Show ysa y sa A CHILDS SILVER CATECHISM Q paa pa are an there any foreign countries es that have free coinage of silver buyer son mexico china ca A yes my and japan CL Q Is free silver a benefit to these countries A W well ell yes no I 1 dont hardly know but you see they are countries that the united states ought not to follow after Q what sort of people e live in those count countries rift A they are an only semi civilized and many of them are heathen china and japan are very densely populated Q are they free count countries ries A china and J japan are monarchies ar mexico is a young republic Q are aire their people prosperous A well yes in mexico and japan but in china they are as hard up as we are Q if mexico is only half civilized and is only a young nation and still has prosperity ty with free silvers silver could not the U S do as wen well as mexico mex ico if we had free silver A 6 it is not right to do as these degraded people do see Q do the people of china and japan drink tea and do the alexi mexicans eat oranges and bananas A yes Q then the people of the united states ought not to do as these degraded people do and we should stop drinking tea and eating oranges should we not A well I 1 never liked tea or bananas and oranges very much anyway Q are turkey italy spain and portugal free silver countries A no they all have the gold standard Q are they prosperous nations A not by a good deal Q why should we itoi tate these countries Is it because they are nicer people than the mexicans etc A oh shut up your talk makes my head ache |