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'T SUPPLEMENT TO THE CANTOy TIMES, CANTON, MISS. Grocer "I may sell dishonest goods, due i want nonest money, SMALL CHANGE. ' The Democrats of Ohio, following in the lead of those in Kentuoky, have pronounoeu py a large majority in fa vor of honest money. Six months ago the free . silver people of these States supposed they were so strong that no party would dare oppose them ; to-day they feel the ground slipping from under them and a growing diz- ' ziness in their 16 to 1 heads. The absurdity of their position and the falsity of many o their claims is be coming 'apparent to all who think with sound minds. The common sense of the people, when appealed to, is the best safe guard against fiat money legislation. The advocates'of free silver seem to think that the small bulk of gold, as compared with the total amount of property in the countfy, , is a reason for adopting the silver standard. ' They might as well complain that the . small quantity of mercury in the wprld, as compared wiCh all the weath er to be measured, renders it unfit to serve as a means of indicating he temperature, just as a very little mercury may be used to measure all the changes from extreme heat to se - vere cold, so a small bulk of valuable jjieiai win serve as a measure of a great deal of property. It is quality. not quantity, which is most desirable in the standard of values. "I been wan tin' to ax yon, Brudder Johnsing, whedder you's read de new work entitled 'Coin's Financial (School, and what vn' Ania ft.ir.lr - " J vw kUIUU about it." "Has I read it. Ttrndda Rimn'ni Doan ' vo' recollect, dat T V - WVUWSWl vau 1 I . . . . . . 1 bouooj rnyseii long wid Jay Uole, ble man Vanderbilt, and the whole passel of dem big bugs dat has some flnanoes ouuer own to financier wid?" ' "Sav. vo Anun' tnonti tn Gole and Vanderbilt war dar, when dev been dead vp.ars hpfn'i 's;,inc, t - . w-w wl.aUD .S. ham t nevah mist vo' out oh da lone enoua-h foh'vo' t.n rrot nr. is. back." "Dat meek no diflfpranna Ttrn.la. -vwv, Muuugji bimpsing. I war jes' as muoh dar as any obde fellahs de book say war dar, and so war Gole an' Vanderhilt ami r?a next time yo' runs across Lime Gage, the big goldbug banker, or Walsh, an- nodder Chicago hankar. nr fV.nl Scuttle, yo' ax 'em ef I wasn't dar just j ue same time dey war. "Well, I guess dat settle it dat yo' war dar. Brudder Johnsino- Rnt. T want to ax yo' ef dat little kid did get away wid all dem big bankahs and pollvtishaners in the aro'rmant. lilra book say?" - "Indeed he did. skh. i Aa' AS an all a a dey war dar. and his ansahs please de augenoe moutlev. Sav. vn1 rannliai' dat Walsh, I believe it war,"axthim clis heah question-: 'How kin de Govahment by a Bimple ac' ob Con gress raise de price ob any article ?' Den yo' recolleo' dat Coin say, 'you wasn't heah yestedy?' and when The Anti-Chean Wan. "The fact is, we want nothing cheap but money," is the frank declaration of the National Watohman, a leading cheap money, organ. Of course not. The editor of that paper wants things scarce ana clear. Cheapness means easy production, so he wants things to be bard to get. His wife may buy goods when they are marked down, but he waits to buy when prices are way up. iie always hires the printers wuo uo tne least work for the most wages, pays the highest prices for the poorest paper, and never thinks of such wicked inventions as labor RATS inar Dresses. Ha t vln hrr co.rt instead of railroad, and he uses candles oecause their light costs more than that from oil. Ha (1117)170 v..-. 4 ' J u dearest market, and would shudder at me idea of getting anything at a bar gain. Like a true A merinan. ha tiat iries to thintt of some vt nf work easier, for that would mean that tnings would become ebaanar. Wo ic a consistent, straicht-ont ad evervthincr dear bnt mnnav if ww , . MUVA fUOlU he wants as cheap (and as poor) as it can De maae. A (Jusry. If the Goverument S50.000.000 a month in silver dollars how would of this section get anv some free answer ? should coin legal tender the farmers of it? Will silver advocate please The silver craze has hpn Hilar! Vw that terrible enemv of tha nilimii-o howler, "General Prosperity." and will be buried by the side of its twin brother, the McKinley bill. A Serious Experiment. The free coinage of silver and the substitution of a new unit and meas ure of value for the -existing one in the business transactions of the coun try is not an ordinary pvnorim.