Alliance Standard. (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 25, 1892 Page: 4 of 4
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tfhy Free Coinage of-Silver
I« Demanded.
our mini against silver iu 1873.
Were we to open our mints to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver,
no matter from whence it may have
WHAT?
What is a razor?
An article made for shaving people,
been miued, every ounce of our silver| And yet it can be used to cut corns or
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>'som Ss* RusU I *»vet, Cut, March 19 I*»
Lawson, Clear Creek Co., Colorado.
r March 16, 1892.
Editor The Hoad
1 tear Sir:—When trying could take it to the mint and have it j it is made is shaving,
linage coined into legal tender money.
would be worth to our merchants 11.29 corn, to open tin cans or a jugular
( 29-100, simply for the reason that he ; vein, liut the only purpose for which j
»u form a free and unlimited
•dub, I found that a large |iercen!age 1 could take his merchandise into all
•«f the people were in favor of the the silver producing countries and cx-
What is a postage stamp?
An article created by order of the |
law for putting on envelopes, and >hus ‘
'•linage of the American product: change it for silver at the rate of $1.2° having letters conveyed to their dcs'i
only.
Phase explain In your paper what
difference the different coinages would
make to the people —that is, free and
unlimited coinage and coinage of the
American product. , Also please stste
per ounce. This he could do with
safety, aa he could take it to the mint
and exchange It for ailver dollars, that
by law are eqnally a legal tender in
the pay ment of every debt, both pub-
lic and private, as gold is. The for-
if silver was demonetized in France , eign merchant could not take silver at
and when.
Very truly yours,
Thos F. Walsh.
In reply to the above permit me to
say ; A great many honest people,
and many prominent editors, believe
l lint I he coiuage of the American pro-
•met of silver would be as much for
Hie benefit of the American people as
would free and unlimited coinage of
any more than he could get for it in
the markets of the world. At the
present time silver in market is only
worth 9j cents per ounce, and that is
as much as the foreign merchant could
allow for it in exchange for his goods,
lint the American merchant could af
nation. Aod yet postage stamps can
be used in place of court plaster, or ss
Urge!* for pistol or rifle practice, or
to an amount of thirty cents, they are
legal tender for debts. While the law
declares that letters to go through the
mails must have sumps thereon, it
does not prevent men carrying letters
to and from each other free, or for
such compensation as may be agreed
upon.
Wliat is money?
Any'king which the law declares to
; lie In/al /< nd-r for debt. And yet
ford to allow $1.29per ounce, making, men may agree to exchange other ar-
a diffeience of 39 cents per ounce, tides for money, or money for other Thread cutter.
With this difference he would surely ! articles. They may also use
silver, no matter f.oui whence it may drive the European merchant out of j money, if of coin, to place on the
eyes of the dead, or to melt anil make
into spoons, etc. If it be of paper
j to induce Ins government to open the . they can use it to light fires, or cigars,
mint to free coinage, and this they | or to wail shot guns, or they may
would have to do, or lose the trade of, ihrow it away; but the lew creates
all the silver producing countries, and 1 money only for *,* ■ purpose—the pay-
have come. ' the trade, ami the only way that the J
I will try and explain the difference j European could prevent it would be !
ns I iiiiderstHnd it.
If we open (he mint of the ti. S. to
Ihc free and unlimited coinage of the
American product, it will, without the
shadow of iidoubt raise the value of
Hie silver bullion up to its com value
(that is 81.20 29-100 per ounce) bat
it would not raise the value of bullion
in ilie markets of the world. Our
coins could not be exported, only us
bullion, and could only be sold iu the
i nikelsof the world at the market
price lived hy the bank of England.
Although silver coins when coined at
■ the U. S. Mint are a full legal tender
to any amount for any debt, either
public or private, equally with gold
com of llie U. S., yet neither gold
coin oc silver coin of the United States
nrc a legal lender of any debt in any
amount in any oher country. Free
coinage of the American product
would lint raise the value of the pro- ;
line‘s of the milieu of Mexico, South 1
America, or any other silver proiluc- ,
ing country, for they would have to
throw their surplus silver on the mar- 1
kels of the world and sell it for the
that they would not like to do.
