Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-08-26

parts Of your country rs legal ten
der for limited amount, and b,
redeemable at Its face value b,
your government" Again we sa,
TO look over all of the records o.
all the statesmen aud look at al
of the history, and look at all OF
the matter of every kind connected
with any statements of free silver
advocates and we declare that il
will be plain TO the most careless
reader that the cause has absolute.
ly no ground for foundation to
stand upon. The teacher continu-
ed HE effort at educating by read
ing from the history of the United
States by Ridpath. While this is
a good book and Ridpath is good
historian, the gentleman did not
read us history, but prophecy. Mr..
Ridpath left the beaten path of
history in which it Is only permit
ted 10 record facts and events,
and undertook to prophesy what
would be the effect of certain leg
islation, the act of which he was
recording, and this prophecy must
go for what it is worth in view of
facts of history which show that
none of the effects have resulted
as he foretold. SO that in his eff
fort to introduce our own historian
he made serious blunder. He
then undertook to tell us what cur
gold coin was received for or what
1T would bring us in England, and
here assertrd that we could only
obtain 80 cents on the dollar, there
being as he said, only 80 cents
worth of gold and ten cents of al
10y in it to the dollar. This was
an absolutely false statement of
fact and the gentleman should
never have made any such state
ment through ignorance of such a
well-known fact as the value of
our gold coin. Our gold coin dol
lar contains in total weight % $40
grains, 2322-100 grains of pure
gold and 2 $500 grains Of alloy
or copper. Pure gold is worth in
in any market of the world the
equal of 100 cents for every 90
22-1OO grains, and copper is worth
but $4,000 of one cent for $500
grains at IL cents per pound. The
slight expense of the copper is
borne by the government In coin
ing and does not add to or take
away any value from our coin in
any country. After this he paint
ed q glowing picture of the wonder
ful prosperity of France az a ma
ton and her citizens as individu-
ais, which we are all prepared to
admit, although not one of our
working people or one of our farm
ers would today exchange places
with one of his French brethren,
indeed would scorn to live as they
live and on what they live.
What we do object to his doing is
endeavoring by his emphatic state
ment that this prosperity is due to
the fact that France has the free
and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver. The fact is that
on the 9th day of August, 1875, the
door of the French mint was closed
to silver and has remained so,ever
since, and we would recommend
the gentleman, as well as our 9TH
or readers, 20 investigate more
closely either into the facts OF the
case he presents or ire amount of
knowledge possessed by his audi
ence before he attempts to attribute
results to causes which do not ex-
ist. Another topic he touched ON
was the income tax and his only
attempt to deny the decision of the
highest tribunal of the land being
a just one was to cast an imputa-
ton OF the honesty of one Of our
Justices of the Supreme Court of
the United States, bsing at the
same time careful to say that there
was absolutely nothing upon
which TO base such a charge except
the fact that he had, after deliber-
alton, changed his opinion to that
which was expressed by exactly
half the balance Of the court. We
think it would have been decided
ly better taste to have said moth
ing.