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Show of having a sound financial policy and an "honest dollar." Broad-ax. The Prosperity Dodge. The inventive genius of the gold bugs is something astounding; in fact it is to be admired, on the same score that one is captivated by the sophistry of a lawyer pleading a bad cause. These gold worshippers seeing the spread of the free silver sentiment in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, and the great northwest, are saying through their subsidized press and through their speakers, that the people of those states never were more prosperous or richer than they are now; that the whole country is in a far better condition now than it ever was since the civil war. They point to the harvest of wheat, and the promising fields of corn, and ask of the farmer and laborer, "What, more do you want?" And then they argue that it is the result |