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THE HUMAN BACE.
MOW HEREDITY WILE DE CHARGED
ROT TO BE A BUGBEAR.
Dr. Lambert Says Heredity Has Been Much
Misunderstood—An Amazing New York
Child Born iu the Midst of Plots.
“The bugbear of the human race ever
since man learned that like breeds like has
been heredity. For generations the Biblical
passage that ‘the sins of the fathers shall
be visited upon the children of the third and
fourth generation’ has been looked upon
as the death warrant of a large number of
people whose ancestors have developed ten
dencies toward crime or disease. The pre
cept has been so literally believed that fam
ilies predisposed toward consumption or
other organic disease have been regarded
not with apprehension as possible victims
of the complaint, but with, despair, as those
foredoomed to destruction. Yet, notwith
standing this, imperfect men and women
have gone on marrying and giving in mar
riage. and the human race still lives. If the
rule of penalties were as infallible as many
suppose, man would have become extinct
and vanished from the face of the earth.
In making wise remarks about the certainty
of hereditary succession to fleshly ills, the
wise men have forgotten that our very ex
istence refutes their argument. Man in
creases by a more than geometrical ratio,
and if hereditary bequest of disease and
death were invariable, we would all long
ago have fallen victims.”
This statement, made by a physician of
Wide note, does not mean that he does not
agree to the theory of heredity. He believes
in the transmission of disease from parent
to child as thoroughly as he believes in the
transmission of facial resemblance along
the family line, and any person who can
see recognizes the latter phenomenon as an
occurrence as common almost as that of the
birth of children. He does not, however,
look upon hereditary influence as invariable
or unconquerable. He believes that the time
has come when we are beginning to learn
that heredity has its good side as well as its
bad side, and that we are beginning to learn
how to stimulate the good and overcome the
bad. In other words, he believes that in
the future—when, as hinted at two weeks
ago, the wonder of pre-natal influence shall
have been made clear and taken advantage
of; when, by right living and right breeding,
the average of human life shall have real
ized the possibilities indicated last Sunday,
and the matter of the best surroundings for
youth shall have been studied and improved
—we shall Understand these mysterious laws
of nature and shall be able to use them to
our own good. He went on:
Marry More Wisely.
“The croakers claim that there has been
no improvement in our ways of marrying
and that there is little hope of any. This
theory is not borne out by facts. Unques
tionably, the improvement of the human
race rests largely with the wisdom of its
mating, and unquestionably the ■wisdom of
marriages is too often forgotten in thoughts
of financial advantage and in the fascina
tions of propinquity. I’ut a young man and
a young woman in close association, under
favorable circumstances, and they will
probably marry or think of marrying. If it
were not for this inclination there would
be no marrying at all, and the race would
become extinct. But the natural laws of
physical fitness are not always disregarded,
and in many cases, where they are neither
understood nor thought of, chance steps in
end sees to it that the parties to the con
tract are not entirely unfitted for each
other. The no less natural laws of mental
congeniality have a much greater influence,
p< rhaps, but they do not always lead the
wedding party astray. The old saying that
‘Love is blind’ loses its weight with us when
v.e think of the many instances -we know of
when love has not been blind to mercenary
advantages. If love has already learned to
see money through the bandage on his eyes,
it is reasonable to suppose that he will al
ways be unable to see that which is im
mensely more valuable—health and happi
ness? We all know the worth of money,
but not all of us have yet learned the value
of common sense— that is all. I am sure
that the time will come when the one will
be as thoroughly understood as the other.
When that time come then heredity
will cease to be a. hugbear Jts laws will be
looked upon as the beautiful channel through
which we si . adva n< e nea r< r to perf< c
tion, instead el the horrid way in which to
travel to destruction.”
The Uwx of Heredity.
