Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1892, Page 5

B i o MIALL WE AV UNLISHTED SILVER C)INAGE? Joint Discussion b Edward Rosewater and | \f Jay Burrows, PART | bearing upon the fall in prices of other Mr. Rosewator's Conclusion, In view of the fact that my figures on 'milver dollar coinage were absolutely correct and Mr. Burrows was away off on his coinage statisti it was an act of generous condescension on his part to exonerato While I am willing to let Mr. Burrows throw dust in the eyes of credulous people disposed to his version of the discrepancy betw us, [ am compelled to point out the that he has badly mixed his figures and included with the silver dollar coin not only all small silver coins, but also the entire coinage of nickles and copper pennies when he well knew that every discussion of freo silver deals ex- clusively with the coinage of silver dol- lars. The act of 1873 demonetizing sil- ver applied to standard silver dollars and 0 no other coin. it did not,as Mr, Bur- Tows asserts, take away the legal tender quality of the half dollurs and smaller silver coins, They liave not been a tender in uny larger sum than five dol- lars since 1853. My friend acts very much like the cuttle fish that covers his tracks with inky fluid when he gots into close quarters, He sheds n great deal of ink in de- nouncing the imagin and ascribes to it that have befallen the ne rs. It was nt sessions, upied 148 pages No unbiased that it was by the connivanc and the debates oc the Congressional person will contend smuggled through of o mujority of members in both houses of the national slature. Its charac 1 perfectly understood and clearly ned by the Jate Judge Kolley of nnsylvania, Stoughton of Michigan, Senator Ingalls and other members of both houses, who have never been sus- pected of heing chumps. Mr. Burrows contendas that the act of 1873 is responsible for the widespread industrial dep ion and world wide ehrinkage of prices. He draws a most puthetic picture of the concentration of th, the spread of poverty and dis- alleled production, and cups the climax of exaggeration by as- serting that the demonctization of sil ver has lost the farmers of this country anaverage of one thousand millions a year or eighteen thousand millions since 18 The whole national debt, the debts of all our states, countics and cities, the bonded delt of all the railroads, and the debt of all the corporations, added to all the farm mortgages of this country, aro computed at less than $28,000,000.000, and the farm mortgnges are less than one-eighth of the total. He points his bony finger at the ghastly spoctre which his ‘over-heated imagination has con- jured up and challenges me to tell him, if I can, whether the cause of all the calamities, industrial depression and business faillures were due to over pro- duetion, sneculation, intemperance, li- contiousness, extravagunce or waste of wars, And then he answers the ques- tion for himself: **No, it is none of these! It is the direct result of the disenso that attacked usin 1875 in the ill-advised attempt to discard the use of silver as a full legal tender money.” Wiih the same propriety he might charge that the grasshoppers that de- vastated Kansas and Nebrasku in 1874- 75; and the eyclones that have swept over Towa and Minnesota, were dueto the silver conspiracy of 1873. And on top of these calamities might be added all the other terrible visitations by flood and fire. earthqueces and pestilence, Let us now take a retrospective view of the ten yoars prior to 1 when the country, had free and unlimited coin: and according to Burrows, was pros ous:when money was plentiful and p of ali commodities were high. It was an ern of extravagance and reckless expenditure in public and private plac The enormous volume of deprocis enrrency stimulated gambling in stocks and all kinds of commoditie: inciuding gold which commanded a pre- mium. Merchants, manufacturers and farmers were paying ruinous rates of in- terest becauso tho speculators and gold and stock gamblers wero paying from 1 to 10 per cent a month for the use of money. The memorable Black day on which Jay Gould and his associates ruined thousands of the most enterpr ing business men and drove scores of them into the mad-house, while scores of others committed suicide, was the natural outcome of Mr. DBurrows’ much vaunted period of cheap money vrosperity. The Black Friday of 1869 vus followed by the c¢rash of 1 which paralyzed our en- tire ndustrial and commercinl systom, and left it strewn with ks like the Atlantic coast after u vific hurricane, This was befor: silver dollar was stricken from our coi age und at least two y vefore silver began to depreciate. Will any free