Show AS TO SILVER those who impute to overproduction over production the continued decline of mil dilver ver are perhaps per not with out some knowledge of the fact per pet rating a decided derided iole solecism cism they ploren an entire wi III to let the silver liver dollar circulate frely freely along alongside I 1 d le the gold dollar demanding that the only difference between them be in weight and appearance that Is in they must possess equal value but bu ij if the quantity of ef silver on hand and aad that being taken out of the earth have been the means mean of reducing the value of the white metal how is it to be placed on a parity with gold and kept there according to the single standard peoples professed idea enough of silver valued at its ito market price in gold should be put into a dollar to make it fit company for the other which of course means mean the market price r ice I 1 at the present time but an is ru further r ther pro it is not the design to ruin or cripple the silver industry and this going ahead as now BOW would soon further reduce the price as aa gauged by gold and then a few grains more would have to be added to the white dollar to keep up its respectability then further in crease in production would have to be met in the same name way and so on the coin being enlarged in proportion to the enlarged quantity of silver obtained until at last it would become so 00 big and clumsy that it would not be used at all yet the alms alm at stability in our curr currency encyl and lie is furthermore willing to concede that silver is ia a royal metal more us use ful for money than anything aay lhing else but it must be made and kept on an all equality with gold by constantly debasing its function and driving it at lost last into practical disuse silver possesses most of the attributes of gold it is enduring malleable ductile flexible incorruptible and really more beautiful to look upon than the other that gold is 10 more valuable argues nothing against silver for the intrinsic qualities of either are the merest conventionalism a fiction of mankind and nothing bothin else Qua qualities lides are all that make real value in men or the things used by men and that being the case there 10 i no just reason for the co continued do gradation of silver that it is ia obtained in more places and more plentifully clenti fully 80 a rule should amount to nothing wore doore than making it so much less in demand denand and jess ion valuable only to a bertal limit or we might as well completely demonetize it at once as already show this would necessitate the establish ment of a ratio which once filed should remain unless the unlikely should happen and a vast fountai mo 0 of either gold or silver in ia its pure pur of be discovered this would woid 01 course render reader the metal so found a were DOB merchantable commodity like coal bud iron and it would then naturally aiu enough be forced out of its position of royalty into one of servility at and pron life As things are present to remain for a long time at I 1 of there is no probability of more gold g silver beling being mined than can CAD be As A simulated simi almi as money by the huna family nature has guarded I 1 treasures very well and scattered mud thinned them so that thag only so can be obtained A great deal of ba boi metals goes into the arts and I 1 is ca C 12 fumed by the sciences while wb ie g bolo goodly quantity is constantly opt lost in various ways everything forehand fore and after discovery ti thus us tending tea to equalization and a limited supply rw what is wanted to is a double standard standa of each metal having a fixed one olle itself and not loot dependent on the other ot th they ey would thus b become acom e I 1 able at will and the vexed quo would then disappear |