The laws of heredity are, in substance,
simple. Their basic foundation is the ac
ceptance of the theory of Darwin, Gall,
SSpurzheim and many other of the world’s
greatest scientists, that man is simply a
highly developed animal, and that physi
cally and to an extent mentally he is
amenable to all the laws that govern ani
mals. There are those who do not accept
this, but they are constantly growing less
in number. The success of live stock
breeders in obtaining almost any results for
which they man intelligently strive demon
strates the accuracy of the action of the
laws of heredity with animals. In fact
live stock breeding is nothing more nor
less than a careful regard for the laws of
heredity. If we believe that the parentage
of a colt affects its speed, or the parentage
of a dog affects its intelligence, then it is
only logical to admit that the parentage
of a child will affect both its physical and
its moral strength. Thus the combination
of a strong man and a strong woman is
reasonably certain to produce a child of
endurance and muscle, and the union or
men and women ot intellectual powet
should logically result in children of ex
traordinary brain ability. When these re»
suits do not occur it is safe to say that
a good reason for the failure may be found
if it is carefully searched for. They rarely
fail as far as physical effects go, but it is
an often noted fact that the children of
great men and women are often common
place or worse. This was explained not
long ago by a famous physician, who an
nounced its cause to be the fact that the
children of men of great mental activity
were likely to be the result of creative
power stimulated by some artificial in
fluence, such as alcoholic drink and that
such stimulant could scarcely fail to have
its bad effect on the offspring; or else that
men ot great mental eapat ity were,
through great accompanying ambition,
likely to waste their vitality in overwork,
thus giving a heritage of weaknes to their
children. All other things being equal, he
declared, the child of the great man or
woman stands a much better chance of
bring great himself than does the child of
the unimportant person. IL called a ten
tion to the fact that almost all cases of
extraordinary longevity could be traced to
hereditary influence, and that most men of
••reat physical strength were of families
rioted in long fines for that characteristic.
Galton. the famous writer on heredity,
made mos* exhaustive studies of the an
tecedents of notable English athletes, and
found that in almost every case the great
Strength or the great agility was a family
and not an individual characteristic, al
though!. of course, the extraordinary de
velopment of it was generally individual.
Th- 1 «ame physician who called my atten
tion to these' facts gave me an introduc
tion to Dr. Edward W. Lambert, of Now
York < Ity, who. he sail, had made a more
careful study of neredity and hereditary in
fluences than any other American of whom
hi- know. Dr. Lanil •ft is the chief medical
man of one of the greatest insurance com
panies in the world, and his study must
necessarily, therefore, have been both ex
ftaustivr* and practical. <*n his opinions of
hereditary influence are based the rules of
this great company in assuming life risks
and from then/ to some extent, have come
the ideas of hereditary influence now gov
erning modern li*e insurance. Heredity
nleys a most important part in the calcu
lation of the advisability or non-advisabih
ty of taking risks, and. therefore. Dr. Lam
bert’® opinions must carry with them
much weight. Thev full of optimism
and hopefulness, as fFie opinions of most
modern men of science on whatever sub
feet seem io bo. Said he:
The Future of Consumption.
“No one h is the right in view of existing
evidence to doubt the existence or power of
hereditary influence, but we all are justi
fied in assuming that we are learning how
to take advantage of the good in it and
nullify the bad. It is admitted by many to
be as'much a matter of environment as it
is of heredity. That is, the harmful ef
fects of many generations of ill health and
be 1 surroundings are frequently overcome
bv the good influence of one generation
of common sense and good sin roundings.
