Show GIVING TUB AKGUaiEXT AWAY The cause of silver Is not advanced by callingits adversaries opprobrious names nor by classing with them the friends of silver who do not endorse the erratic and unsound statements of Its cranky champions cham-pions When a silverite endeavors to prove that gold has no value of itself and in liiseiforts utters hall a dozen palpabie contradictions disputes the dictionary E c 1 c > a I j J cif i < i < Ie c < and defies common sense bimclaUismis not helped and he appears none the less ridiculous by calling those silver supporters support-ers who do not agree with him gold j bugaH I The argument that gold has inherent value applies equally to silver and shows J no love for jjold as alleged by our sophistical morning contemporary but simply a regard for truth the meaning mean-ing of words and the importance of common com-mon sense If there is any intrinsic value I I in silver there certainly is in gold and if j the latter needs no championship the I former ia not assisted by any such championship j r I I cham-pionship as denies that it ha3 the slightest i value of itself As to coldbug arguments what would any eastern banker or London speculator ask better than this advanced by the selfconstituted head and front of the silver cause the essence of egotism and monopolist of chop logic the plate silver sage of the Salt Lake Tribune In our country the bullion in a dollar is on the market this morning worth only about sixty cents It brings 1 because our country has agreed to redeem it in goldAfter a After declaring that If the American government would reestablish free coinage coin-age on a ratio of 16 to 1 gold and silver would be on a parity the next day the same authority admits in the same article that Mexico is the only free coinage country and its dollars only are worth the bullion value of silver as recognized by the nations and adds It is altogether a matter of recognition For instance when the commercial nations na-tions of the earth combined to heat silver out of existence refusing recognition asa as-a legal tender for debts it naturally as compared with gold depreciated in value The tide is all against silver now I If this is a mere matter of recognition depending not only upon legislation here I but the action of the commercial nations and the only example is that of a country where the value of the dollar notwithstanding notwith-standing legislation is only its bullion value is not that the goldbug argument argu-ment and would the goldites ask any better admission from the silver men And is it not very much like reaching the gold bug basis Our neighbor had better come down from its hieh peg and drop its puffed up bag of conceit It should quit hypercriticism hyper-criticism of its contemporaries its vituperation and passage of counterfeit phrases It ought to cease contending that the price of silver regulates the number I num-ber of criminals and lunatics as well as edible commodities and while reasoning I on a common sense basis be willing to concede that somebody else knows something some-thing if only a little besides its allim portant self It will then do some good for silver and escape the ridicule with which it covers itself while intending to cast it upon others |