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Show KKN ATiiKTei.i.Kii knows enough to know that ad the silver uot ti -ed in the art Is nw lwd an muiitiy, ami that frn oinaxe at our rutins on tie r.ilto of K tn 1 wo.; 11 not a 14 one dollar to the iu:itill'y of r liver used as money, IIh tl.ukiinif uuoniih to know that si uii free c.iu;wo as lie auvue ites w.ntld nut rfie '' M-meulltsm M-meulltsm In thin ro.imry but o ily sun Mute i-U.-er liinnoinetalllmn for (old monoumt.i:i-lm.--L('liUao lltr.tbl.. The Jluuld pretends to be au intelligent intelli-gent journal but the fore'utng does not bear out its claim. '1 ho argument of the g'ddbugs bus been that there is an enormous surplus of silver that is . neither used in the arts nor money, and that this surplus would bo "dumped" upon its if we should adopt free coinage. Upon no other theory can the assertion be plausibly continued that the throwing open of our miuu would put us on a silver basis; ami yet the lii ruhl, admitting that till the silver in the world is in u.e as money or in the arts, clings to the proposition that free coinage wouid establish silver monometallism. mono-metallism. If there is no surplus there can be uo 'dumping," fen no one wi'l incur the loss that would be iuvolved in shipping silver coin to this country for tho purpose of exchanging it for gold. |