Os course prevention is th" greatest thing,
but the science of < tire must not be neg
lected. Take as an instance, the Germans
coming over to America from generations
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of life in crowded, unhedlthful surround
ing.-;, from generations of bad blood, slav
ish work and resulting short life. As soon
as they reach the comparatively good en
vironment of this country they develop
amazing vitality, great longevity and In
creased intelligence. The theory that is
now generally gaining ground is that a
man does not inherit a disease itself, but
a constitution susceptible to some particu
lar disease. That is, that the child of con
sumptive parents is not foredoomed to
consumption, but that he is likely to fall a
victim to environment favorable to the
development of that disease. If the mi
crobes of consumption get a chance to get
at’him they are likely to affect him more
seriously than they would affect a man not
born of consumptive parents. But if they
are kept from him—if his environment is
such that it does not encourage their de
velopment-then 4 do not believe that this
hereditary tendency is likely to make him a
consumptive of itself. We look r at men
descended from consumptives very’sharply,
of course. But I do not believe that after
the first remove consumption need be fear
ed. 1 base this opinion on the absolute
fact that men more than one remove from
consumptive antecedents do not die of con
sumption. There is no going beyond that
argument. Dr. Curtis and I went over till
our people with consumptive antecedents
not long ago and proved this. I will even
go further than this and say that I be
lieve* consumptive tendencies in the very
next generation can be overcome, generally
by proper care and proper nourishment.
A study of men with consumptive parent
age on either or both sides shows that up
to thirty the mortality is generally in excess
of the average. Between thirty and thirty
five it decreases; between thirty-five and
forty it is only slightly in excess and after
ferty it is not possible to prove any effect
whatever—assuming that the man is well
nourished. I know of a young man whose
mother was in the last stage of consump
tion when he was born and who died im
meiiiately after giving him birth. As a
baby he showed most distinct tendencies
toward the disease, but the family physi
cian placed him on a diet of cod liver oil
and had him kept on it for thirteen years,
taking care in the meantime that he should
receive other preventive attention. That
young man is now twenty-one years old
and I do not know a specimen of
physical manhood.
T don’t think consumpiive parentage in
duces death more when the subject is
properly nourished and surrounded than
improper nourishment a.tl surroundings do
in those with no consumption in the family.
liriglit’M Diseases and Cancer.
“Concerning Bright’s disease my opinions
are less well formed. We do not know as
much about it as we do about consumption,
and there is more or less doubt about
hereditary tendency in it. I don’t believe
any man is born with every organ equal
to every other organ, and, of course, like a
chain, he is only as strong as his weakest
spot. But if that weak spot is carefully
guarded and strengtnened, I do not see
why he should particularly fear hereditary
tendency. The great thing is to know
where the weak spot is, and then to find
out how to strengthen it. There ire men
born with tendencies to die of kidney dis
ease, with lung disease, with brain disease,
every day who don’t do it. a know of five
brothers mat died of Bright’s disease along
about sixty or seventy (Bright’s disease
rarely kills young people, you know), and I
am carefully watching their progeny. Only
one, so far, has developed any apparent
tendency toward Bright’s disease. People
should remember that their hereditary ten
dencies are of very much less importance
than their manner of living. Heredity is
a pretty good thing, after all. for, while we
can overcome its unfavorable influence if
we go about it in the right way, we also
can turn its favorable influence to the
greatest advantage and increase it and de
velop it. Cancer is almost an exception to
this rule it it affects a vital organ of di
tion. Cancer of the stomach, of ‘he liver,
of the intestines, Is very likely to be trans
mitted—likely enough, at any rate, to m ike
the person born of parents thus affected
wise in keeping his ‘eye peeled’ for signs
of trouble. But cancer of other parts of
the body—external cancer—is not, I think,
very often passed on from one generation
to another. I take very little stock in the
probability of transmission to the th’ I
and fourth ijenerations. 1 think the
chances of it arc so small as scarcely to
merit serious consideration—certainly not
great enough to warrant fear. In such
eases there is likely to have been two or
three injections of healthy blood in the
line, and blot. I will teh in such circum
stances as well as in others.
An A mazing Study.
One of tn< most interesting opportunities
to study tile effect of hereditary influence
ever offered to men of science exists now
in New York, in the person of a two-year
old boy baby. This child is arousing no end
of interest, discussion and anxiety among
thinkers, and is kept in surroundings likely
to bring out whatever lesson his little lite
may teach to the fullest possible extent.
