The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1895 Page: 2 of 8
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Entered lit the Poet Office in Temple, Tex,,
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dress as well as the new one;
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per changed write to the editor
of that paper to make the
change. The Times does not
regulate other offices nor does
it make changes of other pa-
pers. If you dont get the Con-
stitution, write to .them about
it, rot to us.—Ed.
What is an opinion,and what
is it worth? The failure on the
part of the multitude to fix a
safe, sound and reliable defi-
nition to the question causes
and continues the life of all the
isms we have.
An opinion is a product of
the mind and its worth depends
upon the strength of the mind
and its information on the sub-
ject about which the opinion is
expressed. To make clear by
comparison, cotton is a prodQct
of a farm. Two men own ad
joining larms of exactly similar
soil, they prepare their land
alike, plant alike and of simi-
lar seed and same amount, cul-
tivate alike. Now the product
of one farm will be worth just
as much as the other. But if
the Boil is alike and the other
elements differ, the value of the
product will be greater and in
favor of the one using means
onto Mr. Yancey’s letter to the
Times in this fashion:
Mr. Yancey’s contribution to the
financial question is both profitable
and interesting. But he falls into
some errors.
Mr. Yancey thinks we might cir-
cumscribe our importations. That
is the contention of the protection-
ists, and it is exactly wnat would
result from silver monometalism.
Mexico pays this penalty. Minis-
ter Romero of that country says
that “the constant fluctuations in
the price of silver is a very serious
obstacle in the way of the commer-
cial transactions, and has contribut-
ed more than anything else to re-
duce the importations of foreign
commodities in Mexico during recent
years. ’ Such a policy for this coun-
try would Dut money in the pockets
of the manufacturers at the expense
of the farmers. The demand for the
foreigner’s gold for our cotton has
in the past added to the value of the
gold, and that evil would be accentu-
ated under the reign of monometal-
ism.
Mr. Yancey thinks we might re-
quire the balance of trade to be paid
in gold. Is it a settled fact that the
balanee will always be in our fayor?
And even if it were, would not
our requirement that it be paid in
gold be a discrimination in favor of
that metal, thereby accomplishing
the very thing we would he anxious
to obviate? UndeT such an arrange-
ment gold would go to a premium
and pass out of circulation.
Mr. Yancey thinks our gold coin-
age is in excess of our silver coinage
some three hundred million dollars.
He has made a grievous blunder
here. According to a recent report
from the bureau of the United States
mints there is in the union, besides
what is in the national treasury, in-
cluding what is in circulation and
what is stored up in banks and pri-
yate hoards, money of various sorts,
as follows: Gold$661,000,000; silver
$624,000,000; paper notes issued by
the government, $460,000,000.
Mr. Yancey thinks we might go
in with the countries south uf us,
remonetize silver, and thereby get
their trade. But what do they pro-
duce that we want? Would they
take our cotton? Not much
“Such a policy for this coun-
try would put money in the
pockets of manufacturers at
roost conducive to the growth - „
pf cotton. Or, again, if all the our farmers
elements In both cases are alike
but the soil differs, the product
will vary in worth in favor of
the man who has the best soil.
It is precisely so with an
opinion. Where there is no
information on a subject there
is no opinion, for the mind can
no more generate a product
without information than a farm
can produce cotton without
seed. Where the minds are of
eqnal natural strength and
equally cultivated, that is
eqnally informed, the opinions
are of equal worth. Then they
are subject to just the same va-
riations in value caused by the
difference in mental strength
and in the kind and amount of
their information, as the farm
product from the difference in
soil and the knid and amount
of culture. It is not difficult,
then to assign a true value to a
man’s opinion if, when asked
what he re really knows about
a subject, he admits that he
knows nothing. In that event
his mental crop is worth just
as much as the farmer’s crop
who has planted no seed. A
sensational preacher in the
east is creating a stir by ex-
pressing it as his opinion that
Christ’s body was not resur-
rected. What is his opinion
worth? He has no sources of
information that the rest of
mankind do not have, and he
has less than ordinary sense in
that he accepts the evidence of
credible witnesses on all other
points but rejects their testi-
mony on that point without as-
signing any reason for a de-
parture from the truth.
