Show A FINAL ANSWER We are again informed by our metal muddled morning contemporary that Gold osiginally had no intrinsic value whatever that the dictionary is wrong and he is right Putting aside his personalities per-sonalities which only show venom and I not reason bis argument now offered I amounts to this Gold has no intrinsic value because twenty years ago 258 grains of gold was worth f 1 Today it is worth 140 H Also The other day silver sil-ver was worth 82 cents an ounce the next week it was 62 cents Intrinsic value means inherent value Nothing that is inherent can change daily J By this rule nothing has an inherent value and the term intrinsic value is useless use-less But according to the lingual authority au-thority who is above dictionaries I j something to eat has an intrinsic value Let us see Wheat sometime some-time ago was worth in the market a dollar bushel now it down to about fifty cents Wheat therefore has no intrinsic value There is nothing eatable but changes in market value Therefore none of it has any intrinsic value That is the sort ol argument the autocrat of the silver question wants us to accept But let us compare silver wisdom with silver wisdom In one column he shows that besides gold silver also has no intrinsic in-trinsic value In the next he says Silver has luster it has perfect malleability it Is indestructible and it is so scarce Are not these qualities intrinsic and do they not constitute its intrinsic value The same may be said ot gold These qualities do not change and 3et the market mar-ket value of the substance that haa them may fluctuate Our wonderfully wise neighbor confounds the intrinsic value with the imercial value of gold and silver in his renewed attempt to wiggle out of another hole into which he has fallen in his haste to jump on a differing contemporary Gold and silver have a value apart from their worth as money Their commercial value is a different value Both these values have relation to their inherent qualities in which lie their intrinsic value If they had no intrinsic value they would have neither market value nor money value This is enough on a very simple subject The delegates to the silver conventions should be careful not to p rmit the creat and important question before tho country to be prejudicod by the I knowitall nonsense of those egotistic wiseacres who are as detrimental in one way as the blood and rebellion orators are in another Their intrinsic value will be found too small to be estimated by any coin now in circulation |