T»e case is, perhaps, additionally interest
ing because the unusual development is not
looked for in his body , but in his mind. He
is Hie son of Dr. and Mrs. Meyer, the form
er just convicted of poisoning one man, and
with indictments hanging over him charg
ing him with causing the death of several
otners, and the latter to be brought to trial
‘his week on exactly similar charges. These
murders were the results of plots long con
templated and slow in consummation. It is
supposed that they had been going on for
years, and the fact that both father and
mother entered into them shows undoubted
criminal tendencies on both sides. Criminal
antecedents have, moreover, been traced on
the father’s side. What the mother's an
cestry was is not known. The plot which
resulted in the death of the man for whose
murder Meyer has just been convicted began
about a year before the child’s birth, and
was in active execution during the mother's
entire time of pregnancy. During ail those
months she is supposed to have been watch
ing' with the most intense anxiety for the
effect of the deadly drugs on her husband’s
victim, and to have been filled to a greater
or less extent with the murderous sentiment
herself. Thus, not only must there be a
heredi.ary tendency toward murder in the
child if all rules do not fail, but the pre
natal influence tended strongly in the same
direction. It is this alost unprecedented
combination that makes nis case so absorb
ingly interesting to students of these things.
And the opportunity for observation of his
development are perfect. Goth father and
mother are prisoners, and thus he becomes
an official charge.
He is a most precocious child —as was to
be expected, because of the intense mental
strain under which his parents labored be
fore his birth —and demonstrates the pos
session of a strong will already. His tem
per is not good. He speaks readily, even
knowing several words of foreign languages,
which he has picked up after hearing once
spoken, and is imperious in his commands
to his attendants. If his desires are not
ir.3ta.ntly carried out he at once sets to
work to make trouble like a little fury, al
though every influence possible has been
brought to bear to calm his temper. Os
course it cannot yet be told whether or not
he will develop a desire to take human life,
but whatever way he turns out, the study
of his case by competent scientists cannot
fail to contribute much to the world’s
knowledge of the law of heredity and the
reality of pre-natal influence.
EDWARD MARSHALL.
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FINANCE AND SENSE.
the morey plakk ir the plat
form DISCUSSED.
A Case of Craft or Ignorance—What !• the
Dollar Unit of Coinage?—Nothing
Has Intrinsic Value.
Savannah, Ga., Juno 16. —[Special.] The
Savannah Press published this afternoon
the following from ex-Senator Norwood:
To the democrats of the south: I will
present some views on free coinage of sil
ver, under the head of ‘The Common Sense
of Finance.’
As the use of words Is to express
thoughts, it is necessary to understand
the tarms employed in discussing finance.
A clear conception of them will throw
light on a subject which to many Is dark
and incomplete. The darkness is not in the
subject; it is purposely produced by men
whose interest lies in the ignorance of the
people, as the interest of the priesthood for
sixteen centuries was advanced by keeping
the laity in ignorance of the Bible. When the
laity, after the reformation got the Bible
in hand, the priests lost power and
Christianity advanced. So will it be in
finance. As the people explore its functions
and fictitious mysteries and learn the truth,
its high priests in Lombard and Wall street
will lose their power and the whole country
will partake of the wealth and prosperity
which they now almost monopolize.
For centuries it was heresy and death
for the laity to read the Bible. It is now
presumption, impertinence and flagran*
trespass for a farmer, mechanic, laborer,
doctor or lawyer to attempt to discuss or
to dare express an opinion on the awful
mysteries of finance. Finance is the sacred
ark, to be approached only by the consecrat
ed and anointed. The layman who even
humbly ventures to whisper the mysterious
word “finance,” or "feenaunce,” deserves
the fate of Uzzah for touching the ark of
the convenant. He is at once overwhelmed
by an avalanche of jargon like that with
which the lord of the manor overwhelmed
little Mose, the vicar’s son. He opened the
argument by asserting that “the concatina
tion of self-existences, proceeding in a re
ciprocal, duplicate ratio, naturally produce
a problematical dialogism which in some
measure proves that the essence of spirit
uality may be referred to the second predi
cable.” And, as the young lord was dis
playing his wit to lure the vicar s daughter
to her ruin, so we may beware of the de
signs of eastern linancial doctrinarians
when they launch upon us the studied and
involuted nonsense that marks the financial
plank in the Chicago platform as a monu
mental deceit. It was seduction in both
cases, the only difference being the plat
form was intended to deceive millions in
stead of one. I wish it borne in mind that I
do not hold the southern democrats respon
sible for that Delphic oracle on silver. They
were threatened witli the force bfll and had
to accept the best they could get. It was
then believed to be wise to submit, but such
policy in the future would be suicidal.
