Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-15


the They say the demand VIII come !:
SO the Seventh Day Adventists tell the end
will come and if their picnic comes CT first.
they will not need silver: the demand will be
for free and unlimited water They contend.
If this government takes all the silver that
comes at l6 to l, silver will be worth par all
over the world, and they use an egg argu-
nent to prove it. They say, if a merchant
advertiscs that he will pay 25 cents per dozen
for eggs. so long as he has the ability to take
all that come, eggs viii be worth 25 cents in
all that country. But sUrrOse the merchant
did not take themi Suppose when farmer
drove up to his store the merchant said unto
him: MY friend, you have misunderstood
me- am not buying eggs I'm simply count
ing them. certifying that they are good and
handing them hack to you" What would eggs
then be worth? The same old 10 Is cents
per dozen.
CnGer unlimited coinage the government
woUld not buy silver or guarantee the value
of the coins. 1t would stamp it without re-
COURSE" Silver would come from every coyln-
t-'y III the world and the government would
5e q fool to undertake to guarantee the value
of the coins By trying to preserve the parity
b tween the metals. If herder Grove a lot
Of COW ponies through the mint and they were
branded ''S1r0 horse and delivered to the
owner at the other end of the building, it
would not improve the breed OF the ponies
Ior create wild demand for them at the
brand price.
Oar government has lost $500, OOO, OCO trying
to create demand for silver. for the sole and
separate use, bIhoof and benefit of the silver
mine owner. by buying it when it did not
vE:-i-s it and had need of it, AMI the silver
has this silver hand now. 1t would load a
two horse wagon train l73 miles long, putting
1,Uuo pounds on each wagon and letting them
occupy 30 feet each in line, and l am mean
enough to want to see him get with the
game before we start new deal for anybody's
benefit.
Can't Stop the Flood of Silver.
If the unlimited coinage of silver by our
government could bring it to par the in me-
tli;;te effect would be to start every mine and
mill in the world running at lis utmost capac
l1r vii
Ti.l of the world would seek this field, and the
bowels of the mountains of the earth would be
torn ;isCndt + to get the bcnefit of the double
price In 1894 S2l4, coo, vo0 OF silver mined
and sold ut about 63 cents per ounce. If the
price was ralSed to 129 ce:itS per ounce, the
IS to l price. what wouiI the harvest be? The
I'D rule of three will solve tine problem If a
railway engine will % miles an hour on
pounds of steam pressure how fast would
+ run 129 pounds OF pressure? The blasted
shlns would have to stop once in awhile, and
wait for its shadow to catch up. Senator Stew
TT and his crowd tell Us there can be food
ii silver In Noah'S time there of
,nguine temperament like that. He was
tnnoing on the tip end of a high mountain
and the waters were licking his toes. He hail
ed Noah and begged to be taken in the ark,
but Noah had sailing orders from above and
refused to take him aboard As Noah sailed
away he shook his fist at the old and ex-
claimed, Go to the devil with your old dug
out; it isn't going to be much of a shower
anyway"
The fifth proposition is that 16 TO 1 coinage
will increase the prices of property. If this
government should open lis minis to coinage
of the worlds silver at 16 to l. we would go at
once to silver moncmetall;. m. 7 his is the
voice of all history emphasized hy the present
status of every free coinage country the
earth. We more have biiuptallism in
actual use and unlimited silver Coinage than
we can have a square, round object, dry,
wet weather Wherein would the people be
benefited if they get double prices in half val
ne money? If farmers products brought
double prices so would the 1nanufacturers' The
All mi n1pn he NAL
cept that buyers would always deduct enough
to safely cover the fluctuations of silver, and
this amount would be a dead loss to producers
and premium to Spectators knew boy
who sold dog for $780, hut he took pay
in pups at $50 apiece. so he was not material
1y benefited by the inflated prices.
Cheap Money Hurts Labor.
The inflationists admit that their scheme Is
against the interest of all those who live upon
fixed salaries. This includes every one whose
services paid for by the year, month, week
day, from president of a railway system to
hodcarrier and those who draw pensions
from the government. History teaches that
created by debauching the money of a coun-
try. They have remained about the same
whether paid il good bad money. The |
wage Garner IS a traitor to himself and his
family when he let's his prejudice lead him to |
the imitation camp and agrees to take his fixed
pay in deprecated money. If this I6 to 1 |
movement should succeed, he would find that |
he had lost all the vantage ground for which |
he and his brethren had struck and struggled /
Tor hundred years. The mOdlcum of pros |
perity in manufacturing interests in Mexico |
is based on the degradation of their labor. We |
do not want prosperity at such a price. and we |
getting it rapidly without swindling our |
labor. When the laborer prospers, he becomes /
q consumer and his prosperity reacts upon |
and benefits all other interests. In Mexico |
they have many refined and wealthy people, |
but their laborer is a peon. He gets from 10 to |
30 cents per day in money worth half its face |
value He lives in miserable mud hut, eats |
the poorest food that will keep his body alive,
wears the meanest cloth that will hide it and I
is even denied the privilege of n gentlemanly |
jag and has to get drunk cactus juice. In
every silver OF double standard country in
the world the same degradation of labor is APP
parent.
We are told that silver is the poor mans
money This appeals to his prejudice and is
wholly untrue. Wages not paid in silver
at the end of each day, but they paid by
the year. month week, in currency or gold,
with just enough silver to make the correct
change The kind of money in transit is i'm
material SO it goes, but when it is boarded,
laid by for rainy day, then its staying quail
ity becomes interesting. The rich man boards
by investing in property or by depositing in a
bank. and the bank has the option of paying
him in silver, while large per cent of the
poor men patronize the sock leg and the bosom
OF the earth and they always hide gold for I