The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-09-28
FARMER AND FREE SILVER.
silver Dollars Coined by the United States
Are Always Worth Much IS
Gold Dollars

good times. OF course. President Nc
Kinley did not have anything to do with
the crops, but his administration has con-
tributed very largely to the good times
which the farmers are enjoying. They
would not have much to rejoice over If
they were paid for their crops in a de-
preciated currency. Had Mr.. Bryan been
elected in 1886 wheat, instead of ranging
In the neighborhood of 50 cents bushel,
might now be 81 in silver. or its eQuiva-
lent, for that is the only kind of money
that would be current. Eighty cents to-
day will buy 80 cents worth of goods at
the gold rate. One dollar of Mr.. Bryan's
currency would buy about So cents worth
Of good at the gold rate, always provided
speculation had not advanced the price
of goods at the gold rate, always provided
speculation had not advanced the price
had to sell. The latter is more than
probable.
The above is from the festive edito-
rial paper, the Baltimore American.
of last Friday. There is a good deal
more of the same kind of rot in the
same article, but the above should
be enough to surfeit with disgust any
reasonably intelligent farmer. That
Mckinley is not credited with the
good crops is remarkable admission
and the first of the kind which has
appeared in the trust-ridden press.
But the farmer scratches his head
and asks where his good times come
in at less than 20 cents bush
ell on the farm for his wheat
not 80 cents as the Amer
lean quotes-while the goods he
has to buy are advanced to so and 100
per cent by the trusts, which have
grown up under McKinley's. admin
istration.
The deprecated silver currency
claim is a bit of constituencies men
dacity or ignorance SO dense that
it might be sliced like cheese. Never
in the history of this country's fnan-
ces have silver dollars been depreciat-
ed or would buy less than gold. On
the contrary the American silver dol
lar from the foundation of the gov
eminent to the day its coinage was
stopped in 1873, was worth three cents
more than gold, and is now and has
been ever since it was demonetized,
worth its face in gold.
Now where does the American find
any authority for saying lone dollar
of Mr.. Bryan's currency would buy
about 3S cents worth of goods?'. Mr..
Bryan never had and never can have
any currency. Uncle Sam is the man
who issues silver dollars. He coined
and issued $1s,OOO,OOO last year, every
one equal in purchasing power to
the best gold dollars in the United
States. These new silver dollars
might be called McKinley's currency
if the method of designating money
adopted by the American is used. In
1897 the republican congress passed
a law, and Mr.. Mckinley signed it,
to coin all the bullion silver in the
treasury, $500, 900 a month. Ninety
million of these Bryan dollars" are
being coined under the law Mr..
Mckinley signed, and every one is as
good as gold. And if 900,0O0,OOO in
place of 90 of them were coined by
the United States they would be as
good as gold, every one of them, and
they are Is to dollars, too.
Had Mr.. Bryan been elected in 1896
wheat might have been now 81 a
bushel, the American admits. There
is no doubt of it, had congress of
his party been elected with him. In
1872. the year before the minis were
closed to the free coinage of silver,
wheat was $1.4O bushel. After silver
was demonetized wheat began to
fall steadily till it reached so cents a
bushel.
Do such papers as the American be-
lieve that American farmers can be
stuffed with such audacious rot as sill
yer dollars purchasing only So cents
worth of goods while gold dollars
would buy 100 cents worth? Do these
city editors believe that farmers are
SO stupid as to believe such rot? The
United States never has made sill
yer dollar that would not purchase
as many goods and pay as much debt
as a gold dollar, and we venture to
say they never will.
There has been great increase
of gold in the last three years,
to nearly S1,OOO,OOO, 900 in
the output of the worlds gold mines.
The increase of money has raised
prices of products slightly in all the
leading countries of the world. Much
less silver at ratio of 16 to 1 ha2
that silver been coined, prices would
have increased in the same ratio that
the money increased. They always
have done SO, and the United States
silver dollars have ALWAYS purchased