coin- age man explain why the progporous era following the war; with its abund- ance of money and high prices, eulmi- nated in national bankruptey and a general prostration of all industrios and enterprises, from which it took the country more than ten years to recover? The true explunation is that this boasted prosperity was fictitious, The nation was groaning under an enormous public debt and un inflated cur which created false values and . travagant prices. Men of moder ate moans, believing themselves rich became spendthrifts and paid exorbitant rates of interest as If the day of reckon- ing never would come. This era of in- flation and bogus prosperity proved no real ndvantage to the producers or the working people. It was an exhuust. ing stimulant and had about the same effect as if the nation had been on a big drunk, from shich it gobered up with terrible headache and general prostra- tion, The key note for the shrinkage of prices since 1873 has been unwittingly furnished by Mr. Burrows himself, Our population in 1873 was about forty-two millions and & half. Comput| the present populaiion at Bixty-five millions, the increase in population has been 53 per cent. In the samo period we have increased the product of pig iron 600 per cent, iron and steel 200 per cent, petroleum 200 per cent, cattle 125 per cent, cotton per cent, sugar 130 per cent, ¢ 78 per cent. bushels of The of the in total numher grain produced in year T8 was 338 per capita, ’89 it was 52 4-5 bushels and in 61 bushels per capita resources has during the pust eighteen years multiplied our producing capacity Iar bovond the incresse of population, The fall in with the .aw of supply and demand. I'he proof that the commercial decline In the value of silver has had little or no It of | of | rn 116 per cent, and wheat | 1 wo had | The | marvelous development of our natural | prices has been in accord | 1T nished in ot prices of farm products, the price of wheat in D in 18 1859, 65 cents; During these fiv bullion in the silver dollar was worth $1.02 to $1.04 in the commercial ware we to reconcile the nts n bushel in the price of wheat botween 1856 and 18592 In 180 .50 per bushel and a silver dollar worth all the way from $2.00 to $2.40 in greenbacks. In 1870 wheat was $1.00 a bushel and the bullion in the silver dollar was worth $1.03in gold. In the samo year the total production of silver in America was only $17,000,000, while in 1890 it was $70,464,645. In 1800, when silver was quoted at $1. 16 an ounce, wheat at Chicago sold for 90 cents; today silver is quoted at 88 conts an ounce und wheat at’ Chicago is 874 cents u bushel. Had the price of wheat been gauged by the price of silver,wheat at Chicago today would sell for only 66 ceats a bushel, ~ Three years g wasd so cheap in Nebraska and Kansas that it was used as fuel and millions of bushels were buraed in place of coal, today it sells at 30 to 40 cents a bushel. The fact is that the decline and in the price of silver has no more affect upon the price of farm products than has the decline or riso in the price of copper or pig iron. The law of supply and demand gove s of commod- ities as tho law awvitation governs the rise and fall of rivers. The potential force that has lower silver on the $1.99 in 1860, years the | seale of pricos hus been the same force that raised it out of the bowels of the earth. When the production of our mines was small, silver commanded a higher price than when the output of the mines had in- ased and the cost of mining had decreased. Since 1873 the output of our siver mines has increased enor- mously, while the amount and cost of labor expended in mining has decreased very materially. 1t is computed that the cost of mining the bullion contained in our standard silver dollar is 48 cents, Incidentally, let me 1 attention to the fact that ‘the talk about crippling a great industry by withholding froe conage is baseless. Silver mining has never been more profitable than it has been since congress madoe the coinage of twenty-four millions of silver dollars year compulsory and especially since the act of 1890, which requires the secretary of the treasury to buy and store away 4,500,000 ounces of silver every month. Colossal tortunes have been made in silver mining within the last fifteen years, although the wages of the miner have been gradunlly going down. The mining of the precious motals is not such a vast industry as many people imagine. All the gold and silver mines in tho United States only employed 307 persons in 1889-90. ~Their ave earnings; including superintendents mining exverts, was $729 a year, or $2 a day including Sundays, "hero are twice as' many persons en- gaged in farming in the stato of Ne- braska alone