Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-09
HALF \ HUNDRED REASONS
Why the American People Should Favo
Free Coinage.

/ Why the American People Should Favor
Free Coinage.
Mr. Eugene V Brewster. in a recent
communication addressed TO the Brooklyn
J Citizen. cites the following reasons in IA
vor of free coinage;
-. Because all of the national parties
have declared in favor Of bimetaliism ana
not one favors the gold standard, which
we have to-day.
>. Because no voters ever yet voted FOR
the gold standard. and only those who
benefit by the appreciation of the gold
dollar favor II.
g. Because gold standard money IS dis
honest and makes the debtor pay back
a dollar larger than the one he borrowed.
4. Because the gold dollar is appreciat-
ing in value more and more, making
debts harder and harder 10 pay.
3. Because the only objections yet heard
against bimetaIlism is, we are not big and
strong enough 10 have it without foreign
aid. Can we not legislate for ourselves?
G. Because we can introduce bimetallism
without foreign help, for we would have
with us twenty-seven silver and bimetal-
lie countries, with a population of $4,000
coo.
T. Because we would have against US
only eleven gold countries population 1885,
100000 and about all of those except Eng
land would be glad to follow our exam
pie.
8. Because the average ratio in the silver
and bimetalic countries. viz: Bolivia,
Costa Rica. Guatemala, Honduras, Mica
ragua. Salvador. Colombia. China, Ecua-
dor. India Mexico, Peru. Russia. TripoH,
Argentine Republic. Belgium, Chile, Cuba,
France. Greece. Hayti, Italy. Japan,
Netherlands. Spain, Switzerland and Ven
ezuela, is 1912 to /!
O. Because the very highest ratio of any
country in the world is Mexico 1912 to l!
10. Because if Mexico is a fair sample Of
a silver country. Turkey is fair sample
of a gold country.
IL. Because, if everybody admits that BIZ
metalism is right, and the only objection
is that we cannot go 1t alone, that objec-
ton is overruled by the figures given
above.
10. Because there is no accumulation of
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flood us; and even if there We're it would
only give greater impetus TO our COM
merce. for every dollars worth of silver
brought here would represent a dollar
spent here among us. our silver dollars
would not be taken abroad again, but left
here among us. thus giving us more
money and greater business.
10. Because even if there were a flood of
silver I'm Germany, Japan or anywhere, a
little diplomacy would prevent its coming
here. In the international conference at
Brussels. all the great nations except Eng
land were so anxious TO have bimetallism
that they offered not TO unload their sill
Yer on any nation that introduced it.
a. Because free coinage at 16 to ! would
create an unlimited demand for silver and
fix that price all over the world.
10. Because. if we said we would take all
the silver that comes at 16 to 1. nobody
would sell their silver for less than that
price. and then sixteen ounces of silver
would be worth one ounce of gold the
world over.
16. Because the silver dollar would then
necessarily contain 100 cents worth of
silver and be worth a dollar everywhere.
Il. Because the silver dollar would be a
better dollar than the present silver dol
lar. for this contains only SO cents werth
of silver
is. Because If the present silver dollar is
dishonest it was the gold people who made
il so by demonetizng silver by the crime
Of 1873"
10. Because the dollar under free coin
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the silver dollar to-day, and this dollar
buys 100 cents worth every day.
%. Because if the mine owner may take
SO cents worth Of silver to the minis and
get a 10O-cent dollar for it, the laborer may
do the same thing.
q. Because if the miner gets a 10O-cent
dollar then there is no such thing as 3d.
cents dollars in circulation.
90. Because it is funny if the dollar can
be a 1OO-cent dollar to the mine owner and
only a Scent dollar to the laborer.
%. Because every dollar that gets in cir
culation means the sale of some commod-
ity or the installation of capital in bust
ness.
%. Because free coinage means rising
prices.
o. Because rising prices mean more
profit i'm business and more new industries
and enterprises.
25. Because more industries mean more
employment.
q. Because more employment means a
lessening of the supply Of labor.
2S. Because more employment means
greater demand for labor; thus by in
creasing the demand and lessening the
supply you raise wages.
% Because free coinage means nearly
twice as much money in circulation, and
with an abundance of money there will be
an abundance of industries. factories.
mills and enterprises of all kinds in opera
ton.
80. Because the employers, making more
sales and more profit, will pay higher
wages.
81. Because free coinage will make the
dollar nearly twice as easy 10 get. thus
making debts nearly twice as easy to pay.
50. Because the gold people are dishonest
and refuse to print in their newspapers the
silver side of the question while the silver
people circulate the New York Journal as
a campaign document, and that paper
prints the hest arguments from the very
best gold advocates, being confident that
they have by far the better of the argu-
ment.
SO. Because the wage Garner viii be ben
Gifted most by silver and the Wall street
peoples decline.
81. Because all the labor organizations
have arrayed themselves on the side of
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