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Show must always result in injury to the . producing" pro-ducing" " classes by making money' dearer, and products cheaper. --m . . I M IXERS A M 1'LOPL E. Who is it That is Making tho Demand for Free Coin age. fc-an Francisco Chronicle. The- JUi(jhiferini) nnd Jfiniiif Jonrruii of New York makes the brilliant suirscstion that tlie mine owners are cai;cr for frt-e coinage, not because they believe that silver will to an ounce in that event, but because they fancy that they could pay their men the rate of wages now current "in depreciated dollars. As the Joutiwil credits the miners with foeinff "by no means ignorant of cconeomie principles, prin-ciples, we are at loss to understand why it -should assume that they (the miners) have lost sight of the fact that if the dollar depreciated and would only purchase 30 per cent less than at present waes would immediately rise. The trouble with the I'Himfil is its inability to see that the demand dem-and for free silver does not come from mine owners, but from the people who have clearly recognized the fact that by demonetizing silver the standard of value was so affected that every producer, in order to secure a legal dollar, is obliged to part with about 30 to 35 per cent, more i of his products than when bimetallism prevail ed. The. people who have this conviction ! lire also alive in the fact that the trouble is not one of amount of currency, and nevt-r allow their attention to be distracted from the real point at issue, namely, that the standard when formed of a menial constantly growing scarcer, as gold is, |