as in all thesilver mines merica, and the products of Ne- askuw’s farms for the year 1891 will eld more in gold dollars than all the silver mines in the United States have yielded in any singlo year. Mr. Burrows insists'that it takes twice or three times as many bushels of wheat or cornand other products of the farm to pay any given sum of interest, and he asserts that it would take twice as many products of the farm or factory to pay the small national debt of today as it would have taken to pay the national debt at the end of the war. Such comparisons _are deceptive. There are not two daysin u year on which any given commodity will ex- change for exactly the same quantity of other commodities. It 15 of no consequence to ths farmer whether he gives fifty or 100 bushels of anything if the fifty bushels cost him precisely the sawe as the 100 bushels, One thousand bushels of wheat today will not pay as much on” a farm mort- gage as it would thirty ago, because it does not, cost the in days’ work to raise bushels” of whent today what it did 500 bushels thirty vears ago, both standard gold timec It is an ostablished fact that o farmer can pay off his mortgage now with wheat selling at 75 cents a_bushel using the modern metholds and machinery with the same vumber of days’ work that would have heen requi to produce the same results before the war at #1 a bushel. Putting his corn at 26 cents a bushel it would take the same number of day work to pay off a given amount no that it would have tuken in 1560 with corn av 44 cents a bushel. This results from the use of improved machiuery of today which has put down prices. All com- modities that the farmer buys have fallen in price by a larger porcentage than those which the farmer produces. The great fall in prices that llmu taken Lylm:o within the last twenty-five years is emouned by free coinage men as the divest calamity, when in fact it has proved a great blessing to the toiling masses in the workshop and on the farm, It has placed within the reach of these breadwinners commodities that were considered luxuries fit only for the rich, Cheap prices have marvelously in- creased the consumption of all products. Laborers who formerly only had meat once a week now have meat three times a day. When people paid $1 for six pounds of sugar they used sugar like medicine in touspoonful doses. Now that they gel twenty-two pounds of sugar for 31" they use it as liberally asthey do salt, And what is true of sugar is true of hundreds of articles that may be found in overy household. But I cannot expect to con- vince a man who claims that the people of tha United States are paying #) in interest for every paper, gold and siiver dollar in circulation. If that were true we would be paying as interost fourteen thousand three hund- red millions of dollars a year, or $220 in- terest por capita, $1,100 & year for every an with a wife and threechildren, Was there ever such reckless exaggeration' Admitting that the double standard would be very desirable, it has become manifest to ‘every intelligent tinancier that wo can never pormanently restore silver to any fixed tio with gold un- less the leading vations of the world unite upon the double standard. With free and unlimited sitver coinage by the United States alone,we would bo just what Mexico is toduy, a silver standard nation, Gold ~ would be driven out this country a 1,000 of just s it hus been out of Mexico nnd | F that means a feariul contract volume of money and a te that would carry down with it our entire fabric of credits which now forms the basis of all our commerce and industry. With gold at & premium over Chicago | 'Il'ulhur slight ‘in build, | THE $600,000,000 coin and $346,000,000 of greenbacks, which are ole in gold, would be withdrawn irculation. TInstead of $24.50 per apitn we would have less than $10 per capita of actual money in circulation, ALl the silver product of this country converted into dol- lars would only 1d to volume of currency $70,000,000 a year. At that rate it would take nine of free coinage before we could ce the gold that would be forced of circulation, and it would take thirteen years of free coinage to replaco | the gold and greenbacks, But this " i= not the st fen- ture. Suppose it was absu.ately cer- tain that congress would pass a free coinnge bill and the president stood pledged to approve it. Long before the bill had reached its final passage there would be a run by depositors on all the banks and trust companies. Merchants and manufacturers would transform their available funds into gold drafts and foreign bills of exchange. The savings banks would be besioged and stormed by excited and exasperated working people alarmed over the prospect