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Show preciation of the gold dollar favcr it. 3. Because gold standard money is dishonest and makes the debtor pay back a dollar larger than the one he borrowed. , 4.. Because the gold dollar is appreciating ap-preciating in value more and more, making debts harder and harder to pay. 5. Because the "only objection yet heard against bimetallism is, we are not big and strong enough to have it without foreign aid. Tan we not legislate for ourselvesf 6. Because we can introduce bi metallism without foreign help, for we would have with us 27 silver and bimetallic countries, with a population popula-tion of 995,000,000. 7. Because we would have against us only 11 gold countries, population popula-tion 196,000,000 and about all of those except England would be glad to follow our example. 8. Because the average ratio in the silver and bimetallism countries viz, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guate-mala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Salvador, Salva-dor, Colombia, China, Ecuador, India, In-dia, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Tripoli, Argentine Republic, Belgium, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Haiti, Italy, . JapanNetherlands, Spain; Switzer ., , ; . - land, and Venezuela is 15 to 1. 9. Because the very highest ratio of any country in the world is Mexico, Mex-ico, ty2 to 1. 10. Because if Mexico is a fair sample of a silver country, Turkey , is a fair sample of a gold countr) ; 1 11. Because, if everybody admits t that bimetallism is right, and the only objection is that we cannot go it alone, that objection is overruled by the figures given above. 12. Because there is no accum-mulation accum-mulation of silver anywhere in the world that could flood us. 'And . even if there were, it would only give a greater impetus to our commerce, com-merce, for every dollar's worth of silver brought here would represent a dollar spent here among us. Our silver dollars would not be taken abroad ajjain, but left here among us, thus giving us more money and greater business. 13. Because even if there were a flood of silver in Germany, Japan or anywhere a little diplomacy would prevent its coming here. .In the international in-ternational conference at Brussels all the great nations except England were so anxious to have bimetallism x that tley offered net to unload their silver on any other nation that introduced it. ' 14. Because free coinage at 16 , to 1 would create an unlimited demand de-mand for silver and fix that price all over the world. 15. Because, if we said we would take all the silver that comes at 16 to 1, no one would sell their silver for less than that price, and then 16 ounces of silver would be worth 1 ounce of gold the world over. To be continued FIFTY GOOD REAMS WHY The American People should Favor the Free Coinage of Silver. The liusy Man Can See Why It Should Iteueflt II I m and the "Whole Couutry to Return to the Money of the Constitution. Mr. Eugene V. Brewster, in a recent communication addressed to the Brooklyn Citizen, cites the following fol-lowing reasons in favor of free coinage. coin-age. 1. Because all of the national parties have declared in favor of bimetallism, bi-metallism, and not one favors the gold standard, which we have today. to-day. 2. Because no voters ever yet voted for the gold standard, and only those who benefit by the ap- |