Free and unlimited coinage in the
IT. N. means, in spite of all the nations
in Europe, the opening of all the
mints of the world, or the loss of au
enormous amount of the trade of all
the silver producing nations, and a
corresponding inurease of our trade in
those countries. There are many
other benelits that would follow, from
the free and unlimited coinage, that
would not follow from the free coinage
of the American'product only, and 1
Sewing Machines ■ at Peoples Prices.
STANDARD MAKES AT PRICES POOR PEOPLE CAN PAY.
DOES YOUR WIFE NERD A MACHINE?
THE CHEAPEST! THE BEST!!
THE SINGER MODEL.
0X1T 14.00. .
A Signed and Numbered Certificate of
Warranty for Tire Years ie (Jim
with Every Machine.
Since the pattonis on tbs well-known "Hlu-
Ksr’’ nun-bim* taw t»ui seme time sgo another
factory ha. sprung 1 p and ta making the vary
•ants thing Tor aliout Ons-orth the Turin, r sailing
prior.
We havr made arrangements for offering our
subscribers the "Singer Model,1' baring an or-
namented bead on Iron stand, with drop-leaf
tsbln of genuine oll-pnllshed black walnut, with
patent drop-leaf support and Gothic pattern
vonecred panel cover It has two polished Out
drawera, with lock, and elaborate nickel-plated
drophandlea. Kverymachine Is ftirulahed with
the following: Pool Hummer (Keller), quitter,
(Ait Can. Screw Driver. Shuttle Screw ! river. Wrench. oaaGalda, ton Needles, .lx IlnblSna, hi
truotion Hook; also a neat telescopic box containing the following elegant nickel-plated sttarh
ments : Tucker, itufllrr. Binder, assorted ltemnien, from one-eight to one inrh In width, and
end Cutter. All crated ready for shipping
We can furnish this machine and the standard to our anbaerlhers one year for the very low
prior of tit. 00. The purchaser paying the freight from the Anatoly, which will be about *1 SO
The machine will not be sold only in connection with the standard.
uieut of debts. It doe* not interfere
wl.h the paying of debts in anything
else that llie creditors may be willing
to receive, hut, if he refuses every-
thing else, then the tender of whatever
the law has declared to be a legal ten-
der. and therefore mimeta, or money—
that is, a legal tender for debts—is
all that the debtor need to have in
place.
What is money, as declared by the
law, made for?
Only for deh'-paying purposes. The
will try and point them out at some j l ,w gives it no other footing, hut peo-
ple wlm have money can use it for as
future lime.
Now as to the second inquiry made,' many oilier purposes as they can.
uev- j
— Jp
permit me lossy that France has nev-
er demonetized silver.
(J. W. King.
\o ruwioiiw
In all cases, when a man tenders
l'tier money—mil
| Mothing is uum tu that is not legul ten-
j der, and so made by the law—he heed
tender or offer uolliing else. There
bonds never depreciated? Have they
any other basis than the greenbacks (
had? If so whal is it? If not why
did the bonds remain at pur or rise
above par, while the greenbacks fell
below. Will one answer.— Topeka
Advocate.
Would Like to Know.
If government alone can make j
money, and it is a peneusntiary of-
feuse for any one else to do so, why it
should borrow money from individu-
als when there is a scarcity of cur-
rency V
Why, if the credit of the govern-
ment is good enough as a basis for
bonds, to keep them above par, is it
not good enough a» a basis for llie
money for which it exchanges bonds?
Who makes the money witTi which
llie guverfunent pays off too bonds?
Why UJu government (the people)
I'.- *kg. right to provide itself
with a sufficient circulating medium?
If the government ownership of
W. T. Stovall. %• J. T. Stovall.
Stovall Bro’s.
\\tt\x* 'Tv VuV\ Luu O')
Drugs. Proprietary and Patent Med-
icines,
Points, Oils- fit ass. Etc.
Pc eeriphonn run fully compounded
Day or Night.
Term* Mrletl.v (’ash.
We respectfully solicit a liberal sliura
of Public Patronage. I.ioden Texas.
received so
, about fusion with one of the old par-
market price, and that is practically i . , „ , . , ...
1 ___ 1 •' i lies that I mn compelled to make Hus
tkxejl by Ihe^Hank of England and the 1
Kollisuhilds. Hy limiting the coinage
statement to the public.
