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Show iOI.I). flC. MtXSKNSB, Tim Atlanta 'u,isi;ul.ii)i wants to know how the Vf.vt will d'sposa of thy statement that "if the Britisher w-re compelled to pay a dol'ar for a dollar's W".-th of American silver, which would be tho rasnli ol fits') coinage, th American Amer-ican farmers and planters would receive relatively highur prices for their wheat and cotton." That in the kind of a statement that disposes of itself. The lintmher vvoulil py no more ami probably much less for American silver, if we were to adopt unlimited coinage, than he dons now. What in to maku him pay more? Has ho paid .nore lor silver in Mexico, ( "n'lDH, South Amorica, India, or any-where any-where else because of unlimited coinage? coin-age? Free coinage has uol slopped the decline in silver in those countries and it will not in tho United States This is a trreat nation, but it is not but enough 10 change the monetary stand-srd stand-srd of Furopo by act of congress. Philadelphia irmx, 'J'iiK gold-bug papers always think they barn uttered an irrefragable argument ar-gument whim they have referred to Mexico as furnish. ng evidence of the baneful effect id free. coinage of silver. Tlio l'n alter expressing express-ing itself in tho manner quoted, goes ioto a long array of fig ires showing the increased production of silver and reasoning that the fact explains the fall io price iiuco JK:), Jt carefully avoids the circumstances attending Uiu pio- duction ol gold, neglecting to call attention at-tention to the doereaso in tho yield of that metal and refraining from any ref-erenio ref-erenio to the proposition that the combined com-bined output of both metals is in about the same proportion to tho business and needs of the world that it was in is.;:t. Then the Vr.w goes nn to inform us that Mexico has coined fWO.OOO.OOO of silver in fifteen years and that this has not xllHtumud the nrice ft holdu thlt the United Slates can not do what Mexico Mex-ico Las not done. Foreign nations, it declares, would "dump" silver on us, goid would be driven out and the cost of exchange would result iu iu jury to th farmer. The J'rcis ought to bo ashamed of ! ilHulf. It is inconceivable how such a paper can go on rcord with such absurd ab-surd nonsense. Think of comparing compar-ing the United Btates to Mex-icol Mex-icol Think of a paper published pub-lished in this country measuring the power of tho republic by the Mext-icau Mext-icau standard! Think of the absurdity ol a line of argument which descends to the proposition that the United States ranks no higher than Mexico! Because free coinage in Mexico has not sufficed to maintain silver at par with gold, freo coinage iu the United States would bo no more success! ul! StuiT and nonsense! non-sense! Suppose, for the sake of tho argument, argu-ment, that a thousand million of silver sil-ver should bo brought to this country and coined (and we do not suppose that anyone will seriously claim that half that much could come), would not every dollar of it bo worth a dollar all over the world? We will suppose that there is a mass of silver somewhere to send here, and that it would be seut until tho last available ounce had been turned i i o American money; thero would be no cheap silver anywhere, for no man would hold such an article when he could get $l.'"J for it hero. Whenever silver was wanted abroad tho banks would have to pay $1.29 for it aud pay the expense jf transportation transporta-tion in addition. . j Mexico could not put silver in such a position, for Mexico is not a great and powerful nation; but tho individual who supposes that silver money could bo put at a discount iu the United States has very little conception of the towering posi'iou of this country in tho financial world. Hut it has been shown that there i no foreign silver to "dump" on this country in exchange for gold. It is claimed that a few millions mil-lions came last year when the price roso so high. The troth is that most of that was thrown on the market by the , liAitiNd laiiure. j nere wns no rush, , neither was there any outllow of our gold. When tho price ef silver advanced ad-vanced iu New York, the quotations in London aud Amsterdam rose corre-pondingly. corre-pondingly. There was no d'scouutin g of the American price; and if we should adopt free coinage tomorrow the price the world over would be lixed at $1. ,",. |