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Day
30
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Yesterday's World had a clever cartoon whose idea is applieable to the discussion of the curreucy question. It represents an aged farmer and wife driving their old ïiag at its topmost speed, which is slow at best, aiid the farmer is represeuted as saying: "Why, she's going a mile a miuute. All I had todo was to set the mileposts closer together. " All the dairymeu have to do is to niake a quart half its present size to doublé the yield. When bushels are out in two, then the Uuited States grain product wil) be twice as much. That is the way the freo silver people propose to make more money. - Utica Presa Are you insured? Free coinage would cut down the valué of your policy onehalf byinuking thepoJicy payable in 50 cent dollars instead of 100 ceut dollars, as now. Have yon any mouey in the bank? Free coinage would reduce the valué of it one-half for the same reason. Do you draw a pension? Free coinage would diminish the valué of it one-half, again for the sanie reasou. Free coiuage would take away one-half the valué of all the uioney you received.

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Ann Arbor Democrat