-t which can be safoly tried to-day and . uuuuuim 10-morrow if found injuri ous, because tho immediate conse quences of such a step would bo so far-reaching and AO PnrlniinrT rr.n they would continue to be felt for years after the policy had been re versed. It is incumbent, therefore, upon those who insist upon the adop tion of this revolutionary ipolicy to show plainly and conclusively in ad vance not only that it would result in no injury, but that it, wnnhl Via tively beneficial, for if beneficial the change would at least be wholly useless. This cannot be done by appeals to the exoitail mnn n,i prejudices of the people, by attempts to array one class of our citizens 'or one section of our country against an other, or bv lonsA ft.nf? ivfr.r tLva rra nf statements unsupported by facts and icasuuH. j.ne questions involved are too SeribaS. the intfirpst-H t.r ha nfFonta.4 are too large and the common sense 01 the people 13 too strong to iustifv or even excuse this course of treat ment. Hon. John G. CarlislH Wine Merchant "I do my mixing in the cellar. The silver mine owners should keep more in tl.3 background." A WRONG DIAGNOSIS. Just principles will lpa1 gard the legal proportions altogether ; 1,0 inquire into the market price of gold in the several countries with which e shall ed in commerce, and to take an aver age from them. Thomas Jefferson, on fixing a ratio. SAME KIND DIFFER ONLY IN DEGREE. (Ratio Depends on Supply of Gray Matter and Elasticity of Conscience) bilverites cannot understand how . the increasing production of gold ehould cause a deoline in the value of silver. Fall of their, idea that it is the ; relative quantity of the metals mined whioh fixes the ratio between them, they insist that as the annual gold product is growing larger, the value of gold as compared with silver ehould fall. One reason why in creased production of gold means cheaper silver is that as gold is the more suitable money metal, larger supplies of it enable countries -f nr. merly using silver money to replace it "Al . , mi . . . ' . uu goia. xne extensive production of petroleum, as compared with whale oil, did not have the effect of making I wnaie on dearer. Ho the general aaoption or gold as money will not m crease me value ol saver. of Inequalities in the distribution wealth may exist in our nresant. annio.1 - system, but it is oertain that no change ju me material used to measure wealth - will do anything to !help those who now are poor. The silverites indulge in glowing generalities about the won ; derf ul prosperity which will follow the adoption of the 16 to 1 ; but aro always careful to avoid giving particulars as to now the predicted change will come abbut. No advocate of free coinage has yet attempted to explain now the men who have no property would have a chance to get some under the silver standard, if, as its mends claim, the price of all kinds or property would be doubled. A scheme for the relief of the . poor which proposes to put property further uutui tueir reacn, should, be easily seen through- by those whom the sil ver mine owners' agents pretend to be uesirous 01 neipmg. Dairvman "T nrnntw wnnt tTvpm traa ailoav nanl -t. . v-t iu 1 . . . .. ... 7 . 