Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1881 — SILVER COINAGE. [ARTICLE]

SILVER COINAGE.

There's something in that man Veii dor after aH. It la fearedthat the * present ill new of Lord Beat-On* field will result fatally. • *\ The only thing we have against President Garfield is that he once wrote poetry. ■ ' “The meek shall inherit theegarth.” Certainly they shall; that’s how Vanderbilt and Gould got such a bulge on the rest of ua. •«.- «- . Greece should “look a leedle out.” All the great powers hare arranged themselves on the side of Turkey. /Perhaps the powers arAfrungry. • Girls look at yoor I—. Gracious, we beg pardon. What we want to say is that two cases of poisoning by wearing cheap yellow stockings are rep rted in Pennsylvania. The Leavanworth, (Kansas). Times claims to have discovered a defect Iti the prohibitory liquor law passed by the legislature of that state, which makes it unconstitutional. A Troy N. Y. man held hisaweetlicart by the throat while he rubbed viirol all over her face with his gloved h.-.ud. A man who could so fiendishly natures woman, deserves little mercy. The exceedingly sober London Timet, which for almost a Centura' has never been known to indulge in anything approximating to levity, has evidently gotten tired of its own soberness and concluded to follow the fashions of American journalism and allow an occasional gleam of hutnor to brighten its pages. A recent issue contained a loigjeditorial relating the suffering* of a/wealthy American afflicted with insomnia, OTBleeplessneas. The Timet relates how all the physicians of the United States failing to cure him the gentleman sought the most learned doctors of the old world, only to be given up by them as past help. Returning to Loudon the suf- . serer visited ’a prominent club, sat down in a rocking chair, piekedup a copy of the New York Herald and commenced reading its leading editorial. What was his surprise to. And sleep coming over each nerve; and, concluded the Timet , “before he had finished the one editorial hqwas sleeping soundly—something he bad not done for years.” The Herald should at once take out a patent on its “leaders,” as sun- cures for insomnia. Readers of the telegrams concerning the successful Boers in their battles against England, must have often wondered how so small a body of undisciplined soldiers could have so easily won the many battles in which they worsted the, British soldiery-. The whole thing is explained by the discovery of the Joubert, the Boer general, is an American, having been born in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Joubert was bom in iB4l, and was christened Daniel Sturgeon Joubert, in honor of Senator Daniel Sturgeon, a friend of the Joubert family: The infant grew to manhood, went to the home bf his ancestors in Holland, working his passage across the ocean, made several voyages to Bouth-Afric* from Amsterdon, and hearing of the war of seces-I slon in this country, returned to the* home of his adoption, pnd served with distinction in the United States navy. In one engagement hie lost an- eye, and he is now drawing a pension therefore. After the War he traveled about for a time and tfaeu went to the land of the Boers, where he speedily: rose to distinction and carried his countrymen so safely through their recent battles. - '

’tbe French people are not given to the habit of making haste slowly and this fact is evidenced by the recently published pamphlet on bimetalisin, by M. Ceruuschi. This distinguished advocate of bimetalisin declares that the United States, if it desires to be in harmony with the foreign countries whose representatives will meet our own at the coming monetary conference. must do “something which costs nothing, tomethiug very simple and easy of execution —to exclude from circulation the 412)4 grains dollars; toißxue, without limit of amount a new dollar weighing only 15)4 dollars, or 400 grains; in Jother words, to leave untouched the 460,000,000 of gold, and to. transform into 82,500,000 the 80,000,000 of silver dollars coined by virtue of the -Bland bill. That transformation would be effected by the owners of the dollar, ,who would pet them recoind into 400-grain

dollars.” Mr. Cernuschi says farther that nothing but the 15% ratio will suit France and Germany at tt»e same time, and if it is deviated from, an agreement on the subject between the European governments is impossible. • M. Cornuschi, if he represents his government in the matter, mast have already taken it for granted that the United States will be glad to follow any advice frorp so distinguished a nation as to monetary affairs, as the Frenoh nation, but he and his government are entirely too fast and too far ahead for the present time. There 4is something else to be done by the conference before the question of weight In the coinage of Mlver and gold respectively will come jefore the body for action. The first question to be settled, before any discussion of ratio heed be bgd, * as and if it fe,w&Otheir to re-eaUblWri It by a treafcT,»*ong the nations. When these, are adjudicated upon, and' (fettled, then it wijl be to* *> r M Ombschj to argue fbr the establishment of a determinate arbitrary ratio.