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Show npo. My neighbors engaged in what, is called legitimate business me growing poorer and poorer. Those that owed 40 per cent on I heir property fifteen years ago have worked ever since for nothing, and, moreover, have lost what they then possessed. That is, money is worth so much more than property that fiere is nothing left v to producers. V hen producers can make nothing, noth-ing, in n little while they can givd no employment to labor. The natural nat-ural result is that fewer and fewer laborers are employed. If the unions keep up wages, then those employed are up on shorter hours there is a general curtailment. I know that on tho farms men are working for the woges paid before be-fore the first gold was taken from the sands of California. A s I look into the future, it will not be long under present conditions condi-tions until a great host of men will be idle, and when that time comes I fear that tieither -your property nor mine will be safe, for men will not see their children starve without with-out a struggle to prevent it; and ' when impelled to violencoby tho .. cries of hungry" children men not remain conservative. " You know that prices are regulated regu-lated by the volume of primary money the absolute measure of values in the world. In 1873 the world possessed 3,000 million of dallars in gold and about the same amount in silver. The demonetize- tion of silver in England did net affect prices, for silver was in generalu.se and was the standard - ' of values in Germany and other European states. But when the United States took from it its primary money function, when Germany did the same, aud threw her millions upon the market, the other European states were forced to follow, and so far as civilization was concerned half the world's primary money was stricken from existence. The natural result has been that prices have fallen 50 p?r cent, when measured by gold. But you will notice that silver has not lo.it a grain of its purchasing purchas-ing power. In the rough bullion . it buys as much of anything you may desire to buy as it did under the stamp of the government when it was worth more than gold, 23 years ago. I take it that silver has not depreciated de-preciated in value, but that gold has appreciated 100 percent. The result is that production has ceased to pay, while all debts have become payable in a money that has appreciated 100 per cent. If you will go out on some beautiful farm in the Miami Valley talk with the farmer you will find many eoses'of which the following is an illustration: Con'inut'd on. last page. p mm mm mm Chwrlei D. Lnn FOR FREE SILVER AND HIS REASONS WHY. Some weeks ago C. D. Lane, one of the wealthiest gold mine owners in California, publicly announced his allegiance to the principle of the free coinage of silver at 1G to 1. In the belief that the readers of this paper would be interested in learning Mr. Lane's reasons for this action the Post requested. him to write a letter in explanation of it. Following Follow-ing ia the reply: Editcu Post, Cincinnati, Ohio: It is true that I am a gold miner, and quite as true that I believe the full restoration of silver is essential to a return of prosperity. prospe-rity. 1 have no personal interest in silver mining. So fast as I have any money to invest I buy more gold mines, and have ventures from Alask to Arizona. But wore I not a gold miner I would not know of anything in which I could invest that would not be worth less a year hence than it is to-day. I find that the property most coveted under normal conditions has fallen 50 per cent during the past twenty years and is still declining in value. I find that every twenty dollar piece that I have saved has twice the purchae-ing purchae-ing power that it had twenty years improvements". The next ton years he could barely, pay the interest. During the last five years he has not been able to pay the interest His a account now stand as dollars: Principal of debt $6,000 Five years' interest , , 2,loo Total . 8,ioo Present value of farm ' 7,5oo !' In debt . god He has invested $9,ooo worked hard for twenty years; he has received re-ceived nothing for his labor ; he has lost all his original capital, and now in his old. age he finds himself a bankrupt and $600 iu debt -; You will tell how much per capita cap-ita the money of the country has increased. Ion are mistaken. There is no real money but the . $600,000,000 in gold. The rest is but as a man's check on the bank. merely an evidence of credit. To be continued O. 3D. Xiaxio. Co:tlnuod. In 1876 A; -bought' a farm for $15,000. He paid $9,ooo and borrowed bor-rowed $6,000 at 7 per cent What he made in five years he put in |