The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-18
BILL ARP ELIMINATES.
He Says We May Like Gold Standard
When We Get Used to it, if We
Don't Die Before That Time.

The paramount question is gold or
silver, and even the preachers have
engaged in the discussion. DIR. Park
hurst and Tom Dixon and some OF our
Southern ministers have entered the
arena, and are trying to convert sim
pers. not to repentance, but to gold or
silver. according to their views. They
have searched the Scriptures to find
something about gold and silver that
they can torture or twist to their side.
Put there is only one text that has any
bearing upon it, and that is one of Sol
omon's proverbs which says. words
fitly spoken are like apples of gold in
pictures of silver. Now let the polit-
ical preachers take that for a text
and stick to it; or, maybe it would be
better for them to let politics alone,
and turn their attention to the work OF
the university of Pennsylvania, in the
buried city of prehistoric Nippur-~
a city that the professors and sclen-
lists of that institution say is 5000
wears older than Adam, and they have
the proof of it. Only two years ago
one of these same professors publish
ed long article in the New York Her
aid asserting that the bones of man
exhumed in Florida were over 10,0oo
wears old. If these preachers don't
watch, the university will upset all
the chronology of the Bible and make
Moses be a myth or a fraud, Tor II
there is any one thing more carefully
stated than another in the Mosaic ac-
count of the creation and succession,
aseaa- yNF rsNF ms n
in the line of succession from Adam ito
Noah and Noah to Abraham. Science
has no respect for sacred history, and
every few years comes out with some
thing to upset or contradict it. Couldn't
Parkhurst and Dixon give us pulpit
utterance on Nippur and let gold and
silver rest with the statesmen and
politicians of the country. As the
Richmond Dispatch well says: we
earnestly advocate the gold standard,
but see no reason for alarm or praise
or ruin if silver is remonetized. The
commercial world viii soon adopt it.
self to any currency that may be de-
clared legal by the government.
That's the way to talk. mo reason for
alarml" What is the matter with
Mexico? Nothing nothing at all.
NV boy has lived there for nearly two
years and says it is good country
and prosperous people, and improve
ments and new industries continue TO
come, and English money continues
TO pour into that country building
railroads and factories and buying
coffee plantations and silver mines.
The American poulation is increasing
very day, ad now a Chicago firm is
building an American hotel that is to
cost half a million dollars. And yet
Mexico has a silver standard. Gold
may be the best standard for us when
we get used to 1T, but it is an awful or
deal we are going through in getting
broke in. It is is like the fellow who
experimental with his horse to train
him to do without food. He gave him
a few grains less every day until the
horse died. / believe that if we can live
through the trial we can get along on
gold, but had rather place silver back
where it was and quit the Sherman
experiment. But am not paying much
attention TO money now, nor is it pay
ing much attention to me. / am com
forting myself now by studying arith-
metic and perusing history. One of
the Rome boys who grew up with mine
and made mud pies and worked the dog
in harness, has long since got to be a
man and took his degrees at Annapo-
lis. Mathematics is his speciality, and
he has just published an arithmetic
that has been for six years his labor
of love. / am no critic of modern
text books, but like this little book Of
Ernest Vests, and l believe / could
II II rad
hard on a sum last night which was
something like: IF rabbit runs six
miles and finds hollow tree and stops
there half an hour, and a hound dog is
after him and takes two leaps while
the rabbit takes three, and three of the
dogs leaps are equal to five of the rab-
bits, and the dog gets to the tree fif-
teen minutes late and finds the rabbit
gone, when will the dog catch the rab-
bit. and whereabouts?
BILL ARP