The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-12
A BALL or GOLD.
Size of a Mass of eIOo. ooo. 900 Com

Inc size or a mass OF S1OO,OOO,OOO Com
pared With the President.
From the New York World.
You often hear that the size of the
body of a human being has nothing TO
do with the power and influence he can
wiead. But see how the same thing APP
plies to a material thing like gold-a
mere dead weight without life or
brains.
The bah of gold, containing a hun
dred million of dollars. weighs only
263,143 pounds, avoirdupios Put into a
sphere, 500 00O, 900 in gold has a dame
ter OF only ia feet. There is a very
small difference between the size of
$lOO,OOO,000 and the size of a man like
our president But for power and in
huence, where is the man that can
equal or approach this sphere of dead
metal?
Think what this magic ball Of gold
means to this oountryl The country
has millions of square miles, railroads.
telegraphs, cities, towns, farms, houses
and about 70,000,0 900 human beings. And
all this machinery of civilization may
be moved smoothly and easily by the
1O,OOO,0OO human beings If only the ball
of gold lies in the national treasury
Cut the ball In two and the machinery
works with crash and Jar and hitch.
rake the BAH away and you have fail
ure, misery, despair, with the 20 900, 900
powerless to help themselves.
This BAN of gold, which could be put
into large dry goods case, means hap
piness and prosperity for millions of
human beings 1T means that you will
give your neigihbor credit. 1t means
that our army and our navy, ala the de-
partments of our government, will go
on, with everybody smiling. 1t means
tnat foreign nations will look upon us
with approval and will be glad to do
business with u.s.
The absence of this ball of gold
means that the government cannot pay
dts debts, that you will refuse your
meighbor credit, that you will be una
lble TO get credit yourself or to pay your
DEBTS, that foreign nations will refuse
to have commercial intercourse with
us.
There are only 216.S cubic feet in this
ball. If III were of water dt would only
weigh 1880 pounds. Being of gold, it
weighs 10 times as much But how
small is this influence when You COM
pare what you could do with "a ball of
waiter of the same size. Yet the in
dtnftely superior efficiency OF the gold
over the water depends almost entirely
upon the fact that in the same space
you cam get 10 times as much gold as
water.
As modern life is constructed, II does
not make much difference how much
other property you may have If you
have not and cannot get gold. with
the yellow, heavy metal, all doors open,
all faces beam, all things are at your
command. Without ii. the sun might
just as wen not shine, because 1t gives
no light to civilized man unless the
gold be there to make the sunlight
effective
You could not get more than half a
dozen Grover Clevelands into a hollow
sphere of the same diameter as this.
But with Ii, taking him as worth $780,
900 year, you could employ 2. 600 Gro
yer Clevelands.
III you divide the ball into parts
however, you get no idea of its effect as
a whole. Ten men with $1,000. 900 can
not do as much as one man or one gov
eminent or one power of any kind with
one big, round, solid ball of 800 900. 900
in gold.