The Butler weekly times., 1896-08-06

Si-''A "AiI ASfeI. lie SILVER uOildr WAS
the dollar of the law and the contract.
1t is to this day the dollar of the
law and the contract To the silver
unit all the rest, both gold and sill
yer, have been conformed from our
first statute of 1892 to that i'll starred
date when the conspiracy against
our old constitutional order first
declared itself. The gold eagle OF
the original statute and that of all
subsequent statutes was rot made
to be ten dollars, but to be of the
value OF ten dollars. The half eagle
was not made to be five dollars but
Of the value of five dollars. The
quarter eagle was Of the value OF
two and one-half dollars and the
double eagle was of the value Of
twenty dollars Even the gold dol.
lar of 1859, marvellous to relate, was
not dollar, but was made TO be of
the value OF dollar. The subsid.
iary coins were all fractions of the
dollar was of silver only.
Not single dictionary Or ency-
clopedia i'll the English language
before the year 1878 ever defined
dollar in any term other than silver.
In that year the administrators of
the estate of Noah Webster, deceas
ed, cut the plates of our standard
lexicon and inserted new definition
that had become necessary in order
to throw penumbra of nationality
around the international gold con.
spiracy.
The way to obviate the further
disastrous effects of,this information
al gold conspiracy is to stop it. We
want the system Of bimetailism
restored in this country. Bimetal
lism means the option of the debtor
to pay in either of two statutory
coins according to his own conven-
ience and according to the contract
This option freely granted, the com
mercial parity of the two mouey
metals will be speedily reached, nor
can such parity ever be seriously
disturbed as long as the uuimpeded
option of the debtor to pay in the
one metal or the other shall be con
ceded by law and the terms of the
contract. The present commercial
disparity of the two metals has been
produced by the pernicious legisla
ton which began % years ago and
which has not yet satisfied itself
with the monstrous results that have
famed therefrom
WHAT Is PROPOSED
What do we propose to accom-
plish by free coinage! We propose
to do just this thing, viz to breal
the corner on gold ana reduce th'
exaggerated purchasing power o
that metal to its normal standard
Be assured there will be no further
talk of so cent dollar when tn,
commercial parity of the two metal
shall be reached. Every we'll inform
ed person must know that the dis
parity OF the two uncolned metals il
but the index of the extent to which
gold has been bulled III the markets
Of the world Il is not an index 0
the extent TO which raw silver ha
declined i'll its purchasing power i.
; the markets of the world, for raw
silver has not declined in It's pur
chasing power as compared witt
the average Of other commodities il
any civilized market placs OF the
whole globe. No man shall say th,
contrary and speak the truth. Thi,
grea. question is hot upon Us. 1
can be kept back uo longer. 1t is {
tremendous econ nomic question tha
ought to be decided i'll the court O
: right, reason and of fact. Ny judg
meut is that the American people il
spite of ali opposition are going tc
reclailu the tigh. Of transacsing theil
> business, and in particular Of paying
their deols according to a standard
unit worth hundred cents to tL.
dollar neither more uor less, auC
that they vii! .os accept ths intoier
able programme which al+"Isres il
! fact if not iu words al.-.e II, , sual
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