Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-24
DR.. McGuire on silver.

Or. Mcclure explains i'm the Times or this
morning his interview a. published IN
the Dispatch Of yesterday. If the old
rule OF grammar-"two negatives make
an afirmative"-worked both ways, as all
good rules ought TO. then the Doctor :
two alternatives are still conclusive or
the frec-siver contention.
Hear Dr. Mcclure as reported in the
Times. being affirmative No. 2.
What / said was that the common
people were i'm favor Of the United States
passing a free-coinage law. for the rea-
son that all money invested I'm American
enterprises would be Withdrawn in that
event and put into home industries. thus
giving the working classes more TO do,
and starting up new industries.
"As a matter OF fact" he continued.
"the mere suspicion that this country
might pass a free-silver coinage law has
caused the more tmid Of the foreigners
who have their money invested in our
enterprises TO withdraw it and put it into
home Industries with the effect that
those Industries have been greatly stimu-
lated. 1t is no wonder then. that the
common people I'm England and other
countries whose capitalists have their
money invested here should desire us
to have free silver, for in that event they
would be benefited correspondingly as the
common people here would be IN
jured'
Now. one of the main arguments for
the free coinage of silver is that 1t will
produce more money, home money. for
capital and the employment Of labor in
productive enterprises; and that the in
terest win be paid in this country. and
not in foreign lands; so that the capital
will be productive, not only I'm giving
labor employment hut also I'm the in
crement which is called Interest" and
our own people will get the benefit Of
both. Why should great country
like ours. teeming with inexhaustible
mines of silver. and pOpulous with hon
est. sturdy. and industrious laborers
begging for employment. have TO go TO
Europe TO borrow money? y benign
Providence makes both gold and silver
but Il does not make money. Govern
ments only can do that and they can
make real money only of things of inhe-
rent value. We have the precious
metals. the eager laborers. the suffering
anxious masses of the people. Shall we
utilize the metals. both Of them; give en-
ployment to the labor and contentment
and prosperity TO our noble and long
suffering people. or shall we go on Dor
rowing and sorrowing." which has be-
come a proverb Of cause and effectY
| know Or. McGuire's eminence as a
physician and surgeon.
'If thou couldst. Doctor. cast
The water of our land. find her disease,
And purge 1t to sound and pristine
health,
I would applaud thee TO the very echo,
That should applaud again.
What rhubarb. SIENNA, or what purgative
drug
Would scour these English hence?'
1t will be a very easy answer TO quote
from the same play-that you
Cannot minister TO a mind diseased
and all of US know that the land Is
Troubled with thick-coming fancies,
That keep her from her rest;
but, while that may be a reply, 1t
will not be an answer. Ii has become
so common TO call us lunatics that we
are become sane enough not TO regard IT,.
But | beg pardon for assuming that you
could make an uncivil reply TO a civil
question
The suggestion of State banks was az
nrmatively overruled by the Palmer
Buckner convention i'm this city, and Is
conspicuous for it's absence from the IN
dianaDolis platform: so. II that be
remedy, it has been rejected.
RICHMOND.
Richmond, September 23d.