The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-05-28


cratic party. Election in November.
PASTE THEN IN YOUR HAT. /
The Index, of Atlanta, Ga, pre-
sents sixteen solid facts on the coin
age question which those who real
ly want light on the sni ect, whose
hearts are open to receive the truth,
should weigh and consider, The
Observer printed these facts once
before, but they are worth repeats
ing. Every one of the paragraphs
is finger. board pointing out the
path of safety, aud it is folly for a
people who govern themselves and
who therefore need all the inform"
alton they can get upon great ques-
tons, to the end thai may govern
themselves inteligently, TO ignore
such facts as these. They are more
weighty even, if possible, than Car-
isles five propositions at Bowling
Green:
/. The United States to-day has
larger circulation per capita than
any free coinage county ever did
have.
2. 1t has more gold dollars per
capita than any free coinage coun-
try on earth to-day has of all kinds
of money.
3. 1t has more silver dollars per
capita than any free silver country
to-day.
4. It has more gold and silver,
and the volume Of its silver circu~
1atIon is greater per capita than the
entire cireulation-of gold, silver
and paper reduced to sllver-of any
free coinage nation.
5. The United States under the
gold standar1-since 1S73-has
maintained greater circulation per
capita than it ever did before.
6. There has been five times
more silver dollars comet und der the
= s5f M srsntnd, from 1878 till now,
twenty-five years, than there was
under free coinage from 1892 to
1873, elghty-ene years.
Z. Every nation which has adopt
ed the gold standard Except one or
two, who are on a deprecated paper
basis) has increased its circulation.
s, No nation of firstOclass civil
ization has the silver standard,
8. Mexico is the highest type of
oily
the double standard, sogcalled, and
its per capita circulation is S4.71,
while our per capita circulation has
increased. since 1878, more than
the entire circulation of Mexico.
10. Mexico, the beat example Of
free silver, has no middle classes
has millionaires and paupers OF
poems.
IL. The wages of no free silver
country on earth average Il third o.
those OF the United States.
II. No country on earth has il
practice double gold and silver
stan dard.
ID. No country for 200 year;
since commerce became interna-
tionaD, ever has had in practice Z
double standard.
IA. The proposition that there
can be but one standard Is S elf-evi
dent, Carlisle, and MIR. Ingram
Secretary of the Treasury, in 1880
under Jackson)
\ 10. Both metals, under free coin
age, have never circulated concur
rently and ;ndiscrlmnatey in any
country where there are banks and
money dealers. Select committee
OF the House under Jackson 10
1882
16. The over valued metal, un-
der free coinage, drives out the
other. (Benton, 1834.)
Little is being done in the way Of
combating with fact, the argument
OF the friends of sound money. The
passions and prejudices of the peo>
pie are icing appealed 60 with such
STOCK phrases as "Shylocks" "Brit-
lsh gold, "Wall street" "tools of
monopoly" "hirelmgs,' and all the
ike. These terms and rolling sens
fences which sound well to the ear.
have carried the cheap money cause
along thus far, but the people cam
not be fooled all the time, and as
surely as the sun shines they are 90.
ing to demand, after awhile, an an
s~er to such arguments as are found
III the sixteen paragraphs above. |
Meantime the sound money men are
ADVISED to clip out the foregoing
facts aud keep them conveniently
near at haud.-Observer.
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