from me somewhat strange and III
consistent with my course in the
last falls campaign, as at that time
| was editor Of Republican paper
in Worcester county. ! am happy
to say, however, that | did not vote
the Republican ticket, as the nom
inees, according to my opinion, did
not measure up to the reform stand
ard which they professed. | have
the right to change my mind, and
everybody but fool does so many
many times during the course Of
his life in certain things including
politics.
The Democratic party hiss By
the Chicago platform come back to
the people and declared itself the
party of the people and / hold out
my hand to il, yea, both hands.
The free coinage of silver is just
as much a right Of the people as
coinage Of gold.
A man said TO me the other day
eff the free silver ticket wins all
the silver mine owners in the West
will get rich" l replied "let them
get rich, that will not effect you or
me or make either Of as poorer, and
look at the thousands Of men those
miners will employ, who are now
idle. They will get good pay and
push it along and perhaps half q
dollar or so Of it might drop our
way" He said he hadn't looked
at in that light before and if he
had got rich in his business, which
was making horse collars, he guess
ed he would have been glad of it
and he acknowledged that he
wouldn't kick il the United States
would buy all the horse collars he
could make and issue certificates
on them.
These gold bugs give me q pain
in the neck. They assert but dom
argue. ! said to o man the other
day who was trying to argue in ia
vor Of the single gold standard,
"You've got gold dollar and I've
got silver dollar, and if we 60
up the street to o haberdasher who
has two shirts in his window, both
made of the same material and fin
ished alike, I'll buy one with my
silver dollar and with your gold
dollar you can get the other one,
and that's all you can do, you won't
even get five cent necktie thrown
it."
"But he said you can't 60 to Eu-
rope with your silver"
"Don't want to CO." said, elf
| did, and even had gold to 60 with
| would get letter of credit. Who
ever heard Of man loading up his
pockets with either gold or silver to
take trip to Europe"
These are some samples of the
gold peoples arguments here, only
there are others, which are worse
and more puerils.
Another thing to which l would
call your attention. is the fact that
the gold people call the present sill
yer dollar So cent dollar, and as
far as have seen this has gone un-
contradicted by the press. Bar
silver to-day is worth 69A cents an
ounce. The alloy used in coming
silver reduces the pure silver to an
extent to make the dollar to day in
bullion value worth about 60 cents,
but the alloy costs something, run
ming the mint costs something and
even if the dollar had only ten cents
worth of silver in it and you could
buy as much with it as you can
with q gold dollar, wat'ell's the
difference.
The gold dollar is alleged too,
and in proportion, just as much as
the silver dollar. Neither metal is
virgin in coin. they would be too
soft and wear out too quick. Just
like they would in q watch case or
finger ring without being mixed
with some other harder metal.
Outside Of any other argument,
things are so now and business so
dull, that free silver can't make it
any worse, and l am going to vote
for Bryan and Sewall. And, when
n man asks ma sGhow vop rv,ro 80