Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-01-31
upon the country without it's know,-

God or man.
Fortunately the "silvef kings" in the
Senate are amply able to take care OF
themselves in debate AMI in parla-
mentary tactics.
The "Morrills," the "Shermans," the
'Aldriches" and the "Platts' are ex-
ceedinely cautious how they run up
against such men as Jones and Teller
and Wolcott in debate on the silver
question. Let the Times Herald make
note of that.
Voorhees,, Harris, Vest, Jones of Ar
/ kansas, White and Daniel are among
/ the very ablest men, not only in the
/ senate, but in the entire country. The
American people will scarcely be pre-
pared to accept the Times Herald's ell
/ egant conclusion that they are either
/ knayes or rascals.
In this connection it may not be out
of place to say that Senator Allison,
who is cassed as a sound money"
man, claims to be thorough bimetal-
! list He Is opposed to free coinage by
! the United States alone, because he
fears that this country could not main
tain a parity between the metals with
out help. That, however, is merely
question of detail, and the weight of ar
gument is decidedly with the extreme
silver men.
When a paper like the Times-Herald
enters upon a campaign of vitupera-
ton 1t should first. at least, lay foun-
dation of substantial argument This
it would undoubtedly do if it could,
but ii has none.
Let the reader glance at the following
sample taken from the editorial re-
/ ferred to-
THE strange spectacle is thus pre-
scented of the silver kings taking pos
session Of the gateway of legislation by
Selling upon the Senate finance com
mittee to make Government pay a law
full dollar for half dollars worth of
white metal, the profit TO so into the
pockets of the silver kings; while out
in the country labor is to be beguiled
and bamboozled into a secret order TO
cheat itself into thinking that 30 cents
is a good enough dollar for wages.
Give me a dollar for half a dollar
say the Senate silver kings to Uncle
Sam. I'll give you 80 cents for the
dollar Of your wages say the same
kings to the American workingmen.
Let's call ourselves patriots, says
Coin Harvey TO the workingmen,
and you take 80 cents for the dollar
OF your wages to prove you are patri-
OTIS >"
What should be said of the intel
lectual capacity or the intellectual hon.
esty of a man who can write such a
mess as that?
Consider for a moment what it
amounts TO. Under free coinage the
government does not buy" silver. 1t
merely takes the bullion and coins 1t
into dollars" handing the dollars"
back to the man who deposited the bull
lion Now, according 10 this great and
truthful champion of sound money"
when those dollars are handed out to
the infamous O. Silver king" they
are worth 100 cents each. He can pay
debt or buy goods TO that amount with
each dollar. He can pay the dollar to
his hired man, but the instant it
reaches the latter ii shrnks 10 so
cents. The spectacle of the same iden-
teal dollar being worth 100 cents in
the hands OF one man and only SO cents
In the hands of another Is strange"
indeed, but not half so strange" as
the warped and disordered mind OF the
man whose fertile Imagination has con-
jured up such an impossibility. There
is method in his madness" though, for
he carefully refrained from suggest
ing that the workingman who received
the silver dollar could pay his own debt
with it; that the man TO whom it was
thus paid could in like manner pass il
on 20 the next, and that thus it would
perform its endless circuit of duty,
worth Just exactly as much in the
hands of one as in those Of another.
Shrcwdly enough, he follows the dol
lar from the silver king to the wage
Garner, where, after working the mir
acle of instantly cutting it down to so
cents he leaves It,
The idea that under the Increased
demand created by free coinage silver
bullion would permanently rise in value
Is not suggested; that if the dollar
should fall in value the wOrkngman
would naturally demand more of them
for his services is carefully kept in
| the background. That the ROthschilds,
the Curries, the Morgans and the Bel
monts have any selfish motive in op-
posing free coinage is not even remote
ly limited at in this wonderful bit of
philosophy The writer simply swells
a 50-cent dollar to a 100-cent for the
benefit of the silver king and then he
shrinks it back to so cents in order to
show the injury of the workingman. II
the magician OF the Times Herald
could only have performed in the pres
ence of Pharaoh, Moses and Aaron
might very we'll have put their snakes
in their pockets and gone out of bust
ness.