7 r " . jjuv.j.io ytciimi , uui u do asnamed to Dreacii it jira thav rtn might stand 16 to 1, but the next thing would be 100 to 1, and that would tun the whole business In the ground " - Free Silver In Kentucky. No amount of windy oratory will muaie me tree silver tire in Kentuoky. , m jjuuumrsu oeyona repair. Painter "My customers would kick If they knew I was substituting cheap for der material. I don't need to be told who are back of ti Americas Ei metailio League." ; WaiSh savs ha wasn't, fin in aav 'sDOEe dis , Govahmnnt 'nnnnna rlit. am ffuine to purohase a hundred thonaan mules for the hoss marines, kaint everybody see dat de prioe of mules is guineto bound up, and not onlyde mmes de uovernment buy. but da hosses and mules to teok dar plaoes, and dat am . ies' de way de ask oh Congress am crnina to ris nn An nrina 01 sii van. wen, jis' as all de soholahs who had dar parts larnt war a swal- lowm down, oordin to de rule ob de school, the good-for-nuffin nitrjrah wnat Kep de doah bus out laffiu' his bes. 'Whatvo laffln" at. vo brack rascal?' says Coin. Den ds niggah he say : 'Didn't you say todder day dis Govahment .mus'n't buy silvah, 'kase bavin' made it a commodity, and nil- vah didn't want to be dat?' 'In cose I said so,' says Coin. 'An' didn't you say that all de Govahment got to do to fotoh up silvah war to weigh it and put on de Govahment stamp?' 'In oose I did,' says Coin. 'Well, den,' says ds marorah. 'now muoh von 'unoaa ae price on muies would be riz ef, in stead of buyin' and payin down de pot cash for 'em, de Govahment only sent 'roun a man wid a brandin ir'n to bran 'em 'U. S.' on de flank?' Den ole Hutch, who had been takin' a lit tle nap on one of de baok seats. aa tn laffln' and fell off, and dey got de news down to do Mode of Trade dat dar was a bur tumble in wheat. So da next day Coin he Wlygiee to de school fob de niggah not havin' his paht com mitted and comin' in wrong and spilin I mw & .uu m new do keepah ef ho have to pay fo' bits mo' a week." Slgourney (la.) Review. Where Silver Is Well Xbonrht Of. First Church Member "What the charges agin Deacon Jones?" second unurcn Member "Slander- in sue parson. R&iA ha w nA u gold." Harper's Bazar. Cotton if advinnintr anil (ha fraa silver craze is dec&nia. Why Silver Has Fallen. The silver men say it is beoause the United States demonetized silver in 1873, that it has gone down in value until the silver in our silver dollar is only worth 50 cents. Thev conveniently fnrcrat. that tha United States was not tha only Vatinn to demonetize silver in 1873. Oar. many also demonetizad si'lvar in IS 73 France did the same in 1376. and In dia the same in 1893 : and inAa1S7l' Norway. Sweden. Dnnmarfc. TTnllarwl Russia, Austria, Switzerland and Bel gium have oeased the free coinage of silvtr. The action of these nrincinal Na tions of the earth has had at least as muoh effect on the fall in tha nrian nf silver as the action at tha TTnit.pit States. But the great increase in the annual production of silver has had more effect on the decline in price man any demonetization br anv oountry. The fall in the prioe of sil ver has simply kept pace with the in crease of production, the same as any thing else. The average proluotion of silver in the ten veara prior to 1S72 was. in round figures, $59,000,003 eaoh year, ana ine average price was 51.92 an onnce. In 1836. tha nmdnetinn ha.l increased to 8120,000,000, and natur ally the prise ha I crone down to 99 oents an oanse. In 1892 and 93, the annual production hal reached the enormous sum of $196,000,000. and the price most naturally went down to 68 cents: and the most remarkihla faot is that the fall in prioe has been in nearly exact proportion right straight through to the in a re as a of an nual production. Will anv fair-minde.l man a mart in the face of these faota that inoreased production has na nfffvl nn tha fall in prioe, but (hat demonetization of sil ver by the United SUtea has alone produced this result ? Fram Dr. W P. Hill's "Argument Arainst Free Sil ver Coinage at 18 to 1." Insinuating Evils ot B&i Money. There are some political evils which ure seen as soon as thev are dancer. ous, and which alarm at once as well the people as the Government. Wars and invasions, therefore, are not al ways the most oertain destroyeis of National prosperity. They questionable ehaDe. Thev annnunpa their own approaoh, and the general security is preserved- by tha nan aril alarm. Not so with the evils of a de based coin, a depreciated nanar r.nr. rency, or