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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
JUSTICE BIeELows VIEWS.
Nevadn's Great Jurist Tells Who Free
Coinage win Iniure.

tonnage VIII InJure.
Chief Justice r. r. Bigelow, of the
supreme court of Nevada, had a letter in
a recent issue of the Reno (Ney.) Ga
zette which states some of the effects
OF sixteen to one free coinage very clear
ly. Here is part of his letter:
1t is not to be denied that the repub-
licans of this state are hard hit by the
action of the st. Louis convention upon
the monetary question. The free coin
age of silver is believed to be so much to
the advantage of Nevada as silver
producer, and we have for so many
years heard nothing but free coinage
Eat sixteen to one" arguments, that we
have almost come to the conclusion that
no one can think otherwise who Is not q
scoundrel bought with British gold.
But there is another side to the question
that Is believed in sincerely by millions
Of as pure patriots as any who believe
In free coinage of silver. Any man who
says that this country can alone double
the value of all the silver Of the world
and bring it and gold to par Is either
ignorant of the lessons Of the past or he
willfully shuts his eyes to them. If the
free silverites carry the election this fall
on their sixteen to one platform, it will
not only paralyze business-it will ut
terly destroy it. There will be scarcely
a bank or business house in the land
that will not go down before the storm.
It will send gold to almost 100 per cent.
premium. and. as measured With silver.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
why Not Ten-Cent Doilarss

We all know that this country can
sustain q limited amount of silver cur
Iency at q ratio of sixteen to one, be-
cause II is already doing It. Butifitcan
sustain an unlimited amount coined at
the Sumo ratio. why can 1t not sustain 1t
at O ratio Of three to one? In other
words, why can it not strike from our
ten cent piece the inscription Zone
dime" and make it zone dollar?" II
this be practicable-and 1t seems to
me that the one is as practicable as the
other-is not the proposition of unlim-
tied sixteen to one an extrayagant and
useless waste of the most valuable COM
modify which the world has ever
known Itappears that there are great
er possibilities open to the advocates
of the white metal than even they have
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
Attacking Home Builders.

The silverite candidate for president
nominated at Chicago declared: "Wc
are fighting for our homes, our fam
lilies and posterity." Mr.. Bryan neg
lected to say how policy of debt re-
pudiation and property confscation
would establish more firmly the right
Of men who build homes to own them.
If. as he seems to think, the fact that
some debtors are poor justifies the
wholesale robbery of creditors, would
not the same logic entitle the millions
who have no land or homes to share
the property of the farmers who have
by hard work secured home and lit
tie wealth? Can an agitation which at
tacks capital and property rights he
truly said to be a movement in defense
of the peoples homes? There are about
100000 Americans who have saved uI
little money and deposited it in saw
ings and other banks or in building and
loan associations. A large proportion
of the 100000 have saved from their
small earnings in hope of one day bav-
ing enough to get home for their old
age. Mr.. Bryan's sixteen to one scheme
would cut the value of all these savings
in two. Is that policy in defense of
the American home? Fighting for our
homes" sounds well. Fighting to pre-
vent the masses from getting homes
would be more truthful statement of
the silverite agitation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
Plenty of BimetalIlsm Now.

We have bimetallism in the United
States in every sense of the term. If the
gold man wants gold, he can get 1t. II
the silver man wants silver at sixteen
to one, he can get it. Based ON these two
metals and redeemable in them, or like
them, in the products of the world 1.-THE
final redeemer of ali moneys) we have
the greenback, the treasury note and
the national bank note, so that if the cit
izen prefers paper to either gold or sill
yer, it is within his reach.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
VICTIMS OF CHEAP MONEY,
Macaulay's Description OF Sufferers BY
Clipped Coins In the Seventeenth Gen.

Macaulay's Description of sufferers by
Clipped Coins In the Seventeenth Cen
fury.
Free coinage at sixteen to one is equiv
client to clipping from As to so cents
from the present dollar. 1t would give
us debased dollar of varying value.
The world has had experience with
clipped coins. Poorly minted coins
during Queen Elizabeth's time made it
easy to clip them. Coin clipping was
carried on extensively during the rest
of the sixteenth and during all of the
seventeenth century. By 1895, Mac
caulay tells us, it could hardly be said
that the country possessed, for practical
purposes, any measure of the value Of
commodities"
Speaking of the effects upon the
people at large of this debased coin of
uncertain value, this great historian
says that at may well be doubted
whether all the misery which had been
inflicted on the English nation in q
quarter of a century by bad kings, bad
ministers, bad parliaments and bad
judges was equal to the misery caused
in a couple of years by bad crowns and
bad shillings." he describes the work.
ings and effects in the following Ian
guage:
"Butwhen the great instrument Of ex-
change became thoroughly deranged,
all trade, all industry, were smitten as
with q palsy. The evil was felt daily
and hourly In almost every place and
by almost every class, In the dairy and
on the threshing floor, by the anvil and
by the loom, on the pillows Of the ocean
and in the depths of the mine. Nothing
could be purchased without dispute.
Over every counter there was wrangling
from morning to night. The workman
and his employer had a quarrel as regu-
larly as the Saturday came round. On
a fair day or market day the clamors,
the reproaches, the taunts, the curses,
were incessant, and it was well IL no
booth was overturned and no head
broken. No merchant would contract to
deliver goods without making some
stipulation about the quality of the coin
in which he was to be paid. Even men
of business were often bewildered by
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

