Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-18

silver than any country in the world
with the exception of India and China
ard more gold in circulation than any
other country. They don't want any
thing to do with facts SO long as they
have such bountiful supply of imagi-
nation on tap.
This same authority says tx must be
free silver that we need because the
election of Mckinley has not put the
number of sheep, the price of wool, etc.
back to where they werefour years ago.
The logic of that would bring us to the
conclusion that this authority, who as
sumes to be engaged in farming, does
MT know how to farm because he hasn't
yet harvested his corn crop for the
present year. According to his theory
1t isn't seed time. sunshine and rain,
cultivation and weeks of waiting that
are needed to ripen the harvest. Or
the contrary what must be had is an
opportunity for the owners of the great
silver mines to pour forth the silver of
the everlasting hills, every fifty cents
worth of it to be stamped by the gov
eminent one dollar.
Having decided that this is what he
ticSuS II ID uSeleSS 10 ask HIN HOW lie
expects to get any of those dollars. To
be sure, he probably hasn't any stored
away in his cellar and if he's like the
most of us he has no stock in those
bonanza silver mines, for it is all in the
hands of few very rich men. But if
hes like the average free silver shouter
he doesn't like to be bothered by any
such questions as whether the mine
nillionaires with free silver would eat
my more mutton and wear any more
WOOL than they are now doing, or
whether the wage worker would buy
moreif eshould receive as now tensil-
yer dollars for a weeks work, worth
new 1000 cents, if their purchasing val
ne be reduced to 500 cents.
No, he will not care to bother his
head with am such practical every
lay, prosy questions. His eye is fixed
On the silvery rainbow of fiat promise.
He exuits in the superstition that there
must be a treasure on the end of it, for
his old nurse. told him SO, and so he
trudges after it, never looking down at
The pitfalls at his feet, never question
ing but his everlasting fortune will be
made when he gets that treasure hang
ing from the end of the rainbow.
Is it wise to encourage such folly?
DO we not countenance mischief, and
incur grave risk when we fail to make
every effort to discourage it? Do we
want such Missionaries empowered to
make our laws? If we do not then it IS
our duty to discourage every attempt
they make to get control of affairs.
Wherever they assume to lead practi-
al men must refuse to follow. When
ever they ask our votes they should be
refused. Not only that. but we should
zee that our vote is counted against
them.
Whatever others may think | am yet
20 he convinced that the path of safe
y hes in any ether way than through
the overwhelming defeat of those who
would depreciate our currency, stain our
credit and cut the buying value of
wages down one-flalf. | have reason
to believe there are many more who
take the same view of it and there is
nothing for us to do but to vote against
it on Monday next and on every coca
SIGN it shows itself, even if we have
to put ourselves to a good deal of in
convenience in order to do SO.
One Who Intends to Vote Early.