Show OPP03ITO TO PILE COINAGE Congressman Lawson of Georgia Prefers tho Single Standard Atlanta Ga July 8lIon Thomas n Lawson of the Eight Georgia die rlct Is out In a lengthy Interview In he Journal this afternoon which will probably furnish the political sensation of the week In this State Judge Low SOl Is one of the ablest members of the Georgia delegation and brought him elf to the front during the last Congress Con-gress by a speech In favor of the repeal re-peal of the ten per cent tax on State banks In his Interview Judge Lawson de dares for bimetallism as set forth by he last National Democratic platform but asserts The free coinage of slier sli-er at the ratio of 1C to 1 by our Government rnment alone would In I short time result In silver monometallism that Is vi1 would have no coin money In clr ulatlon and no paper money except paper redeemable In silver I we cannot have bimetallism In accordance with our National platform I prefer the single gold standard to the single silver standard The Ideal money system lie thinks would be where there were free coinage coin-age of both metals with either being legal tender the people being pilvlleg ed to take their choice el Judge Lawson says The South Is not yet In n condition to profit by the liver standard We are not a manu acturlng people A prohibitory tarlll and everything that Is equivalent to It In Its operations Is detrimental to our prosperity But the silver standard would Inevitably operate precisely as a prohibitory tariff The value of our liver coins would sooner or later de line to their bullion value The price of foreign goods would be so high when valued In our currency that wealthy people only could afford to buy and use them |