Show THE GOLD BUGS FANCY there is not much benefit in currying cirr ca ying ing 0 on a discussion with tho the gold mou with any hope of leading them butof out of the darkness into light like a parrot that never learns an anything but get act phrases they the go on y cai af ter year repeating their dolorous predictions of the c ils that will if sil silver erbe be coined bothem to precedents sare are no fetters and experience and observation and history teach no lessons they forget forgot that the evils they predict have been pred acted for fifteen 3 cars they ft ere sure thai that tho the bland act would cause gold to be hoarded and finally driven aiom the co tho 1110 fact thit it is not hoarded boarded but that now the country has thice times as much gold on hand handas as it had when that act was p poised lias no meaning fortham for them when france refused to follow follon Gennan germany 3 t silver er nineteen 3 eara cars ago all these wise bankers predicted she would lose all her gold and suffer v ell 11 the e ails ils that follow the use u of a debased currency but france paid germany the tribute of one thousand million dollars in gold old ref to demonetize sll cr er and now has more gold than ever and a few da daa s ago loaned it to monometallic omet allic england in her hour of trial the french people are rich and pro while complaint 3 of low prices tho the pressure of debts and financial suffering fering stif como come from the monometallic countries but these facts teach the gold nothing and they tell us tint thit th it silver will be dumped on this country in won drou roua quantities if it we adopt free coinage to and when challenged I 1 through the press from tho the rostrum and from the floor of the senate to state where that silver will come from they cannot answer president ex cleveland tells ue us that the free coinage of silver is a dangerous experiment how can a thing bo be much of an experiment which has prevailed for several thousand years president harrison says the silver dollar is a dishonest dollar it sounds well for the hat to call the dollar of washington and hamilton and Jefre jefferson and franklin Frunk lin a dishonest dollar but there is little use in repeating 0 these thinas things 0 to men whose wings of fancy arc never clipped by precedents and in whom the deductions of experience peri ence arc are not permitted to clog the progress of prejudice mining industry and tradesman Tm desman 1 afe ia 4 r lr in una |