| Show fall in prices money is a standard 0 values decrease its circulation and values will fall increase inc its circulation and val 1 aes ues will rise the of silver in 1873 decreased the volume of money of ultimate redemption money then became scarcer and it took mora of other articles to equal H dollar thia can be proven from official figures in 1873 for ax ample a bushel of wheat brought in this country cju last year it brought 52 cents per bushel corn brought 40 cents per bushel in 1873 and only 26 cents last year cow brought 33 m 18 fa and only 17 last year all farm products have fallen in about that ratio which shows the of striking down about one half of the money of our country through the of silver prices have fallen about one half money has decreased about one half the law of supply and demand ia back of the results end that law is as fixed in the money market as ia any other market money w barier to get it is scarcer that is about all there is to the silver question as affecting negotiations and it can readily be that the east ought to be as much interested in a restoration reat oration of values as the west the people would bu ceru the facts mado clear 0 o ahm but their financier and have been telling them for years that the of silver means a depreciated currency ane gold will go abroad and we will hava nothing but a fifty cent dollar when the silver it is considered si with which to do they fail to remember that the same law which depreciated other values through a decreased currency made silvar a simple commodity subject to the same standard of valnes gold as other commodities past are differently affected and in this case is probably the greatest injustice of 0 o silver A man that gave a mortgage and a municipality which issued bonds before the of silver suddenly had their actual value doubled that is it a farmer save a thousand dollar mortgage expecting to pay it with a thousand bushels of wheat after or a decrease in tha monay of ultimate redemption he would find it required two thousand bushels of wheat because tha wheat was caused to fall in price one half tha effect then of on past negotiations is to double the debt and consequently double tha value of the bond holders bonds their face value is not changed that ia the figures remain the bame but it lakes twice as rauch produce or labor to pay tha amount bo the rich were made richer and the poor poorer by of silver of course the people may be fooled for a time but soon good abe Lincol ns maxim will be in force there is already an awakening on the silver question and the east is learning that it involves much more than better prices for silver ore it is a question that all are interested in but the masses are most interested of all |