that their scanty sav- ings” would depreciate in purchas- ing power, Money lenders ever, where would crowd debtors and put on* the thumb scrows to either force a col- lection before gold went up toa pre- mium or compel the debtor to make a concession, ery debtor whose notes or interest wore payable in gold would have to pay a high premium. This is no overdrawn picture, but would fall far short of the reality. The panic of 1857, and the 73 that ied down over 5,000 firms,would be mere child’s play in comparison, me, if you please, that we have passed this eri how wou'ld the farmer or wage worker fare with a de preciated currency,much smaller in vol- ume than our ~present circulation? '3 would be ‘up, but the farmer would get American’ money with diminished purchasing power for products and the wage worker pay ing two prices for the necessaries of 1if would have to be on a perpetual stri to get his wages raised. Mr. Burrows, pointing to the gospel of St. John, tho bullionaire banker, ox- claims it is not true gold will disappear {rom circulation with free and unlimited coinage. France has held up sil- ver under great ation of ratio and Ameviea certainly be &ble to do the same thing. o coin- ago will restore silver to $1.20 an ounce and keep it on a par with gold. Well, if free coinage will not disturb our currency, then oprices of farm products and commodities will remain Just where they now are. Who, then, will be benefited by free coinage? Would not the wholo advantage rest with the bullionaire mine owner, who would be in position to exchange 738 cents worth of bullion for one dollar’s worth of grain, meat, cotton or labor? Where would the farmers’ profit come in? Do not these facts force upon nug the conclusion that the free and unlimited coinagoe of silver is not expedient and would' not, if carried into effect, pro- mote the public welfare ows' Conel OMAHA silver Mr, B n, I could be quite content to let Mr. Rosewater close the debate on freo coinage with his article this weck. and shall only briefly allude to some of his glaringly incorrect assumptions. As to his figures about old coinage of silver his quarrel is with the secretary of the treasury, not with me, - I quoted his figure prrectly. And in either case no material fact bearing on the actual question at issue is proven. But Mr. Rosewater’s statement that thesilverdollar wasdropped out of our coinage in 1872 with the full knowiedge and approval of nearly ev. man in the coun who at that time “took any interest in the coinave or monetary questions, is simply monstrous. The facts in relation to this matter are hi torical, and as I stated. No person has sald ‘‘that it was smuggled through by the connivance of a majority of the members of both houses. What is claimed is that it was smuggled through by the connivance of a very few mem- bers, and that the great “‘majority of members of both houses” knew ~ not about it. President Grant stated, vears after- wards, that hesigned the bill of 1873 in ignorance of its provisions dropping the silver dollar. . Mr. Garfield said, in 1877, that he ‘‘was ashamed to confess that he did not know what was in the bill demone- tizing silver when it passed—it wa put through upon the faith of the chairman. M Hooper of Massachusetts, (M a meinber of the house in ) I'ebruary 13, 1878, Mr. Voorhees said: *Its enactinent was completely un- known to tho people a. the presence of a burglar in a house at midnight is to its sleeping inmates,” Mr. Blaine (who was speaker when the bill passed the house), said: “I think now, very clearly, with the light before me, that it was a great blunder, * * * I did not know anything that was in the bill at all,” Hon. Allen G. Thurman of the senato said, “'I cannot say what took place in the house, but I know when tho bill was pending in the senate we thought it was simply a bill to reform the mint, regu- late coinage, and fix up one thing and another, and there is not a single man in the senate, I think, unless a momber of the committee from which the bill came, who had the slightest idea that it was even a hint toward demonetization, ” Mr. Kelley of Pennsylyania, March 9, 1878, said that *‘though chairman of the committee on coinage, I was as ignorant of the fact that it would demonetize the silver dollar from our coins, as were those distinguished senators, Messr Blaine and Voorhees.”