The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
WI FREE SILVER DO lTq

Taos -ads Of people honestly believe the
iTsa coinage OF silver az a ratio q l6 70 !
siil h,ias back eng vanished prosperity and
su.bie tie natf5a 20 rsooup it. losses. Tho
wee o. ias situation IL at beet ephemersl and
.apssgeiai. founded On suppositi7n rather
taaa 49, Eledgs and q clear cut understand
ine .. what a correct financial system really
j.. 2 haps no subject has been more per.
sistea-iy discussed BY both learned and
uIl FsI voters than the double stand
ar sui Il is safe b say DO subject 10 all
e., .Taoge Of politics is so little under TODD
by ire masses. There is q purpose n all
ttr Monometalsts and bmetalists DO not
aant scientific, sensible money system,
aud Is well understood that 20 long as
they can make the average voter believe
that somehow or other gold and silver are
naturally" money and nothing else is or
can be, just 20 long as they can rob. Cypress
labor and gather to themselves the lions
lharo Of its products. Money is creation
Of law, and without law even natural
money gold and silver--is not money.
Wiil any sane man dare to say that the
sovereign nations Of the world have not the
power 10 demonetize every dollar Of either
or b. 8! Germany and other nations have
demouetizcd gold as well as silver, thus
proging oonclusively that the power to do
these things lies in a sovereignty. and when.
ever it chooses to use il the Wanted
natural money" dies by a statutory decree
or enactment. No one with sense enough
to keep out Of some insane asylum will say
that u mere dictum Of any sovereignty can
take one single grain Of starch, gluten or
sugar from grain Of wheat or corn, these
bring natural intrinsic qualities, and will re-
main though the Pope might issue "bill'
ordering them to disappear, with all the
sovereigntes on earth assisting. II, then,
these metals have intrinsic qualities, are
natural money entities, how in the name of
the dead Caesar can any nation by simple
''Be it enacted" destroy them as money
metals or change their natural qualities OF
impair their natural powers as money!
1t Is nonsense to argue a thing cannot be
done when every l0-year old boy knows
that it has been done and can be done again.
II, then, these metals are money by and
through law, and the output IS mere trio.
ious, arbitrary and uncertain, while
a uniform and adequate volume of
money is an indisputable necessity
to a healthy trade and business of a nation,
is it not folly, bordering on idioey, for
sensible people to suffer themselves to be
tied tight and hard to system that holds
the masses while enormously enriching the
few? If law alone can, and does make dol
lar-if it doesn't why have our coined silver
dollars 100 cents of purchasing power and
pay 100 cents to the dollar of debts?-
Would il not be sensible and an evidence Of
good business sense to make the debt-paying,
Misunderstanding dollar out of some ma.
teria commensurate in commodity worth
the functions of dollar If the dollar, or
rather the material upon which it is stamped
is and ought to be comparatively valueles5,
so that the dollar itself ought to have but
one function, one attribute-money-a mere
medium of exchange, with the intrinsic
or commodity value entirely eliminated
from it then it logically follows that there
can be no sound non huctuating and rela
lively stable money system which rest upon
Auctuating material used for money be-
cause nothing can be accurate or honest
measures of any or all values that has nc
fixed, permanent value itself Hence it fol
lows that gold and silver being commodities
naturally, having qualities that necessarily
make them such, are not and can not be {
sensible, scientific and logical money fol
any nation with brains enough to preserve
1 its liberties. For these and many othel
reasons space will not permit us to mention
it is folly to suppose the mere free coinage
of silver is going to cure the radical evils o
which this nation is dying, 1t may ease tn,
pain little and make superficial people be
leve the cure radical, and that is all it cal
or will do. II we must have gold and silve
as money, for the Lords sake let us get riC
of the idea that they are natural money
Gods money, and place the whole system
of emitting money wholly in the hands 0
congress and take it out OF the hands Of col
porations of every kind, sort and size. Tn
til this is done it is more than folly to eve
dream of relief and no body of men under
stand this better than the "fnanoier" no'
dominating, shaping and controlling the {
nancial policy of the parties of our country
Free coinage l6 to is all right enough prc
vided you don't let the bankers make til
metal the only money of final redemptio
rnd then give the privilege of fufnishin
YOU with redeemable currency with whic
to do your business. If you do, it will be
nancial disaster. That's all.
d. L. BATHURST,
Newlands, Nevada.
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