The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-10-24
A Conversation Between Gold Bug
and Free SILVER Nan.

great SuulDcieoIut. 4tdNNs iQfutti
some stuff? I'd rather have seral
iron or paper.
Free Silver-Ahi sir. we want i
for the very reason you cannot cor
ner 1t; We want it because it il
cumbersome and you do not know
what to do with it. 1t is too mucl
for you and for that reason God mad,
it to head off your cannibalism.
Gold Bug-You do not apply an,
such epithets to us as that, do you
Free silver-You call us crank,
because we are contending for tn,
rights with which the Creator en-
d0wed the earth. He knew you bet
ter than you know yourself. and for
this reason this precious metal was
created.
Gold Bug-Your talk is ambigu
Gus. Explain yourself
Free Silver-Why do You seek
for an explanation when self-evident
facts explain themselves.
Gold Bug-There cannot be two
standards. Either 1t must be gold
or silver, and it is a mystery to m,
why YOU insist on two metals.
Free Silter-Then you might add
it is a mystery why there are two
metals. And, too, you are In THE face
of both history and the constitution
when YOU say there can be but one
standard, when you know that for
eighty years silver was the unit OF
value In our metallic money, and in
seeking 10 restore silver to its legiti.
mate right Under the constitution We
are simply seeking to restore what
was clandestinely and fraudulently
taken away BY the decentralization
of silver you have reduced prec-
ious metal to the level of pig iron.
and In putting it down as staple OF
merchandise you put it into de-
plorable debasement, which leaves
it at the mercy of Shylocks who have
degraded it to half OF its original
value, and who are now intent on its
final abandonment and total ignor-
ing of it from our monetary systems
thereby destroying half of the mon
ey of the world, and appreciating
gold and thereby dcpreciating prop
erty so as to make debts and mort
cages 80 far enhance In value as to
make their redemption largely i'm
possible, and thus giving to the cred
itor class the power to absorb the
earth and enslave the masses.
Gold Bug-Do you not know, do
you not consider that the universal
disposition of mankind is to acquire
wealth? Every one is using his best
endeavor to keep what he has in pos
session, and ut the same time try to
add to 1t. Let d wealthy man die,
and ain administrator sale follow
ing his demise will collect together
many bidders who will go to the sale
with the hope of obtaining some OF
his belongings for moiety of one
quarter of what they cost to gather
them together. We live off of each
other and our constant study is to
get the better of each other.
Free Silver-You are right on
that, and in that you voice my senti-
ments when I said short while ago
that man is d cannibal and to inter
cept his greed we must pass laws for
the good of the whole and not the po-
tential and favorite few Govern
ment is for the people and not for a
preferred class.
Gold Bug-Y6u have not explain
ed why the Almighty made silver to
prevent the rich from dey6uring the
poor. What do you mean by it?
Free Silver-Silver was created
for the same reason the law was de-
creed that stored wheat should de-
velop weevil; and, too, that stored
-four should terminate worms. Sill
yer is bulky and weighty. No one
desires it in large quantity A thous-
and dollars of it will weigh sixty
pounds, and you require dray to
move it, and not five per cent of the
commercial world can afford to dis
please the bank. If you take it to
bank you do so on the the agreement
that you will agree to check it out
again. In other words, the bank will
only receive it on special deposit
Then while you have that one thous-
and dollars in silver stored in bank
and friend comes to you to borrow
that amount Of money, you natural.
" say to him | will make you a loan
| If YOU will take silver, and likeli
hoods are if you had your money on
deposit in paper you would refuse
the loan. The miser's clutch is not
on silver, But then this is hardly q
fair illustration, for large sums are
mostly paid in drafts, notes and
checks. Bank notes to any amount
are of such trifling weight that you
can carry million dollars in one
thousand bank notes and no one will
notice you are in the possession OF
it. Commercial men deposit theiI
accumulations every day before the
bank closes. Silver is not taken t.
the bank but put in the counting
room safe to pay drib bills. Should
you present bill under twenty dol
liars the cashier of the counting room
will probably say will pay you i
you will take silver. | made mention
of this to a friend short while ago
He is now a judge of the Tax Court
He Is a heightened, honorable gen
tleman, and replied he knew thu
truth of my remark. For only re
Gently he had received hundred
dollars in silver and was puzzled t.
know what to do with it. He studied
a moment who all he owed, and afte
scheduling his debts went to the sew
eral parties to whom he owed small
sums and paid them all off. SO it il
in all instances of small bills. Sill
yer is the chore boy of the nation
You hold on to five-dollar bill bu
once break it and it is soon gone
Subsidiary coin or one dollar silvel
dollars roll around to pay off drill
bills. Paper money put in bank il
allowed to remain on deposit. 1t ha
the craving for more attached to it
But silver is running around and you
look on it as your GRAND boy, thu
proper use of which is to cancel sun
dry small bills Then when the poo
are paid off whose little small claim
are unworthy of check, you hay,
settled with with seventy-five pc
cent Of the people of the country
and the odds between their bein!
paid and being put off with tho ex
cuse, "call again" is the odds be
tween prosperity and hard times.
Gold Bug-Why, you elaborat