—Congression: Record. The absolute recklagsness and unro- liability of Mr. Rosewater’s statements may be seen from the ubove. Only two or three members of congress, one of whom was John Sharman of Ohio, knew the villainy the bill contained, and the people were absolutely ignorant of it. Parenthetically, let me protest right here against the'term “‘bony finger” as aoplied to any of my digits, Though weigh 150 lmululu. My frame 1s well padded with iealthy muscle and adipose tissue; snd to be Held up asa haggara cadaver in behalf of the single goid standard is a stroteh of editorial courtesy which can- not be permitted. I do contend, as Mr. Rosewater says, that the act of 1873 is largely responsible for the general depression and stagna- tion of business since that date. | asked Mr, Rosewater, last wesk, to indi- cate some general cause that could pro- duce these results, if that act, and tha goneral subsequent legislation in line with it, was not the actual cause. He has failed to answer my question, though he quoted and fully understood it. In- steud of attempting to unswer he goos back to the pericd prior to 1873 and attempts to account for the pan.c¢ of that year. Indoing this he misstates history, and shows au entire lack of un- dervstanding the cause the “Black | ‘riduy” and the fin, 1l disaster of | that year. Ho usks, “Will any free | coinage man explain why the prosperous era loilowing the war, with its abund- | auce of money and high prices, culmiu- | ated in national bankruptey and a gen- DAILY our | eral prostrution of all industries and en- ¥ terprises, from whieh it took the coun- try more than ten years to recover?" n Mr. Rosewate I will explain the reason to the satisf: tion of every candid tman. Tho enormous ‘expenditures necessary by the war called for a mye arger volume of money than then 18ted in the country. Asalways in such emergencies the voliume of specie was insufficient. Speci® payments were sus- pended, and the government various kinds of paper mon, these United States treasury what are known as_greenbacks. AS is always the case in times of increased money volume, all kinds of production received a wonderful impetus, Probably more actual wealth was produced per cupita in the years 1863 to 1 than in any ten years of our national existence, Unfortunatsly and unwisely, in issu- ing its legal tender papor, two impor- tant exceptions” were made, The gov- ernment discredited its own haper to the extent that it would not receive it for auties on imports, nor pay it for in- terest on the public debt. This made gold a necessity to the government and at the same time a speculative commo- lity. The gold board was established, and men hecame wild in the gold specus ation. More gold would be sold in one lay on that board than was in existence and the United Kingdom, Friday” was the direct and legitimute result of that gold craze, which was the legitimate result of the exception cluuse of the greenbac The business of the country had be- came adjusted to the increased volume of money demanded by the war. The panic of 1873 was caused by the unwise attempt to compress the business o the country of 1870 into the t- jacket of the money volume of 1861-2, Granting for argument’s sake that the money voluma of 1865 may have been too large, it would not have heen too much for 1875; for during that time the wealth and business of the country doubled in amount, requiring double the amount of New territories were populated, Ironds built, es and cities sprang up as if by magic, the seceding states returned to the union, until every dollar of money in the country was needed and profitably employed. But no! The money power demanded con- traction, and contraction began. The Chicago Inter Ocean, the leading repub- lican paper of the west, then edited by Hon. . W. Palmer, the present nationul printer, said in its issue of June 29, 1878: So the shrinkage went on, at the beck and bid of the monev power, till the volume han beon contracted $1,230,000,085, leaving a volumo of money of i The United States Monetary commis- sion said of this contraction: If all the debts 1n this country had been doubled by an act of legislation 1t would have been a far less calamity to the debtor and to the country than the increase of their real burden alroady caused by a contraction in the volume of money. The contraction of ~the currel a volume of $48 per capi in 1865 to § per capita in 1875 multiplied the pur- chasing power of the doilar by threeand reduced the value ‘of property and the debt-paying power of products in the same ratio. The horrors that, Mr. trays in his question, and many more, followed. The ‘crash,” “Black Iri- day,” “the panic,” almost a total sus- pension of payment of private indebted- ness came, carrying ruin, disaster,bank- ruptey i in. strowing tho years with the ruins of private and business, There were 3,000 failures in 1 against 600 in 1865, or five to one, suicides increased’, fn about the same ratio. The country not only did not recover from the shock in ten'years, but it has not recovered from it yet. The crime