Show PS IS A SA SAUL UL HE HC HAS PUT THE NATIONAL BANKERS IN 1 1 Is 14 4 aldridge filifili lili fili aal il lit lelh I 1 ainu kaht on i ll 11 1 made 11 alo lit at it labit 1 nn I 1 lalni EX l Bar bartalic in ili NaL national lonal the bankers nio are tit in easta cles over oi it ii newfound new nev found champion in tit the person of oil ono aldredge who ho mado made a speech it at atlanta this thia allredge aim Ahl edge redge la Is a I 1 very ery young in in antl gave the bankers tho the benefit bedont of ills his effort froit or 01 Is ono of rive ilpo years seals who lio has heen been hitting hiding ills his incandescent light under n canopy of extreme oli oine illo losty we c know not lint but 0 we o do knott kno flint lie has 1118 from obscurity and a few simple bankers will ills his wit it Is unfortunate though that lie ho has 10 so much of natural humor in ills his mind that unconscious ho allowed al it to per vado ado ills his entire sproull sonio settle of ills his most serious propositions wore in fact tile tho funniest parta of ills discourse among otlien things lie ho brought hi ought out tho the very mio remarkable fa an t that the farm cr Is better off with wheat at GO 50 colitt cents pet bushel than lie ho would bo be with ith wheat at 1 then lie ho nindo it clear to those I 1 grave grao aril wise that diminished i pi production ia 03 tho the truo trite roid road to national prosperity illustrating it by very deiy cogent gent to tho the recent rise ilso in tile the price pi ice of cotton as a result of a reduced i crop these discoveries aro are or of such importance 1 to mankind that judge alart aldredge dge should have indulged in more aepli flea tl catlon tion ind and carried them to theli their logical conclusion it the farmer farmei Is better oft off with vt ath 50 cent wheat than with dollar wheat then 25 cont wheat will make him still more prosperous and when it gota gets down to nothing aci or bushel the cut cup of his happiness will bo be full tile the failure of the great humorist huni orist to elucidate this point leaves its hla magical erfort effort a little then with regard to the blessings which have come front from tho the partial failure of the cotton crop from bales balca last year it has fallen to or this year now if a loss 0 of bales of cotton has so BO greatly improved business conditions in the south out what a hood flood tide of prosperity would have rolled over that region it the loss hall had been bales anil and it it hall had pleased divine providence to dest it ali th e cotton planter would no h happier app veil than the far mer who sells ills his wheat for nothing tho the incompleteness of the judges remarks upon these points was unfortunate it leaves tile the impression that his humor Is rather mechanical and that his logic while very good as far as aa it goes breaks off rather too anon as it were lie ile might hayo baya very materially added idd to the force of his argument it ho he tall had made a little reference to ills his own salary it if lie ho is still ft a judge wo we presume lie he draws a salary ile he might have told those assembled philanthropists how exceedingly prosperous lie he was on the small stipend lie ho was receiving ce how much more prosperous lie ho would be if lie he were reduced one halt half and that it if lie he could only be permitted to serve the dear people for nothing lie ho would then occupy u I 1 position or oc unspeakable bliss doubtless lie he would havo have used this thin illustration it if lie ho hall had thought of it but we must not be too exacting iven even 1 a newborn new born champion of sound money cannot be expected to think of everything and be funny at the saino time he also discovered that the gold standard nations aro are bimetallic because they use silver as token taken money along with their gold while the silver standard countries are arc monometallic because tile tho USO use silvo silve alone hence lie ho concludes that the gold standard advocates are arc tile the while the friends of free coinage are really silver ile ho had probably been reading mr Car carlisle Ilse s five iiii unanswerable answerable propose tlona and being struck with a great idee id lie he rest until lie ho laid lad it before an amazed ind and adin admiring tring world but when a funny man attempts to become argumentative lie nearly always falls sometimes because ho he does not want to spoil ills his wit by lc keeping too close to the line of true trite logic and sometimes because of ignorance of material facts judge aldredge seems to be ignorant of tile the difference between token money and standard money lie he beems ms to be equally ignorant of tile the tact fact that silver standard countries make no attempt to uso use gold and have no need of it ile he seems to be unconscious that bimetallism differs radically from either cither the gold standard or tho the silver diver standard ile ho Is not so ignorant though as not to lie be aware that the orly only way lie he could defend tile the gold standard was wag by assuming the entire case and so he cooly took it for granted that the moment we opened our mints to both metals alike we torild land upon tho the sliver silver basis perhaps the greatest joko joke perpetrated was the statement that lie he and the gold standard men one rally are arc tile the friends of silver and that the free coinage people arn are it ent mies we have a sort of misty recollection of having heard somewhere such expressions as aa these clIp clipped dollar 1190 90 cent dollar 70 40 cent dollar dol lir 50 cont cent dollar short logged dolar dishonest dollar fi swindling dollar fraudulent dollar doliar buzzard blizzard dollar ind and many others ind and I 1 tail really never understood these hose expressions pres iress lons as indicating extreme friendship for fol tho the silver dollar hut but judge aldredge lins has chown ii a floetl of light upon this point and it 11 is a ale pleasure asure tn learn that tho the friends of honest money v in III using these epithets were merely exemplifying the truth that whom tho the lord loveth lie ho chast eneth and that after ill U chev were pot pet name lamca in disguise stin still we vu remain skeptical to accept judge Aldred gos statement requires too high a I 1 flight into tho realms of fancy we might possibly imagine as tile tho only ditty truo trite frioni of free trado trade or henry george as an all earnest consistent champion of protection wo we can call conceive of amron is as a thoroughly unselfish humanitarian a highway robber as it a of the law or Alin Annan anlas laB as a god of truth but wo are not quite ablo able to so completely reverse tile the ordinary modes of 0 thought as to appio clato clate judge Ald rodges rhetorical figure eguro in ill which the advocates advocate 1 ot of tho the goli standard aro are pictured as the truo trite friends of silver it la 14 really no lie wonder that the bankers wont vent wili wild with enthusiasm over their now ile prophet it most certainly wrought somo some ienir miracles 1 cles and yet it must bo be confessed that lie ho has not quite settled tile tho silver question lit ho will later on oil |