Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-10
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Now York Lumber Trade Journal.

Let us not get mixed up with complex
matters in connection with the free silver
idea. 'r-r'ist,..'
Let us not befog our brain with argu-
ments about the crime of '73, or bother
with the many theories which the advo-
Gates of free silver are giving us.
But let us take common-sense view of
the situation. t.r
Now, to start with.
Suppose Bryan was elected and the free
coinage act had been passed, and that free
coinage was an actual fact.
Suppose that silver could be taken to
the mint, aud coined into silver dollars, at
the ratio of 16 to J..
How would that effect us?
We haven't got amy silver coin.
whole lot of people who own silver
mines have it, and SO they could have it
coined into 16-to-1 dollars; but, not having
any ourselves, we could not have soil.
| tary, single dollar coined under the free
silver act.
Now, suppose. however, that all the sill.
yer mine owners and others who had
silver took 1t all to Washington or Phila-
| delphia, or to some other United States
| mint, and had it coined into 16-to-l dol
lars. and .l
Suppose so much had been coined that
| all the silver in the world was made into
16-to-1 dollars, and
Suppose that every one of these dollars
were piled in one heap right on the next
block, and
Suppose every single one of them was
worth 100 cents here and everywhere,
! What good would they do us, unless we
had something we could trade by which
we could get one?
Well, we have something to trade;
everybody has.
Some have labor. so much for a dollar
Some have lumber, so much for dollar.
Some have sugar or potatoes or hams OF
coal or something else, all so much for 1,
dollar.
We have advertising and subscriptions,
so much for a dollar.
When we want one of those silver dol.
lars, We cannot go and take it; they don't
belong to us; they belong to the men who
took the silver to the mint to he coined.
II we took one, IL would be stealing,
If We asked for one for nothing it would
be begging.
If the owners gave us one for nothing
ii would be gift.
Ii we borrowed one, it would cost us
interest, and so on.
Most of us, TO get one, must trade labor
lumber, sugar, coal advertising or some
thing to get it.
This is absolutely and honestly so, isn't
Well. being so, why do we take any
chances on the dollar?
We can get gold now.
1t is worth 100 cents on dollar every
where.
So we have supposed the silver to be
but
Suppose it isn't.
What then?
What is the use of taking a chance nm
less We can do better? A silver dolla,
won't be worth more than 100 cents
will it?
We are getting that now.
Let well enough alone.
Some say duty compels a Democrat [,
back up and vote for Democrat Yor
have Bryan's word that he is no Demo
crat. Let him dare deny that he said it,
some say it is pretty bad now. w.
might ms well take chance. 1t can't b,
worse.
What kind of tomfoolery is this?
When our baby lay at deaths door, die
we do any experimenting? We trie,
everything which would cure, but we die
not experiment.
Are things bad in business way?
Let us tell you something to try
Vote down this crowd of regulators.
Tell the world in trumpet tones in No
vember that we want the best money
that we will take no other, and bushes
will revive.
Let the capital out that Bryan and hi
followers have scared under cover an,
prosperity will come.