| Show NO HO INFLATION the springfield affects not to understand it nhat hat the tribune means W when hen it favors the free coli coinage tage ot of sll oil vor ver the same as gold and still do does es not want any inflation it says if anything is I 1 certain it Is that the major part of the li domand ilo manil for or free coll coin ago comes front roni people who want more and cheaper money no arb argul nert kt Is 1 a gloater favorite anionic rites than ihan tho the one that predicates predl ciKa prosperity upon tho the fact increase c ase of 01 circulation to follow irro free coln aris age anil and no one usco that alit argument oftener or mara carn ear cally neally than TJ chii 0 trib uno bile melt the tha truth 1 it 14 4 that fit the a cry for or silver Is it 11 cry for or inflation with it 11 cheaper met money ley t han wo we now nov have und the iho demand and would I 1 d bo be au an well and i answered m so eo far ar as most met men at aio concerned by the iho issue a oc moro more green bILCI baals IS the closing line in the foregoing shows clearly enough that the spring field republican does not understand the sentiments of 0 real silver men at all they understand that no matter how many green greenbacks backs might bo be issued they would havo have no effect nt at least no perceptible cep tible effect on prices unless both cold and silver were de so long ions as our country is 13 on a gold basis it dries does not matter how many green backs may be issued they cannot affect arices and alien is hen the republican gayb 1 the truth Is that alint ilia cry for tree free silver Is a cry tor for inflation with a cheaper money than we now new have it makes it a mistake it does docs not tell the cheaper money Is wanted certainly because the present money has appreciated precia prec ted too per cent in purchasing power but it Is not inflation they want to make it clear to ilia republican we will suppose that in some now new field for instance lit in ilia state or of texas a quartz vein of unprecedented size and richness could be found and mined crul and through which the rold gold of the worl worlie I should be doubled in six elx months we presume tile the no republican publIcan would understand that because ot of that find gold cold had lost one halt half its purchasing power that la IS it had been cheapened as measured by all the products of 0 the earth that would be cheaper money but jt it bould not be inflation at all because every dollar would be a gold dollar just as it Is now except that following an inviolable law gold cold would have lost halt half its purchasing power but it would not be inflation but only a greater abundance or of real money in the same way the silver men bold that there Is already an amount of oc sliver silver mined equal to all the gold cold money of the world that fill all it needs Is recognition to make it as perfect money as it was live five slid and awen twenty ty years ago they can seo see no reason why tills this money Is discarded they can see sec every reason why in the interest of humanity generally it should be restored the republican affects not to know knour u nhat hat we mean when we speak of 0 money of final redemption we mean such money as silver was prior to 1871 when it if a man owed a debt lie he had the option to pay it in either silver or cold as lie he pleased when silver was perfect money the same as gold and when every contract written payable in coin meant payable in either cither gold or r silver liver as the debtor might elect and when the government hold held it perfectly to pay its debts in fit either gold or silver that was waa when the standard or values rested as much on silver as on gold indeed a little more so 50 because tile tho unit of values was in silver |
