Show SILVER REGULATES THE MARKETS no more lucid potent or oi irresistible argument against the debasement of silver could be devised than is contained iri hi the table following those who are responsible tor for the depreciation of the white metal are therein shown to be responsible also fur for the correspondingly pon low prices of the commodities which the agricultural classes produce and the surplus of which they must sell in order to get along it is a fact curious only to those who either do not investigate or having investigated are wilfully silver actually regulates the price of every a aple apie article in this country that for example it if wheat is worth a dollar a bushel when the standard dollar is worth cents it is worth but 75 cents a bushel when the dollar is dropped to thai th value and boon so on down ps aa the table shows silver cotton corn wheat per oz year per per per calendar pound bush bush bash year 1872 70 1 7 1873 aft 8 62 1181 1419 1074 72 ia 1 QT 1875 85 1876 67 1877 54 1878 56 1879 99 0 0 47 1880 54 1881 55 1882 67 1883 if vo a 68 18 iada 61 1885 54 M 86 im 1886 99 0 v 0 V 50 87 w 00 99 1887 95 48 89 07 97 1 lm 1888 98 56 85 93 98 1889 99 47 90 93 1890 49 83 1 JU 04 1891 1 60 1 41 1 85 1 90 figures correctly set get down dowd do not lie at anytime any time but to in this thia instance they tell the truth must most eloquently eloquent ly we all understand that unusual production or unusual scarcity or at times purely local causes may and do change the markets somewhat but as a rule and taking the proposition as a whole the money which effects nearly all the business transactions in our everyday life cannot be debased without a sympathetic result being immediately discernible nible as to the other products named |