Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-17

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l the good and bad :.
BY This arises by rea
son of there being but SO cents worth
of silver in the dollar. The counter
feiter can make 100 per cent. by this in
vestiment. The treasury department
| thinks the dollar will have to be with
| drawn and silver certificates issued in
its place. Paper cannot hesuccessfully
counterfeited. Thousands of counter
| felt dollars are in circulation, and are
| just as good as the genuine. If the
dollar contained dollars worth of sill
yer. it would not pay to make this
money. This shows the folly of the
government making 60 cent dollar
Tribune. Dec. 18th.
What ''serious problem" indeed.
for the free silver people! How
in the world are we going to get around
it? Here We have law that compels
the United States to coin dollar with
| only SO cents worth of silver in it, ac-
cording to the Tribune, and naughty
| counterfeiters can take SO cents worth
| of silver and make dollar just like it
that is just as good. And we have, as
| people, voted to continue this dan
gerous system of coinage until Mother
| England says We may change it. But
| the Tribune suggests that Uncle Sam
call in all the silver dollars and issue
silver certificates in their stead. AS
the: counterfeit dollars are just as good
as, and cannot be told from, the real
dollars Uncle Sam would ofcourse take
the chances of redeeming the spurious
as well as the good. Then, il the silver
dollar can be so successfully counter
feited there is no reason why the small
er silver coins cannot be also counter
feited, and at as great a prcft. There
fore it would follow, according to the
argument of the Tribune that the
dimes, quarters and halves must also
be called in and. we presume paper
fractional currency issued in its stead.
A return. in fact, to the old ''shin plas-
| ter" system of fractional currency.
Now this is most terrible problem
Here we have been paving the air and
sending our voices echoing from noun.
tain-top to dung'hill telling the people
that silver should be re-monetized so
that there would be "a dollars worth
of silver in a dollar" asking that the
mints be opened to the free coinage of
silver the same as they are opened to
| the free coinageaof gold. and thus in :
creasing the value Of silver bullion so
that the counterfeiters could not buy
so cents worth OF silver and make it
into big round dollar that fools even
Uncle Same experts.
And all we get for our pains is to
be confronted with the most SER
ious problem yet presented" Otcourse
we free silver people, who voted to
make the silver dollar as good as the
gold dollar are responsible for its not
being as good-becauss we are silver's
friends; aud the Tribune, and other
gold standard people who favored "a
continuation of the present state Of af-
fairs" are not at all to blame.
Will the Tribune inform its readers
why, if our present dollar is "a so cent
dollar" and if it is folly for the gov
eminent to make SO cent dollar" it
the Tribune-and its party sustain.
ed the government in its folly at the
recent election2 Also, why 1t did not
point out to the people before the re-
cent election these dangers that it now
raves about?
If ever the time comes that the Tri-
bune and other cuckoo papers Of the z.
o. p. learns the first principles OF COM
sistency and fairness of political argu.
ment, then we may look for the rapid
approach of the millennium.
The Washburn College Glee Club
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