The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-01
A NATURAL RATIO
- There One Between n. y,
and Gold?-If 81 !. sue OF Eil

ns.s one hetween the Value !, n.
and Goids-If So, Is Il Ie ! 2, su's'|
Mr.. J. J, Mott, chairman !. !. -
tional committee Of the free sil " ne as ma
recently organized at Wasbinc..lpar party
Hicts on a much-abused pnh,is WI nj
appeal pea for f. votes for free coinage ~ loas|
iatest official utterance Of the si 81, lhia|
Is not much worse than tbei 1n w.,
walls over the terrible sutfer;n iofner|
ny an imaginary scarcity Of ca s caused az
dollars, and is only notable n ~ wheel 4
Dolby asserts that gold and silver ' sa,l y
N the earth in almost certain fiyad e "A
portlons' and that the natural rat a p y
tween the two metals is tberet ""o o.
teen to one. This ration o'e sx'
Mott has contiued as arranged H. y, al.
under the natural order as ba y ~ naa
IT," 1t was accepted by mank;na ,Ouna
part OF the grand plan upon us y :
Inc world was to move, and approvads ta y
the philosophy and common saw 10y
all ages. ''use q
Il it were true that when the :, !,
was created the amount of silver son U
in it was 16 times greater than tba ,s ss,a
TINS would be no reason why one metal eps
should be worth 16 times as mnch =
the other. The labor cost of prodnoi, :
anything and the demand for If i NM.
regulates it's value. There is no natn,a'
measure of values, and no fixed an
between two metals or any other nroa
ucts, SO that there is no ground for Il.
claim that the value of an ounce j,
gold was designed by nature to he n.
same as that of 1e ounces of silver
Mr.. Mott must have been using m
newly discovered ray to peer into m
innermost depths of the earth, II N
really knows that gold and silver M
list in almost certain proportions n
is pity that he does not inform M
public just where all those hidden met.
ais are and how many tons there are q
each. Perhaps he is waiting until con-
gress passes free coinage law, when
he will uncover the mass of silver wh;,h
he knows so much about. And Den
haps, great and wise as Chairman
Of a silver party must be, he doesn't
know anything more about the metal
in the earth than he does of the cur
rency question.
1.-THE grand plan upon which ths
world was to move" seems to have 20
badly out of joint in these days. II
natural law can be set aside by worldly
minded business men. who say thata
the commercial value Of silver is
times less than that Of gold they will
give no more for it, nature must fed
sighted. But there is bare possibl
ity that even Mr.. Mott hasn't beeI
told all of the worlds plans for NOV
ing.
As for the philosophy and comm1
sense of all ages" IL is little curion
that in some of the ages silver wa
valued at eight to cne of gold. II y
Weld of the South African, Australia
and American gold mines should prov
to be as large as is confidently predcte
by eminent biologists and mining 9
gineers, the ratio might again drop
those figures. Would the "philose
phers." of whom Mr.. Mott is evident
one, stick to the magic sixteen to o.
or would they adopt the commerce
ratio, whatever 1t might be?
The silver party may get a Jew '0's
in November, but its following v
certainly not be increased because
the practical wisdom and argumen
Of its national chairman.