Bridgeton pioneer., 1896-09-17
! JUST SUPPOSE.

1 -. '' .'..Is uON1 NO1 ODh,
] Let us not get mixed up with complex
matters in connection with the free silver
idea. =
, Let us not befog our brain with argu-
ments about the crime of '73, or bother
with the many theories which the advo-
Gates of free silver are giving us.
But let us take a common sense view
of the situation.
Now, to start with. %
Suppose Bryan was elected and the
| free coinage act had been passed, and that
| free coinage was an actual fact.
Suppose that silver, could be taken to
the mint and coined into silver dollars,
at the ratio of Is to l. g
How would that affect us?
We haven't any silver bullion. q
| A whole lot of people who own silver
mines have it, and so they could have it
! coined into 16 to l dollars; but not hav-
| ing any ourselves, we could not have a
solitary, single dollar coined under the
| free silver act.
Now, suppose, however, that all the
silver-mine owners and others who had
silver took it all to Washington or Phila-
delphia, or some other United States
Mint, and had it coined into Is to dol
lars, and
Suppose so much had been coined that
all the silver in the world was made into
Is to dollars, and
Suppose that every one of these dollars
| were piled in one heap right ON the next
block, and
Suppose every single one of them was
worth 100 cents here and everywhere.
What good would they do us, unless
We had something we could trade by
which we could get one?
Well we have something to trade !;
everybody has.
Some have labor, so much for dollar
Some have lumber, so much for dol
lar.
Some have sugar or potatoes or hams
or coal or something else, all so much for
dollar.
We have advertising and subscription,
so much for dollar.
When we want one of those silver dol
lars, we cannot go and take it they don't
belong to us; they belong to the men
who took the silver to the mint to be
coined.
If we took one it would be stealing.
If we asked for one for nothing, it
would be begging.
If the owners gave us one for nothing,
it would be gift.
If we borrowed one, it would cost us
interest, and So
Most ofus, to get one, must trade labor,
lumber, sugar, coal, advertising or some
thing to get it.
This is absolutely and honestly so,
isn't it?
Well, being so, why do we take any
chances on dollar?
We can get gold now. -,
1t is worth 100 cents on dollar every
where.
So we have supposed the silver to be,
but
Suppose it isn't. Sc 49,.
What then {? or "a .yl's
What is the use of taking q chance
unless we can d 3 bstters?i A silver dollar
Won't be worth more than foo cents,
will it?
We are getting that now.
Let well enough alone. ID ,
Some say duty compels Democrat to-
back up and vote for a Democrat. You
have Bryan's word that he is no Demo-
crat. Let him dare deny that he said it.
Some say it is pretty bad now. We
might as well take the chance. Itcan't be
worse.
What kind of tomfoo1ery is this?
When our baby lay at deaths door did
we do any experimenting? We tried
everything which could cure, but we did
not experiment.
Are things bad in business way?
Let US tell you something to try.
Vote down this crowd of repudiators.
Tell the world in trumpet tones in No.
vember that we want the best money,
that we will take no other, and business
| will revive.
Let the capital out that Bryan and his
followers have scared under cover and
prosperity will come.
THE man who shouts "VOte for BRYAN