Show QUEER 11 1 FACTS 1 ABOUT MONEY 1 the tress treasury n ry department reports that during doting the past year the public debt lias has bee been decreased bj 9 egv the total debt la Is put down at A 93 tot but ot of tills this som the amount above the daei not hot bear lat ercaL A great part ol of this might ba disposed or of at no ex bange pange to the lie government except a printing if it would receive the gild and silver of 0 the country as last fast as is dered issue certificates upon it bibla able in the alio metal named in each anil and tor for tery every dollar so eo receipted for or withdraw aw a dollar greenback creen hack the greenbacks green backs would la in about five years alt all lie called in or of course the iha atta would be a debt of the government but bat is as their rail full value would at all times be la a tha treasury uary vaults i it II would cost the government nothing to me mott t th lhnn e in whenever presented ted oue oile would think that the most pronounced goldate would bo be willing to have bare this arrangement madg there are pome lacta facts about the money ot at tho the states which it la Is to realize A short q quarter arte r ot of a century ago the too allar silver dollar 1 war VAN at a premium the greenback d dollar WM was at a discount ot 0 BO 50 per cent n t now kow the gree greenback is at par t be dollar Is compared alt kith h cold at a 0 33 percent per cent no legislation caa teance the power of salver in the he lent least no legislation could hold bold the greenback up ui lin dorthe lm terror arid and friction of oc a 4 great crest cin ono 0 I 1 i 3 backed by something buloh the world lor for years hm has held to bo be ot at the nine in intrinsic value na as goll gold ou on a ratio 0 ot I 1 16 to 1 the other has baa no va tile except the tha ahmad which tt tao 0 gov ern ment tas has placed upon it and oaid that as ai wo we have eloa abo eat wag dot strong fillod enough the lie pree pressure sure of c i a great war to told hold good or even cran half good the other the government Govern meat and the th gatherers or of the nation have bv ione done their utmost to aal cit it down dovil lu ill pulver power irolina its alil alia W grains rough bar t nith ill BO to mint stamp upon it will bi boy 07 1114 a much ol of anything that cornea comes of 0 labor except rold gold as the colonl coined allver dollar noulia uld in 2 11 ahm 1 1 yit 1 I 1 booi ate at a premium over or 1 11 1 vet themen tha mm ot of the cast brij at t the tl paper stamp and th they ov j wrate bare AS would be wind forr won mun alio gwist oa the 1118 81 ell vrr collm 13 an doll dollar the mines oath slates yield nally nn an nf ll li 0 qu I 1 calell to about four our of rl alvr tor etab voter ill 11 tile Itri lublic slid quil tiia alx I 1 flun f ot or fit the rast inglut that it if tita this should I 1 leally eally he be sukru a v up end absorb att by tile ali got L U out and returned to the thoai I 1 in or money ay it would wean mean beyerl ey erl thag rut ruin it it Is hard to dotor oil finch c b men him fire are daft idt or whether they b bellove it ti Is safe of to that th tho a jaaes ot of the iho american people are fook two mouths ago we were I 1 with a sudden war with germany Germi iny had bad that war come doubtless great britain would have bay made an offensive anil and defensive alliance with germany german y that within sli mouths would have campt another 01 0 ep eclo p payments I 1 me the greville gree ille would b hare begun began to fill fall again but bat the allver dollar tinder that fi bra r 0 would havo have rone gone back to sla lit old oil place beado 1 ot of gold it Is strange io to ee bee it government and people repudiate la in peace what they would cry their yes eyes out to obtain in war |