Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-08-21

debts to square accounts among indi-
viduals or nations.
Now for the gentleman's next argu-
ment as to our money circulating in
foreign countries under free coinage.
Here he seems to be as badly mistaken
as before. Money circulates in for
eign countries at its bullion value, and
SO would our silver dollars be paid
under free coinage and instead of
working the way the gentleman stated
it would work just the opposite. A
man going from here to buy cargo
of goods in England under free coin
age would have his silver weighed and
he could buy for it only as many
goods as there was bullion value in
the dollars. England would then turn
around and with this same money that
she got for fifty cents on the dollar
come to New York and buy our wheat
and get one hundred cents worth of
wheat. With these SOC dollars Eng
land would work the same deal on us
in the wheat market that she has
worked on India for the last number
of years until recently when India
found out the fallacy of free silver and
abolished it, which the gentleman does
not seem to know. England could>
buy silver in the markets of the world
outside of our own at fifty cents on a
dollar, ship it to this country, have it
coined into silver dollars free of cost
and with the same silver dollar turn
around and buy our wheat and raw
materials, and still the gentleman
thinks she would be so magnanimous
as to pay us 1O0c for those same silver
dollars when offered in her market for
goods. ''Oh consistency thou art a
jewell" Again let us look at the
Mexican dollar and see how it circu-
lates in our markets and in the mar
lkets of the world. AS soon as the
Mexican dollar strikes our country it
circulates for only SOC. Why do we
not pay Mexico 100c for these dollars?
We can take them back to Mexico and
get just as much for them as England
could from us under a similar system.
The reason is that there is no law
compelling us to take them. Now for
the last of his arguments he says:
Increase the wealth of the mine own
ers and they will commence to enlarge
their mines, start new industries, give
men work, feed the widow and orphan
and in truth make great men out of
the silver kings. Now, if this is going
to benefit the North Dakota farmer
and laborer am in favor of carrying
it further. Let the good work go on
if the government can make one dol
lar out Of anything regardless of the
value of it,. Let us help out the cop
per miner little, let us make a dol
lar out of 81 grain of copper. Let us
go further still and help out the iron
miners a little by making 81 grains
of iron one dollar. This will be of
I UCllC1lU oO w
the silver kings. Why yes, farmers
and laborers, you can quit work al
together then. Then you can go out
and in a few days pick up old iron
enough to keep you comfortable. The
farmers can have his old binders and
mowers melted into dollars. This is
getting grand, l can almost see myself
wealthy in the extreme, but alas-was
only a passing dream. This may
seem ridiculous but to me not more so
than is the theory of free coinage of
silver. Why do not these people ad-
vocate putting 1Ooc worth of silver in
to these dollars but no, that would
not help out the poor mine owners
and they must be helped out at all
hazards, no matter who suffers.
NJ