Show THE DEMOCRATS AND SILVER the following letter is from a candid and honest man mho ho lives in tho the state of missouri and who through a relative who besides lit in this city lias has been receiving the tribune for some time past we give it space because coming from tho the source it does docs it is most interesting te and moreover nomo memo ot of its statements need it a little attention one can easily sea by tt it that tho eho writer has haa been CL a democrat all his life and that to him as to tiny any other mia bourt democrat tile tho idea of severe of his party or of the th president seems ike entering tho the very pane pan C auary of his heart aud and mashing tho the idols which ho he all ills hl life has worshiped tho the letter to lo as follows editor tribune T am and lve have been a constant co render reader of your excellent paper for tho the lout last eighteen or twenty month and though we differ somewhat politically still I 1 nm am at all thron wiffing to lo edge merit wherever K I 1 find it fc e etan en though 50 ou profess to see ee no good in democracy while to tn tell tall you the truth I 1 have ner been shia abla to see sea much good in republican republic n ism a till I 1 must pay my that your writings on the street and momentous flatin fl nanial clat quva quo tion bay haeft been more educating tiff the cen can eral cral reader than that in alt all other journal combined put but this Is true irue I 1 think you are too loo much prejudiced tile tl Dimo Damoc crata for or had not been A alt aist ed by your own party friends in the taft enate conate you know thy they could never hava rr ill ahe hill 1111 mid and you know another thing tool too that if 11 air r adamini could have J asted another year tha ilia ohp man net would he havo been wiped ipei off tile tho statute boohm more than it mas done by the late extra session you vou bay or V you ou do not flat believe ill chrtt at tho the peter pi fai ont ia will ill do anything an thins look ing toward tho the or of as if they were me V all ajl fuel auch A nel met or of dinnies ninnies as not to t to know that the only hope they have of ever standing tile tho I 1 lightest for la Is to enact niichi ell tan ft an n will mako and guld cull of purel value ait blomo plomo ilo liv imy my dror site kiev iff v ran rani t afford not to it do n it it 1 l would iv br suicidal ulel ditt nod iffy tile fully oppre olat leta that thai toot fact so let the rs r s 10 ev on that point till MA flat lp Is 91 rat i A wh hw 01 aft hill m it mn rr president eIdent will hn be compelled to clcil irl it whether ho he wishes to or not public lic will comeri him while on this lt let me mule make a few state and futures figures and see whether coffier Is ID killed m a knur nur silver men no often talc lin in th ilia public prom on the day that ilia a purchasing claudo of 0 tile sherman IIII hill nm As there were lit in circulation III it ilia united ignited salte 4 no loss leas titan rd ot of Tan 1 piker dollars dollar or their if ell vr vir cen certificates ahey are 1 gal lenar tend r for f all amounts amount on the name mine fookhi r as an sold gol except escort whole gold gald linit has beet been stipulated in in sid dirion there them were at thea the ame 1 claie an e V of subsidiary silver cohnn d which 1 I c were equal to gold in debt paying power in shy pum kum not over 43 there were alio in the treasury dimar of 0 be bullion I 1 on sir alnet whim were out coutandin andIn notes to tho the amount of tl eliw iW and an ff these notes are arc full ul ignal 1 gul tender except the contract specifies oth otherwise r this tah u carld total of V 11 W or of silver oliver currency actually in ex le levence tence or LC 1 we ine estimate emini ato the bullion in tile tho treasury Tria sury at UK its coin value wo we have the grand total of 0 ireS Myo ot of silver in actual ties noc 0 of this thin Is unlimited legal tender tr rider enjoying every right and privilege 0 of gold cold all thle this silver equal 11 tj amount to our stock of gold even 1 if w ws I 1 exclude tile tho subsidiary diary coins Is money on a bilty with inith goll gold I 1 now on it I 1 tills alf la is anyn anywhere bere in tho the neighborhood of 0 correct it does seem to nio me ilia that liver Is s not deaki bb you man maln out wool wont so ao often 1 f 1 t and suppose sup posio aln again that ei can on aboul ah 0 st i do noah int ne further for main time yet to come in the business our silver mine are not badly hurt so fo mug as an silver 1 la worth aiom 70 cents to 72 come per buneo bunca and a foreign demand ready to