Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-19

wanted to coin any because at that
time the amount of silver in dollar
was worth three and one-fourth cents
more in the market than with the
stamp of the government on it Con-
sequently the act was only recogni-
ton of the fact that the silver dollar
had gone out of use
Now as to the characterization. let
US first consult the dictionary and see
what we are talking about The die
tionary ought to be used as cam
paign textbook this year-it would
help to avoid good deal of misunder-
standing Webster SAYS that to de-
mOnetize is to deprive of value. or
withdraw from use. as currency
Now. by the act of 1873 the standard
dollar. so called, was dropped. but the
trade dollar. containing several grains
more silver. was substituted: silver
coin continued to be legal tender in
amounts up TO five dollars. and the
minis were open TO unlimited coinage
at 16 to L, with only a charge of one
fifth of one per cent. to cover the ex-
pense of coinage. Silver continued to
circulate at par. and standard dollars
being restored in 1873 there have
been about fifty times as many dollars
coined in the twenty-five years follow
ing characterization" as i'm the nine
ty-Seven years of our national life pre-
ceding that act. The silver dollar
was deposed from its former position
a. he nf hrrr HI
to find any clause in the act that de
prives of value or withdraws from use
as currency any of our silver money.
In conclusion, let me quote a pas
sage from the act of 1893 1.-THE repeal
of the Sherman law in which con-
gress declares what the policy of this
country is toward silver. 1t will be
of added interest if you bear in mind
that this law is one that was demand
ed by the Democratic party four years
ago, and that the Democratic plat
form of that date uses almost the
identical language that / hear quote
from the law of 1893:
''And it is hereby declared to be the
policy of the United States to con-
tinue the use of both gold and silver
as standard money. and to coin both
gold and silver into money of equal
intrinsic and exchangeable value.
such equality to be secured through
international agreement. or by such
safeguards of legislation as will in
sure the maintenance of the parity or
value of the coins of the two metals,
and the equal power of every dollar
at all times in the markets and in the
payment of debts
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present dollar to maintain municipal.
county and state government. it viii
require double the number of dollars
if the value of the dollar is cut i'm two
And also you can advance another
truth, that. if Bryan should be elected
and the Popocrats get a majority in
it would be eleven months
until the new congress will meet: and
that from the date of Bryan's election
every open account and debt would be
forced to settlement, every matured
mortgage be foreclosed, and every
man would endeavor to save himself
from the coming storm
Now, Mr.. Wheeler. don't get out
any more hand bills to meet an .'un-
known" for. if you do. and the .'un-
known should prove to be a farmer,
you would again feel sick and would
not appear, for your conscience would
not allow you to talk popOcratism to
the farmers when your party has rob
bed them of their best customer-the
laboring man. by making it impossi-
BILE for him to obtain days work in
the last three years, consequently,
he has no money to buy farm
products-hence 35 cent wheat and 10
cent corn. Mr.. Wheeler you may as
well tell him that you can lift your
self of the earth by your boot straps
as to tell him that the nation can
double its wealth by calling so cents
worth of silver 81.
THOMAS TARPY
Ogallah, September Is, 1896.