Show IT LOOKS suspicious to ANY careful and honest observer of the participants in the great gnat political contest into which ch this country is is a bout about to enter it must appear anomalous and incon inconsistent to hear the supporters of the single gold standard insist that the free coinage of silver will bring disaster and ruin to the whole country especially to the wage worker the farmer and the debtor class when we remember that the stron strongest an appon opponents ants of free silver are in new york boston and other large eastern money centers and of who loan are re composed men securities invest in money bonev on oil in bonds and own and con control arol the gold of the country it seems a little strange that they should be the first to deplore a condition which would be a harvest of wealth dealt for or them if the country under a doable buble standard would go to the bow wows bows and gold would sneak away aiom trade only to be coaxed out of the vaults of these patriots by giving 6 two silver dollars for one of gold is it not a strange attitude for the gold bugs n to assume when this condition would be just to their interest but the shylocks Shy locks and gold old deities of the east have suddenly become disinterested patriots and unselfish philanthropists the world is now confronted by a spectacle which contradicts all we have heard or learned from holy t writ in re regard 15 ard to the miser and the rich poetry and fiction history and drama experience and conjecture are alike misleading and erroneous as to the character of the men who hold the gold balance of the world it has been reserved for the people living in the twilight of the nineteenth century to discover the tenderheartedness and magnanimity of this class of men who heretofore have been pictured in truth and fable as the financial jackals jackala and the hyenas of trade if such a condition as they predict will come to pus when silver is coined and made a legal tender the same as gold you can be assured that eve every ry mothers others ra son of them would be howling and pawing the earth for the absolute free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to I 1 these fellows know a good thing when they see it and they were never known to stand in the way of their own greed and avarice the truth of the whole matter is their predictions will never come to pass but exactly the reverse will be the result money will become more plentiful and cheaper hundreds of industries now languishing will at once revive revive the products of the soil will command a better price labor will be in demand and will receive its just reward the debtor class will once more take hope and will ill strive to pay their honest debts and nd the laugh of children from millions of happy homes would join the shouts of prosperity from a people once more freed from the sordid hand of the wealthy few the men who are clamoring loudest for the golden fetter are the men who will continue to receive tribute from the toiling men and wamen omen and thereby reap yet richer returns they have their blaquere claque cla quere rs nd theil paid enik emissaries saries who are ow striving to frighten the people with ith the dire md and fearful pictures of panics ruination aud and ide debasement lot bat 0 their air argument is parent na and WU will not receive the sanction tion of a people who are r determined to throw off the incubus that has held them down for more than twenty y years vears their lo logic loc c is suspicious and flavors of a bait it is the old story of the spider and the 11 fly or like the smooth words of the three shell faker at the circus do not be deceived by their loud talk or by their threats of disaster but cling to your your i purpose to sweep down the barriers to prosperity and restore happiness to our homes once more ailys pigs za do not grow on thorns nor grapes on thistles whistles es |