a depressed and falling pub lio credit. These insianate themselves in the shape of facilities, accommoda tion and relief. Thev hold out the most fallacious hope of an easy pay ment of debts and a lis-hter bnrdan nf taxation. Daniel Webster. A doctor writing in tha r.uMtnnt Medical Journal asks : "What is tha actual value of gold?" and answers his question by saying : ' 'Simply a fictit ious or fiat value, placed upon it by legislation." If this doctor knows no wore about the scienoe of medicine than he does of finance, his patients will have on excellent chance of test ing the value of fiat drugs and pills, with possibly the result that they will recover quicker than if they swaliowed real mixtures compounded according to his directions. And if he should have occasion to hri nor on if. fr,f -r.rt- fessional services rendered, the patient could plead as adefenoe that the value of such services was merely a fictitious or fiat value, fixed by legislation. The error into which this California doctor has fallen is one which is com mon to all cheap money advocates, and especially to silverites. They believe, or pretend to believe, that valna ia something created by law, and placed by Governments on cold, silver or paper. That it is purely a delusion can be seen bv minnnaind tha laws making gold the stand ard of value to be repealed. At once the natural laws of trade would force the selection by business men of some common measure ' of values. What would be the material need for such measure ? Is it not cer tain that because of the very qualities which make gold the superior money, that metal would be n?pi hv tar tha largest number of persons? A few might use silver, but when they found that the rest were using gold, they would see the advantage of havina: the same standard as those with whom thev traded. So that without ht legislation gold would continna to h'n the standard money of the country. The Value of gold danands on tho. cost of production, and the demand for it both in the arts and for monay. and if the supply continued as at present, its value would be the same. The Government's stamn rmfcs no vuliia intn the gold coin, for the gold is worth as much as bullion as when coined. There is no possible way by which Govern ment fiat can add a fictit'.oa value to any substance. No silverite will pre-, tend that legislation could make six teen ounces of iron worth one ounce of copper, or that the value of either iron or copper is fictitious. Anl it is just as impossible for Government to - - give value to the two rarer metals. gold and silver. The Oakland doctor will have to make a new diagnosis of silver's weakness anl the strength of gold. Tha silvtr Question ; m a dollar- WiH yon lend Free Silver In Mexico. "Mexico hs free ooinage of silver. "Mexico is on a silver basis. "The wages in Mexico in mining and agriculture vary frnm in t 3:1 oents a day in Mexican money, whioh is from 5 to 15 cents in United States money. "The average for farm labor a day in Mexico is 20 oents in Mexican money or 10 oents in United States money. "If free silver can raise nriaaa. whw does it not raise the prioes of wages in oiexioo r commercial Keview, Ureen Bay, Wis. "Yea, brethren and sisters," said the Western minister, in the coarse of the funeral sermon, "our dear broth er has gone to the land where all things are known even tha truth about the coinage question, haps. "Indianapolis Tribune. Not From His Standpoint. Populist "How muoh did von sav you owed, $1000? Now, my friend with free silver, it will cost vou only B5M to pay that off." Farmer "UmphI I'm afraid that wouldn't do me any good." Populist "Bat why not?" Farmer "I want to borrow $1000 more." Life. Every day of bright sunshine jures the free silver crop. 1C- per- Zf living in mud hnta. miner htlt. clad, with children stark naked, and living 0& meaanita bnana aa tha An in free silver Mexico, is what the 16 to i man eau prosperity, we'll coulees we are not yearning for it to any great extent. . Bnno6S teerer- do the ait make their try to bunr practice they La-8 "