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Show A TWO K!KI AlKjr.HKNT. Oik; of tho strongi.'St points niude uaint Urn free and unlimited uoinafro of silver, which should have great weight not ouiy with the man who are the tecipiems of the uilum's lieneli-eence, lieneli-eence, but with every citizen who desires de-sires that the old iwild.ers, their widows and orphans, shall have the fullest advantage ad-vantage of that hurieficunoe, is the fact that I'rea eoinau'a would depreciate j from i.'0 to 2," per cent the puichaini potter of the money paid to pensioners, j Muaha '. f. bo far as those are concerned who ! are entirely dependent upon their peu-j peu-j siotn, the foregoing no doubt has some force; but th iiurclmsini power of their money w.is increased by the de-mouutlatinn de-mouutlatinn of silver anil thuy could not H ell com plain if the valuo wcru set l ai k to where it was before. But, oa the other hand, tba great majority of pi'iisioucrg a.u erijjaud in productive occupations. The man who receives or eight dollars per month pension b."r'jB many times as much at his occupation, occu-pation, anil what be would lose on the pur; h vjit) power of bis persion nnmey would be more than made up to liiii! iu inciaamjd earnings. Tho uco of the argument that the piuchasins; power of money would be reduced, is a direct admission that the pi ices of products would be advanced, l'cusionerj ars largely farmers, and i hey would kjet tnjie for their crops, others work for wages, and the inevitable inevi-table result would be to advance their j oay. Times are flood with a mau when. be el s good prices for what he has to sell, whether it be goods or labor, and, since tho pensioners would receive this benefit from tho fre coinage of silver, I hey would net rejjret the condition wliiuh the Her. sets for'h. |