The Atlanta constitution., 1896-06-01

tho old red hills of Georgia to produce
fifteen pounds of cotton now than it was
for them to make five and nve-eishins
pounds in 1873?
Is Judge Lawson, the late convert and
great apostle of the goldbugs, safe ad-
wiser and trusted leader when he seeks
to betray his constituents by CARRYING
them into the ambush OF the WAN street
enemy, where cents only for their cot
ton awaits them?
Is it honest when billions of dollars OF
union war debts and billions more OF
private debts are fastened upon sub
jugated and conquered people, according
to one measure. to have that measure re
double and three times its original ca
pacity, so that after having during
term of thirty-one years by q regular m
crcasing measure paid off four billions OF
dollars of union war debt in principal ana
interest: we now find that to pay the one
and a half billions left IT will still re-
qure more of our product. toll and sweat
than we have already poured INTO the
capacious NAV of this greedy cormorant
to pay the four billions? The further we
go and the less the principal gets the
mere is required to fill the elastic, elon-
gated measure and the deeper we are IN
debt. and like the oyster. the harder II Is
to swallow.
If honest, then the eighth commandment
is fraud. m
The vision of the gold standartist is Ike
the aeronaut ascending in his balloon. Al
things else are sinking and he ana ms
balloon are stationary, whereas the 1Iutn III
THINGS
and his balloon are rising. Gold bohus
and obligations have risen up ana UP as
the balloon from 100 cents in 1913 20 zoI N
1895 and are still rising, whlle SllVtI anI ~
an ot her commodities and the properly OF
the masses have remained stationary anu
on a common level. -, ,1,oo,,
After the Chicago convention the paliouh
will DESCEND to the earth with q terrlble
thud and the acronaut, ike tne lello" ,
too fun. will again be fooled and lmaslne
that he is stationary ana the 0arth II
81 ay1,f
The banker says the silver dollar IS
"dishonest'' - .'unsound" and "0-cent dol-
lar" II appears so to mm from II ms ,,i,,ar a.
loon. lie knows that the ounce OF shVer
metal will buv IN exchange as Ihuch OF
the property owned and dealt IN py the te
masses of the people as it ever "ouiu,
but from his perch in tile air ne Ioph2s
with contempt not only upon ShVer, pu'
everything else is dishonest ana uASouhu'
measured by him in his gold bond scales
The laborer and his toll Is dishonest
His wages must be regularly cut and
scaled. The farmers produce is clSHohSS.
and light weight. 1t must be measured III
his india rubber hose pipe. shakeh u9Wn,
heaped up and running over ana Leaking
at the Joints to i'll extra buckets with the
waste.
The "unsound'' lands taken for debt must
be measured by chain that makes 4VO
feet square TO 1000 feet square an acre
All things must be brought up in double,
treble and quadruple quantities 10 satisiy
his honest sound measure aliu t,c
and cancel his obligation ana 80 Tree ID
fortunate.
What reason is there in calling thing
"depreciated" that is worth as much as 1T
ever was i'm comparison with other com
moditics, save gold? Webster defines de-
preciate Ito fall i'm value The manor
the machine-who does as much work To-
day as on yesterday is not deprecated,
although he does not make as much gold
If an acre of land that produced bale OF
cotton twenty-five years ago ana dces
IL. - e. b., hrala nf rDt
and the laborer himself are not dis
honest" While each gives the same result
in silver, they will not buy half IN gold
Webster defines 'unsound" as mot to be
trusted" Can that term apply TO any
thing except gold?
Again, we hear much about 'unsound
currency" Webster defines sound "A
currency that is at any time convertible
into gold and silver" not gold alone. sill
yer. one of the things he lays the founda-
tion of soundness upon, is repudiated by
goldbugs, and nothing Is money eXcept
gold although Henry Clay, who is high
with them. said Whatever the
agrees to receive in payment
of the public dues IS money no matter
what it's form may be"
Carlisle is now since he closed the mints
to the coinage of silver dollars, engaged |
In receiving silver alone on account OF the |
public duties and borrowing gold to pay
the debts OF the government, and although
ha Is a kentucl-ian, he is not Il Henry |
CLAW. Ia 1890. when f.5oo.0yo ounces OF silver |
cIined and the COVE rLment was receiving |
% per cent of it's duties in gold, but after
Mr.. Cleveland closed the mints to silver !
gold again advanced and he gets no gold
at all although it was done Ito prevent |
gold being driven out Of circulation
These men. Cleveland, Carlisle. sherman.
ct al, having failed utterly in all their
phophecies and promises as to
the good that would result from their
closing the mints TO silver and tine recur-
renee Of prosperity hut having given us
hard times, falling prices-as lDun and
Bradstreets say the lowest for n century
and high gold reduced wages. caused stag
nation, bankruptcy and ruiu-au that IS
had aad nothing that IS deSiraole-Just a
Carlisle said i'm 1875 would be the result os
such a Conspiracy" they ought 10
come forward as "honest" men would. |
and confess thcir error and erdeaVor to !
rectify the great wrong that they have done
tn,. country and restore tna country To the |
position II occupied in 1ST3 before the re-
publican party closed the mints To the free
coinage of silver at IL 70 /.
L W cor .DENfITFT