The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-05
The Only Eli Tells the Hollow
Tale of Free
Silver.
He SIZES UP THE SITUATION.
Good Reasons Advanced for Being
on the Side of
Gold.

AZ ~" IN ,a'of VI po'n shNcr anu
golds ASKED a fopulist OF Eli Perkins.
Certainly" said Eli, every civilized
nation uses the two metals-gold and
siIvcr-but the I,n;ted states 10 tho only
'a,;an ,ha. h.. ,o,aaa as nv ~ an.
ha'ioii ina. mas eoihcu us hluch SILVER
as gold: we have been rank bimetai-
lists. We have stood by silver too long.
We have coined SG25. 200. 600 worth of
Ill. "a scoe coo olu, ,..,,'.,, ~
si ..tyh anu %"noV ~ mor.m ot Eon:
oo;nedS" asked tho ponn,;st ''"''o"'
co,nvn ushcu Tue opuis,, =.
90 WHY nmc 'nrs ma'e eoineu less tnan mar h,h
Tinted Kinrdoml has coined and has ' nn
n sann 90 40 ~ Mor.n ol siNes anu
S 300 40 ~ goiu; r su nas o Sdo3.-
- ~; III s'tr anu % s.,;s M M IN IN
g1lu, uernia si,a- n LIS Oily oH f-lo;,WuUp IN
SiNeI nIu % 40 ~, ~ Eoiu' Hussia
n nnS o on5y Sfo.v;VVo III sii'er ana S4oo'-
oo ..rn ~ sy'u.
:, men VIZ nave coineu npout as much
silver as an OF them together!
Hot pui.e; nese i"ur grent h'tions'
win popuiatioi OF afo',O'W'o people,
nave on hanu MSO.VUUDo IN silver
Will wn,le We WIN no,uu'ooo people, nave
Sn.nWp'oVo IN SILVER. -.
Where is our silver now! asked the
why. SoOS,0oo,oOO lies piled up in
the treasury. 1t is rusting in the vaults.
paying no interest: and dropping. in
value. Carlisle is begging the people TO
take 1t. freight free. but he can only get
SJ6,OOO,OOO in circulation. The people
won't have it. They sling it back to
the banks. and then the free silver men
jump up and cry. We want more silver"
They say. The poor people are dying
for silver. Coin more!
And how much of our gold Is in cir
cuation!
l.
NW Wortn 81 H. me banks only mold
HES'V";ow
=, i LIZ "oh say tue i''''ion mas no goid
al W W.
GOOD nno 900 ~ our our o" H.. Wr norroWei
33-U ~ 'n, IRON u i%W AmerlGans aI
ooiorrn,nn, nna 49, wa, '.l"'nS ny
bact Thon Ci.va,onJ h"rroo Sco :
0oo0Oo more from the Rotbscb;ids and
no EnyI;sb at 4 nor ,nn, ,,.hii 80 ",,,
nconle were crv;n,, for II NJ q MOI, "' cont w"
and that we've rot ia return in cold
To tell You the honest truth This nnt;on
has cot inst 500 600 noo worth ~ hor'
rowed gold in the treasury. II isnt
ours. Ii is borrowed To prevent n run
on the treasury. with S1OO. OOO.O 900 i'm
gold due the people besides. oh, if we
had bought gold when we coined that
S0S,OUO,00O worth of silver now lying
IDLE in the treasury, as England. France.
Germany and Russia did. we. would be
on Top To-Day. we wouldn't be the
mmgning stock or Europe then.
Du Engann anu me other nations
srup cunning si'er' asked the fopu-
hs .oe oo,,so ,,o, n, m A.
ho,, ~ .Y" ',t my hiu ne! rang .ne
Ill IL, am ia' nu' nv le' u UNI nsnlhs,
n,s,r sen's :, " ~, no, a,net io2v Engnahd
eli 400 U" nno " l., H.. ~ s"'n anu onli
So 400 40 -; ~ slNVa, = inace has coih.u
80 ~ 80, Inu "ot ~ y az vi ~ s,i-
onn "a anu ,,,a a,, III .nn mnn Hfo;voV-
~ NV III goid ana nniE sf''uo'ooo IN SILVER.
me imey nn.e oee per 1usgins 'he shors. whiie
;n,o H., , 80 nav P''o''" US
my u'ep Mater'
HOW much SILVER Is Ihere Tor each
person IN the big nations!
:, we nave - IN SILVER Tor each person
in this country. hut the people. only take
40 cents. They kick SIS back into the
treasury. England has S2.SS per person.
Germany has S4.35 and France Sl2, but
80 of Il lies idle and all silver coinage is
stopped, and their red lantern hangs
ont"
''Somc nations have free coinage sug-
gested the populist.
Certainly look ut their condi-
ton, They are bankruot Our silver
dollar il still worth 100 copts in COLI
anywhere on earth. But i'm t6c free coin
age notions Mo Nnxiro J,n,u Cb;n,
and India where free ooinocn has hn,I
runted those nntions tboir ,IoII,r, nr,
worth 10 cents Tbov have no cold
ell al lei nav no Ho'i.
,,a,,a;,, ;. Wv" i'c 'o'""s'' ~ VIII uo
..Th;, ,, an
..Sa mas no gu; ~ ~ 'SM H' ~, o,o
sCh' y. nii. NINA , mas S.m'VoWm
Ind;a vi go n-c nno s nn nut no goiu;
ihd,a mas Nl'n.oW!WU III silver and no
Hoiu' SPUN, wrecked ny 700 free com
hge OF SILVER; mas Nl1'oWlno IN silver
uI nn SdV, a IN gold. and Mexico has
Ho%;WU'VU III silver ana So,ooo.0OO i'll
soiu;
row much money 10 the person cir,
cu,ates IN tnose 1rce coinage countries!
"s ..C, ,me oP"rs, ~, ,.,
miih has Fo,Ip. whiie me nitcd
e, 20 nS 81, neA T nus 81; IhHln
r 800, an" '"p"h Ff' ih's is poverty ior
..yyh, suoro,, fr,,,, ,.oo
tbara,., '" NV 'o'""Se
..Evervo,o Er,rr man h, ., ,..,s
his wealth A man II, Jon"n W.x icn
China ar India who was worth simn