Show THE MEANNESS or THEM in lighting silver sillier tho the eastern press does docs not pretend to lo bo be honest to show that the fad fact that ugh high prices for silver go band la in hand with high prices for wheat is not dot truo true tile philadelphia 3 9 that while an ounce of silver it a icar ear aro ago cost aj wheat sold at P a dollar and corn at 55 cents per bushel in the eastern market now tho the price of heat and corn 77 cents a while silver or has fallen to 08 cents an ounce and adds tho the alleged reciprocal relations between act prices of 0 wheat und sliver may in utopia but in thin country tho the price pric e 0 of f products product including both wheat an and d sll kilter c r uro are governed by amount of production product lou and demaud there la is lust just cow a great demand in europe for or tho the surplus wheat of this mar market liet and its if price rises while thoro there is no domand demand lor for the surplus idever and lla its price fills falls or remains stationary wo we say that Is a dishonest argument for in the iho same newspaper we wa find that exports of food this year will increase nearly or caulto uko one hundred millions of dollars all of which will bo be added to the profits of our farmers fan ners now kow the it to us that tho lite argument of tho the silver men that the prices of commodities modi ties are ro regulated by tho the volume of money in circulation among the people is amply can led out by the record issem it admits that a hundred millions of dollars ato aio about to be ba added to the money which tho the tanners farmers have in circulation and says under that advance wheat and corn buo base raised in proportion if the theory ol of tho the record and kindred sheets Is correct it Is a great nil fortuno that the farmers should havo this one hundred millions of dollars because through it tits tho money of aho cup cap and tho the money looney in the savings banks aill loso lose a large larco proportion of its purchasing lnE power now I 1 ow in ill point of fact there Is no more sense in what the howrd says about tho lite rising food aluos because of 0 tile tho half famine in europe mail thoron bo be to cite tho the fart fact that thai a titan perishing on oa the desert had bad given a fuenty dollar piece for a drink of water asa as a eel cot tain proof th that attlia tho value of gold had depreciated to almost nothing tho the real honest newspaper nover never puts out kucha bucha as that arid and tho the writer could havo had but on object and that was to deceive the people it Is not true that the tha price of silver Is regulated like bleat and corn by demand and supply it Is regulated regula torl by the recognition which the nations give it 11 whon when put on an n equality with gold tor for years and years it main maintained tallied belt at a premium over grold frold tile tho apparent tall fall in tho the value of silver la Is not list due to lo a surplus of tho the metal because there be has never yet boon been any surplus of it in this ill world but bot it la Is luu lite solely to tile tho legislation which too took from it its treat great prerogative roga tivo as a ot of values and aich placed all tho the burbon of tho the worlds ec hangcA on gold cold another fact malch hibit the d la is careful not to mention Is that the rulo rule that tho the purchasing of silver doos does not cbs change Is 14 exactly exemplified in fit every other product of ind industry astry except food products it remains on iron it remains on C cotton at it remains on oil tho the products of tile tho fac factories borics on everything except food and it acts act exactly on food in it ills old world in oilier vord words the were merely I 1 y t took 0 tho accident of holt crops in lure europe 1 is and tho the consequent ralo in value tit in food products as A complete answer ansar to a universal law N aich anly bo be rood good newspaper paper work in philadelphia but bhelt A in tho the west would bo be journalism riall sin as d Is bonest as it Is con contemptible tern prible |