take ake the output I 1 think aiom tuc the tone or of your that the griat gmt west la in all right and I 1 know our people of missouri alls url are about as well on off tie ever at least for several viral Be years yeara past part wo we hb hap not a pro oro dut durt for or sale that dope does not in bi ins ing a rood price wheat and wi we all 11 know why wheat Is 1 so no low simply because the sup up ply to Is greater than tho the chich ill alraya the case fulti fill every product everywhere ery where and at sit all timen just now and for many months past we cannot cannot buy a pound of lard for leys les ahan 1 3 cents per pound right hele heie in this rich hor hog prodie ing inc country and I 1 would ake to see oce a man turn out and bev a stock mock hog hobt for less than 7 cents centa per pound our corn Is IH olur laid bush v worth art in a 30 cents A n and everything elso else in proportion find and thin too loo when hen UA 1191 you say kay half or of the money of our r coun mj tir han ban boon destroyed J II 11 T windsor ho die nov IT 17 IM I 1 the flitt first thing we wish to note in the foregoing is the asier assertion tion that 0 a ire are I 1 too against the Domoci ats ts I 1 we suppose he means prejudiced against Democrat lo doctrines and not demo craig as people we contest confess to a poeju idie against their doctrines because it ems to lie jig they have simply been a brake on this country tor for the last thir ty two years more than that it seems lernis to us its that whenever ull ellever they leave been able to curry carry out their policy ot of tariff reform that it has been followed by awful disasters to the country we think that it Is 13 a problem alch can be easily demonstrated to any t I 1 man n n tho the assertion abortion that lh the demoa crata brats never could havo have effected the repeal except for the assistance 0 of the republicans la Is quite true but our answer onor anor or Is this the republican party parly nv waa as put out of 0 rower poser because it failed d to keep k its iti pledges regarding silver and 1 n d the democrats were rut put lit in power because b they made pertain certain pledges ro rc garding and still while they hart c a lull full majority majora ty in every branch ot of ahn th government when alien the people cried for hah fish they gave bave them a serpent As to tha ill assertion that had mr harrisons Harrl sons ad ra lion lasted another year the he sherman law would have been wiped out wo me think our correspondent Is mistaken it would net have been wiped out except by a substitute which would have given a more en use find and significance to silver As to the th next paragraph that the Demo democrats crati aro are not such it n rot pit of ninnies dinnies as aa not to do anything fr for silver we hive nothing to pay nay except to commend to our friend a careful study 0 of mr carlisles Carll slee speech benoie the chamber of 0 commerce of new york about ten days ago of courso course mr gladstone play may die ile he may be succeeded by an administration that will want ant to r recognize silver but if mr walstone Wa Astone remains as premier of england for three years yeara more find andl mr cleveland remains as emperor ot of america for three years more wo we tear fear that tho the hopes ot of our friend wl will bo be dashed to the und the figures regarding the amount of now on hand band 0 ua o understand very well ivell but that silver might lust just as aj welt well bo be green greenbacks backs what we mean when alien wo say that silver has haa been killed la is that our government has haa refused it recognition as an money of ultimate redemption demp tion lion which reduces the real money of this thia country to what gold 1 ill in ill tile the cou country nry and puts pull vs us oil a basis per capita only about equal to mexico ar M any ally other inferior power our friend la Is mistaken aken when lie says that any silver in tile united state Is ou on tho the kimt tooting footing a gold because our treasury officials rulo rule that wo we have only a gold standard that while we lie we use silver aa we might checks check on a bank the government Is bound whenever it Is demanded to pay gold in redemption for either silver dollars treasury notes or any other form ot of indebtedness that takes away froni from silver its legitimate use as money that keeps prices down to where they are in short it if that is 18 tho the only service that aliver can do it would b be better for the country at large to limply issue paper and not bother with silver except us im subsidiary coins it lit