Show ANY FLIES ON ELIS LOGIC the e aitor of the NEWS to la in re of the following characteristic letter from ell perkins Per kioa who it will be remembered made this city a short bort visit a little over tour four weeks ago As the community is i jot now hearing bearing a agod deal in support of the silver side ide of the coinage controversy and as variety Is the spice of life there is nothing ill but bat fa fair irnest in allowing the recile facile EH to ventilate the other side ide here to is his communication NEW YORK may ly 11 1 mr john Q cannon annon editor deseret dessree news mews ait lake my I 1 always lovea you dear old mor wons because you are temperate and dear old brigham taught you to think logically now you live in a silver elate you want free coinage wont you jet me tell you why we corn and cotton raleen raisers dont want free coinage just let me talk and then if there are re any flies files on my logic why brush them boffl if I 1 owned a silver mine lo in utah or colorado mr cannon I 1 would go for free colu coinage age because it would double the value of my mine if I 1 owned a coal mine mice tu in scranton Hor antoo and a political party proposed to double the price ot of coal oal I 1 would go for that arly but why should the coal miner or wheat ralser raiser who is selling him bis coal sod and wheat for coined silver as rood good as hold gold get caught by the silver fallacy fal laoj when I 1 asked a silver miner who claimed that free colu coinage site would double ab the price of silver if it would change ab the value of gold he be said no sir air gold will purchase just the ae same it will purchase the same amount of sugar meat and broad bread and the same amount of labor our labor has bas been paid lit in silver as good as gold old 0 I 1 spent a year in japan and china and made a careful study of the tree coinage of sliver silver during my iny travels I 1 found that the twelve hundred mil lions ot of barbarian or uncivilized races nave have the free silver system that is any man can coin a dollar or a mal piece 32 to 1 1 I found that the remato remain ing three hundred millions of the civilized of the earth have the be gold dollar under the silver dollars that they have coined 16 to 1 I 1 went into the banks of hong kong and nd shanghai and taking a mexican silver allter dollar irom from my pocket coined in china asked the value of it I 1 was informed it was wag worth 47 can cents a I 1 then exhibited an american silver dollar and was told it was worth cents contain in gold I 1 also learned that the wealth of the people of theme theau countries had depreciated 50 per cent under the fres eliver standard property at one time worth 1000 was worth only I 1 returnee return ei i to americo america and stopping stopp tug tg st at san francisco Frano aco I 1 found fouda that no 00 Amet american ioan citizen had lost boit a cent for a good government hau haa put a gold dollar under every coined silver dollar making it worth cents in gold I 1 went down into mexico and found that they have the same debased money that they have in china japan south A america cerica and all africa and india I 1 dd is I 1 found fou dd that every mexican had bad loftt half his wealth the mexicans wanted free coinage but they wanted it in the united stated when I 1 asked them hem what good free coinage in the united artates would do them they said why it would double the value of all the stiver silver in mexico we woula take our 47 cent silver to your mint and gety our coined silver worth cents to the dollar to in gold then we would get gee the gold and bring it if back to mexico would not every nation do the same 1 I asked why ot of course coune with free coinage your americans americana would have to put gold under all the silver in the world the mexican was waa right there are according to our mint reports worth of silver in tb lh tbt t wonlu 15 worth 0 of vilver silver has haa been dug out of the mines since 1792 even governments govern menta like japan nas has silver nil very yens ens bollar with gold under them and each yen worth 47 cent deot would send a saip load ot of malted yens yeas to our mint and get our collars worth cents and tako back in gold to japan it looks looke pretty to read about people with to in gold in kneir treasury going into free coin coinage alre putting gold under every debased silver doilis of people it would double the value of all we the silver of south america mexico asia europe and africa but it te is preposterous we could never do it the farmer in china in selling his hia rice salt aalt and tea for 47 cents centa silver wages there have not chan changed gedbut hut the laborer there once retting getting 7 cents a day la is now getting 3 81 centa who haa bas lost loat in america why the miner will lose it be keeps ou mining silver liver but the wheat raiser and cotton raiser are moiling their wheat and cotton to a for si ivor worth as ai much for gold he la is on a gold basis double the be value of silver liver and the miner would grow rich but the me farmer would stand till still but we are talking about tier this country it if rt it went into free coinage would go into bankruptcy in a week The whole world would unload una on us ua they would got get our little worth of gold in ft a week and wed be the laugh g stock of civilization liza lize tion ELI exa fernim |