The Monitor-register., 1896-09-04
This is the Best Yet.
- OF THE QUESTION ro,, won.
iNeMEN AND EVERYBODY EIsr W."

ZIG best Yet.
INc,,n lhE QUESTION FOR WORK.
AND EVERYBODY ELSE.
iork Lumber Trade Journal
LOU us not get mixed up with comn,.-
idea. " iree silver
Let us not befog our brain with
"ents ABOUT the crime of '73. or ho,har
WIN the many theories which the advo-
oStes OF free silver are giving us.
Out let us take a common sense v;sv
Of the situation,
Now, to start with.
suppose Bryan was elected and tho
ifee'colnage act had been passed. and
'nat Tree coinage was an actual fact,
suppose that silver could be taken tn
tue mint and coined into silver dollars at
the ratio OF 16 to 1.
now would that affect uss
we haven't got any silver coin.
a whole lot of people who own silver
mines have it, and SO they could have it
oolned into IL to 1 dollars; but, not hav.
ing any ourselves, we could not have a
solitary, single dollar coined under the
free-silver act.
NOW, suppose, however, that all the
siiVer-mine owners and others who had
SILVER took it all to Washington or Phila-
deiphia, or to some other United States
Mint, and had it coined into 16.so.1 dol
lars, and
Suppose so much had been coined that
all the silver in the world was made into
16 to-1 dollars, and
Suppose that every one of these dollars
were piled in one heap right on the next
block, and
Suppose every single one of them was
worth 100 cents here and everywhere.
What good would they do us, unless
we had something We could trade by
which we could get ONE?
Well. We have something to trade;
every body has.
Some have labor, SO much for a dollar.
Some have lumber, so much for a dol
lar.
Some have sugar Or potatoes or hams
or coal or something else, all so much for
a dollar.
We have advertising aud subscription,
SO much for a dollar.
When we want one of those silver dol
lars, we cannot go AID take it; they don't
belong to us; they belong to the men who
took the silver to the mint to be coined.
If We took one, it would be stealing.
Ii We asked for one for nothing, ii
would be begging.
If the owners gave US one for nothing
it would be a gift.
If We borrowed one, it would cost us
interest, and so
Most of US, to get Que, must trade
labor. lumber, sugar, coal, advertising or
something to get it.
This is absolutely and honestly 30, ISM
it?
Well, being SO, why do We take any
chances on the dollar?
We can get gold now.
1t is worth 100 cents GU a dollar every
where.
So we have supposed the silver to be,
but
Suppose it isn't.
What then?
What is the use of taking a chance
unless we can do better? A silver dollar
won't be worth more thar 100 cents, will
it?
We are getting that now.
Let we'll enough alone.
Some say duty compels a Democrat tC
back up and vote for a Democrat. You
have Bryan's word that he is no Demo
crat. Let him dare deny that he said it,
Some say it is pretty bad now. We
might as we'll take a chance. 1t can't bs
worse.
What kind of ~tomfoolery is this?
When our baby lay at deaths door die
we do any experimenting? We triet
everything which could cure, but we die
not experiment.
Are things bad in a business way?
Let US tell you something to try.
Vote down this crow of regulators
Tell the world in trumpet tones in No
vember that we want the best money
that we will take no other, and bushes.
will revive.
Let the capital out that Bryan and hi
followers nave scared under cover ani
prosperity will come.