| Show HISTORY REVISED onue onoe upon a time as the story goes a leader who had bad conquered a commonwealth entered a place of worship of 0 the higher clase and discovering eherts a great display of silverware ver ware ordered the trembling janitor to take it away and have it coined into money so it would do the people some bome good this interesting event has baj different names coupled with it at ac different times those ul cromwell and napoleon I 1 being bein most frequently pressed into the the most moat likely theory to la that it never occurred at all and there is ie at leant one ode good realon real on fur for so BO believing be j be conal et ct in names batea and places sliver silver was wala valuable atla in those days any days in fact 1 bior to these days and those who effected conquests mud and aub subjugated everything to their control were not prone to ordering or permitting articles 01 01 value to be distributed afung the people when the dimori ciciora themselves were lully fully equal to the t tafik tak of absorbing all the good that came abony now if Cromwel lB victorious vioto noua tilts against aa the authority and government of charles I 1 had bad occurred about years latevor lat later eror or bonaparte hid had crossed ane alps and carried consternation throughout italy seven or eight decades do atter alter it occurred then the event spoken of might have come down to us with something of authenticity along with it li it would have brave been a small matter and one that would have resulted in considerable cheap notoriety to have ordered a metal that once served so as bouey and was still so BO regarded by the more and to be scattered in the torm form ot of coins among ane masses tor for the victori victorious oue leaders themselves veo would nave have hd bud no use for the debased stuff anti and the peasantry would have rejoiced at it BUL bui to say gay that such a inisi coul i occur when a dozen silver dollars were as precious as a gold one and much mor convenient is to practice upon us unwarrantably we also understand that silver has not dot changed an AD jots iota it Is as ij ay consequential as good looking and as aa hunell now as it waa tien taen or at a ay iy y other time but we lave have chaD changed geu that la its all |