whose expense is it putting
money into the pockets of Eng-
lish gold bugs? If all the evils
of spending our mouey with
our own people instead of send-
ing it to England should attend
the free coinage of silver, we
would at least feel and know
that as a nation we are inde-
pendent. The farmers are now
paying a 50 per cent tax on ev-
erything they sell in order to
get to sell 4 per cent of their
produce abroad. Better leave
off that 4 per cent trade and
get fair prices for what they
make. We are told that the
country would go to the bad if
it could not collect duties to
pay expenses. Who but the
producer pays the duties? The
price of every farm product is
cut in the middle to support
this foreign trade. What an
immense tax for bo small a
revenue, and in addition to this
tax, the revenue failing to keep
the goyermneat up, bonds are
sold and the farmers pay the
interest on the debt.
A man loses a piece of prop-
erty by theft, the thief disposes
of it to an innocent purchas-
er: Where is the law that will
not give to the first owner his
property? All he need do is to
prove property and take it. The
innocent purchaser bought at
his hazard and must lose. Now
the people of this country had
their mouey, one-half of it, sto-
len from them in 1873. It is
right that they should have it
£# The Rothschilds have bought
Jerusalem and now want the
United States to pay for it.
free coinage of the silver dollar was
under consideration, said:
But when the secret history of
this bill of 1873 comes to be told it
will disclose the fact that the house
of representatives intended to coin
both gold and silver, and intended
to place both metals upon ,the
French relation, instead of on our
own, which was the true scientific
position with reference to this sub-
ject in 1873, but that the bill was
afterwards doctored.
Senator Beck, in a speech made in
the senate January 10, 1878, said:
It (the bill demonetizing silver)
never was understood by either
house of congress. I say that with
full knowledge ot the facts. N6
newspaper reporter—and they are
the most vigilent men I ever saw in
obtaining information—discovered
that it had been done.
Mr. Thurman said:
I cannot say what took place in
the house, but I know, when the
bill was pending in the senate, we
thought it was simply a bill to re-
form the mint, regulate coinage and
fix up one thing and another, and
there is not a single man in the sen-
ate, I think, unless a member of the
committee from which th® bill came,
who had the slightest idea that it
was even a squint toward demoneti-
zation.
In 1876, July 13th, Judge Holman,
of Indiana, said in the house of rep-
resentatives:
“I have before me the record of
the proceedings of this house on the
passage of that measure, a record
which no man can read without be-
ing convinced that the measure and
the method of its passage was a
collossal swindle. I assert that the
measure never had the sanction of
this house and it does not posses the
moral force of law.” A month later,
August 5th, he said: “The original
bill was simply a bill to organize a
bureau of mines and coinage. The
bill which finally passed the house,
and which ultimately became a law
was certainly not read in this
house.” “It was never considered
before the house as it was passed.
Up to the time the bill came before
this house for final passage, it had
simply been one to establish a
bureau of mines—I believe I use the
term correctly now. It came from
the committee on coinage, weights
and measures. The substiute, which
finally became a law, washover
read, and is subject to the charge
made against it by the. gentleman
from Missouri (Mr. Bland) that it
was passed by the house without a
knoweledge of its provisions,
specially upon that of coinage. I,
myself, asked the question of Mr.
Hooper, who stood near where I am
now standing, whether it changed
the law in regard to coinage. And
the answer of Mr. Hooper certainly
left the Impression upon the whole
house that the subject of the coinage
was not effected by that bill.”
Mr. Bright, of Tennessee made
these remarks on the demonetization
act:
It passed by fraud in the house,
never having been printed in ad-
vance, being a substitute for the
printed bill; never having been read
at the clerk's desk, the reading hav
ing been dispensed with by an im-
pression that the bill made no ma-
terial alteration of the coinage laws;
it was passed without discussion,
debate being cut off by operation of
the previous question. It was
passed, to my certain conviction,
under such circumstances that the
fraud escaped the attention of some
the most watchful as well as the
ablest statesmen in Washington at
the tune. * * * Aye, sir, it was
fraud that smells to heaven. It was
a fraud that will stink in the nose o
posterity, and for which some per
son must give account on the day o
retribution.
Who can have the hardihood to
claim that a law so enactec
should be maintained?
