| Show AWAY OFF it is in claimed by an eastern paper that there in IB a man in a high public position who ought to be dealt with in some way calculated to impress him with a sense of his bia wrong doing the man spoken of is the superintendent ot of the united states mint at philadelphia and his name is iab 0 0 his hia offense consists of writing a letter recently to a gent gentleman loman in indianapolis in which the writer declared that an ounce of silver or gold contained grains graine and that one thousand ounces of pure silver will coin 1605 standard dollars there nj must not have been a slip of the pen or mom ao methin ething for certainly certain a man in so responsible a position could never make such a mistake as that in troy measurement there are in ao an ounce and the fact that the substance spoken of happens to be silver won would I 1 d make it neither mote nor DOT leap anyway it would not make it so go much more as the is alleged to give it there Is also a misstatement aito as to the number of standard dollars that 1000 ounces 06 noes of silver will cot coin n the correct figure being 1293 not 1605 as be has it he then goes on to say there re are in each standard dollar ol of silver 14 1 4 grains of fine silver there are in 1000 oun ounces of idne fine silver grains therefore 14 1 4 grains grains 1 1551 plus this prompts the tb paper spoken of to bommen as follows now let us look at this there is just one true statement namely that a standard dollar contains 4 grains of pure silver everything else alleged is erroneous rone ous 1 in 1000 ounces of silver there are not grains but just one twelfth of that amount viz grains 2 the division of by 37 14 1 4 does not give 1651 plus but plus here we have the ridiculous blunder as to the number of grains in an ounce ot of silver repeated and then incapacity even to make a simple division correctly A correct division would have revea revealed to the superintendent bis extraordinary blunder as to the number of grains to an ounce at least we think it would it is surely bad enough for those who uphold the rightfulness rightful neu of silver to be money without limit other than uch such as is in imposed by the bard hand of nature to be confronted by bigotry false promises prem iaea and instincts but to have to meet and overcome blunder log ing recklessness and falsehood as though they were legitimate cam palan ineth methods to la a little too much |
