Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-13
Arthur


are sure. the button-holing and ear-whisp
erings of the candidate are still abroad IN
the land and hetwixt and between the farm
er and the dear people are led a merry
dance The former with lungs inflated and
voice attaned are shrieking forth. More
money. More money, Give US more money
and il will soon be distributed to the people
Labor and its value viii pop up, bushes will
revive and prices viii boom and everything
will he lovely But they fail to tell US how
this distribution Will be brought about,
where labor Is to come from, and what will
boom business.
The nation has now double the money
needed or employed to carry on the business
where money is actually employed in its
transaction. They overlook or ignore the
fact that an oyerplus Of money, through the
unlimited free coinage of silver would fiuc-
tuate and decline the same as any other
commodity in the market for ii would only
| pop - the price of the bullion 1t contained
they fail or refuse 10 see that the value of
/ the silver dollar is kept up by the safe
guards placed around il By the government
by limiting its coinage to the necessary
point OF its employment anG the govern
ment's ability to redeem it.
More money no doubt is the desire of
these bugs but unfortunately They do not
represent the people
The freshman rightly expressed it when
listening To the orator shouting the cheap
ness Of living ond the low price Of -four to
the woi king man when the Irishman shout
ed out Phawts de dafenance if flour is
wort foive cints. wees haven't de foive cints
give whorick and wees soon git de -four,
its whorick wees wants"
IN -gr.4-
wages and ne viii distribute the money and
buy his own flour and allelse he needs what
ever the price
Now we present true and tried way to
bring this about and that is proper protec-
tiou to all our industries and give them the
sound honest money we now have and the
money question Will adjust itsel..
Nc cry Of hard times and more money was
heard vhea we we're under protective sys-
tenn that did protect and that was during
the whole period when the republican party
had charge of the nations affairs.
The very free trade party who brought this
calamity upon the people dare not cheep
free trade in this campaign for they are
ashamed of their deception of the people
but are adopting the same tactics under the
guise of free unlimited coinage Of silver.
e ware of them.
The writer was in trade during the war
and covering the greenback period hand
ling nearly ali classes of merchandise and
produce, and during the was period particu-
larly when we sold out purchase at an ad-
vance of from to 30per cent it often oc-
Cured that the gross receipts would not
replace the stock sold and this uncertainty
would prevail again, should free coinage
be established for the same conditions
woald prvatl 70 an extent through ihedepre-
citation of the currency, and its fuctua-
tions would prevent its full employment in
the various avenues of trade
one of the chief champions Of free silver
in this vicinity who has been in turn a rep
ublican. green-backer, granger and now a
populiSt and silyerite cites his experience
in the California gold mines In the early
SOS a. what would obtain under free silver
He SAYS he went to the mines and soon ac-
cumulated 5000 as many hundreds did. He
returned to Wisconsin and invested In
prairie land hired help, bought materialand
soon had nice farm and In six months his
$1,000 was all outin circulation in the COM
munity and times were prosperous. and II
we had free silver the poor man could go To
mines mine It, take 1t To the mint. have it
co ned and everybody could have plenty and
times would be prosperous etc. etc AT
| that period all the mining in California was
surface gulch, sIuiee and pocket carried on
| principally with labor only the most crude
and inexpensive implements were employed
requiring no capital but those mines have
long ceased to exist
How can a comparison be made of cold
and silver mining today
TIE early gold Of California was found in
I a ff-ffs
found in masses in tree form. but mixed
with other metals. principally copper ana
iead. often deep down in the bowels of the
earth requiring large capital to mine il ana
expensive and complicated machinery ana
chemicals 10 crush and separate ii prepareit
for coming.
How much therefore think You could the
poor lahorer without this requisite capital
and machinery mine. and carry to the mint
have It coined in lo0c doilarSs
Why not single dollar of course
Tie might enjoy the extreme felicity of aid
ing the solicitous free silver capitalists who
are 50 very anxious Ia enrich : 500 0OO of them
10y putting two dollars for one in their peck
cts and receive a lUoc dollar with 4 S0c pur-
chasing power for rendering said aid
| Mr.. BahoocS gives the money of the
country in use silver Nss a9S 6S2: gold
SsiSs7S ~, greeuhackS S2te,esl Ole: Total
/ Al, SsS. 4sl. SOS.
Now II is a conceded fact that the cheaper
money drives ont OF circulation the dearer
money hence the eirculatirg medium would
he reduced by the retirement Of All the gold
by the action Ut free coinage Now the
secretary 81 the treasury states that the ia
cilities OF ouI minis 20 coin this silver at
their utmost capicity is only <40OoO.ea0 an
nuanv Wherefore it would require about
fifteen aud oue-half wears 10 restore this
amount of gold ana place MS where We now
stand New II more money is the great
CRYING need OF the country masses. do they
think they could exist upon grass during
this period awaiting this tree silver minen-
INN.
Furthermore the gold being retired tht
: government could not possibly stand bchtnt