In one respect at least the Chicago
platform is to be commended. 1t is a
straightout declaration of revolution
airy doctrines and reputation princi-
Piles. Everyone who supports it will
know just what he is voting for, and
the American people will have only
themselves to blame if they are fool,
tsh enough to indorse policy which
would bring widespread ruin and pow
erty and end in national bankruptcy
and Observation-Disclosures Graham.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
Death List Reaches A.

ATLANTIC CITY, August 1.-Con-
fusion exists here regarding the
exact number OF persons killed in
the accident Thursday night.
Forty bodies have been identified
and four are unidentified but re.
latives and friends Of four others
who were known to have been on
the excursion have not been able
to find them. AS the wreck has
been cleared away and no addi-
tional bodies found, the proba-
bility is they are among those uni
Identified and that the relatives or
friends have not been able to re-
cognize them because OF their
mutilated condition. This would
place the total killed at A. The
body of Thomas Kelly, of Elmer,
N. j, was identified today. Sever
al injured are still lying in a
critical condition at the sanitari.
UNI.
An impression prevails that the
responsibility for the accident
rests upon the dead engineer, Ed
ward Farr. There Is no dispute
that the signal to come ahead was
given to the West Jersey excursion
train, and If 80, the danger signal
must necessarily have been given
to the Reading train. By an auto
matte arrangement the signals
then become locked and cannot he
released until both trains have
cleared the point. Before the sig
nails are manipulated, the red sig
nal is constantly displayed to
both tracks indicating to all en-
gipeers they must slow up on ap.
preaching the crossing. The
theory is that Farr did
not slow up and could not do
30 in time when he saw the West
Jersey train approaching. 1t Is
said he had been laid of two
weeks not long ago for not making
good time, and 1t is supposed he
was trying to make up for this by
running at high rate OF speed.
The coroner's inquest will begin
Monday morning, and il soFiremen
G'Houlihan, of the Reading train,
who saved himself by jumping,
will probably be the principal wit
ness
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
Poor Argument for Free silver.

The free coinage agitators ask the
people TO vote for the sixteen to one
scheme on the ground that the bankers,
manufacturers and merchants are al.
in favor of a sound currency. eff the
banking and business interests are OPP
posed to free silver" say the cheap dol
lar advocates, "the farmers and work
ers should support 1T. There must be
something good for the poor in this
free coinage scheme just because the
rich people do not want it." OF all un-
reasonable and demagogic pleas for so
cent dollars this is the worst. An ex-
actly similar argument would be a de-
mand on the part of the millions who do
not own homes or buildings of any kind
that all houses should be burned down
because it would hurt property owners.
There is no doubt but that every man
in America who owns q building would
say, If asked, that he is opposed to hav-
ing his property destroyed. But that
would be no reason why the people who
have no homes should favor arson. The
attempt to create a prejudice in favor
of debt reputation because business
men and bankers believe in honesty
can never succeed with fair-minded,
honorable citizens. They will decide
the silver question ON its merits and
will not be led astray by appeals to
one class to vote for cheap and trashy
money merely because it is favored by
another class
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

everything else Will go up IN vaIue wIun
it, but as it will take twice as many
dollars as now to buy the same article
it will be of no earthly advantage to
anyone except the man who owes
debts that he has not promised to pay
in gold. His silver dollars will pay such
a debt just as during the war green
backs would pay one, although worth
but 33 cents on the dollar, but they
will only buy half as much -four or
clothing or groceries as now.
But If he owes money to banks or
money lenders-and who does not?-
who have all protected themselves by
gold contracts, he will have to take two
of his silver dollars to buy one in gold,
and at the same time, owing to the gen.
eral stagnation in business, they will be
harder to get hold of than gold dollars
are now. 1t will beIof no advantage to
the silver states, because their silver
will be just as hard to get from the
ground as now, and pound of it will
buy no more steel or powder or any OF
the necessaries of life than now.
But the laboring man will be the one
who will suffer the most. The Comstock
miner will still get four dollars per day,
the laborer two dollars and the clerk
$50 to SIS per month, but it will be in
silver, and, as it is now in Mexico, it will
only buy for his family or himself one
half what it will to-day. The same will
be the case with the crippled veterans,
their widows and orphans, who are now
getting pensions. It's effect will be to
scale their pensions. Its effect will be
to scale their pensions down one-half.
There is not one of the arguments of
the silverites that cannot be completely
and successfully refuted. Free coinage
at sixteen to one by this country alone
cannot possibly benefit anyone, but it
can bring fearful distress upon all.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

