Show how little I 1 to show you dear reader how little financial reform can cam come of free silver coinage alone let us make a statement I 1 in round numbers our population may be called people it will 1 1 take about all the american product of silver after the arts are supplied to give each man woman and child 1 per year that Is the coinage of per year would increase the agouni amount of money 1 per capita per annum I 1 but the increase of population from 1 births and from foreign immigration I 1 will be about people per year and it will take of new silver to bring the newcomers up to the present per capita of say 25 per head to simplify the argument let us admit that foreign silver will be dumped on us sufficient for evening up 00 Oo per year well say what would be the result why it would take 25 years at the rate of coinage we have mentioned to reach the 50 per capita limit that pop ulises ask tor for and in 25 years hence if the business of the country be doubled by that time as is probable we shall be no better off under free silver coinage than we are am at present not a bit pree free silver coinage from the very necessities of the situation can be but the beginning of financial and economic reform fullre figure it out tor for yourself nevada NeViL ds director |