These inquiries have all grown out
af silver to the A inerieuu product, wei ... ......
1 | of the reports that the old party far
........... s. & T.
many letters inquiring ’ ’ " ' ’ goost i
grease or anything else; but when le-
gal tmider is tendered him hy I he j
debtor, tlut is llie end of tho conlro- !
v.rsy.
HU money is created by law it is
not in existence.
would drive all the silver producing i , , ’
1 ” lias been tending over the comilrv.
countries to take their surplus silver .j,^ ^ fnbricnli ms without ’*"r "IC aw ln 'nL're:,*e debts and
m Europe and sell it for what they , wor(, of ln|l,, tllcni.
could get, to obtain the means witli
which to purchase the necessaries and
Fish, of Minnesota, writes “that Fu•
j siou inat'cr is llie rankest kind of
comforts of life, that they did not pro- # |ju ()f l|)e (|ee|)e8t <1ye» The
dtiee themselves, On: merchants and
maiiiifacturera could not give such
m irchandise as these silver producing
nalio is might want in exchange for
their silver, anil pay them any more
same reports come from Kansas, Ne-
braska and the Dakotas. The follow-
ing resolution offered by Mr. Wash-
Imme at the session of the executive
committee at 8t. Louis. June, 1891
taxes, and shorten the volume of inou-
| ey, i- a crime
Money is not based on valuer.
It does not represent the table of the
world or any portion thereof.
It is not necessary to buy gold or
silver ns a base for carrying the legal
| lender power.
It IS not created as a medium for
are they put under government man-
agement by ‘lie appointment of a
receiver?
Wliv railroads are permitted to
charge rales on from live to eight,
limes the assessed valuation of their
property?
If, as the business men of the coun-
try are now telling us, noiiperisliahle
products of the farm and real estate
is not good enough security for a got*
ernment loan, why have these same
men for years console.ed them good
enough security for a private loan?
\«-w York ire Line
Thu following clipping from (lie
New York Herald of the Otli Inst, is tt
very important piece of information
and inay prove far reaching in its re-
sults :
In response ton cnll of sympathizers
with the People’s pnrty movement
eillity five representatives of thirty-one
lul».r orict tilxuiions met in Oivtrsil
Hull, in West tliIft.v-second street, hist
I nielit to tlisooss Lie question of inaugu-
rating tin- movement tj*.
(iitorge W. MnCli.iil' ii, of the Franklin
AsWu’iiltton of Fresauiett, presided, ami
H. Wlttskowskl, of llie OMlmtikers’
Ass'I'latlon, was ele ted secretary.
"Hen” Terrell, of Tex is, leetur >" of llie
Fanners A Ilia one ami president of the
Federation ol Industrial Organizations,
spike on the principle* set forth in thu
platform adopted lit the recent 8l.
Louis conference. Hes diitions approv-
ing llie platform Wert* tiimiiiiiiniisl.v
adopted. A euiniiiilteo of twenty four
was nppoiii led to rail another meeting
and formulate plans for n permanent
assembly dial let org miz itioii —Nu-
tion i IKcoooniisl.
lor it than the European merchants! ^ w#g ,tnanilW)U<lv ,,, J, wiU | exchange as one article may he ex
would pav tliem for it, for they could: , , . . ..i.-.u-..i i...-----.i— — •----
. •’ i show how the committee stands
mil get il coined into money, if tve
limited our coinage to llie American
product; they would have to throw
the silver they might obtain in ex-
change for their goods on the markets
of the world, the same as the European
merchant would have to do and as
they do now.
------------- on |
I the question, and wliat fusion advo-
! cates may expect from us:
Resolved, That the national exccu-
i live committee is unalterably opposed
; to fushion with any other political
I party, and will not recognize any in-
i dividual, committee or organization
.. ... , . . , that proposes or enters into snub fu*
Europe,, with her cheap labor and . ...
..... . „ shm, as affiliated with tiic People s
cheap money, and England especially
with her cheap raw material, drives
our merchant'* out of all the silver
party.
changed lor another, without any me-
dium.
Of Itself it. hn« as pstcer to purchase,
as when a person declines to give up
properly or services for money, it is
then proven that money hat no power
to purchase.
It is simply legal tender for debt
and even the biggest of the gold
thieves pay their debts in anything
that is legal tender, hut they seek to
Iliiri’iMHi’M Itoyisli Mrlicmr.
