The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-03
From the Louisville Dispatch. J
RANK IDlOCY.

NHeat II Soius UP anu Sh'oi &C
going down! Let's give them al
national ha! hal" is the universal
giggle of the gold press from Lon
don to SanFrancisco.
Let's see where the giggle comes
in. We are the foremost silver
producer on earth; we can produce
so millions annually. Silver has
been "beared" 80 per cent. We
are losing 25 millions per year !
Let's be jolly ha! hall Our Gov
ernment owns 500 millions which
the gold trust has forced her to say
she will redeem in "bulled' metal
we are losing $50 millions hal hal !!
how jolly. It's so very, very funny f.
Whya Hindoo throwing himself un
der the wheels of his Juggernaut Is
a Solomon to the chattering idiot
who gloats over such a condition
The poor mother feeding her babes
,the sacredcrocodile of the Ganges.
is Sister of Mercy compared to the
giggling idiots gloating over the
losses of their friends and govern
ment. Is there elsewhere on earth
such an exhibition of acute mania?
What can that final arbiter the flu
ture historian, find to explain or
palliate such infinite folly? Ac-
cording to the public press, the
country is singing Hosannas be-
cause we are losing $50 million dol
lars and we and our posterity are to
continue to lose 80 million annually
forever
Now, from whence do these
shouters get their inspiration? For
instance, where does the Courier
Journal or Times, or Post, win by
killing the value Of a great product?
In sober reason where does the
Main street merchant or banker get
his laugh in? Has it become good
for us TO run down our own? 1t can
be easily shown that our perpetual
enemy, England, wins and wins
gloriously by cheap silver, cheap
wheat, cheap cotton, cheap tobacco
and cheap everything from America,
(including cheap Presidents, cheap
papers, and finally cheap railroads
etc, at Receivers sales, etc }, bu,
where does the laugh come in for US
If totally destroying the exchange
value of silver is really good for US,
why let all of us at once urge the
government to cast it all into the
sea and make a death penalty to
own or touch the unholy stuff.
Then we would, on the instant, be-
come a prosperous, independent
and happy people, loving our own
better than another's. BY all means
let US lose no time in hurrying the
last cent of value out of silver.
This way lies reason, sense and
happiness. $50 say we ALL" and
may heaven bless merry England
and pour her choicest blessings on
beloved London! Amen.
II we were English, We could see
where the fun came in. If England
stood to lose $50 million that Amer
lea stood to win, and if forever these
cunning devils and their conscience
less brood we're sure losers Of over
so millions per annum in order to
give the same to US, in the form OF
cheap English products, then a sane
A merican could rejoice an shout
for George Washington and all his
name means. But with the boot
on the other leg, one born, raised
and owning American interests, is
simply a simpering idiot to rejoice
at anothing in sight of to-day, save
and alone the sad gratitude incident
to escaping long wasting famine
here, even if the poor Hindoo must
be put through its untold horrors.
But see the ghastly fact. We are
SO poor and hard pressed, by the
curse of gold, that in spite of all
our better nature we are unduly
HAPPY that some one else is worse
of than we! My God! And this
is the "Christian Age" the "Gold-
en- Age" " "The Era Of Enlighten-
ment," etc. harped on by such
eminent harpists as Cleveland, Car
Ilisle, Bynum and the "Great
Prophet, Josiah Patterson, ct al
What an outcome for such an in
finite waste Of pietyl There has
been nothing so grandIy christian.
lied" and "Enlightehed" since the
prayer meetings in the tents Of the
lformer Israel of the Old Testament,
where they never failed to ask the
Almighty TO send pestilence, famine
and all manner Of evil to Israel 4
neighbors and victory and gain e
themselves.
The simple facts are:
, /. Silver has lost Japan and Chill
and Nc Kinley says (by his currency