The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-10-02


Ex-senator Arkeli sent the following let
ter TO the New York Journal last week
which /, failed TO print:
Canajoharie, y. Y. August 81, 1896.
Editor Journal: / notice in yodr valuable
paper Of Saturday last two cartoons from
the Judge issued six years apart. and by
YOU placed in contrast TO show the marked
difference OF opinion between the dates.
IL IS useless 20 dilate upon the difference
OF time. conditions and clrcums tances. he
shoes that At the boy pinch the man. The
promised financial paradise IS now buried
in Paradise alley The earlier ef-
fort TO bolster silver TO higher
value by the absorption OF its
afiiuent production was a failure.
The increased output OF ITS Ter cent.
in the last decade over any prior period
and the Tssllns UP OF uudemanded millions
Of he white metal IN the United States
treasury-with the expectancy on our part
20 drive the best commercial nations by
this plan into imetalasIgi-Tnenaced the
government with not only possible but
probatlA bankruptcy. Although the diff
ference between the silver purchased and
the marked dollar was covered as a prof
II into the treasury, and unlike the present
free silver profeosition-which proposes 20
turn over nearly 60 per cent advantage TO
the owners OF silver mines from the mint
ing 81 the buliIorE-4t was a load that was
bending TO breakage the back Of Uncle
Sam and crooked his shoulders more than
those Of Atlas. who strove. and failed In
RS attempt - carry the world Even ths
eta tesmea who aGthcipated SUCCESS from
this somewhat rainbow experiment. as K
melted into thin air and showed II was
a. such stuff as dreams ara made Of Joined
IN asking the repeal OF their own pro2o-
s.tfon.
do not PROPOSE 20 shresh the ola straw
o. repeated statements. or what use Is
r % esN attention 10 the fact that copper
s.x years ago worth s. cents a pound Is
row. notR-f ming as enormous utill-
cation in electrical Appliances. only worth
u cents per poelni. Il ts Of little Use 20
Dote that II was not silver bat Russian
aui Argentine exports which lowered the
gsrlses ~ wheat. and that the fertility %
TIE western prairies has cut down the
value or English farm Iands from 500 10
iszss than $50 per are II ia useless 20 err
e;e against tne mental dciusiogs OF those
who propose another new experiment.
forgectins. The recent one % 1899 when STR.
BrEaa, the Chicago candidate. SAID in hls
pg o3sc speessl vote far Grover Cleveland
sni ten shilling wheat" + - the same
del'~tej dog who saw IN the water the
meat IN tiae month q. his shadow. and
saatchtng for Il lost his own
The Caicsgo PLATFORM would have been
% SILVER % ! OF god. or silver a. - value
IN ths market. I, w-ossls have even lees
@0e3 suspicion II tNe great SILVER producers
had inspired a PROPOSE ton that tha q fer
eIasse h~sWsea tAe market dollar as in 1880
and the cost 81 k-say the other half
should - held BY the goverr4Y1ers. for rs
1 ttHsate resieFaE stiol. instead q song &c
the profit q ms more or less larger SILVER
sffa3.eases. The Csalcaro platform, verila
r. fAasE :.
- tas rear thu unfortunate experiment Of
Fs@TEsa4 rre@ trade, had K dersoasnc n
. nad O asshe18 ira tosertue OF the naS,aa-
cation ~ interstate commerce mra ma
tesaFsssssT@e@on - tie Unitsd States mails
sd TIE surg FessfoiA. instead ~ cotn-uenda-
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" hen silver e Aakeva with a., a-~1--iatges,
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