The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-10-22
PUTTING IT VERY SIMPLY.
The A. n. O Of the Money Question for
the Wage Farmers.

Let us not get mixed up with complex
idea
Let us not befog our brain with argu-
mcnts about tho crime Of '73, or bother
with the many theories which the advo-
cafes Of free silver are giving us.
! But let us take common sense view OF
\ the situation.
Now, TO start with.
Suppose Bryan was elected and the FREQ
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
a ratio OF l6 to 1.
/ How would TINT effect usY
We haven't got any silver coin.
A whole lot Of people who own silver
mines have It, and so they could have 10
! coined into 10 to 1 dollars but, not hav-
ing any ourselves, we could not have a
solitary, single dollar coined under the
silver act
| Now, suppose, however, that all the sill
yer mine owners and others who had sill
vcr took IL all 10 Washington or Philadel-
/
and had IL coined into 10 to dollars. and
Suppose so much had been :coincd that
oil tho silver In the world was made into
10 to dollars, and
Suppose that every one Of these dollars
were piled In ono heap right on the next
block, and
suppose every single one Of thcm was
worth 100 cents here and everywhere.
What good would they do us, unless wo
had something we could trade by which
we could get oncg
We'll, We have something to trade every
body has.
Some have labor, so much for u dollar
Some have lumber, SO much for a dollar
Some have sugar or potatoes or beans or
coal or something else, all 50 much for u
dollar
We have advertising and subscriptions
80 much for II dollar.
When we want one Of those silver dol
lars we cannot 90 and take 1t thoy don't
belong TO us; they belong to the men
who took tho silver to the mint to be
coined
II we took one IL would bc stealing.
II we asked for ono for nothing, it would
bc begging
If the owners gave us ono for nothing,
II would he gift
II We borrowed one, II would cost IL.
interest, and 50
Most of US, 10 get one, must trade,
labor, lumber, sugar, coal, advertising or
something to get IT,
This Is absolutely and honestly so, isn't
itS
Well, being SO, why do wo tako any
chances on the dollarp
We can get gold now.
IL Is worth 100 cents on n dollar every
where
So We have supposed tho silver to DO
but suppose 1t isn't
What thenY
What IL the uso Of taking chance un
less we can do better9 A silver dollal
won't bo worth moro than 100 cents, will
itP
We aro getting that now.
Let well enough alone.
Some say duty compols Democrat q
back up and vote for Democrat. You
have Bryan's word that he Is no Demo
crat. Lot him dare deny that no said IL.
Some say IL is pretty bad now, W.
might as well take u chance. 1t can't b,
worse.
, What kind of tomfoulcry Is this?
When our baby lay at deaths door, di.
we do any experimenting We tried cv
erythng which could cure, but wo did no
experiment
Are things bad In business wayY
Let us tell you something 10 try
Vote down this crowd Of rcpudintors.
Tell the world in trumpet tones in No
vcmbcr that we want the bcst money
that wo will take no other, and buslncs,
will revive.
Lct the capital out that Bryan and hi,
followers have scared under cover and
prosperity will comc.-N. Y. Lumber
J fIruIp I,uppnI