The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-08
MORE LIES.
THE FARTHER YOU GO EAST
THE THICKER THE LIES
BECOME.
On the Atlantic Coast They Believe the Moon is
Made Of Green Cheese. and that Its
Changes Are Due to Rats Nibbling it.

One of the able corresond ,nts of
THE Representative, Mr.. e. f. W.
Simpson, OF Atwood, MIMI, has been
trying to invade the regions east of
US with a torch-light, but the mephitic
gases of gold-bugism have very nearly
extnguished his light. He writes to
the Toledo, o. Blade:
II wish you to explain the nature
Of the average Mexican'S mental ma
chinery. Are they all fools? l don't
know much, but if / owned $1,000 in
Mexican silver, and man offered me
$50 United States dollars, wht n he
could coin the silver into 1000 United
States dollars, to buy s. 900 Mexican,
l should ask enough to leave him
mighty little profit. Then it seems
to me there would be rush for any
100 per cent Investment, and demand
generally increases prices; so when
the would-be buyer of Mexican silver
returns for his second purchase, he
would find the demand had raised the
market. SO how is it? Are the Next
cans all fools, or are you mistaken, or
is it I?''
To which the Blade replies:
What we said was, that if the con-
tention Of silver men be true, that
under free coinage at Is to l, the sill
yer dollar would remain equal in
value to the gold dollar, it would be
possible to make 100 per cent profit by
buying Mexican dollars But the con-
tention is untrue. What would hap
pen would be, that the silver dollar
would fall to its bullion value, and be
worth a little less than Mexican dol
lar.
Now if the gold dollar and the silver
dollar are Of precisely the same value,
east Of the Mexican line, they must
be of the same value west Of that
line, unless all intercourse between
the two countries is prevented by law
or war. Loaded passenger trains are
now passing daily from one region to
the other; and commerce, with its
Briarean ha nds, is constantly reach
ing out from one nation to the other.
TO imagine that silver bullion would
be worth 100 cents on the dollar, in
the worlds market, east Of geo.
graphical line, and worth but SO cents
on the dollar west Of it, with free in
tercourse across the line, is to imagine
an abs urdity too gross for contempla-
tion. Nothing but a gold-bug editor,
of a capital-owned American ne wspa-
per, would set up such doctrine for
the entertainment OF fools and the
contempt of the Intelligent.
Does not any one, with sense enough
to cons titute respectable, well-ad-
vised jackass, perceive that the own
ers of Mexican silver bullion, usually
Americans, and as sharp as steel
traps,) would put up the price of their
bullion to 100 cents on the dollar. as
soon as they knew that they could OBJ
tain hundred cents on the dollar by
shipping it to the United States?
And if our minis were open to free
silver coinage, as they we're in 1873,
and for eighty odd years prior thereto,
and the holder of bullion knew he
could swap his silver bullion, at the
minis, for silver dollars, worth 100
cents,-worth as much as gold dol
lar;-and with it he could buy any thing
which anybody in the United States
had for sale; or could pay any debt, pub
lie or private, which he or anyone els
owed; would he 1--WE ask the fool ques s.
ton seriously, because we are replying
to FOOL ,co,ld he sell that silrer bullion
for so cents on the dollar arhen he k,,e,c he
could get legol tender dollars, for 1t, corh
100 cents on the dollar?
And yet this scamp or idiot of the
Toledo Blade, Gt is evidently blade
without an edge,-a kind of an over
worked hoe blade), intimates that the
bullion-holder would do this exact
thing.
The very moment it was known
that the United States, the greatest
nation, and the greatest r.produc-
ing nation in the world, was about
to restore the free coinage of silver,
at the rate Of sixteen dollars of silver
for one of gold. 1.-THE old pre-lS73
rate), that very moment silver would
rise to it's old level of $l.29 per ounce,
and the whole monetary question
would make itself air, thin air.
1.-THE proof of the pudding is the
eating OF it,"
When Mr.. Harrison was president,
the Senate of the United States
passed a bill to remone tie silver. and
open the minis to it's free coinage, at
Is to l; and there was a large mai or
ity in its favor, (until bought up), in
the House: and reconciliation was
regarded as already an accomplished
fact. Silver bullion was then selling
for 81 cents an ounce: but inside of
ten days it advanced, not in the
United States alone, but all Orer the
acorld. to $l.17-a gain of % cents an
ounce! If the bill had passed the
House 1t ,could undoubtedly hare risen the
other IL cents necess ,.y to bring 1t back to
its old, ante-1S7S price, 81 go an ounce.
We believe that if the Populists
alone. or in combination with the
Free Silverites of the two old parties,
carry the election,i in Novem be OF this
year, and elect Congress and Presi-
dent, favora BILE to free silver, silrer WW
at once rise from SO cents on the dollar to
one DOLLAR
And, with silver. WHEAT WILL RISE
TO A DOLLAR A BUsHEL-AND GOTTEN
TO FOURTEEN CENTS!
This alleged free people hold their
own destinies in their own hands, if
they have only the energy and cour-
age TO apply the remedy. But such
creatures as the Toledo Blade are