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Show DOOM SMALL COIN Proposed New Half-Cent Piece Would Be of No Aid. Chicago Bankers and Business Men Deprecate Proposed Plan of Naw Yorker to Aid Americans Bee No Advantage. Chlrago. The American people do not havu "half rem" tnalea They couldn't be educated to ua anylhliiK amaller than a rent. The dollar has spoiled Ihe aense nf proportion uf the people uf this country. All nrllclea are sold on a rent bail., ba-il., and people cannot loan aoiuetlilur they never had. Tbeae are an me of thn ana were nf rtilcnuo bankers and business men to statement Riven out In New York by William H Hlinrt. a banker of that city. In w ill, h he uriM the colnuti.i of i two and a half rent plecu by the I'nlu.l Hialea Kovernmeiit. "The uae of aurh a roln." a.aorted he, "would niiiin a anvlua of ::v.iiuu,-Diiii ::v.iiuu,-Diiii yearly by the ronaiimera. "The nbaence of aurh a roln,M ron. Ilniinl tho New York banker, "hria re. nil. -.I In the uiilvoraal rii.lnui of lellera Inking tha half rent whenever a traiiateiloii iloea n,,l reaull In even money He al'l he th, mailt Ihe public loal yearly limn this cause "thu apprusl mate am of .in.niiii,iiui." Halts what CliUako thlliKa of tliin flnaarlil itteailon: (jrorii K. Huberts, director of thn goverraicnt mini before he bornuie pre. I. leu of Hie recently nierae.l Com menial .,lli,al bank, IhoiiKht the Aiuerlati pl too cstinvaKutit lo nppreiiii a two and a half rent piece If thcysi cured IL ""iVebuve a one rent piece, nml Juda-Itia Juda-Itia fren the freedom with which tho Aiuerlan peoplo apend money. I don't think bey rould ha educated to use a coin Hat would Hive them a smaller unit olexrhnnKn, aald Mr. Huberts. "In'lils euunfry al our units are biaber than they are In Europe. W wattes are belter; our atandard of lis liK la different. I ran't sea that we nd a two and a half cent piece, because be-cause we have rolns enoufth. and I dial think Ihe proposed roln would be an advnntnKo In trading " Ln Hinall, recently npiKilntod I'nlted Plates aublrenaiirer ul t'hl-caKn. t'hl-caKn. declared over Ihe Ioiik tllHtance tetephnne from hla home In Kankakee that he bad never given IhoiiKhl lo what would happen If we bad a two I and a half cent roln. ' "Hut off hand." anld he, "I would any l Inn our pre.enl ttionei tnkea rare of lite .It, mil, ,u pretty well I don't think am h n coin would effect much ul n .iivIiik " Henry II Hart, Chlriiico merrhanl aald hi would have lo give the mat lor roiialdoriiHon before espreaalna an iipluion, but believed the amaller re taller would prom more under Ih present colttaKo e)etoin than doea Ihe hit kit alore. "I can aee no advantago of auch a roln." he added. "The mere rolling. of a I w o and a half cen I ploro, or a twelve end a hall ci nt piece, will not remedy the trou I. le." averred II. M Challell of Ihe Illinois Trot and Havluaa bank. "Il la deeper sealed than Hint. "In America we have become arms lomed tu 'two for a qunrler,' 'throe for a quarter and.'lbrco fur a half.' nnd our manufacturers have govern ed thwnieelyes sjeoordlngly. No clgai maker In the United Hialea would think of selling algara for four, fire, six, seven nr eight rents, and yet thai la whnl la done In Kuropean rnunlrloi on a correaiKimllug aealo of theli money. "The trouble la, Ihu people nf thli country, alerting Hi a primitive way, boenme iircuatomeil to the turgor vulu. ol coliia If, Instead ol having a dot Inr. we had aouiolbllig nkln In Ih. Herman mark or Hie F.-etich franc we would liccii.toiu our I'Mi.tle to II llloll .nninlciil muni r nl llvltii;" |