The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-29
GEN. PoUJADE'S VIEWS.
A Strong Argument for 6imetaIism by
Silver Republican.

prnciples OF republicanism, in this, that
merely the empty name remains. The
practical tendency of the financial plank is
to make gold the only money. The vision
Of an international agreement" as to silver
money of interchange. co-existing with a
tariff imposed by ole ru -
money of interchange is ridiculous.
One able gold orator whose keen sense of
humor would not permit him even to refer
to this idea (which if carried out will be
highly practical joke on Americans) discards
the pretence, and speaks of money [gold
as something greater than man, beyond
the power of the human race"-a part of
nature.
Natural money" is a contradictory term.
The most primitive people, SO presumably
the most natural, have no money. The first
money of the earlier dwellers on the sea
shore was usually shells. Money is artificial.
The best money, perhaps unknown to us
now. will be the product of the highest
civilization. OF the substances that now
seesn speciaily adapted to use as money,
silver is not inferior to gold 1t was money
at least as early as gold, and is money now,
10 spite Of discriminating laws, over large
portion OF the earth. Hundreds of millions
Of people know no other "money redemp.
tion" than silver. Gold has nearly all of its
value simply because it is treated as money
Let the United States, France, Germany
italy, Russia. Austria and Great Britain
with her dependencies declare by law that
gld should not be legal tender and it would
ell very cheap. The value would probably
be less than that of silver; because it is not
useful to man for SO many purposes as silver.
Those gold men who are not idolators
lit seems that the "Ctreat Iconoclast'' found
deity) acknowledge that supply and de-
ynaud regulate values. The supply of gold
i. irregular. Ike that Of silver II it prove
tr.e a. Sfrdlcted. that free silver coinage
.,l! drive gold out Of til. country there
vii! be about d't-en per cent. more gold
thereby addei to tbe geld OF gold standard
countries. According to the gold mans
reasoning this should decrease the value of
gold il Europe by fifteen per cut. Then
the annual product Of gold, amounting to,
say six per cent. on th total amount
kgnan to be in the hands Of men, less say
GDe per cent. for abrasion and losses, would
ia twenty years double the worlds gold.
But as the rsti0 O; ss.ereas- is tself growing
high.r, it seems more probable that in twenty
years there will be three tlmes as much
gold as now. Indications point to lar
greater increase.
lsit claimed that, other thing got changing
in quantity proportionally there will still
be some magical qualit, III the natural
money" gold, that will cause one ounce of
gold then to buy rs much Of other things rs
one ounce nf gold buys ntu! No This
would seem too simple for argument. were
st not that whole pages Of s-.at newspapers
are daily given to reproduction of arguments
,of noted men against hese truths.
The supply Of gold is increasing, and will
continue 10 increase Whle the decrease
in the value OF gold may be going on. an-
other change may occur. Ii the United
States should adopt free coinage Of silver,
we ooa,s, il we desired. coin rapidly. 1t
would ba Rerely mstter OF men. machinery
and supply Of metsl We lave the men
and could make l6e machinery to coin
billion dollars year. iYc need much more
metallic money also We cay3t gnder the
financial views nov prevailing, t. sboish
rall paper money except that based on metals.
The wealth Of the nation is valued at sixty
five billion dollars, not counting money
sixty tixe times as much as it was sixty five
years ago, when it was only one billion
Our internal commerce has increased in pro-
portion, sni demands proportional in
crease in money. Large commercial trans
actions, on an average, involve the actual
exchange Of money to much less than ten
per cent. OF their amount. There is not
nearly euongh money to do business on a
wash basis, the only honest basis in practice.
We need much more metallic money. If
the GOLD he driven out of the country" we
can use silver for small chsoge and paper
representatives OF silver for large amounts.
We would need soue billions of ounces, of
silver. Conld We get one billion IN one year!
Where? Is Europe to 90 without silver for
change? Will a silver dollar be worth less
then than now! II so, why? Answer true,
don't repeat that old misstatement about
redemption in gold When Bismarck as
shrewd. and witha as bread man as any
living, gave us a suggestion IN this lice the
'honest" press cried forgery"
There are other misleading cries.
"Stop thief, shouts John Sherman who
iatlmates that the American people may be
dishonest, and himself insists that they,
whose true servant he ouhgt to be- shall per-
form a written cuntract otherwise than
according to the terms of that contract
Anarchist, yell Methodist Bishop Foss
and Catholic Bishop Ireland; because
Bryan. platform declares that the arbitrary
.nse OF force is wrong.
Treason, I" says Cleveland Chief Execu.
tive who has repeatedly trampled the laws
Of his country to earth, when they we're
barriers to the will Of his masters.
1t tisa sad play: Cleveland as leading
patriot; Sherman as an honest statesman;
Foss and ireland welding their slaves in an
unfamiliar fight against law; Ingersoll kneel
ing, delighted with new sensstion. 10 the
worship of his frst god.
Orators are praising this play. Priests Of
many creeds are blessing it. The illustrated