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h ti k ,uffrWFl SMALL CIIAXUU. 11 is n significant fncl that in tho St vies where tho larpest number of skilled workingracn nro employed nt tho lushest wngos, tho ngitatioa for Itco bilver mot with no response Attempts wcio mado by a few so-called "labor lender.-" to create n sentiment in favor of freo coinage, but in every cflso their efforts wero frnitloss. Tbnt many of tho farmers of tho United States nro comparatively poor is beyond question. Hundroda of thousands of mon aro trying to got a living out of inferior soil and aro suffering from tho competition of others who are cultivating mora fcrtilo lands. Under these circumstances tho returns for tho labor of tho former olass aro very small, and there is naturally a to welcome any now promiso of relief from a oondition which is to bo in bodio way or other duo to tho action or noglectof tho Government. To theso mon, ignorant of tho real causes of their poverty, but dimly feeling that tho ovils of whioh thoy complained might bo curod by laws of sonio kind, came tho demagogic agents of tho silvor raino owners; the choap politicians seeking tho spoils of office ; and tho enthusiast who wus (uro that tho ills of poverty would quickly disappear if only the country was supplied with more and ohcapcr money. Glowing word pictures wero painted of wealth in abundanoo for all, as soon ns a freo coinago law would bo adopted and tho mints not to work grinding out a grist of silver dollars. No promiso was too for tho men who talkod of riches without working for them, and in literature and spoeches cunningly composed of and wholo falsehoods, h vision of unbounded prosper ity was coniurod up boforo each. farmer's oyos. Bat Boon thero oamo serious doubts and questionings. Tho advocates of sound money spread abroad litoraturo in whioh tho freo silvor doctrine was ridiculed as absurd, or denounocd as dangerous. It was pointed out that merely cheapening the currency could not increase- the wealth of tho coun try, nnd that changing silver bullion into coins would not mako it easier for farmers tT get mofo" of it. Tho evil effoots of tampering with tho moasuro of values on which the wholo business interests of tho country rested woro clearly shown, and tho results of a policy whioh would causo another flnauoial panic given in plain language. Tho men who hod blindly swallowed tho freo coinage mjxtnro became alarmed. They began to ask: "Is it not possible that wo aro mistaken? Will froo Bilver really do what wo havo beon told about it? Have we beon doluded by tho cheap noncy advocates?" The answers to theso questions settled tho freo coinage agitation in so far as it eerjonsly threatened to bo tho controlling political issue. Once tho farmers refused to accept tho silver gospel on faith, tho causo of, tho Bilyeriteg was lost, ' IiHIo Teo Wee. Little Tee Wee, Ho went to sea In an opoa bont; And while afloat Tho boat bended. My story' ended. tanners' Significant Yotj. Tho annual convention of tho American Bankers' Association, which began in Atlanta yesterday, will, of eourec, have National interest, and possibly importance. But so far as tho silver question is concerned the bankers can hope to say nothing more foroiblo than was said by tho formers assembled in National congress in the Bamo city on Monday last, when they votoddowna 16 to 1 froo coinago resolution by a majority of 147, and clinched their aotion later in tho day by rejootiug u resolution in opposition to the further issue of bonds. Philadelphia Record. "Uncle Sam's White Elephant. Mr. Carlisle in his Boston speech showed that sinco resumption wo havo paid S331.000.000 in ordor to keep our $346,000,000 of greenbacks in circulation. When they shall bo redeemed they will have cost $677,000,-000. Aro wo net paying dearly for the legal tender exporiniont? It added vastly to tho expense of putting down tho robcllion, and is likoly to prove as burdeusomo during peaco as during war. OuIt a Tree Silver Soliloqur. An exohaugo publishes a long article entitlod "How It Feels to Die." We have not read it, but prosumo it is a soliloquy of tho free silver movement. Atlanta JournaL Senator Mills is tho last prominent man to loavo tho sinking silver ship. But Pctfcr and Blackburn aro still loft, and moan to stay on tho burning deck, after til bat Ihcin have lied.. 1 1--: MIMli Wafll mii 4 nr.i fwfiyniHywyf"" ii y. m .in. f nwiil Hi i in M4 N y itiwi U J HI UM ;m't,i V i.i