Show THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS mexican dollar false falie tt it is not legal tonder in the wind windows of a prominent clothing house on mrtin street there is on exhibition a ke keg full of nf mexican clin dollars with i a sic sign on above it saying that any article in this window will be sold for 1 american moi met ey and a silver mexican dollar thrown in this u is evidently intended to illustrate the principle for which the silver roen have contended viz I 1 the advance in the value of gold and this it does in a beautiful manner the weight of the american dollar is grains pule silver which with silver at TO 70 cents per ounce abigt the present price is worth when melted down about 54 cents cenis this dollar passes parses at par in this country by reason rason of the fact that it is fil a legal tender for all debts just as aa the paper legal tender note and the treasury note of 1800 1890 which have gold collateral behind them to the extent of only about ac per cent of their face value also pass at par the weight of the mexican dollar is grains of pure silver which silver at 70 cents pel pe ounce is worth about 50 cents as bullion these mexican dollars are not noi now a legal tender for debts i in n this country alt although houghin in the early daab of the country coun 7 a history they were a legal tender therefore they now pass at their bullion value the same as does adv any article made of silver like silver spoons watch chains etc in year 1873 1870 the bullion value of the american dollar was at that th attim tim slightly more at as measured from gold the mi minta fits of the great nations of the world at this time began to close to the receipt of silver as a money me al garmany france bel belgium gium S switzerland tz erland amon among others and lastly india and the united states the effect of this action had by these several countries caused the gold price of silver to fall but the prices of other commodities also went down about the same proportion tion wheat cotton silver year per bush per pound ncr der ounce 1872 1873 1874 1875 15 1870 1876 1877 1 00 1878 1879 12 7 99 9 1880 15 1881 1882 pla 1888 1883 ioa 1111 1884 1105 ao 10 i 1885 80 86 1015 1886 87 09 99 1887 89 96 97 1888 85 98 93 03 1889 90 1 D 09 C 03 1890 83 1 04 1891 85 10 90 1892 sc 80 87 so 1893 65 7 75 1894 CO 60 0 70 1805 1895 58 77 as 8 the above table tabla is also confirmed by comparison with tables of index numbers which give the average price of large numbers of ni wholesale hi articles the trend of prices is constantly downward now the ar argument ament of ti the ic silver men is this when you see the average prices of all classes of commodities modi ties constantly falling e that means that the tha value of the gold is going up tip this view is again confirmed by com comparison parison of pric prices in silver using countries in these countries prices have hardly changed at all during the last twenty years the mexican dollars in the in window in are an excellent illustration of the advance in the value of gold wo we frequently hear bear of 50 cogent cent silver dollars dollar hut but rarely of cent gold dollars buffalo times |