Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-20
WEDNESDAY sEvENING. MAY 90, 1896
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Messrs. f. A. Weeks & Co., Chicago,
has been laid on THE OPTIC's table.
Its title page reads thus: Changer
Line Reached a plain statement of
fact on the money question, by Homo.
A. Hadley, ex-governor of Arkansas"
A work from the pen of our we'll
known and popular fellow-citizen, Gov.
Hedley, would naturally possess great
interest for every reader of books In
New Mexico; but when the subject
matter of such work is q consideration
of "the money question:" that inter.
est is deepened at home and widened
in it's reach to every section Of the
United States. THE OPTIC feels that
il is dong its readers valuable service
in calling their attention to this truly
timely and important addition to the
financial controversy.
OF course, the governor approaches
the subject from the free silver stand
point, the work being o mastery and
lnans werable argument upon the me-
cesslty for neutrality-suspicious.
of the white metal. The author SAYS:
In the following pages there will be
found nothing Of a partisan nature, nor
are there any long tables TO obscure the
force of plain reasoning. | am actuated
by neither malice nor ambition, but as a
plain American citizen, prompted by a
spirit of patriotism and an earnest desire
to sound a warning note to my fellow citi.
zens, of the dangers by which we are even
now surrounded, and to point out what |
honestly believe to be the only remedy.
Having full faith in the intelligence
of the American people, and believing
that they are capable of understanding
all questions pertaining to the welfare
of the country, the author appeals to
their intelligent reasoning rather than
to heir prejudice or their partisan.
ship. In doing so, he has used PLAIN
language, avoiding eve the appear
ance of approach to fine writing;
while he has confined himself to state
ments OF facts, readily understood and
easy of demonstration. The result is
a cham Of argument overwhelmingly
conclusive at every STEP, and one
which cannot but be of vast benefit to
The cause Of silver.
Solomon long ago said that there is
nothing new under the sun; and Sen
ator Vest, of Missouri, in d little alter
cation with Senator Palmer, of Illinois,
the other day, in the United States
senate chamber, said:
He (Mr. Pa'mer) certainly stated that
what l said did not have the merit of
originality. was compelled to say that
anything upon the silver question is not
original. If there is an original idea upon
it the man who has discovered 1t is
titled to a patent, beyond any question.
With all due Difference, this writer,
who read every word Of Governor
Hadley's work, while in manuscript,
and who has read a large portion of
the literature which the financial 9 n
troversy has evolved-this writer is as
sured that Governor Hadley o only
has opened a new and heretofore un-
discovered sslead," that he not only
has discovered a new and original idea
nay, a whole book full of such ideas
he has made the strongest advo-
of the silver question thus far
presented. His book shows not merely
he d~esirability of free silver coinage,
but its absolute necessity, as the only =.
means Of escape from the maelstrom OIL
financial disaster, in whose whirlpool
are already drifting, without oar or 1
J
Here is the question in a nutshell
This country has a foreign debt Of
,ver So, ooe,o0O, 900, drawing interest |
o the amount OF 5000, 000, 900 annu-
lily. Other bonded indebtedness
.ugmenls the amount to nearly $12.-
COG, oCo, bearing interest in the
um of nearly 5000, ouO, 900 annually. !
other words, one years Interest, if :
demanded in gold, would place all the