Show PRIMARY ANO AND substitute MONEY MONET here Is a specimen chilen of 0 courier journal mendacity or ignorance we do not know hah which ll it lit Is no slander to SAY BAY that thai every ellor writer anti viator vi ator from coln coin flar vey and down to the iho crossroads cross crosa roads sin speaker taker or editor relies upon ignorance ind and in tile advocacy or of hla bill views A candid can lid statement 0 of facts acla would hae mado mada jt it for mr ali bryan to remain on tile the stump slump tho contention that tho fluno of money had boon been cut in ill two by tho the recalled re oo called tiza tion at 0 silver lit in and that this was responsible for or the th in prices unit und S in the burdens of debtors supplied nearly all tho the foundation upon which tho the causo of free silver rested then to prove something some thing the cou rier journal quotes from tho the report or 0 the director 0 of the mint alint for 1896 that tho the per capita in the united states has inci eased from ron 2136 in 1830 1890 to 2403 in 1896 that 0 of great britain from ta i po to 2080 that of 0 germany from 1359 to W to SS 58 and so on oil there Is not a political economist 0 of any note mho w lie has ever A ritten on the subject of money that does not ing insist that prices are an govner ned by the volume of money I 1 jirl r mary sty money in circulation in any neat gleat country or in the world up to 1873 the silver dollar was a unit ot of values it was a full legal tender for all debts to any amount up to 1874 tho the mints of 0 all the world except those of 0 great britain were open to nil all the silver allver that came and it was accepted as ai a i original primary money it nas so 20 rated lit in the world and prices were established in that year germany and tho the united states joined in IT the ork ot of spoliation begun begin by ingland fifty seven ioven years before then germany threw an amount of 0 sliner ailer like old junk jubik upon the market velch compelled the latta latin union nations to close thelt their mints to silver almost immediately prices began to fall not lot only the price of silver but of ev cv cry product of farm and factory and the decline sinco since has been over BO 60 per cent that Is gold has per cent there Is no it other explanation for the elie tall fall in prices and the natural results result naive have followed production pays paya less and less and na as producers produce ra oro are almost all in debt the value of their products gravitates to the creditor centers until today we see the abnormal spec facts ot of the great body of our country of money andi and certain eastern cities gorged alth it II which the owners dare not invest because property Is falling so ao rapidly that gold cold makes more by its increased purchasing power lying idle in the banks than it could in any ordinary business in the country the mistake of 0 the courier journal lot id that thai the volume of 0 money has not increased the real volume of 0 money on which prices lire are regulated in the abo united states stales amounts to about tibo per capita all the tha rest ig if merely substitute money of 0 courso couite the silver certificates certin cates the elie treasury notes and the are merely promises to ray pay and when wo we conic como down to see ece what the pay must bo be in according to our laws lans it must be in gold fold and hence it Is no late fairer ahrer to say that thas country has haa sa 24 per capita in circulation than it would be to eay any of 0 a man who hai had in the bank and who owed 30 OTO that lie was worth hence it la Is perfectly boast perfectly fair to may aay that in n 1873 the leading nations of the earth cut the volume of 0 primary money in two and threw halt a way awny the sliver allver dollar under present conditions in the united states Is as the new york sun says gays merely FL metallic greenback creen back simply filmily an n evidence that the government stands ready to pay its amount in gold cold and if 1 there Is no provit lon in the abe law tor for that the other just juat as potential provision Is in effect that the owner ot of the dollar can buy a greenback arc n aith the he silver dollar and presenting tho the gr emback let ket the gold and that a paper as brilliant as the courier journal ts is in some respects would quibble over a thing thine of 0 that kind would bo be incomprehensible if i we did not see a hundred other great in tho the east doing ill the hame barne thing and the conclusion Is irresistible that elie determination of 0 those newspapers I 1 IA by any kind or oc a statement which while true on its face carries with it it a falsehood to the people to maintain perpetually the gold standard ard in this country and drive the american people either into slavery or into rebellion |