Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-07
THE SIlvERlTE CATECHlSM.
In Which Free Coinage Theories Arc
Plainly Stated.

In Which Free Coinage Theories Arc
Plainly Stated.
What is money? Something made out
of nothing by government.
Is there any limit to the amount of
money which government can make?
Only the capacity of the printing
presses of the country.
What kind of money is the best?
That which has the least value.
What does "cheap money" mean?
Money that will buy very little wealth
Why are some people poor? Because
the money they get in exchange for
their products or their labor will buy
large amount of goods.
How can the poor all be made rich?
BY stamping so cents worth of silver
zone dollar" and thus decreasing the
purchasing power of money.
What is a capitalist? A wicked sinner
who has worked hard and saved up
little property.
What is a patriot? a man who covets
his neighbor's property and wants to
get hold of it by law.
What does "repudiation" mean? 1t is
a simple scheme for readjusting the in
,egualities between the men who worked
and the men who have not.
What is the golden rule of the silver
ties? Do others as they would not do
you.
What are we to understand by ''hon-
esty" and good faith between men?"
That creditors are to be cheated out of
one-half of their property whenever the
debtors control congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more by
repudiating all the claims of creditors?
That will come later. The public must
be educated into silverism by degrees.
What is creditor? A fisnd in human
shape who loaned 100 cent-dollars and
doesn't want to be paid in dollars worth
80 cents. ---" -~'-
How will free silver help the farm
,ers? BY causing the withdrawal of all
loans, paralysis of industry, stagnation
of commerce and idlenesS of millions of
workers who now buy farm products.
How will the sixteen to one scheme
benefit the working classesP By max
ing them pay twice as much for every
thing they buy, while giving them little
or no increase in wages. 1t will also
confscate half of their savings bank
deposits.
What is a silver mine owner? A good,
kind, unselfish citizen, who doesn't
want higher prices of silver so that he
will get rich, but simply because he
loves his felloY man. -.~CcFc'
Does his love for the workers lead
him to pay more than market rates fol-
his labor? Not much. Business and
sentiment are two different things. Be
sides he doesn't have to.
What is a sound currency? Dollars
with so cents worth of silver and 81
cents worth of fiat or paper dollars al
fiat.
What is the chief duty of good citi
zen? To hate everybody who is indus
trious and thrifty, and to meekly swal
low all the nostrums of the cheap none,
Office seekers.
How can the people be made prosper
Gus? By setting class against class; dis
couraging the investment of capital
contracting the currency by ruinin
employers, driving out gold and ovel
throwing our sound financial system
Whidden Graham.
DearDess Not the Goal. ~
The silver men give away the cas-
when they say that free coinage wi
increase prices" The one universe
human interest is cheapness. The idea
condition would be one wherein all de
sirable things were produced withou
any cost at all. Every advance towar
that condition-that is to say, ever
cheapening of the necessities of life
agreat gain for everybody. On the othe
hand, every increase in the price of th
necessities of life is a direct and grie'
ous hurt to the people.