The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-29

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free coinage OF silver that has not got
a silver mine worth ten millions Of
dollars, at least, and be wants to make
it worth twenty c,lllions of dollars.
You see silver now is only worth
ifty cents on the dollar and he wants
to sell it to the government for a
dollar. You didn't know that we all
knew that you had silver mine and
all the farmers bad. Now you see
silver is worth little more than fifty
cents on the dollar. If you coined
all this silver the silver dollars would
be only worth fifty cents. Still you
silver miners would be getting dol
lar in silver.
Farmer. How do you make that
out? You say that if we could have
our silver coined the silver dollars
would only be worth fifty cents.
Lawyer. Just so.
Farmer. Then we would get q
silver dollar, would we? It would
be worth just fifty centsswould it?
Lawyer. Yes.
Farmer. You said minute ago
that silver bullion was worth fifty
cents now, and if you could only get
silver dollar for it how would we
make any money? But, squire, you
as:onish me very much. Your pro-
found knowledge makes me super
stitious. How you could ascertain
that oil of US farmers are rich silver
barons. We have tried to keep it Sc
cret. We swear our children to keep
it secret and swear our babies when
they are a day old not to tell.
Lawyer. You must see now that
| we have studied this question thor
oughly and found out all about your
resources. I am astonished that you
cannot see how you silver miners will
make money by coming your silver
into fifty-cent dollars, when your sill
YER is already worth that amount.
Farmer. I cannot see it.
Lawyer. That is on account OF
your great ignorance. You suggest
ed little while ago that money was
scarce and that demonetizing silver
made it scarce. Don't you know
that demonetiziug silver destroyed
half the metallic money in the world :?
Farmer. Yes, / know it did.
Lawyer. Don't you know that by
destroying half the money would
make it plenty?
Farmer. No, I thought by de-
stroying half the money would make
money scarce.
Lawyer. In that you make great
mistake. You must study your arith-
n,etic again in which you will learn
that half is much greater than
whole and that by demonetizing sill
yer the amount of money has been
increased,tbe money is very plentiful.
My bank says it was never SO plen-
teous in the world aud that good Sc.
curity WAS never so scarce.
Farmer. don't quite understand
how destroying half the money in
crease the quantity but I do know
why security is scarce; because our
farms amt worth anything now.
The price has gone down SO that we
cannot get anything for what we
have and of course we cannot give Sc
curity. The bankers would rather
keep the money for US, because mon
ey is safe and as loug as it grows
dearer they make money that way.
Lawyer. We must bring this dis
cussiou to a close, because it is about
slime that I must go to the bank and
prepare papers to foreclose the mort
gage on Dick Winters farm.
Farmer. Has Dick gone up and,
you are going to close him out?
Lawyer. Oh, yes. We have got
to close him out. His wife came to
church last Sunday with bran new
calico dress on and the banker
couldn't stand it any longer. II be
couldn't use his money any better
than that, he would have to put an
honest man on the farm. But before
You 90 I want to tell you one other
way that you farmers are doing 8:
great deal of harm. You are soaring
foreign capital out of the country.
You know every time one of your
children cries for bread that the gold
in enc of Rothschilds biggest bank
inc house in New York rolls over and
wants to go to England right away,
where it will be safe from the out
RACES of the mob:
Farmer. Well, Squire, if capital is
as timid as that you had better 60 to
the bank and save what they have
got there from the danger of being
driven out Of the country by the cries
of Dick Winters babies when you
put him off his farm.
johnson. Goodbye, Squire. I am