T’lic Nomenclature of Finance.
The money “unit” is the integer estab
lished by any government for measuring
values and solving debts; as the dollar
with us, the franc in France, the pound in
England, the mark in Germany, etc. It is
for all commodities what the yard stick is
for cloth, the pound for weighing, the bush
tl for measuring.
Money “standard” is the number of grains
of pure metal with the alloy added that
constitutes the “unit,” us 41212 grains make
our standard silver dollar and 25.8 make our
standard gold dollar.
“Parity” means equality, or at par. That
word, as used in the Chicago platform,
“parity of the two metals,” means equality
in value between gold and silver, not as coin
or dollars, but as bullion. Tills construction
is made clear by the next words, to-wit:
“And the equal power of every dollar at
all times and in payment of all debts.” If
the words “two rnetals” do not mean gold
and silver or bullion, then the words “the
parity of the two metals” are worse th?n
redundant—they are a snare and a cheat—
the words “intrinsic va.ue” applied to gold,
or silver, or any metal or thing are a de
lusion. Intrinsic value is a myth. An in
trinsic value would be unchangeable. Value
depends on desire or demand for an ob
ject and on the quantity to supply the de
mand. Values of gold and silver are con
stantly changing. When gold is in excess
of silver it is less desired; therefore, less
valuable. But this could never be if gold
possessed intrinsic value. Every writer on
finance of acknowledged authority has
given up the booby superstitions of “in
trinsic value.”
With tlie foregoing definitions of financial
words and terms before us let us turn the
light on that marvelous achievement in
verbal jugglery or that inexcusable igno
rance of eastern financiers—tlie silver plank
of the Chicago platform. It reads:
“We hold to the use of both gold and sil
ver as the standard of money of the country
and to the coinage of both gold and silver
without discriminating against either metal
or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit
of coinage of both metals must be of equal
intrinsic and exchangeable value, or to be
adjusted through international agreement
or by such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance of the parity of
the two metals and the equal power of every
dollar at all times in the markets and in
payment of debts; and we demand that all
paper currency shall be kept at par with
and redeemed in such coin.”
I wid now analyze that language to see
how much craft or ignorance it exhibits.
Bear in mind that it was settled before the
convention met that either Mr. Cleveland
or Mr. Hill would be the nominee for pres
ident. Both were eastern men—of New
York. To carry the eleven eastern states it
was necessary “to talk gold.” To carry
the south and a few western states it was
necessary “to talk silver.” Therefore it was
decided by the gold men to juggle with
words, and hence we have the above “con
catination of self-existences proceedinng in
a reciprocal duplicate ratio,” etc.
What sense is there in the words, “the
use of gold and silver as the standard of
money?” There is but one standard of
money, and that is the quantity of metal
in it. For instance, our standard silver dol
lar contains 412*4> grains, including e’.loy,
and our standard gold dollar contains 20.8
grains, including alloy. If they knew what
they insolently claim to know all about and
what they say the south knows nothing
about, and had been honest, they would
have said “unit of money” and not the
"standard of money.” The unit would not
have committed the east to advocacy of
any specific standard; that is, any given
number of grains in our silver dollar, where
as the work standard used by them implies
committal to our present standard dollar.
Was it ignorance or craft?