id tor for that reason that wo we tay say silver la is dead to be perfect money a a metal must contain certain attributes ike indestructibility malleability luster etc moreover it must bo be so BO scarce that nil all the cupidity of man cannot get a oue nur plus ot of it it if silver to 1 not one of 0 those these metals then ft t ll is no longer it fit to be money the contention of silver men la Is that tho the reason there seems to be a surplus now la is because the great inter est gathering classes lastes fc ot of t ills world have restricted its use and put the con commercial irner world solely on a gold basis to the tha infinite ilmi and degradation 0 of all civilized nations na tlona in that sense we a say silver la is dead W wo 0 do not sa ay y that there hero are not several hundred r millions nili lons of 0 silver allver dollars or representative a of bill of dollars in circulation we say as they are ar looked upon by tho the government they are po no better than llian greenback dollars d 3 and as aa tor for all tile tho silver in all the mines ot of the west our has haa done dona fall it could to simply males that a base metal only worth what it would bring in tho the arts we do not know but what the tha people ot of miss aurl are ao to well off as aa they have been for several years year but they are no not t well oft if a after all when hen our friend says that wheat in I 1 low because tile the supply Is greater than the demand thero there Is a point which needs a little discussion there must always alwayn be a surplus ot of products or there will be a famine hut but it Is IB true nevertheless that it if all the people who ought to bo be eating bread lit in tho the united states could get it there would not be one pound tor for but they are am too poor to buy As tor for pork and its by pi filhe lard fis our filand forgets that whon when there was a ill hi itumalo three deurs aso ago nil all sorts r to 0 ot f grain were slen ghen it macket through 1 agh that which aich made it inta 1 printable pron table for farmers to kill their elgi thin than to fatten and the re su alt it was that the stock of 0 bogs in the th untied states stated was waa reduced to so levy jow that pork ever ehni haq haa been high that was waa due simply to ft a cli lamity ll yond ahn sea anil and not to any le lesl Matlon on our part with corn lit at 80 cents per I 1 bushel in missouri lift hie farmer who raises it dom does not net get back a dollar it a day for or his hl labor if he given hlinko credit for or nork we think the corn crop ot if missouri will not average to exceed exso thirty bucheli to the acre at SO 30 cents that Is 13 39 rr per acre acm now take the iho inert on tile the lahui the cost ot of allon grid and it will bo be wen seen that tho the missouri farmer Ss is woi king for nothing lie ile probably han ban thirteen or fousteen fou teen iteen I 1 boys it lie he worna works hn hl boys boya and works himself lie hg mill mako a little money but it if lie IK owns acres 0 of land and raises ISO acres acra of oc corn n R year hires I 1 men to do tho the work paa them fair I 1 we von he will low lose ilia his farm of ten biars years where there was wa transportation in 1311 10 the Purl tinner firmer mas getting more for or all his products product than lie lia gets this year though since that ti methe treas treasured urea filin the hills ana denelta of 0 till the west have made the country the th kmat cavat nation of the world had sliver silver never been bothered or had congress Co naresa at the extra x aslon substituted for the clause they repeated repealed a act clvin to sliver silver full recognition an am a donl metal the mis bourl farmer would bo be getting now 42 2 cents is of 30 20 rents for corn the difference between thirty and forty two would have te presented his ploll ts iia would bo be thinking of 0 ills ilia boys boya to college lie he would bo be buying hs his girls apio a plino and his bis wife a new alpaca dress arc 13 ho would contemplate painting the ahe houst find putting ff out a lawn law 1 next anil ancl tile lie whole face ot of nature would be changed to lit ahli eyes As it Is half the money of this country has been destroyed you tou cannot destroy halt half the volume rif of money in a 1 country without I 1 prices 50 61 per cent and hence tho iho url farin cra who raise corn I 1 ate vety much more interested in having havi silver restored than are the people i of utah IrI finally nally with silver at 70 cents not one mine in two hundred can be at all ard and no other one will be opened in this generation |