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Show gist that tile wrong of demonetization, when partially remedied, should not iuvolve a direct theft fnm than). TMK I'dSll lOr, r HII.VKK. Tim Transmississippi congress, which has just been boldnig forth in Denver, was not harmonious even in its iniquities iniqui-ties aud absurd ilirs. While the gathering gather-ing asked for free coinage, more than half of its members would bo satisfied to confine this til the American product in the beginning and to let in the outside out-side world's metal later on. Of course if the coinage were restricted to the home output disaster would not come to the country so early as if the Uiints were thrown" open to the rest of the globe as well, but as the government already buys the whole of the domestic product, under the bullion deposit law, it is not easy to see how the silver "cause" would be materially strengthened strength-ened by the change suggested. The silver miners would be helped by free coinage, but there is a pretty deep-seated deep-seated conviction in the minds of the people that the country owes no further fur-ther favors to the silver kings. (ilobe Democrat. The foregoing presents the objection that exists against the proposal to give free coinage to the American product, Rnee the plan is open to thu charge that it is simply a scheme to benelit the silver mineiSj However, since the government govern-ment is determined to limit the coinage to an amouui equivalent to the home production, it is perfectly right to ask that the producers be given the full benelit instead of being compelled to lurreuder a portion of their hard earnings. earn-ings. We now have tho entire product ,iiit in use by tho government but 2,j per cent toll is taken from it. It is the greatest outrsgo ever perpetrated upon any people and the demand that full value be giveij is legitimate. Tho farmers are as much interested in this demand as are the producers of silver, for the plan would take the hand of the government from thu metal aod the rise here would be followed by a similar advance in all the money centers. cen-ters. It has been clearly demonstrated that the prices of all products are affected af-fected by the price of tilver and anything any-thing that will advance the quotations ori the metal will be of direct benelit to the men who grow w heat, and oorn and j roiton. This is a feature of the silua-1 tion which i persistently ignored by the eastern press, but it is forcing itseif upon the public mind. People are beginning to realize that the Almighty placed the silver and the Hold in the boweU of tho mountains for n purpose, and that any human action running contrary to that purpose must work public disaster. Tho iron was mado for one purpose and was deposited deposi-ted in quantities to suit that purpose; so also was the lead ami copper, and to also were tho gold and the silver. If ve are at liberty to guess at. the pur- poses of the Creator from a review of human history, we cannot avoid .he conclusion that the two gn at precious metals were intended to be used jointly as a medium of exchange. If any human government should undertake to legislate iron out of use as a material mater-ial for building engines, constructing buildings and equipping railroads, one S would say that the folly involved was criminal that the legislators were Hying Hy-ing in the face of nature and entailing disaster upou the world. Iron was intended to carry men along in their mechanical alfairs, and the coin metals were designed to maintain the even equipoise of commercial com-mercial relations. Values are measured meas-ured by them, and their production, under the operation of natural laws, maintains a practically unchanging relation re-lation to the demands made upon them. The unnatural legislation against silver lias destroyed this relation andthronn our financial system all out of joint. We Are accustomed to the sueering comuient that the silver miner is alone Interested iu the stnfys of silver, but the producers of the metal would be derelict to their duty to humanity if they did not hurl the charge back at its authors as often as it is put forward. There is no fear of disaster because of j silver coinage; the danger all lies in the j opposite direction. The silver miners I stick, by this proposition, but they in- J |