an arpISraIy rauo
between gold and
silver. 1t is also a
demand for legisla-
tion making debts
contracted on a 100
cent basis payable
in 52-cent dollars. 1t
Is a frank assertion
in favor of debasing
I h e currency by
adopting the cheap
silver standard. 1t
means that one-half
of the property of
the millions of cred
itors of the country
shall be taken away
from them by law,
and that IL the sill
verites are success
full they will bring
on a financial panic
by threatening in
vestors with the loss
of half their capital,
thus forcing them to
call In all their loans.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
Never Mind the workingmen.

Suppose it to be true that free COIN
age will double the price of wheat and
other food products, where does the
worllingman come in, with double
prices for his bread, meat and the like
and the same old wage?y
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
To OmcahoIders.

Are you an oficeholder with fixed
salary? Vote for free coinage and you
vote TO reduce your salary so per cent,
for under free coinage the same num-
Der of dollars will purchase only half
as much as at present.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
Mexico's silver Dollar.

Mexico has free and unlimited coin
age, and yet the Mexican silver dollar,
although larger than ours, is quoted in
New York, Paris, London and Berlin at
SO cents. 1t should be said also that in
Mexico it is worth but So cents in gold,
and that it passes there and elsewhere
ut rs bullica value MS measured by the
money OF t.olr MERGE
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

T" We demand the
free and unlimited
coinage of both sill
vers and goldtat the
present legal ratio
of sixteen to one.
without waiting for
the aid or consent
of any other nation.
We Ae->aed that the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
To Wage Farmers.

Are you a wage Garner? Vote for free
coinage and you vote to reduce your
wages so per cent. until you can, by
striking or threatening to strike, get
back a part of the reduced purchasing
power of the dollass in which your
wages are paid,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
NOTICE.

The Greenville Construction Co.
furnishes all tools for their men and
have none for sale. Our tools are
branded and stamped G. G. c., and
any one buying them does so knowing
them to be stolen.
7-15-1m w. ]. WIN,Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
To Pensioners.

Do you draw pensions Vote for free
coinage and you vote to cut your pen
sion in two in the middle, because I'M
der free coinage your dollars would
purchase only half as much as now.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
TO THE PUBLIC.

The business of the late Mrs. Edna
Schneider will be carried on by me,
the undersigned, f Schneider, at the
same residence. Consultations and
curing of all diseases, also manufac-
turing OF, female confinement drops.
Address 304 Villita ST. 7-27-7t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

THE first coinage
law passed by con-
gress made the silver
dollar the money unit
and admitted gold to
free coinage at q ra-
ito based upon the
silver dollar unit"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
To Policy Holders.

Do you hold policy. in life or fire
insurance company? Vote for free COIN
age and you vote to reduce by one-halt
the value of your policy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

I'VE declare that
the act of 1873, de-
monetizing s ilv er
without the knowl-
edge or consent of
the American peo-
pie, has resulted in
the appreciation of
gold.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

T" We are unalter-
ably opposed to mon
ometallism, W h 1 c h
has locked fast the
prosperity of an in
dustrial people In
the paralysis of hard
times"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

-Hammerless repeating shot-guns,
Spencer and Winchester makes.
S-1-2t FRED w. STONE.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
SOUND MONEY
FACTS.

