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Show TIIU SIU111 (Jl'l.sllON (O)II.MI 1(1 A Kit US. Tin: free allvur roliiageipiettlou la faat U'coinlng a direct political lu. llutlt doe. not teem lu ahapo ltaelf lu. the direction of old paityltuea. During Dur-ing the dNcuatlont lu the InttCon-greaa, InttCon-greaa, 11 looked ul If the Democrats dtty wero Ita efvcUt thamplou. Itutll lu the IIoiim) and Keuilf.'the Denrovrata at a whole favored It. It waa by the aid of Domoi'ratlo Henntora that Iho frcu allver hill pn-i.d lu the Honato, and It w at by the u potltlou of HfHilOlcnn that It Wat hjeclod In the llou.e. Aa th. queatlon atanda at preaent thu Wiet un 1 Houth aro for file liver, while Iho Kail la opiHine.) to It. The Demorratln Hiate t'on. eentlon of Mataactiuvitta onl )ea terdny dielarel for "honeft money,' while the nipubllcatiHUteoonveutlon of Colorado, held on the earn da), declared de-clared for flee and unlimited coinage of allver. The Houth Dakotit llepuMInn Htalo CouMiitlon, held nliuj on the SOtli lint., adoptid a eoit if ttraldle. II favoia "tuch furthir IncYeato In the oolnagn of tllvir at la ron"ltent with a aouud Mnnuclal ullcy," It thla inruna anything, It la a covert way of etmM Injlhegoldlle doctrlni, Willi then, latter, I'aound l)!iuii(l" anit "houett liwue)" mean a limit oil tiller. Tne Democratlo Hlaln ( ontenll n, held In Denver on th. .'Jlh, rrn hath ally favoia free and unlimited coinage ofillvtr, and even eenda greellog to Ohio and Iowa Democrat) for their tan I on the laaue, A abort Hum ago Morrton 1'rewen laiMlahcd a very able article In favor of free coinage. The rubtlanee wat reproduced re-produced lu theaecolumnt. He thowed that neither Kuron-an Lor Atlatlc tllrrrcoull illtplace American gold, Hehatilled the ipiettlou from ado-mettlo ado-mettlo at well aa an International rlandpolnt. The ot Jecthna ralMd by Henator Hherman wi re epeclally dealt with, and iinleea Mr. Ffewin't flguret andfacUareahownto lw dittoilrtlhe aeemt to have th. Utt cf the argu-meut. argu-meut. In the October forum there la an Article by IMward Alklnaou entitled th. "Ileal Meauluj of the free Coinage Coin-age Agitation." Mr. AtklnMiu It on. of the fl nanclal authorities of the Hherman Hher-man achool. Hetayathat inuchoflh. confu.lou attending the dltcuatlon of friu allver coinage arleea from the varlouadefllilllonf given lo the word "money." llowover, he clalnii that all financial ihlluaophira will ague with hlnilnaaylngthat "coined money lean Inalrument by which the if changeof aervlcea or uf irolucla It facllluted," and that one kind of money may begood aud another lad. Theu headopuC'erniuchl'a definition of good money, whL-h nadii "That win only la gl money of which the but Ion la worth aa nmrh after It la melted a It la III Iho form of coin " The bath) of Mr. Atklmou'a argument argu-ment In favor of a gold aiandard la that In dltciliiilnatlng Ulwien good money ami bad, the function of government rehllug to coinage and to legal Under ahall bo cut I lily ael ailde. Tho eia-nw of a coinage act la elm(ly to Juatl'y the weight of metal In each coin. The credit of the coin an of thegovitnmentgo together, to-gether, And ahould the latter liaue A huecolii It would Iwdlacredlted. It la tho community and notCoogrett that iletermltitagood money from bad. Jlut lilt hero tho "legal tender" ibaeof finance cornea In. When government laaue. delied currency, A legal tender law It required to boliter It up. Mr. Atklntonaaki: "Mayllnot proe that whenever tho Oral act of legal lender la traced to He origin It will I found to hero been tho act of a deapolto ruler whoat l!rtldtbaed tho coin of tlio realm by taking from It pert of lla weight, and Iheli altelilptM to form the ilraulatton uf the bae coin by forbl Ming any eltlann to refu-o to aorept ll when ollered III iyment of adobtor In liquidation ofa niulraiHT In thlt view It not the attempt to make Hirer dol-larecrpitl dol-larecrpitl to gold when they are not really ao, by legU tender act, a fraud f" The whole tenor of Mr. Alklnwn'J reaaonlng will be found In tbe (art of hla article dialing with lutiruatloual commerce, which he aaya "hat ad-Jutted ad-Jutted ltaelf to tho gold aundard by the meaiure of the jiuund atcrllng." Thla ahowa that the geutleman la looking look-ing through llrltl.ll aectaclea. la la ta-cauie Ureat llrltalu domlnatea the commerce of the world that the aover-llgn, aover-llgn, or auud aterllng, lauredlt to be the International ttaudard of adjutt-ment. adjutt-ment. Thla fact alto accouuta for Loudon Lou-don being a aort of International clear-log clear-log hou'v, which Mr. AlkhiDii him-i. him-i. It admit.. Hhould the Uulti-d HUtea, aJot the frie rultiag. of allver, and extend her couimirco until tho dominate, that of l.ngland, then International Inter-national commerce would havu to adjuat luelf to the American allver dollar and gold would occupy but a correlative placulu thviuatketeof the world. In hla article Mr. Atkluton repeata the Inckneyeil cry that thla frie allver exiltementwaa got up ly lutcrmted mine owner, who detlre to tell ellvir bullion to the government at IM to SO pcrnut. morethanlt la worth. Thlt ttatimrnt la both trivial and I anient. Tho theory ut free coinage It in no iteintUl way aatoclated with thuaale of allver, therefore auih a charge fall, toth. ground nud only damagiatho argument. |