A smart Aleck at Lyons all.!:eked
( lion. Oeo. W. King the other day and
St. Louis Reformer. | ’‘•'‘b1 to destroy Mr. King’s argument
that money is scarce. “I have just
returned from New York ” said the
smart Aleck, “and there is any
amount of of money lying idle there.”
“No doubt,” replied Mr. King; Col-
orado is suffering for water to irrigate
her arid lands. A few days ago I was
in Chicago and with Jiy own eyes saw
any quantity of water in Lake Miclii-
“Henny" Harrison thinks lie is go-
ing to foul the people once inure mid
induce ihem to stand by the old parly
(either the democrat or republican)
“just this time' by geltiug up an in-
ternational silver conference.
lie thinks it will be good enough to g#lli blll how ^ get it to Colorado i«
‘talk about" till after the election— 1
, , . , ,, . ’ lead to nothing else. We want all
iircMiuoiiijr comitru»8, and ne sell but
' the votes wc can get, we want every
Fusion means confusion, and will Inws that can only be paid
tn yold, which gold they have to sell,
and if all debts in the future are to be
Mule comparatively sptuking, of our
yrislueis in those countries.
lint if we were to open our mints to
the free and unlimited coiuage of sil-
wer, no matter from whence it may
Have come, it seems to me it would do
one of two things.
First, it would drive to a great ex-
tern the merchants and manufacturers
„f Europe out of all silver-producing
countries, aud open up a market for
American products, or it would force
all the manufacturing nations of En-
ixijie to open their mints to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, and
t
democrat and republican to come with
us. and tre would like to have every
i office within the gift of the people, but
we can’t afford to secure either votes
or offices by bartering away our prin-
ciples. The very moment we use
them as trading stock and peddle
them around to the highest bidder to
secure an office, we will sink into ob-
livion, and we ought to.
There is but one thing for us to do
—“keep in the middle of the road,”
hoist tbe biack flag and neither give
nor accept auv quarter. Any one
who expects any of tbe old parties to
give us any linancta! reform by fu-
sion, in my opinion, is a mental
bring silver up to a p trity with! furiuity. ' r ’ ' **C
. as it always was until we c osed il. E. Taubeneck.
(laid only in legal tender money made
of their gold, it means that the people
must buy their gold and give notes or
labor therefor, at such rates a gold
dealers will be content with.
Money is simply a creature of the
law for one purpose—legal tender for
debt, and wbo ever says otherwise has
much to learn before be can he a cor-
rect tealher.—Pomeroy’s Advance
Thought.
Our bard money advocates profess
great solicitude lest paper money is-
sued by tbe government should depre-
ciate and become almost worthless.
Will these astute financiers be kind
enough to tell us
and then lie and his friends can laugh
in their sleeve another four years.
“Ben" has learned tho fact that
some people can he fooled all the
time, and that ail people can be fool-
ed some of tbe time, hot be has yet
to learn that all the people can't be
fooled all the time. Perhaps he will
learn it this year.
* * * •
But what striking thing it is, when
one stops to think of it, that a presi-
dent of the United States should have
to ask England’s co-operation and
consent to calling such a conference! i
Shades of George Washington and
1’otnas Jefferson.
Hut such is the shameful fact; and
•uelt is the material out of which our
presidents are made these days.—Chi-
cago Sentinel,
what bothers roe—and that is ffbat
would bother you if you attempted to
draw the money of the New York
banks into industrial under' (kings
when it is held chiefly for inrsstment
in bonds."—Ex.
Notwithstanding the fact that we
are the wealthiest nation on the earth,
there are 10,000,000 people who nev-
er have their appetitea satisfied in
any single day in all the year, and
1.000,000 able bodied tramps willing
but unship to find employment,—
John J, Ingalls.
“A free government can not long
indure where the tendency of tbe laws t
is to concentrate/’:lie wealth of tbe
s of the few asd to
poor and depen-
debater. ... .
________ Jll______ If ifis’‘rigbt to be free men then
why government why be slaves to a party? #
country in the
render the
dent.”—Dan
nACB ACHXB
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Erwin, J. W. Alliance Standard. (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 25, 1892, newspaper, May 25, 1892; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth523357/m1/4/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.