Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-12-22
rae HONEY QUESTION ISSUE.
G. W. Drinkard Joins in With Champ
Clark and Dobson and Gives
Bis Views Several
Illustrations.


Correspondence Of the Ledger.
KRKsvILLE, No., Dec. 1e.-In your
paper Of Dec. 7 is an article wherein
Champ CLARK and Mr.. Dobscn join
issue on the money question. II You
will allow q three handed game 1
will join the couple and suggest to
Mr. Dobson that in his suppositious
case the unfortunate farmer lost $3.50,
but the community lost nothing, as
the value Of his labor was still in the
cattle.
Mr.. Dobson says be likes q good
story, so ! will give = bit OF my boy
hood experience, as ! think 1t will
Illustrate the condition Of Mr.. McKin-
ley and many other once valiant cham.
plons Of silver, possibly MI. Dobson
himself. l went to help an old gen.
tIeman haul wood one day. Said gem
tleman had a dog just q little too small
for q big dog and rather large for q
pup, named Turk. Well, Turk
jumped q rabbit in q narrow cowpath
and away they went nip-and tuck,
man and boy encouraging the race at
the top OF their voices. But just as
Turk opened his mouth to take In his
prey c~ott0p-tRil went under a crooked
limb lying across the track. Turks
head went under the log and bis heels
made a semi-circle In the air, but he
seemed oblivious Of the fact and
started in the direction he had come
with redoubled energy. OF course,
that was too much for any boys
gravity. The old man dropped his ak
and took after Turk, calling him all
kinda OF blankety- blank fools, but
Turk was too busy to listen until he
had run a full hundred yards. Then
he stopped and began paving the
leaves and barking--trying to cover up
his defeat, l suppose. So il I see any
gold bug barking and paving the air l
want to know which way he was run
ming a few years ago, when they were
so anxious tcssye Congress declare
that all obligations should be paid In
coin OF standard weight and fine-
ness.n
Let us suppose a A syndicate
finds it necessary in their business to
borrow and import $1,000 900. They
employ friend Dobson az their agent.
He negotiates the loan on satisfactory
terms. His employers wire him to
have the money equally divided into
"God's money" (gold), peoples
money" (~silver) and scientific mon
ey" (greenbacks). He puts them
aboard the best steamer bound from
Liverpool to New York. But they
encounter an iceberg amid tho New
foundland fogs and all is confusion,
but "Dob" rises two-thirds to the
occasion, let's the silver 60 and puts
the gold and greenback on q boat, but
the boat strikes another chunk OF ice
and "Dob' rises this time to crawl on
top Of his box of "Scientifc money"
and wonders II John J. Ingalls, wasn't
about correct when he said: "Gold
is the most cowardly and treacherous
OF all metals. In time OF shipwreck
and disaster it universally hides itself
away" How much would any gold
bug give to have his greenbacks re-
deemed in money "good In Yoorupu
in Dobson's fix9
Take another case: In 1858 / was
driving a team for Dol. Dick Kirby.
He had hauled a lot of goods to Obi
huahua and exchanged them for bull
lion. He took the bullion to the mint
and got Mexican dollars, all Of same
date, and started home. Just on the
Missouri line, six miles south Of Kan
sas City, noar 4 large spring, they
camped. Two Of his men that night
stole a sack containing s1,6 900, but
found it was too heavy to get away
with and dumped 1t into the branch
near by. They failed to mark the
place; at any rate they never got IL.
Some Mormon children found the sack
of money while wading in the water
two years afterward. II that money
had been in gold the thieves would
have taken two sacks each and
skipped. II 1t had been In paper the
Colonel would have had 1t in his
pocket.
A month since one our banks was
robbed Of s25, 700 and $1,000 in silver
was left scattered around loosely. So
you g silver beat the thieves twice
and we intend TO beat them with 1t
again. l will not say that all gold
bugs are thieves, but all thieves are
gold bugs.
To sum up, the farmer lost $1,000 in
paper; the people Il. e., the Govern
ment) saved that amount. The
farmer lost over $500 on account
of the dishonesty Of the Repub.
licsn party, who refuse to renew
their obligation because it is stamped
on silver. Our second inference is
that not every dog that paws gravel
and barks knows where he lie going.
Third, when Mr.. Dobson or anybody
else loses gold the labor cost of its
production Is lost to the world.
Fourth, that goldbugism, like all
relics of barbarisms, dies hard, and
when 1t does become a maloder-
GUS "reminiscences all the producing