Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — "Standard” Illustrated. [ARTICLE]

"Standard” Illustrated.

Thcfe never has been, there never can be. ii lomiuunity in which yeople will accept IS inches and 3G inches indifferently as a yard. Either 3(1, inches will be .demanded by everyone, dr that standard will pass out of n e and IS inches will be tin' universal standard or measure of a yard. Tb< re never has been and there never will be a community in which 100 cents a’.id 50 cents will !>&.accepted indifferently for the same commodity. Either the commodity will sell everywhere for 14X) cents or it will sell everywhere* for 50 cents. There has never been and there will never be a Community in which gold and silver coined without limit will circulate as equals—-that is at bar. The 100 cents-gold—will flow out to be more profitably employed, leafing the field to 50 cents —silver. As a measure or standard of valtfe gold stands for 100 cents and silver for 50 cents in the actual rtdatioisof the meta Is—tba-t—is, in their pitreha sing- power. We _ean have either standard alone. We cannot have the two standards, at the same time for the same reason that yen cannot maintain a yard measure 311 inches long at the same time as a yard measure 18 inches long. We are now on the yard standard or measure of 3(1 inches—gold. What is to be gained by going to the IS-im-hes yard measure or standard—silver? Is it better to have 50 cents’* worth of a good thing than 100 cents’ worth of it? —Chicago Times-Herald.