Show THE GOLD BREEZE EVER since the single gold standard has been maintained in this country the government as well as the deop people ae have grown poorer in spite of a high protective tariff which we now have the treasury of the united states has been strained to meet its obligations and keep up its gold reserve even to do this it has been com compelled p belled to issue bonds in time of peace and endeavor to acou economize omaze at every point notwithstanding a bond issue of within the last few years the govern government me nt found itself short on gold and to prevent another issue of bonds and entail public condemn condemnation atio n it has accepted the deposit of oo from goldbug bank bankers to tide over the present deficiency all of this is a powerful argument against the gold stall standard dard it is being demonstrated right now that we as a nation cannot basis without run on a gold going in debt and becoming poorer each day Is it not about time for Cleve cleveland landy sherman and the gold M men en to ask for an international agreement to stop taking the gold out of the country these fellows contend that should free coinage all the gold of silver come about would leave the country and we should have nothing but silver or its equivalent as our our money the things are going on now we way will soon have neither gold or silver the silver being despised and I 1 ourselves and the de demonetized oue gizea by gold 1 sen sent t out of the country silver 1110 could not drive it out much faster than it is now going it does seem th that at the people should need no of this country than the present other argument eat convince them that object lesson to id standard can never th the e single go gold be maintained without bringing disaster to the masses and poverty the neck of the government and putting itself under the hedlof heel of the money power than there i is 8 less united states and in the of gold trying to pay a national naf are an egtill we in debt 0 of f sault and at the same the ibe yellow WA a yearn year in n spend time aud and on ton of 0 I 1 current expenses ss all this it is proposed to make gold the only legal tender for all private and municipal indebtedness which I 1 are ten times greater than our na I 1 dional debt such a proposition is is nut not only y appalling but it is madness they talk about the silver craze but the gold craze is the very acne acme of insanity the former is only a natural effort to restore reason and common sense to a badly diseased nation what we need is money of a legal tender character if a steamboat owner had his vessel stranded upon a sand bar where it lay cracking and warping in the sun with the channel of the river full of snags snag sandbars sand bars and rock so that a cat nih fish could not navigate without sail a goldbug would advise him to build more I 1 boats to make his business a success I 1 but a man with the silver craze I 1 would say what you need is more i water when there is not enough commercial water to float the ship of state there will be a stagnation in in trade with the other vessels let all the streams of wealth flow into the river of trade and on its bosom will soon float the boats that are now in dry arv dock or lying on a gravel bed |