Trying Fool Experiments

An elephant who had wandered into a barnyard carclessly stepped on a hen which was scratehing for food for her chickens. Filled with grief at the result of his niisstep the elephant said to the orphaned brood, "Never mind, I will be a inother to you. ' ' Then he gently shooed the chickens into a comer and lay down on thern. The silverites who are urging the people to vote for free coinage candidates on the ground that until the experiment is tried we cannot be sure that it will not benefit the country are very much like that misguided elephant. They know that their 16 to 1 scheme would drive away all the gold on which our financial and business interests are based and think that in some way they could raake cheap silver serve as a substitute. In this they are greatly mistaken. Instead of taking the place of gold silver would have the sanie deadly effect on trade and industry that the well meaning elephant had on the chickens which it tried to shelter. It is not necessary to kill our present sound currency system in order to prove that a cheap nioneyscheniewon'twork. Some things can be known without trying fooi experiments, and that free coinage is a dangerous fratid is one of them.