Did those eastern men mean that they
“hold to the use of both gold and silver,”
one at the standard of 25.8 grains and the
other at the standard of 412 1 ,-, grains as
“the money of the country,” when they
are hourly proclaiming to Europe the
dishonesty of their own government in
coining and retiring grains, or a dol
lar, which they say is not worth 70 cents?
If they did not so mean were they juggling
or were they ignorant in speaking of "the
standard of money.
Let us examine another part of that sil
ver plank. They say: “But the dollar
unit of coinage tof both metals must be of
equal intrinsic and exchangeable value,”
etc. Who can intelligently explain “the
dollar unit of coinage?” No metal is mon
ey until coined; that 's, until the govern
ment or ruler issuing it declares it to be
money. When coined (if metal) or issued
(if paper) it becomes the “unit.” When our
government declares a piece of silver or
gold to be a dollar it is then our money
“unit.” The number of grains of gold or
silver in the dollar has nothing to do
with the unit. Twenty or thirty grains of
gold, 400 or 500, or any number of grains
of silver, would be a dollar when so de
clared, and that dollar would be our (the
American) “unit.” And if each be of legal
tender functions they would be of equal
value. It is not the kind nor the quantity
of metal in a dollar or franc or mark or
rupee that constitutes its value. Its value
depends on its functions—its legal tender
or debt-paying quality and on demand and
supply.
The "unit” is the Integer, the one, the
starting point, whether to be used for
what not. We took as our unit the dollar,
measurement, for weight, -liar money, or
just as we adopted the^tirf lve_inch foot
and the thirty-six-inch o to / for measure
ment. The standard o . unit has been
changed by an incre; ~ uejr *Jrains in the
silver dollar from f>Ten h .sixteen, but
the dollar was an/y r’. .5 unit. It
still remains our ‘it » • 'wLnotation.
X™ n p« V r°r. 8 e or
T * ntS ' SUCh 41 th * nS C- 3 ° d ,
IXhat they Qr nluslin goW n on P ey
used is or even j n the coun‘- an
° d , a^ e s tr( iheard of, and women bui<
first cha^ 0 tight-fitting cloth and
“Aurora.
ne (Jg a fl owere j muslins and oFf met
as, conan<<: t hey are, in such del !
enough to lt j e patterns? For thoseiteous
ness, but Me ne co i or . pi a j n blue»c be of
equal intriium j la j Jn s tonish?d it is
enough to m effect of fltrdo Say,
alker IMacle l to patterns or s Mills and
all others of ti tl.< e w ho take? weep, but it
is “to nn, t ne groundlings
lauga.” That cirv: ted , ?ss, as an inter
national congress-) o.rhs j first give “intrin
sio” value to two metals—a thing that
God has not done—and then make these
two metals of equal intrinsic value (which
implies, of course, that their intrinsic
values must always continue equal), is a
proposition that could only be made by
men who are pitiably ignorant or wick
edly designing. If the south and west
wait for free coinage of silver until those
conditions come in conjunction they will
wait until there is “a new heaven and a
new earth.”
As already said, nothing has intrinsic
value. Nearly everything has tone or more
qualities that make it desirable. Gold and
silver have more qualities than fit them to
serve as money than any other known met
als. Those qualities create a demand more
or less great in different nations and in suc
cessive ages. That demand imparts com
mercial value, and the value varies with
the demand. Gold bullion is more valua
ble in England, Germany, Austria and the
United States than silver only because it is
in greater demand. If gold or silver had
intrinsic value that value would be the
same in every quarter of the globe and in
all times.
Much confusion of thought arises from
misapplication of the word "value.” Value
as applied to gold and silver or any com
modity is strictly relative. A dollar has
more or less value as its purchasing power
varies. Hence intrinsic value is impossi
ble. Demonetize gold and silver and their
values would instantly drop, and also vary
in every country.
The eastern financiers further say that
the dollar unit of coinage of both metals
must be of equal intrinsic value or be ad
justed through international agreement or
by such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance of the parity of
the two metals and the equal power of
every dollar at all times in the market and
in payment of debts.