iM'm,, )C" SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR JOURNAL, STANFORD. KYi WAMPUM CURRENCY. Ridiculous Attempts of New Netherlands Law Makers to Prevent Depreciation Lesson for Populists Who Hcivo Drought tho "Bo It Knnctotl" B'nrco Up to Date'. Tho lossou to bo learned from tho uso of wampum (ilso called wampumpeag or' peag), tho earliest money used in this country, cover praotically ovory phaso of tho 16 to 1 silver question now disturbing millions of minds of honest votors. Wampum was tho ourrency in uso among tho moro oivilizod Indians found on tho coasts of Long Island Sound by onr first settlors. It consisted of either whito beads, mado from tho ouds of n poriwinklo shell, or black bcade, mado from clam shells, and after being poliBhea artistically, arranged in strings or belts. Ono black was worth two whito beads. Thoso beads not only had real value among tho Indians, but in thoir llfo mado a perfect curroucy and gavo evidence of tho Buporiority of theso particular Indians. Wampum was early adopted by tho colonists nnd soon tho nrovniliuK currency. In n fow years "Smart Alecks" among tho whites began to counterfeit wampum by letiviug tho beads unpolished or unpiorccd or by making them of bone, horn, class ami ovou of wood. Both causo of this depreciation and the need of the colonists for better money, wam pum lost its plaeo ns monoy in tho dif forest colonics between tho years '650 and 1700. It continuod longor in uso in Now Amsterdam (Hudson River Valley, including Now Jersey and Long Inland) thau in other colonies, ana it is to tho stronnous but humorous efforts of tho lawmakers of this colony to prevent the inevitable that we now wish to coll cspeoial attention. Mr. Simon W. Rosendale, of Albany, New York, has recently published "Tho Involution of wampum as Curroucy." It consists almost of "Ordinances of tho Director and Conucil of Now Netherlands tho Ourrency of Wampum." Tho first (in 1611) begins : --.. "Whereas, Very bad wampum is at present circulated here, and payment Is mado in nothing but rough, unpolished a'tuff, which is brought hither from places where it is 50 por cent, cheaper wo do therefore, for tho public good, interdict 'and for bid all porsons to receive in payment or to pay out, any wampum during tho uoxt month ofMay.oxceptatfivoforono stiver (ono English penny), andjthat strung, and then, alter that, six beads for ono stiver. Tho well polished wampum shall remain at its price as before, to wit: Pour for ono stiver, provided it bo strung." In 1617 a rosolutiou permitting loose wampum to oitculatc,but that all imperfect beads should bo accepted only ns bullion, was passed. - ''. tOnfMay ou, lo&u, owing to de preciation, it was solemnly declared that 'henceforward no moro looso wampum shall bo curront or good pay unless it bo strung on u cord." Nevertheless "to establish somo differeuco between tho commercial wampum and strung wampum, so as in futuro to avoid ail .misunderstanding," every pne; under penalty of confiscation of his trado or businoss, was commanded to accept six whito or threo black commercial or eight whito and four black of "poor strung wampum" for one stiver. On September 11, 1850, it was declared that their previous ordinanoo was not being observed or oboyed. On January 3, 1657, tho good Council again regretted tho "intolerable doarness of all sorts of commodities and housohold Btippjies, the prices of which aro onhanoed from time to time, principally, among other causos, in conscquonco of tho high price of beaver and othor peltries in this country beyond the value, which, by sou of tho great auuuaanoo oi wampum, is advanced to ten, oloven and twelvo guilders for onoboaver; and wampum being for want of silver and gold coin as yet tuo most gonorai anu common curronoy between man and man." Trices were again fixod firmly under heavy penalties and tho was published publicly. In November, 1658, we find tho Counoil nguin "kicking itself" defiunce or all its former ordinances, wampum had further declined. Prices of "the most necessary articles, such nB bread, beer aud wine," wore once moro solomn'y and unalterably fixed in silver, beaver uud wampum. Three guilders in silver. Four aud one-half guilders in beaver. Six guilders in wampum. In spite of tho good intcntious of tho Director and Council uud of thoir sovero laws, thoy declared, 28, 1662, that wampum had "to tho degree that 'JO, yea, oven by 6omo21, guilders, are now ordinarily paid for one beaver." Nevertheless thoy proceeded