St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-23
ANSWERS Do NOT ANSWER.
AT Least John L.. stone Says Those
OF G. j. Buell. Do Not.

AT Least John l.. stone Says Those
of G. j. Buell. Do Not.
To the Editor of the Globe sttis
am obliged to knock again at the knowl
edse pCx or my friend, C.. j. Buell. as his an
swers do not seem to answer.
FROM l7s2 to 1s4S the worlds production of
silver and gold was as follows: Silver 81 ,624
III GOO; gold, 1921 OS6,000. Why was not silver
the cheaper metal during that period?
Again, from 1S4S to 1881, the gold product
had forged ahead so that the relative quanti-
ties were: Gold, 1881 ,595; silver, $780, 015 0OO
an enormous increase in quantity of the yell
lGW metal and an astonishing cheapening of
cheaper? o.
our staple commodities, such as pork beef.
corn, oats, wheat, cotton, coal and iron hear
ti the same ratio to silver now that they did in
the past 100 years of the worlds history Why
nave they deprecated in value?
There was once very wise, pure and pious
Ola maid down in Maine by the name of Aunt
Betty Randall. She had Travelled on foot and
In carriage and coach until her varied "ex-
perience" as traveller had far exceeded
yours, Brother Buell., as financial expert: for
she was very, very old
She had however, never been on a railway
train; and so one day she thought she would
finish her education and experience by taking
ride to Boston in palatial Boston & Maine
coach.
She went on board at Portland settled down
in luxurious seat, rested her head back on
sort, s1lken pillow OF down, placed her virgin
X, a deep
start.
She got nervous waiting, and, turning to a
fellow passenger, asked:
why on airth don't these kiars start 9''
Start; why, we've been going half an
hour
We'll, I du declare" said Aunt Betty.
Why, hedn't noticed anything start 'cept
the telegraph poles and fences, and they
seemed to be going t'other way
Now, Brother Buell. amt you in the same
boat with Aunt Betty?
Hasn't your gold coach been carrying you
and your fellow Democrats rapidly and i'm
percept1bly forward, while value has re-
mained nearly stationary?
Isn't it fact that all of our present financial
ills date their origin to the time when con-
gress, in defiance of the constitution, changed
from a bmetallie basis to a buy-metaIlic
standard?
If you had tied up a talent of gold in a
napkin in 1876 and buried it in the earth you
could dig it up any time now and have two
talents. 1t accumulates in idleness
He that is rich, why, let him richer grow;
Ii poor, what harm il we increase his woe?"
Taxes and debts are paid in standard dol
lars, and when the producer is obliged to pay
constantly increasing quantity of his prod
ucts, in consequence of the ever appreciating
value of the standard its tendency is toward
poverty, pauperiSm and slavery
Prosperity is ever in the future except to
those who deal in the debts of their fellow
beings.
'"PS' A'iOIhCl IouSlI, nave given some
hints here of my political religion; but hope
1t bears the stamp of Jeffersonian principles
and has the ring of that pure Democracy that
made the party in the early days the party Of
the people.
l am Democrat yet, but I stand stationary
with the pork, beef, corn, oats, wheat cotton.
COAL iron and silver, while large number of
my associates have taken the new Israelitish
coach, and, under the care of millionaire con-
ductorS, are moving away from the old sta
tions at rapid rate
If the road don't change its management
and put on different officers there's a wreck
ahead. Yours truly John F. Stone.
Pine City, March IS.