The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-07-24
Free Coinage of Silver in Mexico.

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Free Coinage of Silver in Mexico.
Mr.. Joseph M. Brown, Traffic
Manager of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, in an interview in Allan
ia, said as follows:
eff free silver, as judged by its
results in Mexico, is not q good
thing, I failed to discover any evil
dence of it. I am just back from a
three weeks trip and have travelled
for thousands of miles all over the
country, and in all that time I failed
to find single man, native or from
the States, who was not an enthu-
siastic free silver man. | went to
Mexico undecided as to the tinan-
cial question. | have returned con-
WINGED of one thing, and that is, if
free silver for the United States
will do for the country what it has
done for Mexico, then free silver is
what we need. Everybody is sat
isfied with the financial status,
business is prosperous, the mills
are all running on full time, and
the mark of good times is manifest
on all sides.
81 was forcibly impressed with
some facts connected with the sit
uation in financial affairs in Mexico.
These practical facts count for more
than theories. Now just before leav-
ing Atlanta I bought pair of shoes
for Sc in American money. When
we got to Mexico my brother, who
accompanied me on the trip, went
into a store, and we got a pair of
shoes just as good in every way as
the ones I bought in Atlanta. He
paid Sc in Mexican money. They
say that the Mexican silver dollar
lis worth only a little over fifty
cents. That is the way financial
writer's put it. Yet the Mexican
dollar in Mexico buys just the same
as the American dollar in the
United States Theoretically, the
latter may be worth two of the
former, yet what is the difference
when both have the same purchas-
ing power? Money is medium of
exchange, and if a Mexican silver
dollar will buy dollars worth,
what difference does it make about
the theory Of the thing?
have seen interviews iii papers
stating that under free silver
Mexico is in a bad fix, and indus
tries lang Fishing. I want to say if
such is the case l failed to discover
any evidence whatever of such a
state of affairs, and l went all over
the country. This talk about
Mexico not thriving under free
silver regime is, to use q slang
phrase, 'all rot In the valley of
Mexico alone / found thirty-three
cotton mills, all running on full
time, and making money. If there
was any business depression, |
failed to see any signs Of it. AS |
came back on the Mexican National
Railroad passed an immense es-
Enlistment, which, | was told, was
a wooden mill. 1t employed $500
hands, and was running day and
night. That wonld seem to indi-
cate prosperity. x * * i Now
/ can't see how it would hurt us to
yet LIZ Cclllo WOItH VI pllN Cl lol a
pound of cotton instead of 7 cents
worth of gold, if the IA cents in
silver has the same purchasing
power as the cents in gold. And
then in addition to this, if things
work like they do in Mexico, we
will have universal prosperity, a
satisfied people, mills running on
full time, day and night, and money
easy. I cannot see why what is
good for Mexico would not be good
for us, and want to say again that
all this talk about free silver hurt
ing business in Mexico is absurd. :"
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