Show ILLOGICAL opposition toe the cause of silver has baa no in mire IQ vet erate enemy in the land than th ba chicago iruine in a recent laus t replying to a criticism of its course coure 1 1 declares that the assertion that if it dis not believe ju in treating silver on AW my equality with gold was not true tb it believes in the fullest possible U silver aon on its merits just ajust as it ot alieves in treating gold in way the tribune then ihen P proceed to show what is meant b D blits its merits li by pointing OIA c that the commercial world raa 2822 2322 grains of pure gold as being wot woi a dollar and just now it rates 5 BV t grains of silver as being worth th 46 same kind of a dollar and with t important piece of ef information kept f view the chicago luminary woul boti ua have both metals treated precisely ahn same the wisdom which the conolt tT slon exhibits to is extracted from th 4 premises and these are somewhat mystifying how on earth are tway hw metals or two iwo anything 8 to be treated 4 differently right along as a nee necessary esi mr precedent to being treated just same the ratio for g gold 0 id to is fixed that for sliver silver is not nor and no an pi ra position looking to its being fixed acceptable to the abune and belf ye calls for equal and exact treat in that to is the k kind ini of tre treatment a ment i jf liver davor advocates have been longing for domandi demanding and which our clotem cotem horary ry atter attar showing the of the th thing ing proceeds to state wo wrought ought to hovel bavel the I ans prolee le is with its logic it is idle to claim bAp oln gag out that that thail iron ron and anda steel teel are worth as much wey they were senegal years ago they much more cheaply than g a chev P pr used to be the labor of fewer wey men man b batog jog required to turn out an ami number of tons per week than to the introduction rule previous the konof of the moat mi lern lera processes and then it concludes Ond ludes that the same Is true modified form but to at la a st at extent and bow modified modi fled this thi Is put of the statement Is pro omitted but it la Is a safe guess val king ay iy that the meaning is that modification means S only a difference in grade that there la in no more of a disposition to make actual money of silver than of iron or steel in fact they are all named bame connection this is the I lar feature of the Atlon 1 or Sfa Storm to which we of the west nod strenuously object silver must with inferior metals clawed not no be it is IB not in any sense inferior it to is as royal as gold and just sa a useful Inu in nearly sarly all respects after having humbled it do not add defamation to the of lense the tribune proceeds to say that wiver cannot be treated any other way than 0 on its ita merits which to IB just the would have it treated and not wo wy we have its ita merits ign oredas has been the owe ewe tor for so BO many years in other words it osyp treated precisely the 6 gold is this to is a more pro solecism than the first state meat gleat noted the idea of a long article abbring r t trying in a labored way to seiw abr that at silver cannot rank with gold that in facto fact its ito place is ie among the coarser metals and milking above them but very little that gold to Is the single and only stand values and then in the same article declaring that silver and gold be treated in the same way I 1 it th theta declares declare that this to is what the he silver ma lacs do not want 19 1 9 what U Kiatt idt they bey do not want that silver bet fated as aa iron la is or that it be treated a gold Is ie since you advance both you could hardly any one land and least of sm B jh it maniac manitto to decide which phase of the subject to reply to toen teu wig we have a lot more regarding the loose oded people who see nothing oram jaw or dangerous in silver being my y the article ling as lol fol attey demand that silver shall be rated to in the shape of money more than 50 per alt thither higher than its commercial value as bullion the ounce of silver cannot again be worth except by cutting awn the value of the measuring unit which would be as absurd as aa to out cut down the capacity of the bushel measure in older to make it appear that a given wen crop of grain was greater ir y than would be reported under it the rating tl r by the bushel measure now in we th the ounce of silver would not no buy a single grain of wheat or corn or inch of flotha more than that pur with I 1 it bullion value it the demands ot of coinage mien men were conceded the holder bolder of 0 f a gold dollar would no more consent to exchange it for a silver douar dollar containing but grains of pure metal than he would to swap a bushel of wheat for a bushel of corn the people who talk about legislation being all sufficient to raise the purchasing power of the dollar talk arrant nonsense we go a stop step further than you charge us with by demanding minding de that silver be taken out of the field of 9 mer chandise ohan diBe P altogether and made money of at a fixed ratio with gold awl ami why is ia it that the worth of silver can never reach except by cutting down the unit of value who and what made gold such unit and have you not declared that it and silver oliver should be greatel alike Is gold merchandise and is ia its ite value regulated by silver if gothow can the equal treatment demanded demaud ed occur from your point of view aud and then that statement that the holder of a gold dollar would not exchange it for a silver dollar is one in which the element of truth as aa well as of logic is invisible neither the tribune nor any other paper nor any man knows of a silver dollar ever having been refused in exchange for anything except in peculiar cases on the contrary all are glad to get it not because it it ia so much merchandise but because it will buy merchandise merch anaise idle to contend with those who will not see because perhaps of some interest which we know not of lot let them go their way in peace they may undergo an awakening some day |