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Show ABE THE PEOPLE FOOLS? A Brilliant Object Lesson Which Teaches Nothing, In eld times, under old-fashioned governments, the people were considered consid-ered as children, to be slapped or petted as their wise rulers saw fit, but. as far as we know, in those good or bad old times, the people were not generally considered fools. This view of their intelligence was reserved for the end of the nineteenth nine-teenth century, and the advocates of the gold standard. If proof be needed that the gold party considers the people fools, it is found in the Mexican dollar trick. A large firm in Chicago and a large newspaper in Philadelphia have recently offered to their employes the option of receiving re-ceiving tr.eir wages in a certain number of the United States dollars or nearly twice the same number of Mexican silver dollars. Therefore, free coinage is robbry, anarchy, repudiation, etc.! Was ever such an insult put upon the intelligence of the American people?. Because the present demand of silver bullion has given it a certain value, it must always have the same value, no matter how the demand for it varies! That is what the people are asked to belitve and what the gold advocates advo-cates try to prove by their object lesson. Why did they not make the offer of a certain number of American gold dollars or double the same number of me-ican (not Mexican) silver dollars, -r even paper dollars? Because they are not fcols. though they think the people are. To say that the American Ameri-can silver dollar has twice the value of a Mexican dollar, because the former is redeemable in a certain quantity of gold, and the latter not so, .is merely to trifle with the truth. People consider not whether a dollar dol-lar will buy so much gold, but whether it will pay a dollar's indebtedness, indebt-edness, public or private, and they value it accordingly. An American silver dollar to-day is worth as much as a gold dollar, and the people are not such fools as not to know this I in spite of the silly attempts to bull-I bull-I doze them with the Mexian dollar trick. Irish World. |