The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-01
News.
VALUE OF THE SILVER DOLLAR.

The article in the Washington Post
about the value of the silver dollar, which
has been copied in the Enquirer shows
what fair Journal is bound to Ito when
it gets down to real argument. The Post
has not been classed as Il silver paper
On the contrary, it has been considered
as opposed to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. What it says, though,
about the misrepresentation in some OF
the New York papers shows that it ought
to be fat-footed for bimetallism. 1t
takes the Sun, Evening Post and World
and especially the World, which it only
excuses on the ground of gnorance-to
task for saying that "a standard silver
dollar is worth almost exactly forty
cents. :" We print again enc paragraph
from the article, because it is from n
journal which is fair enough to state the
facts, though it is not u free silver advo-
cate:
"'rhe fact about silver is that so long
MS it remains excluded from the worlds
minis its bullion value must depreciate;
but it is not true-it is absurdly and i'm
prudently false-that the value of the
stamped coin has declined, or that it can
decline. so long rs the nation which has
stamped it continues to he solvent The
silver dollar will buy Just rs much now
rs it did ten years ago. 1t will buy 100
cents worth. These New York newspa-
pers, with the possible exception Of the
World, know that it will, and are striv-
ing only to confuse the public mind and
to dissc liilate IL lie.'
The propositions of this PARAGRAPH are
sound. They lead naturally ana nevita-
bly, To still other truths. The silver dol
lnr is worth one hundred cents, and will
buy as mich as II gold dollar, not be-
cause-a, The oddities may claim-it is
sustained at par Dy the gold redemption
policy hut because the law, which is MI
powerful in determining what shall lie
money, says it is dollar. 1t is not gold
redemption that sustains the silver dol
lar because it would he an utter inpossi
hihty to- even make an approach to re-
deem the silver circulation i'm gold The
Government, under the term of Treas.
ury order and not by law, tries to keep a
reserve OF $500. 900. 600 in gold. primarily
against S3lG, 100000 of grcenbacks: but
II the theory of the gold advocates is ten
able at all it must lie considered rs
standing, in addition. against the $780,
100000 Of paper issued under the Sher-
man silver purchase act. and against the
whole circulation of silver dollars and
silver certificates. This would be, of
course, simply nonsense. If the great
bulk of our circulation medium were on
so flimsy IL foundation, the country would
indeed he In chaos. The plain truth is
that the silver dollar goes ut par because
1t is Il lawful dollar. 1t il not a matter
OF deep consequence what the bullion
value OF silver is. The bullion value of
gold is just as low, considered -independ-
ent OF its use as n money metal. The
greenback goes at par because it is based,
not on gold in the Treasury, but on the
property of the Countrywide taxing
power Of Congress on the vast material
wealth of the people of the United States.
10 call it IL fiction when the gold bug
organs Of New York say that the silver
dollar is worth less than one hundred
cents,is TOO mild n term for the purposes
OF the whole truth. 1t is miserable lie,
and those engaged in the constant iterat.
ing and reiterating. of it are either dis
gracefully ignorant or vicious beyond ex-
pression.- Enquirer.
When person is losing flesh and vast
ing away there IS cause for alarm. Moth
ing so worries n physician. Consumptives
would never die if they could regain their
usual weight. In fact there would he no
consumption il there was no wasting of
the system. The cause of this loss of
flesh is failure to properly digest the
food eaten. Nine tenths of al our diseases
date back to some arrangement of the
stomach.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial will stop
this wasting of the b"iy. It acts by caus-
Ing the food we eat to be digested so as
to do good, for undgested food does more
harm than good. The Cordial contains
food already digested and is a dgester of
foods AS well.