Show FATE OF A GOLD PAMPHLET The New York Evening Post the rankest gold paper in all the country keeps this announcement art the head I of its editorial columns One million I four hundred thousand copies of the first edition of the Evening Posts Free I Coinage Catechism 32mo 16 pages have been sold The price is one cent j a CODY There is more to i but this i is sufficient to indicate the nature of j the announcement The pamphlet is gotten up in the Posts well known jl style Here is a specimen of its argumentation argu-mentation QYhy do the free coinage speakers speak-ers not use these facts and figures A Because the facts and figures are against them And this What have we proved by examining the statistics of money supply and production pro-duction AThree facts 1 That the money supply of this country and of the world at large is not contracting but increasing rapidly 2 that the low price of farm products is caused by increased production not by contraction con-traction of the currency and 3 that the farmers condition would not be at all improved by free coinage of silver i This is proceeding on the well known lines of the Every Man His Own Lawyer Law-yer theory A man who would propound pro-pound a question to himself which he could not answer when he intended to publish both question and answer would be little less than a fool Hence the success of the answersIn the book The pamphlet has been pretty widely distributed in the east and has been so to speak as bread cast upon the waters One has returned but through I misapprehension or by some mistake it was sent to the Washington Post with this endorsement upon It We return with our compliments the dry rat stuff within I there are any lunatics in Washington give them your dirty circular and keep them away from the decent patriotic people of Baltimore Thomas Paint Mfg Co This makes it plain that the gold sentiment is not rampant in the Thomas Thom-as Paint Mfg Co of Baltimore |