Show HIGH STATION LIARS As x vi as telegraphed secretary gage in fix response to some resolutions ot of the federated trades trade wrote a letter halt of protest and halt half of argument to campers the head ot at the federation As in duty bound the gold press to sao something lofty slid and unanswerable in the letter of oc the secretary it was wa in truth just junt about as aa pertinent as would be FL a dissertation by rev jasper to disprove disi rove the truth of the copernican system put but discussing it tho the new nell york puts out the following the 0 one no point upon which all advocates of sound bonev iro are burne Is id that iho elie pL tan anJard 1 ard of value vain must mui lie ile luain tabled acer e tary gage calls calif attention to lo one falt which berv ninny miny are arc prone to overlook P namely OU cly that tho ilia gold stan standard daid of men SU C nent of value him has icen in ill fact net tho ilia only one lit n tills this tor for moro more loutit niety ysais I possibly ilia iho lie ho uses might be na its respects tile tho period ot of greenback depreciation front from isa to 1879 because ix caune in the popular henao tho the joral tender r then served ns its a measure of value and in a rouge also va values measured in part by tho the pios pact ot at suppression or of rebellion and ami hilti mate restoration of tile iho notes noiea to their raco face value lit in gold it 3 nall ell as aa in part by the present vold nom 1 aln illon of tile the commodities comme me modi dill ties put but even during that joi loil tile gold valuation ot of tile tho cc re mod lly ity ma nna R always nn all chemell t in epry if not then ua as nt lit other oilier perlous per lods tile only one bior sixty aarti laluce hac in fact dot been measured kaars y to lo tho the gold unit milt of alue A annl at the revolution M atch Is proposed would in reality bo be a 0 violation ot a obligations entering into every contract urt aluce tho the reduction in tile tho or oc tile tho koll gold unit it by tile 1 ho act of IS for the iho change lit in th he of 1 flawd ega w than I 1 IWO 1000 by tile iho net act ot of vaa mus insignificant the remark by gage was an advertisement ti of stupidity the Til bunes repetition ot of it Is puts dishonesty tile effort Is to show or to carry the imbres sion that no change made in the standard by tho the act of 0 1873 both the secretary and the journal mean blean that or they mean nothing prior to ISM for thirty nine yeara the standard silver dollar of crains had been the unit of values value 3 in the united states as much as tho the standard gold dollar ot of 25 8 9 10 grains and if t the silver dollar was not its 03 much in evidence as ae the rold gold dollar it was because it followed tho the ratio 0 of continental europe and was more valuable than gold it was waa not only a unit of values but it was waa on an unlimited legal tender for all debts and liabilities and under that law every ounce of our silver up to lu tile iho moment of b be e 1 I c cabac oc the h european nur ean rat ratio 1 anti and il alie to unlimited demand paid more than I 1 91 1 2929 of 0 our debts in fit Xu lurose rope now I 1 that silver by legislation has ha been be dented tho the chief uw use to chic which b it was applied for or 00 years that thai ot of money and in consequence gold eoll hoa has tollow follo ing an ail inviolable law appreciated 60 per cent tor for secretary gage to say it has hai always been the real standard la Is us res contemptible as it Is ili stupid for tho the tribune of 0 new york to declue that a chano change to restore the conditions blitch alch existed prior to would be lit in reality a violation ot of obligations ell herinx into every contract since 1831 Is not only puro pure mendacity but it reveals tho the disposition which when put in actual operation lands me men n na as grand brand larceny thieves in the penitentiary there jim has been nothing like it seen been or heard of 0 lately except the solemn anser assertion tion ot of the madcap warlord garlord of Cerni germany ally insulating Insi latIng in his speech before the departure of a neet fleet to steal an cat empire alre lo in the orient that in sending that fleet ho he was acting purely on the defensive tho the purpose of 0 our gold eold friends hns haa for or a long lone time been apparent but not many of them havo have ns na yet quite so boldly revealed their plan and so brazenly sought to it it li 11 another ln ther exhibition of mendacity apo 1 hypocrisy I 1 e r isy and avarice posing in the a tolen stolen robes of justice as aa the ilie standard bearers of virtue and truth |