All that is delightful reading. It has a
flash ot determination in the eye and a
swell of the bosom heaving with virtue
absolutely fiery, if not molten, at the sus
picion that any poor American citizen
should ever have palmed off on him or her
by any rascal any dollar that is not the
equal of any other man’s dollar. It has a
martial air and sound, a gleam and glimmer
of drawn swords and bayonets fixed to pro
tect the innocent and honest against fraud
and imposition. “The dollar unit of coin
age of both metals must be of equal intrin
sic. value.” “Parity shall be insured.” “The
two dallars shall be of equal powers at all
times.” “Paper currency shall be kept at
par with coin.”
Brave words. Bcmbastes Furioso never
equaled that passage. We instinctively
take shelter under it. as little chickens
under the hen when the hawk appears.
The silver man is the hawk, of course. He
is seeking to devour the millionaires, to rob
them and all laboring classes. He is try
ing to put on them a new-fangled thing, a
bloodsucker, a vampire, something never
heard of before, and yet a thing that Wall
street ignorandy affirms has “intrinsic”
value, but how much an international con
gress alone can decide. What a pitiable,
imbecile people we are that we must ask
England how many grains a dollar should
contain, A few words more on tlie lan
guauge of the platform and I will close
this introduction to the common sense of
finance, to be discussed in my next.
If the dollar unit of coinage or of both
metals means anything that is intelligible,
it means that the number of grains in a sil
ver dollar and also in a gold dollar must
be of equal (intrinsic?) value to be adjusted
(or not to be adjusted), either through in
ternational agreements or by such safe
guards of legislation “as shall insure the
maintenance of the parity of the two met
als. and the equal power of every dollar at
all times,” etc. The words “the dollar unit
of coinage” in financial technology are
meaningless, and what the writer or author
of them intended can only be inferred by
what follows. Interpreted us above, those
words and all down to and including “at
all times,” insist in one absurdity and one
Impossibility—conditions precedent to free
coinage of silver.
The absurdity is that the two metals
most be of intrinsic value—a quality that
neither has nor ever can possess—and the
impossibility is "the insurance of the main
tenance of the parity of the two metals.”
The equal power of the two dollars can be
maintained. It is maintained now. Every
silver dollar is the equal of a gold dollar in
the markets, but to maintain parity, which
is equality in value, between silver and gold
as metals is something beyond the control
of international, national, legislative or any
other power. As coin, as money, as the
unit to measure all values, as legal tender,
their parity is easily maintained, but their
values as metals, as bullion, are as varia
ble as the winds, as human desires, as tlie
demand for them today or the supply to
morrow. As bullion commerce controls
their values. The author of that treacher
ous verbiage might as well have fixed the
time for free coinage when corn and wheat,
or rye and oats, or cotton and corn can bo
maintained at parity.
The entire paragraph of 112 words is a
burlesque on the technical terms used in
the science of finance. It is a vulgar ex
hibition of contempt for grammar. In ig
norance it is a national disgrace, while in
cruelty of deception it is a national crime.
It is a confession of••’nbecility and an ap
peal to enemies sor 3 ha v It is a resort to
redundancy to con about falsehood. It is
the rich man’s—t* celebral -'iaire’s—persua-
sive promise and . t'3-ys that a n’s apple of
Sodom. It is a a dei that he .->nipt to re
verse the dajter. He 'y an j de
mand and to ,a’? r a law not
established by n. or J--., pernor Su. )( i a y the
apple of disc* « fora ■ L,OU Sec party.
It imperils th. to Trength-
ened our enei ' are
sinking still y t false v turns
upon us Vpa ; paper.ls be
cause we fa Hl f' ler Ne' state
banks. s appe:
In my next'flJ uch te'v the
necessity for stl Imprac
ticability of liitft ‘ I die.
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If the following letters had been written
*>y your best known and most esteemed
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subject of the above portrait is a well
known and much respected lady, Mrs. John
G. Foster, residing at No. 63 Chapin Street,
Canandaigua, N. Y. She writes to Dr. R.
V. Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician to the
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
at Buffalo, N. Y., as follows: “I was
troubled with eczema, or salt-rheum, seven
years. I doctored with a number of
our homo physicians and received no
benefit whatever. I also took treatment
from physicians in Rochester, New York,
Philadelphia, Jersey City, Binghamton, and
received no benefit from them. In fact
I have paid out hundreds of dollars to the
doctors without benefit. My brother came
to visit us from the West and Lo told me to
try Di’. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.
He had taken it and it had cured him. I
have taken ton bottles of the ‘ Discovery,’
and am entirely cured, and if there should
be any one washing any information I would
gladly correspond with them, if they enclose
return stamped envelope.”
Not less remarkable is the following from
Mr. J. A. Buxton, a prominent merchant
of Jackson, N. C., who says: “I had
been troubled with skift disease all my
life. As I grew older the disease seemed
to be stronger hold upon me. I tried
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until I was led to try Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery. When I began takiasa
it my health was vary poor : in fact, several !
persons have since told me that they thought i
1 had the consumption. I weighed only about
125 pounds. The eruption on my skin was
accompanied by severe itching. It was first
confined to my face, but afterwards spread
over the neck and head, and the itching be
came stmj'fy untjpurablc. This was my con
dition when I began taking the ’Discovery.’
When I would rub the parts; affected a kind
of branny settle would t>dl off
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DR. BOWES,
SPECIALIST,
In chronic, nervous, blood and skin !
dis eases, and diseases of the genito— i
urinary organs, male and female.
Is‘ Marietta St, Atlanta, Ga.
Over twenty years’ experience. ;
Send 6c in stamps for question list }
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Address
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Marietta street,
Atlanta, Ga. ;
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BS Impotency. Nervous Debility. Varicocele nnd m
W all effects ot Youthful Eno; ; or excess lorever kJ
Eq cured. I "'ill semi in n plain envelope.sealed, S 3
K full particulars foraquick. permanent, private, RJ
off home cure, and will furnish medicine 1 1 <les;i ed, M
Ea cheaper than it. would be put up ala drugstore.
Address, G. B. WRIGHT. Music Dealer,
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Tfii does not. enro
theeffectsof Self-Abusc.Early Excesses. Emi
ssions, 2,’ervous Debility,Loss of Sexual Pow
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fe OIHSJSIWIE
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H alls,’’specifics, etc., whan I will send you 1’1! EE the prescription g
B anti full particulars of a new certain remedy that is a complete euro uj
NFRVOCS WEAKNESS, LOST SIANHOoD and IM-K
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mL you as everything is plain and simple. All In-kin return is that you will buy a small quantity of the ,
ESI remedy itself of me, all ready for use, but may dons you plcaw about tins. All letters sent sealed. o
Mention ine
For a while I saw no change Os beftoflt
from taking the ‘Discovery,’ but I persisted
in its use, keeping my bowels open by taking
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, and taking aa
much outdoor exercise as was possible, until!
I began to gain in flesh, and gradually the
disease released its hold. I took during th®
year somewhere from fifteen to eighteen bot
tles of the ‘Discovery.’ It has now been
foijr years since I first used it, and though
not using scarcely any since the first year,
my health continues good. My aver ago
weight being 155 to IGO pounds, instead of
125, as it was when I began the use of tha
‘ Discovery.’ Many persons have reminded
mo of my improved appearance. Some
say I look younger than I did six years
ago when I was married. lam now forty
eight years old, and stronger, and enjoy,
lietter health than I have ever done beforo
in my life.” Yours truly,
Thousands bear testimony, in equally strong
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from a common blotch, or eruption, to the
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glands and swellings, it is an unequaled
remedy. Virulent, contagious, blood-poison
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A Book on Diseases of the Skin, with col
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tions, mailed by the World’s Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., on
receipt of six cents for postage. Or, a
Book* on Scrofulous Diseases, as Hip-Joint
Disease, “Fever Sores,” “White Swellings,”
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