Show THE GOLD COLD LUNATICS sample of the legislation with which they have destroyed the co coubry u n y A banker writ writing ting to the N ew corli sun concerning the presidents president s project for bringing financial peace to the country by retiring the greenbacks green backs presents the following inquiries which might be profitably profitable considered by bv some of the bankers banker who are giving then thell ap approval proal to the scheme when the greenbacks green backs have been re tired what then thena what kind of lawful money will rill be available for the 25 per cent reserve fund of the banks gold in what kind of legal tender r money s shall hall the national bauk bank notes be redeemable dee mable gold where will he gold come fron from tc settle the international balan 0 o ol of trade from the banks then what will become of the gold reserve of the banks and what then will become of the banks when their I 1 gold reserve sarve re is exhausted 7 and now how will the suspension of specie payments by the banks affect the public minda bifid I there is now about gold in the country av available amiable far the 2 j per cent lawful reserve and mcra mc ra than is needed alic re shall the banks get all this gold from these are pertinent questions our don dan quixote and his faithful quara aquire have not grappled with to relieve the treasury from the obligation to pay out god would le inevitably eviL evit ably to transfer to tle banks banki the tha v hole of the demand for gold I 1 ii i the f r st s t place such a transfer could not possibly i inspire the public mind with greater camf confidence idenie in the certainty ot of gold payments because in in the second sf cond race place it would not add another ounce to the available stock of gold in tha bosence i of enough gold to meet the ur j ant nt demand f fr for r the metal the lole result would be to force the banks nthan chiri J a brief period to suspend specie ra r ay ments this would be the culli biating catastrophe of an attempt to maintain faint aln gold mono which it if nr mr cleveland cle eland should have his vay wa Y bould have haie added nearly to the indebtedness of the american people the effort to sustain thia f alse system tem has filled the world orld with etith loss losa and misery and the craziest are now devised to avoid the only conclusion that is possible it if safety is to be attained w which aich is id to supplement standard gold with full standard silver the I 1 |