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Show of Ohio and going to the cities many of them to live by their wits. Go to the records of your state and you will see that the ratio of your criminals, lunatics, paupers, and divorces has increased during the past fifteen years, even as prices have declined. Poverty is the great nursing mother of crime, especially undeserved poverty. You may be sure that Senator Teller told the truth in St. Louis when he said: "This is a q. estion of civilization." country are becoming tainted, and crimes are increasing alarmingly. 9. Because I believe the Almighty mad2 no mistake when he placed silver in the hills. 10. Because I love my country, and believe I would do better myself my-self if my fellow men could be made prosperous, which they are not now. I have the honor to be, respect fully yours, C. D Lane. Angel'3 Camp, Cal, Aug, 24, 1896. Rome conquered the world, butj when her mines in Spain and Asia Minor gave out, she went swiftly to decay. The manhood of her mer, the womanhood of her women disappeared, and the night of the Dark Ages closed down upon Europe. Eu-rope. In a business sense it seems to me that the press and the men of New York, the directors of public opinion there, are blind as moles With the rupee of India reduced onejhalf in value, but still the standard, stan-dard, we can sell in Europe only such cotton and food products as India cannot supply. Our best trade for the future must be with the Spanish-America, the Orient, and with Siberia, when the", new jroad shall be nnisnea. am those are silver countries. We should have a common coinage with them all. and with that established, it would not be fifteen years until the world's commercial center would oscillate to New York city. But all the power of that city seems to be swelling the cry that we must accept from England the dictation of how our finances shall be directed, which, by the way, is precisely the plan which impoverished the English masses for thirty-five years after 1816 (see Carey's Social Science, page 323), and which now compels us to sell our textiles and' food products to her at half price. I favor silver restoration because: 1. While my gold has double purchasing power, outside of mining min-ing I cannot invest it anywhere except ex-cept upon a falling market. 2. Under present conditions production pro-duction gives no reward to producers. 3. V7ith no profit of production, producers can give no wages to labor, and the country is filling up dangerously fast with idle men. 4. Because with every man driven to enforced idleness, protection to copital grows less. 5. Enforced idleness breeds hatred hat-red of the suffering masses against the few who have means. 6. Because the working men of America are brought into unjust competition with the laborers of silver countries. 7. Because the whole continent south of us needs vitalizing with American brains, muscle, and such vast amounts of money that no mines can supply it rapidly enough. 8. Because through the growing poverty of the humbler producers, like the farmers, the morals of the Charles D. Lain . FOR FREE SILVER AND HIS REASONS WHY. Concluded.! You may ask by what rule the needed amount of primary money may by estimated. The answer is, when prices cease to decline and property becomes as valuable as money. By that I mean when investments in-vestments cease to be perpetual losses and when production commands com-mands a fair remuneration to the producer. You can see the present need can only be supplied by again full re-J habilitating silver; by making the silver dollar again a unit of values, and opening for silver an unlimited demand. I think I hear you saying, "But . we shall be flooded with silver" Do not permit that Bogie to distress you. Silverjmining has been pursued for 4,000 years that we know of. It is a most fascinating business. Still, if we had dumped upon our shores all that has been saved during dur-ing all those years, it would give the American people only $50 per capita. Could you not handle your $50? But you could not get if. One-third is now in Europe, in daily use as money at 15 to 1. One-third or more is busied .in Asia, and from there silver never returns. ' There are still other features. Have you noticed that your rural population is standing still, while your cities are growing' too fastf This means that the brightest boys and girls are leaving the fair farms : o |