of the demonetization of silver was oaly a repetition of the crime of the destruction of the greenbacks, and has extended its disastrous effeet from 1873 to the present time. The balance of Mr. Rosewater’s arti- cle of this week is so entively wide of any application to the subject as to be unworthy of him. He takes my argu- ment showing the decline of money volume relative to production, and pro- nounces it “‘the key-note for the shrink- age of prices.”” Certainly. But if ther had been an increase of mone spond with increased produciion ther would have been no shrinkage. He now devotes a puragraph io com- paring the price of silver and wheat in 56-59. The prices of single commodi- ties vary year by y Tt is only by averaging prices for terms of years that the full effectof money volume is shown. The fucts ura too well known to make it necessary to repeat them, He now begins upon the p and its relation to wheat monetization, and then says: The fact is that the decline and viso in tho price of silver has no morc effect upon the price of farm products than has the declino or 1180 in the price of copper or pig iron The principle T have damonstr that volumne of money, not the pric the material of moncy ns a commodity, controls prices, Buf India being a sil ver using country and a wheut produe- ing country, with a commerce largely controlled " by Ingland, heat using country, it happens that price of sil- ver is ‘of vital moment o our wheat aisers, By the demonetization of sil- ver the people of England are enabled, with gold, to buy silver at 30 per cont discount, which when shipped to India and coined into rupees will buy as much wheat as could have been hought with the gold. Thisis equivalent to buying wheat at 30 per cent less than it could be bought were silver not demon- etized, The wheat rai of this country is thereby compelled to compete with underpaid and half-starved ryots. And s0 it is with our cotton plantors, u every article of Indian export. ““The law Of supply and, demand,” finding its st expression inthe supply of money relative to products, “governs the price among y from Rosewater por- ice of silver ce its de- Striking. The delicate aroma and fruit taste of artices flavored with Dr. Prices Dalicious Flavor- ing Extracts as contrasted with the coar§é and disagree- able taste of>those flavored with the common flavoring extracts now in the market, is really one of the striking peculiarities of these famous and valuable products. The difference is so notable that any person once using Dr, Price's Flavors will never again use any other, They are valuable additions to our food, the use of which is cer- tain to increase as knowlec of their superior qualities spreads. issued notes, or | BRUARY 11, 1892 | of commodities as the law of gravitation governs the rise and fall of river Mr. R. now makes some immaterial comments on silver mining, not deny- ing my assertion of last week, that our financial policy tended to depress the valuoe of onur silver product, Mr. Rosewater institutes a compari- son between the amount of product re- quired to pay a mortgage now and be- fore the war. Admitting he is correct, which I do not, it is a sufficie to say that mortgages have increased out of all proportion to the increase of products to pay thom with, Besides, assert without feat of successful contra- aiction, that mortgages cannot be paid off with whaat at 75 cents a bushel, practical man can demonstrato An acre of wheat on an average Nebras ka farm cannot be raised for less than #8.83, not counting interest on any part of the plant except land. Averaging the yield at fifteen bushels per acre, it can easily be soen what a slim chance the mortgage would have after subsistence. In fact t price would not provide subsistenc Ir. Rosewater now makes the amaz- ing statement that low prices are a blessing *'to the toiling in the workshop and on the farm, Again we must go by aver: and, 50 considered, all history proves that it is not 1 will not argue the ques- tion, only thus far: The poriod since has been an era of low pr Let Mr. Rosewater ask the miliions of tramps, the millions of men working on short time, half a million of miners working for 60 to 80 cents. a ¢ and paid in orders on “pluck me” stores, the millions of bankrupt merchants and mortgaged farmers, which he could tind in any year of that cra; and all who understand “the cause of their sorrow will tell him that low prices are not a Dlessing, Mr. . nsserts that T said the peole were puying #9 in intorest for every doilar in ulation. Mr. Rosewater must be very much oceupied, indeed, to cause him to read so wildly. Of course I have said nothing of the kind. 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