Show GOLD BUG FOLLY the ilat ional bimetallic seiw ip the dishonest of the gold bog papers sound money bouters outers all show the lar marls of knealing Sn ealing A of eliat ben a paper like the chicago times herald enters upon a campaign of vituperation it should first lay a foundation of substantial argument this it would undoubtedly do it it could but it has none let the reader glance at the following sample taken from the editorial A 1 be strange spectacle is thus pro bunted of the silver kings taking pos session 6 the gateway of legislation by seizing upon the senate finance corn to make the government pay a lawful dollar for a half dollars worth of white metal the profit to go into the pockets of the stiver kings while out in the country labor Is to be beguiled and bamboozler bamboozled into a secret order to cheat itself into thinking that 50 cents is a good enough dollar for wages give me a dollar for half a dollar say the banate silver kings to uncle barn give you 50 cents for the dollar 0 your wages say the same kings to the american lets call our selves patriots says coin harvey to the workingmen and you take 50 cents for the dollar of your wages to prove you are patriots atiat should he said of the intel capacity or the intellectual lion esty of a man who can write such a mess as that consider for a moment what it amounts to under free coin age the government does not buy ail ver it merely takes the bullion and coins it into dollars handing the dollars back to the man who depos cited the bullion low according to this bereit and truthful champion of sound money when those dollars are handed out to the infamous 1 silver alne they are worth cents each he can pay a debt or buy boods to that amount w ith each dollar he can pay the dollar to his hired man but the in slant it reaches the litter it shrinks to 60 cents the spectacle of the same identical dollar being worth cents in the hands of one man and only CO cents in the hands of another is strange indeed but not halt so strange as the warped and disordered mind of the man whose fertile atlon has conjured up such an impossibility there is method in his mad ness though for he carefully refrained from suggesting that the w irking man who received tie silver dollar could py ho own with it that the man to whom it was thus paid could in manner pass it on to the next and that thus it would perform its endless clr cult of duty worth lust exactly as much in the handi of one as lo 10 those of another enough he fol lows the dollar from the silver king to the wage earner where after working the miracle of instantly cutting it down to 60 cents he deives it die idea that under the increased de mand created by free coinage silver bullion would permanently rise in value Is cot suggested that it the dollar should fall in value the working man would naturally demand more of them for his services Is carefully kept in the background that the chulds the curries the morgans and the have any selfish motive in opposing free coinage la not even remotely hinted at in this wonderful bit of philosophy the writer simply swells a CO cent dollar to a cent for the benefit of the silver king and then be shrinks it back to 50 cents in order to show the injury of the workingman it the magician of the times herald could only have performed in the pres ence 0 moses and aaron might very well have put their snakes in their pockets end gone out of busl ness national bimetallist |