to fix ratios and prices in a way that would do credit to a modern "pop" convention. It did not dawn upon the'miuds of, our forefathers, who where then passing through tho economio stago of' civilization still on in Arkansaw and Mississippi, that wampnm was value because it was being produced moro and more cheaply and becousoit w3 becoming, as compared with boaver nnd silver, a poor standard of value, unfitted for in tho growing and trading colonies. They thought to stay natural with artificial laws. Wo have but to substitute silver for wampum and gold for beaver and we bring tho "he-it-enacted" farce up to dato. All of tho long-haired and statesmen that over assembled cannot, for any great length of time, force a depreciated and unpopular currenoy upon a civilized country. UOW DEPRECIATIOX WOULD WORK. i? n i?3fesilKl ir r - aw i mm - r . m h A - . ..?. -. ., $,.,. arTrt q2? 'irv I ' I COST OP BAD 310XET Falls on Wajjo Karncrs Ilcciuise Prices niso KnstcrThun Wugcs. Mr. Edward Atkinson has contributed to Harper's Weekly an article exhibiting tho eftcct of a depreciated currency upon tho working classes and people of small means. It consists of deductions from tho experionco of tho country during tho paper money regime. - Tho firBt thing shown is tho fact well known to all who romorabor that period, or havo familiarized thorn-solves with it, that wages did not riso bo promptly as tho prices of commodities. Tho averago for seven years after tho introduction of tho legal tender notes shows an inorcaso of wages of 35.9 per cent, and an iuereoso in general priuos of 71 por cont. This amounts to much tho same thing as n reduction of nearly one-third in wages. No fact ia better understood by nil who havo oven a slight acquaintance with financial history than that wages advance less rapidly than prices, and legislation which reduces tho purchasing power of monoy thorcforo falls heavily upon nine-tenths of tho population. At a Inter period wages rose, but that was when tho paper dollar was "appreciating" in valuo according to the common phrase. Tho silver and other cheap monoy men cannot bo expoctcd to understand this, but it is tho fact. After allowing for tho increased taxation to which tho Government was obligod to resort, Mr. Atkinson concludes that about u billion dollars a year for sovon years, 1862 to 1869, was transferred from the many who hvo on wages to tho few who live on profits by this reduction in the purchasing powor of tho dollar. It is this perfectly well established effect of a roduction in tho money unit upon wago receivers that makes tho clamor of portions of tho working classes in this country for the Bilvor instead of tho gold dollar incomprehensible. Tho working classes of Europe know hotter than this; in Germany thoy havo openly opposed nuy uttack upon tho gold standard ; in both England and Germany tho silver men, who aro the only international bimotalists, are nobles and great laud-owners. Mr. Atkinson also figuros reasonably onongh that the cost of tho war was iucrcasod a billion dollars by tho depreciation of tho dollar, nnd tho interest upon that increased coat ha3 amounted to a billion dollars. Proba bly bjth of theso estimates nro too low. Tho purchases of tho Government wero especially large at the time when tho dollar wae most doprociated. Mr. Atkinson give his reasons for believing that for a term of years tho depreciation of tho greonback amounted to a tax of forty dollars upon ovory man, woman and child, or 8120 annually upon every bread winner. He is quito justified in suggesting that tho foundations or many of the great fortunes thui now worry tho Populists and tho Socialists wore laid by tho depreciation oi tuo curronoy in tho war .period and tho transfer to profits of an immenso amount of the National production whioh would otherwise havo gono to wagos. Yet theso Populists and Socialists aro determined to bring about another nnd a muoh moro sudden depreciation of tho money unit. Now York Journal of Commerce. Pestiferous Intermeddling. Tho advocates of freo silver are pressing for legislation to compel tho accoptanoe of silver, not by thoso who do want it no law is necessary for that but by thoso who do not want it ; and this at the importunity, not of thoso who prefor Bilver, but of thoso who, having it, or thinking thoy can procuro it cheaply, wish to bo enablod ly law to forco ft upon others who noithor havo it nor want it. This scorns to mo tho most postiforous intermeddling