Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — The Whole Trouble with Silver. [ARTICLE]

The Whole Trouble with Silver.

The trpuble and the whole trouble and iniquity of the silver basis would be its uncertainty, its mobility, its erratic quality. The yardstick, to use a familiar simile, would be 30. 25. 50, 15 inches in a single day. or, in other words, the worth, the purchasing power, of silver would vary, for no one cifu for a moment think that any country or federation of oountries could maintain the parity between gold and silver under thp load of the, latter metal whieh would be

poured in under free coinage. You might just as well expect them to be able to .make- every,poor man rich. The silver com wdhid go for its bullion worth, antr the laborer, the mistress of the house, every one, would have to receive the market quotation daily in order 6q “adjust. You can grant nothing to uir-' certain primary money except the ruin of the holder. You might as well grant that the druggist could accommodate himself to a variable measure for poisonous drugs. The Lord help.the patient who would have lo “adjust” under such circumstances,—H. A. Fairbairn in New xork Evening Post v _