Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-05-19
ElY'S CREAM BALM
DISHONEST MONEY.

The gotl standard advocates are con-
tinualiy rcirriut 80 aud >'i.uum atzing
silver do,tr~ d. ''dl-hore>i money.' be-
cause 'hcy ID not contain HAIRS worth
ci silver Nu.aon, a~ mca~.red. CONNER
ciI'.v. l,y -od
The time aAr. before t,e characterization
ii silver in tni- country. mat the gold
dollar a. compared with silver, was At Il
discount II 3 pen cent. and according to
the gold STANDARD. reasoning OF the present
day, gold W then dishonest money
though lul! Legal tender lor all debt,
and uses. public and private, the same as
silver i npH. But il anyone had then
bran led it a. ''unsounl and dishonest
money" lie would have been regarded as
an IDIOT or lunatr. No metallic money,
no matter whether it be OF silver gold.
nickel, Or copper. ii IA legal tender, and
having Il purchasing and debt-pavins
power OF 100 cents to the dollar, can be
nationally regarded as dishonest mon
ey," be its commercial or bullion value
whatever it may.
As an illustration, take our copper cur
rency. The commercial value of copper
enough to coin into 100 cents, or a dollars
WORT, OF money, is but about l. cents,
and vet pennies are sound ana homes.
money, and in limited sums a LEGAL ten
i II - !
worth ol five cent pieces, in commercial
value. doe. not exceed 20 cents but who
AYERS that iiye.cent pieces, which a,e a
Legal tender 10 the amount Of p cents.
are not "honeot money!" Ttn.cent
pieces do not contain as much silver. in
proportion to their money value as dol
lars, neither do quarters nor halves. vet
they are all Il legal tender to the amount
OF 80 for all purchases and payment If
deb's-and nobody disputes that they
are 'honest money
Now. let US consider the silver dollar
1t used t. be worth more in It's bullion. or
commercial value, than the gold dollar.
before the demonetization OF silver in the
year 1873, and would be worth as much
now, had it not been reduced in bullion
value, by such demonejzarioa. 1t is,
however, still full legal tender. the
same as gold, Tor all debts, public an
private, including duties on imports and
internal reyenua taXes-made 50 by the
action Of con-re--, which, under the
national cOnstitu ion, has ''jhe power 10
coin money and regulate the value there
OF, and though is commercial or bullion
value may not be- more than hall Of what
it formerly was it j. much more to the
Collar than that Of the copper, nickel and
smaller silver coins and for the same
reasons that apply to them it is sound
and honest money and always will be-
until its LEGAL tender quality is taken
away by act o. congress. when it will
Cease to be "hone,t money" at its lace
value, and be worth a. money only its
bullion or commercial value. But it will
be long TIM, as long as the life OF the
republic, before the silver coinage OF the
United States will BE- demonetized. and
debased below its pre- sent standard value
and alto OF II in weight to ! Of gold and
until TIA is done the silver dollars. no
matter how many Of them may be annu
ally coined, or under what act oil con
gress-whether from purchased bullion,
or by virtue OF free silver coinage law
will always be ''honest money! and as
good in all sections OF the Union as gold
the same as they are now; and all the
power OF Wall street can never debase
them the one-hundredth fraction OF a
penny. even though the senseless gable
OF "debased, unsound, and dishonest
money" should be continued during the