Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-10
SIMPLIFED.
Coin All the Silver Into United
States Dollars,
EVERY ONE WORTH 100 CENTS.

and Then what?-No Necessity Of Com
plex Propositions Theoretical Un-
certainties In Discussing the Financial
| Question as 1t Exists In This Cam
paign-The A B @ of the Issue.
| Let us not get mixed up with complex
matters in connection with the free sill
yer idea.
| Let us not befog our. brain with argu.
ments about the crime of '73, or bother
with the many theories which the adj
vocates of free silver are giving us.
But let us take d common sense view
of the situation ,3 9Tis, 'i
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 16 to j.
How would that affect us?
We haven't got any silver coin.
A whole lot Of people who own silver
mines have it, and so they could have it
coined into l6-to.l dollars !; but, not hav.
ing any ourselves. we could not have O
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
Philadelphia, or to some other United
States mint, and had it coined in l6 to
dollars, and
Suppose so much had been coined
that al fhn c;1rar ~, xr,nrll
made into IL to dollars, and
Suppose that every one of these dol-
lars 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 dol
lar.
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 subscrip-
tions, so much for dollar.
When we want one of those silver dol
lars, we can not 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 ore dollar, it would be
stealing.
If we asked for one for nothing, it
would be begging
Ii the owners gave US one for nothing,
it would be gift.
If we borrowed one, it would cost us
interest, and SO
Most OF us, to get one, must trade
labor, lumber, sugar, coal, advertising or
something to get it.
This is absolutely and honestly so,
isn't it?
Well, being so, why do we take any
chances on the 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.
What then?
What is the use of taking q chance
unless we can do better? A silver dollar
won't be worth more than 100 cents,
will it?
We are getting that now.
Let well enough alone.
Some say duty compels a Democrat to
back up and vote for 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 chance 1t can't
be worse.
What kind of tomfoolery 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 repudia-
tors.
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.--New York Lum-
Der Trade Journal.