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All Talking Money

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
September
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sports, seientists, ehemists and polihcians throngcd the hotel last night. Tba politicians bossed the conversation. The money question takes preeedence gyít hors racing, economie entomology, H 4, O 4, and eTery other subject under the sun at the present time. Without money no mare will go, no bug can properly do ts act and do water can wash. Yth few exceptions the sports are against free silrer. They are not rabid gola men, either. They are relies of the defunct greenback aggregation. "Why it thia?" a dozen of them were asked. "Simply becaiTse b'üls are beijt in oar business," was the reply from every min. '"But how about cheap money V" "The bankers and the government will take care of that," was the reply. "We can live if pthers can." The seientists looks at the question as if the silver dollar were bo man; stars flung into the heavens with the gold dollars all smelted into the sun. They go off sky-gazing and talking over the heads of the average voter. With the seientists or many of them in the hotels the question seemed to hinge on where the silver was mined, what was the condition of the earth, how much space is occupied by the silver in its coin form and kindred speculations. The chemists went off into long harangues on the effects of acids on silver as contrasted with the effects of the same acids on gold. The politicians were too prejudiced and partisan in their opinions. The ordinary traveler was the one safe source of news. An interesting visitor of this class is Tokazo Iwaya of Kobe, Japan, wbo is at the Iroquois. Mr. Iwaya has traveled far and wide in the world. He has spent the money and handled the currency of a dozen countries. He was just the judge to settle a Texed question. ■ "Do you get American silver dollar in Japan?" he was asked. "Oh, yes," said Mr. Iwaya. "Do you get Mexican silver dollars n Japan?" "Yes. bnt not nearly so many," was the r. he American dollar worth as much as the Mtïican dollar?' ''It is worth at least 45 cents more on eTery do'lar," said lir. Iwajsu "Why;" "Because the United States is a sonnd money country, while Mexico is known to be a cheap money conntry," laid Mr. Iwaya. "Was not the Chinese war debt paid largely in Mexican dollars?" "It was not," said Mr. Iwaya. "We do not want to be paid 50 cents when a dollar is due. Yet cheap money means just that." Another guest at the Iroqnois last night was George H. Knowlton of Chattanpoga, Tenn. He is a gold man from a silver country. He says it will soon be a gold country. "Then sentiment in Tennessee for free silver is dying out very fast," said Mr. Knowlton. "It has seen its day. There are many miners in Tennessee. They kiiow what cheap labor means. They know, too, that the cheap dollar means cheap labor and dearer living. They are ajrainst free silver. Silver is like coa!. The price of coal can go up to any figure, tremendous quantities of it can be mined and sold. All that does not help our micer. He does not own the coal and he makes only his wages ont of it. It is precisely the same about silver. Outside of the capitalist, the debtor and the mineowner, no one will benefit. The laborera will lose, save those who work at mining it. The cbeapening of the wages of the other laborers in the country will help par the wages of the silver miner." "Then the laborers in Tennessee will Tote against free silver?" ''They will," said Mr. Knowlton. "They know practically nothing of Bryan, while MeKinley's name is ynonymous with good times, plenty of work, good wages and prosperity." "You say Bryaa is not well-known in Tennessee 7" "He is practically nnknown," said Mr. Knowlton. "The idea prevalent in Tennessee is that he is an accidental and unfortunate selection that is greatly regretted by the Democratie party, Mieluding the free silver men themselves. He will not win. He will not earry Tenaeasee." A third traveler who was at the Iroqnois hunted ont Julius Doty, whom h knew in Chicago, and ponred forth a p.ithetic wail on behaif of Bryan. Thls champion of William of the Platte is John YV. Chubbuck of Hannibal. Mo. "Why don't they let Bryan alone?" demanded Mr. Chubbuck. "He aln't done nothing. He ain't hurting anyone. He ain't calling anyone sames or niaki'jg any specific charges. Why don't they let up on attaoking him and take to praising McKinley for a change. This thing makes me sick. I'm for Bryan because he's been abused so dam mnch." "But he's the champion of a dishonest movement," remonstrated a hearer. "Then let 'em abuse the movement," said Mr. Chabbuck. "If a man is leading a dog and the dog goes mad they don't shoot the man but the dot, don't they?" "But suppose the dog bites the man?" "They Eend the man to a retreat," said Mr. Chubbuck. "That's just what will be done with Bryan," said Louis D. Wilcox of New Haven, Conn. "We'll send him to a quiet retreat where he can hare his ambition canterized and get brarely over his political hydrophobia." Lansing D. Quackenbush of Bethlehem,- Pa., says he will glve $5 to any man "outside of a dumb mute," who can talk with him five minutes without mentioning the money question. For every additional five minutes he will pay

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