Show 1 THE COST OF A DOLLAR the other night at the he union league banquet in OhI chicago cago sir 31 li ingalls ing aus president deill ot of the dig big pour four railroad opened his speech by saying the suver dollar Is not an honest dollar beca because time it does not cost coat a dollar to produce the tha alver in it 11 mr ingalls no doubt Is a capable railroad trean man on an excellent business mail but if all that he does not know CO could u id be put in a book it would be a marvelously large book if I 1 what to lie says la Is true then the gold dollar Is only worth about thirty cents indeed a great many gold collais are not worth over ive five cents not more thin a if nickel ckel but bullat t doo does mr ingalls know after oil all about the cost of either gold or silver ile he lias heard ot of some mine ine that Is fully equipped with costly machinery ehlt has been explored find and upon which years yeara ot of incessant labor and thousand und land tens tena of thousands and hundreds of thousands thousand of dollars have been expended that Is actu actually ally producing silver anil and selling gelling it at 6 til cents an all ounce we presume over mr jr ingallis IngAll ss railroads that some gome passengers are 1 palca ang four cents 11 a mile that the actual cost of f 11 transport in them dot doc dota ns a not exceed fifteen mills Is it honest for mr In Ingall gallas ss company to chargo charge four cents tor for that service to T 0 open a speech by saying the railroads in this country are dishonest because it does not mot cost to move on a railroad a mile to exceed 10 while the railroads tire eire charging io the 30 a must be an absolute steal would sound well at a kopul populist ini onie eeling eting but mr ingalls falli would no doubt say lay the miserable blather sidles they say nothing about grading the road dehey say ay nothing about the rails mils and ties aies and lish ita plates anu and rolling stock and fill all that they morely merely talce take what inight happen on an excursion lay day tand and make that a rule without regard to the interest we aro are paying or to io the tact fact that wo we are running trains every day with only a tew few passengers that la Is they are trade made up of a mighty strong compound ot of both knave said awl fool and it ll 11 hard tto ito tell which predominates now what does mr ingalls know about silver mining ile he can go to a silver region and see five hundred aundre id locati locations ons lie be can see alla shafts ats and tunnels and hoisting machinery everywhere out of thorn them all he may possibly see one mine that Is able to hoist silver silver to reduce sliver silver and sell it for or go 60 cents rut but what does lie he know of the rest that have lave been working what does he know of the hearts that have been broken in the effort why does a competent business man discus of which he k knows nothing that Is the point it costs it a good deal more do get 1 a I sliver silver dollar out of 0 the he hills than it does docs a 41 gold dollar it takes infinitely more cosily and complicated machinery and yet the gold dollar Is worth a dollar indeed the gold dollar now because of tho the legislation of this country measured by any form of property Is worth M t again wo we say that if nil cill mr ingalls does not know were printed in a book Is would beat the bible in size |