Show A FEW SILVER POINTERS the gold standard advocates are resorting to all kinds of misrepresentations and deceit to convince the people that this country would be ruined by free coinage ra amono n ane me untrue statements that have been current in all the goldbug presses of the east is that there ther e was only of silver coined in the united states prior to 1873 the facts are that the 1 U S treasury reports show that up to that time one hundred and forty millions of dollars were coined besides a lar large lare r e amount of span spanish I 1 i sh legal tender dollars another false statement im ig that if we adopt the free coinage r of silver all the silver of the world will be rushed to this country and coined and thereby flood the united states with silver money civili giving g us all the silver and the rest of the world having havin 5 all the in gold such a condition would be impossible but if it even came to pass we would be in a much b better etter ca condition than any any other por portion tion of the globe as we would have in in this country about one half of the oney money of the world and this alone would give us a power and prosperity un unequaled equaled since the ali flight of ti time me the facts are that the united states is the greatest silver producing country on the earth the nations of europe and asia have to buy silver of us we have sent england of silver annually for six years past we have sent from new york alone over worth of silver in 1896 at the price of about 67 cents per ounce we have regular customers for our silver bullion in en england india china japan and others th ers by demonetizing de the white metal we have done all we could to lower the price and give the foreign buyers the benefit of the cut let us adopt free coinage and at once silver bullion will become scarcer in in london and to get us to dmd it there they must pay us the coin coin value va lue or go without either would inevitably raise the price in lon don with that rise in in price up would go the labor cost of wheat and cotton in india and of the goods of japan and with it tour our farmers and laborers would get higher prices and all would share in in the prosperity we own a corner on silver almost as much as we do on corn but b by y our system we have been doing all in our power to give foreigners the benefit of the price at the expense of our own producers bimetallism Bi on the basis of international agreement will never come as it is to their interest not to have it |