SOUND MONEY
FACTS.
7 h e constitution
does nothing of the
kind. 1t does not
contain a line or
word which can be
twisted into mean
ing that gold and sill
yer shall be the
money metals of the
country. Article /,
Section 10, says:
mo state shall en-
ter into any treaty,
alliance or confed-
Grafton, grant letters
of marque and re-
prisal, coin money,
emit bills of credit,
make anything but
gold and silver coin
a tender in payment
of debts"
The denial of the
right of the states to
make anything but
gold and silver legal
tender Is very far
from naming those
m e I q Is a s t h e
money metals of
the United States"
In no other part of
the constitution Is
gold or silver even
mentioned.
The first coinage
law passed by con-
gress made both gold
and silver coins the
unit or measure of
value. The Spanish
milled dollar W q 8
made the unit of
number, but I b g
coinage of gold was
based on q fixed
number of grains Of
gold, and not on q
ratio with the silver
dollar.
The coinage law of
1873 was passed after
three years discus
sion in congress, and
1t was printed %
times in the course
of its enactment.
The speeches In both
the house and senate
during the proceed
ings on the bill show
that the change was
made as openly as
any other law ever
passed by congress.
There Is no proof
that gold has appre-
ciated. Measured by
its labor cost-that
is, the amount of
labor necessary to
obtain a given guam
tity of it-gold Is
cheaper to-day than
In 1873.
The free coinage
of silver bullion, of
which 80 ounces are
worth less than one
ounce of gold. into
legal tender dollars
at a ratio of sixteen
to one gold dollar.
would at once force
this country on a
silver basis and thus
bring about the
m o n o m Q I l ism
which the silverites
pretend to oppose.
1t Is also the poll
cy OF France, Ger
many. Austria. TIA
ly, Belgium, 6wttzer-
land and other civ
ilized nations. Sill
yer monometallism.
which would be the
certain result Of free
coinage at sixteen to
one, Is the policy OF
China. India, Mexf-
CO and Japan. Are
the gold using or
silver using coun-
tries the most en-
lightened and pros
porous and worthy
OF being initiated by
Americans?
This Is q demand
that silver worth |
only 50 cents shall
be declared equal |
in value to a gold |
dollar worth 100 |
cents in face Of the
fact that the rest of
the world refuses to
ioin In astahlishinG
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

"Gold monometal-
ism Is a British pol
icy, It Is not only
un-American. b ut
anti-Amer1can.'T
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01
PLATFORM EAlLAClES.
False and Misleading Assertions by the
Democratic National Convention.

False and Misleading Assertions by the
Democratic National Convention.
The declaration of financial pfinci-
pies put forward by the democratic ma
tional convention is a shrewd mixture
of cheap money decisions, half truths
and wholly unfounded assertions. Its
alleged statement of facts has frequent
1y been shown to be untrue; in spite of
this they were deliberately Endorsed by
a majority of the representatives of the
democratic party. Since the standard
raised at Chicago will be used to rally
all the forces of silverism, tiatism, cur
rency debasement and debt repudia-
ton, it becomes necessary to refute
once more the statements on which the
American people are asked to support
the democratic candidates. This can be
briefly and effectively done by COM
parison of the assertions of the Chi
cago platform with the simple facts.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

sranuaru sirvcr uoIs
lar shall be a full le-
gal tender, equally
with gold, for all
debts, public and
private"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

SILVER CLAIMS.
1.-THE constitution
names silver q n d
gold together as the
money metals of the
United States"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-01

U. S.-B'gosh! Worst booze ever got
on. If I get sober this time, I'll never
do it again.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-03
FRESH AIR FUNDS NEEDED.

The first of the Fresh Air Excur- sions" of the City Mission association was given yesterday as elsewhere re- ported, and passed off very successful ly under the direction of Rev. Mir. Mossman, the general superintendent, who states that more funds are urgent ly needed to meet the expenses of this and other excursions, which he wishes to arrange before taking his vacation. The cost of the excursion yesterday was over $100. An offering of S60 from the United church on children's day for the City Mission Fresh Air Fund" was assigned to Miss Hume, the lady mis- siopary, to meet the excursion expenses yesterday oe the children under her care, but otherwise very little has been received this season. Four more ex- cursions are in preparation, to Include about 1000 persons, and it is hoped that the people of New Haven will make it possible, even in hard times," and all the more. because of this, to do more rather than less for those who suffer most, and for whom an occasional day on the water or at the shore is 8 much needed refreshment. Two dollars will give ten people this enjoyment, and more in proportion for larger subscrip- tions. MT Mossman states that among those on the excursion yesterday was a little girl about five years old whose father and mother say that her life was saved by taking her on one of these Fresh Aid Excursions" few years since, when she was very sick and not expected to live.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-03
Clearing House Cannot be Sued.

New York, July 2.-Justice Traux in the supreme court to-day, ill overriding the demurrer interposed in the action by the defendants in the suit brought by the National Bank of Commerce and fty-eight other banks, the founders of the original clearing house. association, against the Bank of,aNe8u York and twenty other banks, states that the Clearing House association is not a body which can be legally sued, and that the title to the property was vest ed in the fifty-nine banks as tenants in common.
 The demurrer is dismissed, but the defendants are given leave to interpose an answer to the suit. In 1874 the Clearing House association was form ed and contributed $1O0,Ooo to purchase a site for a building. This property was lately sold, when the new clearing house was projected, for $725,000, and it was to define the dispositions of this amount that the suit was brought