poasiblo. Hon. John DeWitt Warnor. Opinion of a Philosopher. Undo Nod "I don't ndzaotly know all tie vantages of free silver, but if it's 'free, whut moro does I wanter know? An' dat word 'onlimitod' hit moan plenty for ever'body, an' plenty to spRro!" Tho Gtld Bug. SppB3igriC The Soutb'i Worit Enemy. "I know of no moro offcotivo way of crippling tho South nnd its industries than for our pcoplo to clamor for tho paymont of debts already contracted and hereafter to bo contracted in depreciated silver dollars." Hon. Hilary A. Herbert. Ono Thousand Dollars Ren aril. If tho National Democratio party wero to offer a roward of 81000 for a freo silver Democrat who ever got up boforo an audienco nnd aborted that prices would nover bo higher until tho froo coinago of silver wai ho could hardly bo found. Now thoy all deny it, from tho least of them to tho greatest. Bockdnlu Baunor. A Spent dale. Tho froo silver agitation seems to bo dwindling to n spout force. On nil sides can now bo seon evidonco of popular sontimeut based ou sound sense nnd pledged to sound monoy. Tho cry for "moro money" that resounded throughout tho early spring and summer is now a moro whisper, and well-founded reasoning is on exhibition whero but h littlo while ago stood the spectro of financial folly, Washington Star. Poor Man Always (Jets Left. Q. Tho free ooiungc men suy freo silver would benefit tho poor mau moro thnuit would the capitalist? A. That isn't so. If property goes up in price the miiu having most of it will bouotlt most, tho man having will beuotit littlo, and tho mau having nothing will not beuotit at all. Tho samo is truo of silvor ns of any othor property. But it might not hurt them as bud as it would somo capitalists. Merchant. Tho (Jlnnt .Masculine Intellect. Mr. "Explniu the silver question? Certainly, my dear. It really resolves itself into two propositions. One crowd want tho man who owes a dollar to piiy two dollurs, and tho other thinkH ho ought to only pny fifty oonts." , Mrs. Wickwire "But why shouldn't thoy make it so that ho who owes n dollar pays n dollar?" Mr. Wickwiro "Becauso in that caso no one would mako any extra monov. And still tho womou think they know something of tho soioneo of Govornmout. You make mo tired. " Indianapolis Journal. fouchlnir Slhcrltcs on the Raw. Tho Baltimoro Nows touchos the freo Hilvcritos on tho raw when it says: "Tho riso in tho prioo of cotton is n bomowhat disheartening faot for tho silver prophets who v?ar saying somo timo ngo that cotton was low bocaujo silvor was low ; that thero could bo no riso of cottou until silver rose, uud that silver could not riso until wo had freo und unlimited coinage. Thoso wiso mon now stand nonplussed, for cotton has gone up nnd is steadily advancing nnd bar silver is quototl lower lmn it tvnu ivlw.il nnttnn tvn) fi vn nnntH. Tho least logical mind must recognize Irom tuoso lacts mat snver noes uoi rogulato tho prico of cotton; yet it may bo that thoro will still bo Bilver men who will fiud a way to make their theory fit." Xot on This Planet. A champion of tho fifty-cent silver dollar in this oity (The Amcrioan) says: "In tho silver-using countries, where n busholof wheat sells for a dollar, tho wheat grower c:tu atlbrd to pay more dollurs to tho farm hand than iu a country where hogeU fifty oonts or loss." It would bo interesting to Ieurn whero is to bo found that happy laud of silver whero a bushel of wheat sells for .i dollur. an'l whero tho wheat 'grower can afford to pay so much moro to a farm hand than in tuu gold countries. Is it Mexico, or China, or India, or Japan? ono of thoso countries, possibly it is tho Wonderland which littlo Alioo found in her travola ; or it may be iu tho moon. Certainly it is not to bo found anywhere on this planet. Philadelphia Record. BUGS. WORMS AM) PRICES, Chinch IJurs nnd Iloll Worms Arteot Prices of Wlujntnml Cotton Moro Than Docs Gold ami Silver. Ono of tho wittiest ns woll ns most sonsiblo spoeohos dolivorod nt tho American Bankorn' Association at Atlanta was that of Hon. Georgo N. Aldridgo, of Toxas, on Ootobor 10. Hero is a part of his spoooh "Tho stock nrguraont of tho 16 to 1 pooplo is that wheat nnd cotton havo doolinod, and thoy nooni to gloat over tho fact. I know an old negro who, when nskod how ho was getting Along, always replied: 'Poorly, thank God,' and thoy aro thankful wLon tho country is poorly ou whont and cotton. Sinco 1873 tho vast fortilo prairios of tho Northwost havo beon turnod into whont fiald, so