White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1896-01-09
A FINANCIAL MIRACLE.

Inc elTubSH Sptclhclc is tnuS present.
ed to the silver kings taking possession
OF the gateway OF Legislation by seizing
upon the Senate finance committee to
mako the government pay dollar for a
half dollars worth Of white metal, the
profit to go into the pockets OF the
silver kings; while ont in the country
labor is to be beguled aud bamboozled
into secret order to cheat itself into
thinking that GO cents is good enough
dollar for wages. Give me a dollar for
half q a dollar, cay the Senate silver
kings to Uncle Sam; I'll give you so
cents for the dollar OF your wages, say
the same kings TO tho American work
ingmen. Lets call ourselves patriots"
says Coin" Harvey to the worklngmcn,
"and you take so cents for the dollar Of
your wages 10 prove you are patriots"
Times Herald.
What should be said of the intel
lectual capacity or the intellectual hon.
esty OF a man who can write such mess
as that?
Consider for moment what it
amounts to? Under free coinage the
government docs not buy" silver. 1t
merely takes the bullion and coins it
into dollars" handing the dollars"
back to the man who deposited the
bullion. Now, according to this great
and truthful champion of sound
money" when those dollars are banded
ont to the infamous ~ "silver kings"
they arc worth 100 cents each. He can
pay debt or buy goods to that amount
with each dollar. He can pay his dol.
lar to his hired hand, but the instant it
reaches the latter it shrinks to 50 cents.
1he spectacle of the same identical dol
lar being worth 100 cents in the hands
OF Que man and only so cents in the
nands OF another is strange" indeed,
but not half so strange" as the warped
and dsordered mind Of the man whose
fertile imagination has conjured us,
such an impossibility. There is method
in his Madness" though, for he care
fully refrained from suggesting 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 it on the next,
and that thus it would perform it's end
less circuit Of duty, worth Just exactly
ss much in the hands OF one as IN the
hands of another. Shrewdly enough,
he follows the dollar from the silver
king to the wage Garner, where, after
working the miracle of instantly cutting
1t down to so cents, he leaves it.
The idea that under the increased de-
mand created by free silver coinage
bullion would permanently rise in value
is not suggested. That if tho dollar
should fall IN value tho workingman
would naturally demand moro OF them
Tor his services, is carefully kept in tie
background. That the Rothchilds, the
Curries, the Morgans and the Belnonts
have any selfish motive in opposing free
coinage, is not even remotely limited It
in this wonderful bit OF philosophy.
The writer simply swels q so cent dollar
to 100 cent for the benefit of the silver
king, and then he shrinks it back to 80
cents in order to show the injury of the
workingman. If the magician Of tho
Times Herald could only have perform
eel in the presence of Paraoh, Moses and
Aaron might very well have put their
snakes in their pockets and'gone out Of
business.-NationGl Bimetalisi.