Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — GOLD AND SILVER. [ARTICLE]

GOLD AND SILVER.

The universal use of these two metals existed before the United States did, and when the United States decided to use them for its measures of value its statesmen saw that they must value them as nearly as possible as the rest of the world, because they knew that the world was larger than the United States. Some people do not seem to realize that now, but it is a fact. There are about 60,000,000 people in the United States, but there are 1,487,900,000 people in the world. Now, if that 60,000,000 people of the United States say that they will make 16 flpnees of silver equal to one ounce rtfgoldjjand the remaining 1,528,VVfiOO people of the world aay wey will make 82 oeacee of silver wpHh oae oaaee eC aeld, kt ewht

that th© United States will get the silver as long as it has any gold to pay for it, and when it has no gold it will make no difference what our people say as to the relative value of the two, because it will have only one metal. It would be just like ffman whohasno money offering to pay $1 a bushel for all the wheat in the world. Wheat would not go up a cent. If the people of this country want silver monometalism they can get it quickly and easily by adopting a free coinage law. But the indications are Chat the people do not want silver .monom etalisnt and the Sentinel is of the opinion that this is the only reason in the world why we cannot have free coinage of silver by this country alone.— Indianapolis Sentinel.