that the production of whoat in tho United States has beon doubled sinco thou. "Tho samo thing has boon going ou in Russia and South America. Tho wonderful improvements in maahitiory for harvesting whoat and thooxtousion of railroads for transporting it to market gave an immenso impetus to tho production of it. A farmer can ranko moro monoy raising it nt titty cents per bushel than ho could nt $1 por bushol twenty yenrs ngo. Tho result has beon that tho overproduction of wheat has reduoed its price, nnd tho gold standard has nothing to do with tho roduction. Its prico is regulated by supply nnd demand. "Last Mny n littlo bug sottlod down on the wheat fields of the Northwest, nnd in ono or two weeks eat up one-half of tho 16 to 1 argument on prices and sent tho prices baok into the neighborhood of thoso of 1873. Tho old hayseeds, who know tho habits of tho chiuch bug und tho kind of n multiplication tiiblo ho ubod in regulating the incrcaso in his family, took tho trains for Chicago, commenced buying wheat and broko all tho nnurt Alecks in tho oity. Thoy may hnvo talked gold standard depression nt home, but they put their monoy on tho chinch bug in tho city and won. "Tho cntorpillnr nnd boll worm can do tho Kamo thing for cottou. 1 only know tho chinch bug by ropntation, but I nm personally ncquniutod with these worms. Thoy are composed of appctito nnd skin. Thoy do not caro a tinker's blessing for anybody's standard, aud when thoy invado tlvo cotton fields of tho South thoy send tho prico of cottou up iu ovory mart of tho world, gold standard or no gold standard. Thoy havo boon doing business with us this summer aud havo movod tho 'prico of cotton up 60 per cont. This bug and theso worms haven't mauy frieude, but as sluggers iu an argumont with a 16 to 1 crauk thoy aro entitlod to tho bolt. "Cotton brought 1 a pound in Now York during tho war, 30 or 40 cents a pound tho first year after tho war, on account of tho four years' cotton from I'Ol to 1865, nnd it was years getting dowu to its normal price. Tho prico declined when wo mado too muoh of it. Tho largest cotton crop iiui'lo with slnvo l.tbor was 1,060,770 bales, nnd I roraembor it was confidently predicted that no such crop would ever bo mado with freo Inlior. Tho crop of 1872 was Ioha than 3,000,000 bales, nnd wo gradually increased it to n littlo lost than 10,000,-000 bales in 1801. ludin, Egypt and Bmzil are also raising larger crops of cotton. Tho immenso crop of 1801 was thrown upon a market illy prepared to rceoivo it. "Por three years thero had beon less cotton goods consumed than uul, owing to tho world wide pnnio nnd depression of husiues followiug tho Baring failure, nnd thes two conditions meeting, overproduction and brought cotton down to u very low price. Somo of tho Populists toll us thero cannot be overproduction until ovory man, woman nud child in tho world has a rotund stomach and a full suit of clothes. This is bosod upon tho communistic idea that it is the duty or Government to tnko caro of every loafer who is too lazy to work for a living, aud is too contemptible to waste an uusworupou." IIdIIi ou 'the Right Road. Tho freo silvor Democrats in Ohio who refuse to vote for houu;1 mouey nnniinuu.s for tho Locisltituri) may food fat their grudges by such a courso.but thoy cannot atlvunoo thoir cause. Happily, a Itepublicau Legislature in Ohio is uh likoly to bo right on tho money question as a Domocratio Legislature. Both parties in tho past havo malo somo bad lapses, out both uro now on tho road toward fiunucinl sense aud (soundness. Tho cry for freo silver coinago is bcoomiug very faint and fcoblo iu all pnrts of tho ootintry. When tho Crops Rs?In to More. It scorns tho way thot psoplo aot thut trouble's In tlm ulr, Fer all tho bl mun'a tneai loot as If they linil n scant! Hilt fnthor says It In no uso fur folks to bo so lum, For whon tho orornboxtuto mova 'Twill Mnkn Tiling Hum! Thay tnlk nbout the silvor craze an' skerslty of coin And wonder If tlwr" isn't somo nnw "party" thay kluiolnl But fathur sbz It suutns to hlni the jwople a KoIpr dumb, Fer whon tho crom boin to mom 'Twill Mako Things Jlumt An fathor sm tho fellara the: lias nothln' oUto tn do ' Uut set around nn.l talk nn' talk ou things thu: don't umno true. Had bettor cot a move on them and look for "klnRdom come," For whoa tho crops hela to tuovo Twill Makn Things Hum! Olathe Mirror. SILVER AS A FERTILIZER. To gain a hearing from sonslbla pooplo who are not nttractod by tho moro idea