Shall we go on enslaving the
people for an indefinite perioc
to protect a few who may have
become creditors?
The gold bugs want to keep
up the 50 per cent tax on far-
mers because the bimetalists
are unable to look into the fut-
ure and swear that the trade
balance will always be in our
favor. For the past twenty
years the trade balance has
stood as follows: For four years
of the twent), the aggregate
was $70,000,000 against us, or
about $18,000,000 a year for
each of the four; for sixteen
years, the aggregate was $1,000
000,000 in our favor, or $100,-
000,000 a year. Unless we be-
come less productive at home,
lor grow more fond of foreign
products, the trade balance will
jremain in our favor, at any
levent it is big odds for the
goldites to calculate it in their
I favor.
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THE H.K.FA1RBAHK GOMPAHY. St.Lc
The Cleveland following of
the democratic party is trying
to capture the state under the
name of democracy. A bimet-
tallio conference should be call-
ed at once and this one-legged
element kicked out of the dem
ocratic party of which they are
no more entitled to be members
than Judas was to be an apos-
tle. What does Cleveland,
Carlisle,RothsdhiIds & Co. have
in common with Jefferson? They
care no more for democratic
principles than they do for
truth and justice, and the bond
deal with all its polluting in-
famany tells how much they
esteem the truth.
There was never anything like tl
rush for the new bond is-
sue except the
rush for
USELTON’S Groceries
The people of this country know a good thing when th
see it, and they always
See it at This Housi
His goods are always at par and it takes lots of the
to satisfy the hungry.
Saturday’s Galveston News
contained this advertisement:
“Wanted—a good boy to attend
bar, must live with his parents and
not smoke cigarettes.”
Then bar rooms do not want
the Kind of material their trade
is constantly making. He
must be a good boy! What a
commentary! He must have
the influence of a good home
and be without even the ciga-
rette habit. How long would a
good boy remain good brought
up in daily contact with drunk-
ards, blackguards, gamblers
and the toughs and thugs that
frequent and loaf about bar-
rooms? What parent would be
willing to let his “good boy”
attend bar?
1894 Has Gone
ffind Wc are Going)
To sell you the best Groceries and vegetables'
to be found in Temple and at low prices.
1895 Has Come
and We are Coming
To the front as the leading Grocery House
Temple. We keep the best and the best
the cheapest. Give us your Grocery bill fj
a month and you will be pleased with tj
result
BLACK :: BROS
The Troy Enterprise says:
The Temple Times guyed the
Record a little last week because
the editor of that paper found
‘beautiful and apnropriate mottoes”
in Easter eggs. The Times has nev-
er seen a “motto in an egg” but
supposed it was one of the “latest
freaks.” In another column, side by
side with the little roast, the Times
spoxe of a young married man with
lis “heart on his right side.” Sup-
pose this is another “latest freak.”
If Bro. Gilliam will read the
2nd verse of the 10th chapter of
Ecclesiastes he will find the
freak” not so late as he might
have thought. By the way,
brother, it would not be a bad
thing for you to read a yerse
now and then in the old Book,
you might find other things that
would prevent a repetition of
such a break.
J. E. MOORE,
TENTH STREET.
® JRcal Estate and Insurant
:—;—;—AVE. D, T:E:M:P:L:E, T:E:X:A:S.—
> do oo o ©
The United States go to war
with a country that has just
helped (?) her to maintain (?) her
Baron
credit? Not much.
restored to them even if it does Rotbe can dictate the terms of
hurt some who have availed
themselves of the financial
strain to become creditors, bet-
ter hurt the few than kill the
multitude This is what men
say about the act of 1873:
Senator Allison, on February 15,
peace and war as long as the
letter-writer lives in a house,
rent free, and at the people’s
expense takes a duck hunt.
There will never be a war be-
tween the United States and
England, no matter what the
provocation, while Cleveland is
President. His “sound money”
theory together with his private
contract, has chained the dogs
of war and sold his right to
protest.
Down with the idea that the
American people are to be
slaves to English gold.
Read Con’s Financfal School
for unanswerable argument.
Down with
in auy form.
monometalism
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Crow & Arnold. The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1895, newspaper, May 3, 1895; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth585423/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.