Show WHAT COUNTS AS MONEY in its foolishness it if we can be so BO generous as to uso use that word the courier journal puts out this stull stuff within tho the iba twenty thres three yelm yearn the worlds world ii supply of silver coin has increased in respect no a les acsa than W or op P per cent while tho the stock lock of 0 gold coin him halt I 1 I 1 or oil 65 per cents cent making tho the total of 0 mo tallio money no acsa can i ibri ll 11 itt FA wl tivis this Is unparalleled in I 1 t tho lie h history cry of civilization and ami yet v within llma at aart period cherl prices ot at every tit ing ought to have beati raisins raising according to ill the quantitative there has ha been an of 0 45 per cent in tho the value of 0 commodities let us u give a parallel statement within tho the past twenty tareo years twenty three crops ot of grass have grown brown on the slopes elopes of 0 the himalayas the great hindmo rush kush range and the in mighty kwun lun mountains of 0 china this biang beloff true if i there Is 13 anything in the reasoning ot of ignorant herders gerders her ders then all cattle should be fat at anil and beet beef cheap there has perhaps been mined worth of 0 sold gold in the past twenty three years halt ltv of chich alch may have been beef converted into money and I 1 tho the rest absorbed in the at arts is in the meantime the stock of silver on hand band I 1 twenty three hire years ago and ell all that ceMen has sin since been mined has been iti dr pled representation as primary money amon among g the great commercial nations of the earth hence its v volume has ceased to influence prices it has been made it a mom mere commodity like allis the corn coin coi n that did not find a market last year it no more influences prices than does doe the grass now growing on the hindmo kush mountains have an influence on the price ot of cattle at the stock yards in chicago in the meantime our country has increased GO 60 per cent in population and trade has been quickened beyond compare all around the world the Iner increased eased volume of 0 bustness business lise has to be ba measured entirely by the coined cold bold ot of the world the result has been that when measured by commodities gold eold has doubled in pur chabina power property pro propel ty h has gone to the dogs and debtors havo 3 gone eone to the wall the i courier journal seen seems to like the situation but the th sensible men of 0 kentucky are very tired of 0 it all and only went want one more chance at the ballot box to demon demonstrate str ate to tile the courter courier journal that its sophistries sophis tries are understood and that it 11 Is finally repudiated pud ted in the state where it has misguided public opinion for a quarter of a cell century tury |