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Seeing Is Believing

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
April
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Michigan newspaper men who recent ly visited Mexico gained sotne experience from actual observation which will assist f hem to a better understanding of some factors of the silver problem of our own country. Mexico is ecmstantly utilized by the advocates of the Vree coinage of silver as an example .of tlie good resulte of such a policy and yet the comdition of the labor ing class in Mexico today presente the extremes of poverty to a greater extemt that ever was presented in any part of the United tates. Although there is more slier in thie 'Mexican silver dollar than n the American eilver dollar the at ter com is "wortn $1.85 in Mexican ilver. The difference in value is of ouTse caused by 'the fact that Mexioo is a free coinage country and lts ilver circula tes at only its bullion alue, while the present financial policy of our own country gives to ux silver to circulation full gold vale. Labor in Mexioo te paid Iu this heapened currency, of course, just as it would be in the United States, and it is Hipon the laboring classes nat the evils bf the depreciated currency falls heaviest. Gold values are required for most of the articles he laborer buys, and it is only his abor tlnat is measured in the poorest money. Tlie poor man's house in this free silver paradise is a mud or traw hut scarcely high enougli for ne to stand weet in. It has an arthenware floor upon which for beds are laid mats made by the laborer himself from a ílnd of reed. The principal food oE the aboring lass consists of cora soaked over ight and prepared for eating by beimg rolled tfiln and mixed with water and salt and pepper. It would be absurd to assert that such condiions would be 'brought upon our oiTi country through an adoption of lie free cotoage of eilver, but it is n ot absurd or untrue to insist that the lexicaniziag of our currency would n many respects lower the conditlons of life and living in the United States o just such an extent as it would be of assistance to feilvesr values and the ilver producers of Mexico. It is an experiment which experience and observation warn against and prudence and patriotism f orbids.- Cadillac News and Express. Chicago claims to have 1,720,000 inba'bita.nts. But then, Chicago is alvays claiming something big. Baron de Hirscii, the greatest Hebrew o-f modern times as regards philanthropy to his race, doed in Ixradon last week. The beginning of the end w-ith him was the death of his eon eome time since. Mr. Manley's effO'rts to trace aa analogy between the Blaine canvass twenty years ago nnd the M'cKinley campaign to-day is etill a subject of discussion. "The iLyons Kepublican" fhinke the precedent that Mr. Manly quotes is peculiarly inapplicable. ''Blaine." it adds, "was warmly championed and bitterly opposed. The ground was fought for or against him, inch by inch. The first ballot showel his maximum strength but McKinley has oio (enemies. He is the second choice of Bcores of the delegates pledged to others. Above all, he is the personification of the antithesis of all that the people have suffered from and groaned under for the last four yeare. With McKinley for the nominee, the wording of the platform matters not." Han. David H. Jerome, formerly govemor of Michigan, (lied at the Watkm's Glen, N. Y., Sanitarium, on Thursday last, April 23, where he j bad gone in the hope of recovering his lost health. HO was one who arose from the ranks and came tobea splenCid business man. He was made governor of Michigan, tUrough the eflorts of Hon. IR. G. Horr, whose impetuous work at the republican state canvention in Jackson in 1880, wrested the pziize from several other candidates, among theïiumber being the Han. John T. Ttich, and ex-Senator Tlios. "W. Palmer. 3o less than tourteen aspirants for the office of protate judge have arisea over in 'Washtenaw countj' among republieans. They are positlve theli psi ty shall win, and tliey are 'Oing to sci-amWe for all there is in sight hui] from this time, till the nominations are made, republicans won't be able td dLstinguish one another across the road, owing to the dust they ralee in their efforte 'to get official honors. Unless a man is UKed to it, we can give them a 'pointer that it Isn't safe to be fooling wltli Babbitt mettle, over in tihat oouinty.- Adrián Press. Yes, buit even that eort of metal has It day, you know. Xorris, öoty, Ihmain or a half dozen' others can assure you of tlhat.

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