"coin's" Fable Taken Literally

Intelligent people who have seen the seductive and thorouglily dishonest little silver tract called "Coin's Financial School" rnay find it hard to understand how anybody can take in earnest the imaginary debates and lectures of which it gives an account. Nevertheless, the evidence is overwhelming lhat the power of the booklet to make converts lies chiefly in the general belief of the readers that a Champion of free coinage actually did confound all the ablest and best kuown believers in sound money who could be found in Chicago. An Illinois Deinocrat of high standing and much prominence in public life writes to a friend in Washington that the silver movement has gained great headway in his neighborhood, and that the readers of "Coin's School" are very numerous and mainlyjardent believers in all its doctrines. In thewords of this Illinoisian : The book, "Coin's Financial School" is in the hands of every Deinocrat, nearly, and they swallow its teachings, and swear by it. They will read it to you and quote to you the dialogues between Coiu and Gage, Walsh, and others, and deflantly ask why these men did not meet the question when they had a fair opportunity offered them; and wlien you teil them that tfiere was no such school, that no discussion was ever held, and that it is all a fable, they are ready to eat you up in their indignation and wrath. That is in accord with some of the letters published in papers which are booming silver coiuage. One reader of the lying little pamphlet writes to a Chicago paper that "Coin" must be a second Christ to confound every opponent as he did, and other admirers of the imagiuary financier are almost equally extravagant in their praise. Therefore it is clear that the force of the book comes mainly frotn the dishonest and impudent use which it makes of the names of prominent gentlemen who never had any discussion or dealings with the fakir who wrote the story of a school which never existed. That makes the whole work essentially false. Starting with such a general foundation of fraud it is only natural that the booklet should be full of lies, direct and indirect. Some of the more glaring of these we shall point out in other articles on the most impudent and deceptive tract ever written at the order, printed and paid for by the silver mine owners.