The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-10-01
culls from !. Adam Bede's Budget,

Culls from J. Adam Bede's Budget
published monthly iu st. Paul.
Be gentle. The campaign will be ove1
in November. Human friendship is bet
ter than gold and 81 times better thar
silver.
Have care that some of those Wal
street fellows don't climb onto the Chr
capo platform and run off with the eros.
of gold.
You can't expect full-cream cheese fol
skimmed-milk dollar.
Senator Stewart voted for the "crime
of.73," and snow trying to turn states
evidence.
There is one strong point about the
out and out paper money fiatisr, he
doesn't waste any silver.
In 1895 our mints coined $43, ,933, AIS
in gold and SO, ,O67 ,4S0 in silver, which
doesn't look like contraction OF the
currency.
Old party politicians and sordid finan-
cters are largely responsible for the pre-
sent free silver uprising. You can't
stop a volcano by sitting on It.
No American dollar has ever been de-
nonetized. Any old dollar can still
travel on it's face. Trot out the dollars
of our daddies that you had in '73.
The recent democratic convention
gave Ignatius Donnelly three cheers as
he aros. to address 1t. Donnelly is al
ways treated we'll by any party that he
doesn't belong to.
1t louked for a while as if the late
democratic state convention would an
initiate the whole arithmetic, but it
finally quieted down after abolishing
the "rule OF three"
Some folks thing the dollar should be
like cork that rises and falls with the
tide. But generally the hi.h and low
water marks are placed on stationary
objects.
The discussion of the ''crime OF '73"
occupied LA columns IN the Congress
sional Globe at that time; but just think
of the space it has occupied since. Then,
too, it was all secret and surreptitiOus.
CA. Towne who told the Sixth dis
trict voters two years ago that modern
inventions were responsible Tor low
prices, has now little invention of his
own to explain things. But is purely
All invention.
II a man is getting $50 month un-
der present prices, and suddenly all
prices except wages are about doubled,
wouldn't his condition be worse than it
is now? That is what free coinage at
16 to means to him.
1t the 43O. 100000 of full legal tender
silver dollars coined in twenty-three
years since 1873 could stand up beside
the 8. S.O45, 1888 coined in the eight. -four
years under the constitution before
1873. we should begin to understand
the magnitude OF the crime of that Won
derful year.
To all voters who are troubled and
know not how to vote we would say,
get all the light you can and do what
you think is right. The Lord will take
care of the result.
Under the act of 1878 till the Bland
act of 1878, the government coined
$79.120.771 in silver. In the eighty
years before it had coined $146. $40 900
of which only $S,O45, ,S3S was IN Legal
tender dollars. We struck silver down
in 1878 by increasing the coinage.
The grand old democratic party
headed by such Jacksonian Leaders as
John Lind. Frank A. Day, Chas. A..
Tewne, Sidney M.SOwef1; and John Day
Smith, reminds us of an Egyptian
armv with British officers. The Egyp-
tians do the fighting while the officers
eat the fodder and hnance the game.
People ought to be honest even ifit is
hard work sometimes. When they
boom things for ten wears and 60 broke
in the final crash, they ought to own
up and not try to lay it to some one
else. For many years before hard times
hit us our people went wild with specu-
lation. Now they are getting the bitter
drink thev brewed for themselves. and
they don't like it.
am opposed to the democracy on its
16 to 1 Chicago-St. Louis platform be-
cause,I believe with Jefferson that "the
proportion between the values of gold
and silver is mercantile problem alto
gether." Today one ounce of gold will
buy about thirty-one ounces OF silver,
and the ratio of 16 to ] would bring
only. silver to our mints and thus put us
soon on an unstable silver basis. be-
Iieve in bimetallism, but see none in such
program.