of poor monoy and moro of it, tho silverito orators and press a groat increase- of prosperity through tho "fertilizing inflnonoas" of tho silvor stream. In ono form or another this boliof that tho froo coin-ago of silvor into dollars would stimulate industry, hi" given to tho froo silvor Bohomn most of its now waning strength. But as with all othor arguments in favor of ohoap dollars it only basis is tho imigination of tho silvoritos and flat monoy ndvooatos. Tho origin of tho thoory that a groat inoreaso in tho number of silver dollars would bring prosperity, is the faot that whon businoss ia good, ft largo volumo of money is in circulation. But tho freo coinago ndvocatos mistake causo for offool. Businoss it not good because inono is plentiful, but moro monoy is iu circulation trndo is brisk. Tho signs of busiuoss prosperity are gonoral activity iu all branohos of productive industry, nnd n largo volumo of exchanges of labor products. Since monoy is merely a tool to faeilitato tho exohaugo of produots, it is that it does not slitnulato thoir production. Tho real causa of nativity in proluoing and ox-changing commodities is InoroassJ domaud. That domaud is not iu nuy way by tho amount of motnl which may happen to bo ooiuol into monoy, nor would thodoubling of tho quantity of money double tho demvul for goods. If it was inlendod thnt.tho BUraC miuo owners would giraaw.iy all thoir silvor dollars to peoplo who now havd none, thoro would doubtless bo n temporary incrcaso in tho demand for goods" But no silvorito has yet attempted to show how those who now hnvo no monoy would got somo under freo coinago unless thoy workod for it. Any ono who now mnkos something whioh others want, or who can soil his labor to men who can dispose of his products, has no difficulty in getting money. Relief for idlo inou or closed factories caii only bo founll iu incrcAsing uwkots for their products. Merely changing silvor iugota into coins would not oroito n domand for a siugle Additional bushol of grain, or nuy product of mill ud factory. On tho contrary tho nloption of n different stan lard from that of all tho leading commercial Nations would our foreign trado and thus restrict our markets. Instead of industry froo silvor would scri ously injure it. Callnl llnun. Dlekt'ty, tllotiT), tlnru, Ttie pU nuv up I" ttiu ulr; Thu man In bmirn Moon brought Idm ilovrrt. Hickory i UloVery, dnrw. AX MENACE, A furthor dnugor n tho over-over-hanging lueunco lost tho Government should bo compelled, uudor groat HtresM, to rofusu to pay its obligations in gold, owing to tho oxposod condition iu which it is placed by uuwiso legislation. It is a uontinuul souroo of nnxioty to tho country lest thw great financial rovorsos como as tho result of aii enforced rodomption of n largo sum of Treasury notes. Investors nud business mon, nt homo nud abrond, watch this baromoter of tho gold rusorvo, nnd tho koonest prevails whonover tho balnuoo of trado turn i against us. Tho markets for cotton, wheat und securities nro iutluonced by tho slightest indications of ovou u moderate withdrawal of gold for shipmout abroad. Th meru fact that wo nro buying moro than wo nro rolling nud sottliug tho difierunoo in yollow ooiu ought not to bo u aanso for nlnrm, nor is it, but tho fear of mnbility of tho Govornmout to uinintnin its credit is tho dominant source of anxiety, nud this condition will continue ns long us tho situation rumaina as it is nt present. Why not redeem them onuu for nil, either by menus of bonds or exchequer bills to bo paid out of futuro revenues? If it is considered undesirable torotirotho circulation, lot thu grjoubaok nnd Sherman note bo malo tho basis for an issue of bank curronoy, us suggested later in this paper. Wm. 1. Morriam, of Minnesota, at Atlanta, Ootobor 10. Frou Sllivr's ii!cal'' Dollar. Tho froo silvor men havo invontod that "ideal" dollar, of whioh it will reqniro only u few for wh.it wo havo to buy, but of whioh wo i.tu got u groat many tor win. wo lrivo to soil. If froo coinage doosu't reduce the powor and icerciso tuo powor of ths dollar, ouu part of its advocates will bu duuppoiutod. If it docs do that, others of its udvooatei will not get what they waut ; it would turn out to bo tho worst "boomerang" a sano people ovor handled. Merchant. UtO'l Tlnias (io'.UuTiuTliblrWnrk. The good timej uro killiug tho freo silver oruzo, and tho pooplo will seo to it that frou silvor will not got ohauoo to kill tho good tiaos. Kansas Oity Star. i ', 4f,