The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-14

I
Platte. jefferson was the first to cruel
| fy the American people un Il cross of
| gold. And the heaviest crown of thorns
| ever pressed down ON the brow of Amer
! lean labor. is the existing tariff law; in
| the enactment of which the boy orator
! was among the most rhetorical if not
| prominent of its advocates.
| There is no single silver standard
| that has any gold circulating as money
| It's silver money is of less commercial
| value than its gold. There is no single
| gold standard country that does not
! use silver in it's circulating medium. IT,
| therefore, there is to be but one stand
| ard either gold or silver and that is a
| question to be decided next November
| then gold is I'm every way prefera BILE
| The expense of handling silver by rea-
son of its greater bulk and its greater
| weight over gold would prevent its use
| as it always has in all large business
| transactions. AT the ratio of coinage OF
| Ii ounces of silver to one of gold its
weight is 16 times greater than gold
| ana in bulk it is thirty five times great
| en- which adds to the Inconvenience and
| expense OF its use as "a money standard.
| Another reason why gold is pretera BILE
| If there is to be but one standard, is that
| Is varies less i'm the amount and costs of
| its production from year to year as
proven by the experience of four hund-
~" years. II MOI at All ul'e.
PRODUCTION OF BOTH METALS.
,rbo n,,,,,,otio,, ,e ,,,I, +, a., -,
co, tv-6 49,. S1Sa eti o6o ,' NV VIZ ~
nf cnII II, rbn I,,,,,1I C, ,u0, ,,.,', ic
yi7 i0o. tha ,,rC,i,,,tinr oF riI ~ ~,
world for 1894 was $40, ,G5G 600; increase
in the production of gold 1894 over 1870,
$50, ,Oi2, 600
for 1870 vas Si5 6G2 Oo0. tha ,,rndnction
of silver in the world for 1892 was $l9S.-
Oii,i0O; the production Of silver in the
world for 1884 was $2l5, 500.
The Increase in the production Of
silver 1884 over 1870 was $lJ9.1il 500.
Being more than three times greater
than the increase in gold production.
The production OF gold in the United
states for 1870 was $5O,OOO,OOO; the pro-
duCtion Of gold IN the United states for
1898 was $4,000, coo; the production of
gold in the United states for 1884 was
$S' 100000.
Decrease IN the production of gold
| 1874 over 1870 was SlO,5OO, 600.
The production Of silver in the United
States for 1870 was $4,000, 600. the pro-
duction of silver in the United States
for 1892 was SS2,1Ol, 900; the production
of silver i'm the United States for 1894
was S6A,00O,c00: increase in silver pro-
duciOn in he United States oyer 1870
was SG6,lOiuO0
IN 1870 the population Of the United
States was 5S,6AS,2Tl; in 1890 the pOpuia-
tiOn Of the United States was 62,622, 250:
increase in population 1890 over 1870
Tho incrs,s. in sil,-er nrnducion IN 1900
oyn,, 1874 ,,-os sac o0O OGO Almost tbroe
ti,,as errao+a,, tbon tha inr,,aose of
nonulatiop in 1b.sn tryontI-tIyn vnors
,,,,-,,,, ~, an,
i'-'oi'@N-E'H' Il 'f L-NiS AZ '''
This great Increase in the production
Of silver in the United States. and in the
world since 1870 would OF course lessen
its market value. even though there
had been no reduction in the cost OF
its production. But the advocates OF
silver coinage Ii tn l, with their char
acteriSticc ignoring of plain facts, con
stantly declare that silver has not gone
| down IN market Naiue put thal Sold
mas gone up. lhuS ignoring 'ntlfelS
Ia" great increase IN ITS production IN
the last Twenty-Five years, ana the al
most UNIFORM annual prouuCtluh oi
gold 0urln% the sam" period. me per
SiStencN WIN "hlch lhe assertion IS
lhld" thaL SllN'l mas Euho boNh' NNll
the hGurtS hi ilS production ana
lnarN'l NdluG before us IrIiihuH me ol
the inulan Trying 10 ma ms "lSWah'
allrr MS uaE huht' Nnoh the p'rHoh
OF whom n" inquired the way Sald'
are you ipSt! ne iepilcu NO lhuiah
not lost Wlg"am lost none 81 th'Se
visionary th"orlSiS against inc 'Npet-
ience oi all tifne are ever i"Sl' III is
historic lattS' tll' lacla III tIduc anu
commerce that are ioSt' ne nope %
ACQUIRING Etaith ny d tiC"rS VI l'G
man nature than by the SLOW process of
Ia hpr and .tannIIN I'm GuCh theories