Show ICOXIUMCIISDI THE StlllliUIUS 1LtN Becrelary of the Treasury Gigs doubtless realizing that thlogt Ono del are not assuming a roseate hue at the rate that Is I generally desired ba formulated and put forth a plan whIch be doubtless hupes will ba at least 1 a sop to Cerbeiui Tbe principal lures of Mr Gages plan are the re tlreraent of the greenback circulatIon allcgelber and tbe substitution there tarot national bank notes and pract rally the Ute of silver coins for IU lurosup 10 and not Inclusive of In dollars At It It I viewed In thIs per Ion of the world the first part of the plan ixnotly and mUuely represents tbe difference between weedledum and tweedledoe but the ilher one requires tome little conslder itlon A very great proportion of the commercial transitions of the globe are effected with silver money but nowhere except the silver standard cunlrl uab as Chloe aod Mxlo Iso luC a percentage of the tuslnois carrIed on by means 0et Ibe white metal It would be safe lo put It at nlnllnlb bcu to should Its so 1jired It Is Ibo small transactions which make up the volume of lisle ad Obese Ire clnld on by lle masses all the time and Ibo classes a part ot 1 the time To mate silver there orr the ixcluilvo meant ol oacllrl cxcbaugeio It 10 In dllar li ml la enlarge field ol circulation many fold lest bow moth can of course be only estimated To do this mu wore coinage and Ibis In turn mau m no IIlvor Durcbad Iro w those who bn tt 10 sail cerlololy 1111 lest than 530000000 and jrmijhl be si much as double tbatUtnt a naionabe calculation within wIle limin 01 tho whole sea nut that woil tu quired Much a vast sum bID lalton up hr use as money ant all at onoo but begIn aloe at once nod contlnuug La steadIly aef I rspldly as Otto nUll I mold bi clod wouU for a time grsaliy advene too price of silver and have tbe general iffeot ol relaxing Ibe wlul strain now and for some years pest upon the country But ill bees Iclal rciultt after the limit was ached and lbs tyttem of Intrtla 01 present pievalllng was resumoJ mIght notioeo parent > It would mllr wry little aiOO how much tbe oney of the country was lucre lie J II dler snob Increase the stoppage 01 the minis were to take place anal IQ ltwtudb almoit the ume as gIvIng a hungry man a hearty meal uly to permit blm thucafter to starve oar 810U U painfully evident that there has bn too little study of tho money uostUn by Ihe pejple of the United States and therein lies the demand lora lor-a continuous educational campaIgn The separation of Ibe clllzsn from the thIngs which ee nearly cncar i hit temporal salvation Is I lonietlmte deemed the proper thing ly I monarchies and Is I Ibo Invariable role of despoil but lu free republican America every man Is I apart a-part tithe governmental system and III Is hIs duly as well aa bit right lo harD what be does not already know 01 those things bj wblob the fabric Is held together aod carrIed along In otblng Is I such Information more elective than In the question of Ooonoo and iiowrtere It I the detent mre defective than In the far But To permit silver to be detail by ermlssiou of the powers tbat be Is In ne sense equivalent to restricting the mount of grain the farmers shall ban ground Into breadstuff The atler li I ol course a uurcbsssbU attl rIo a commodity not Ibo token ly which a commodity Is I obtained hub It such values are received In ex change for others they amount to noney up to tbat point because they accomplIsh the tame purpnsi aDO now let It dandldly be asked can anyone see a distinction herein In favor ul lInr as things stand HI present If so where Is I 11 I If only a hundred buckets of wheat permitted to be marketed by one man ai a eels and he has a vast barvttt that hundred bushels exactly represents Ibe sum total of his available means far as that partlcu lar product Is onncsrned Ho with Ihe liver mIter II be hat unlimited quantities of that article and 111 use as money U limited by an artificial rule be might as well stop producing when he limit Is reached unless be on afford lo sell tbe metal for what he ca gel for II as so much mirobanJIie his being outside Oboe limited standard stand-ard dollar circulation precisely wha be law has made Silver Is either a royal metal the same as goIJ nr It Is not If lbs former III li entitled lo unlimited privileges at the mint tbejamo al gold and If lbs taller III Is not fit for mnney al all be cause metallic money rests first upon II is natural Inherent qualities and secondly upon the function wbloh the aw bestows upon II The law has no right to eonfer royalty where nature has cot conferred It and no rIght to take It away where nature has conferred con-ferred II |