the burglar crying stop thief to the honest man, while the rogue
himself escapes.

Much is being said about our money being good abroad, and great fear is
expressed by the banker's party that our silver money under bimetallism
will only be worth fifty cents on the dollar in foreign countries. Now,
my friends, let us use common sense, and we will easily solve the
problem as to how to make our silver dollars good abroad, that feature
of the question can be accomplished by following this plain easy
method, namely, the next time a foreigner presents a bond of a few
million dollars for payment, have Uncle Sam hand the gentleman the
amount in silver dollars, then let the foreigner attend to making them
good abroad. It will be to his interest to procure a law making the
silver good in his own country. Now, I want to ask you in the name of
common sense, would not you think the foreigner crazy if when we paid
him in our silver, he would go to his own country and cry down the very
money we had paid him? Oh, no, he would not do that; he would use his
influence to have a law passed in favor of bimetallism in his own
country.

But you may urge that he might not succeed in his effort, and he would
have a lot of half value American dollars on hand that would not be
good abroad. Very well, the worst thing that could possibly happen to
us under circumstances of that kind would be when the foreigner found
he could not pass the money abroad he would discover all of a sudden
that the money is good in America, and as a matter of fact he would
spend his money where it would be taken for goods. So we see that we
would thus either force a recognition of our money abroad or else we
would control the markets of the world. Then in reality we would pay
our debts abroad in American produce at a fair price and keep our money
at home, where it belongs, as a medium of exchange. And we would then
realize the wisdom of the Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone when he said to the
English Parliament that "so far as England was concerned bimetallism to
them as a creditor country would compel them to pay more for American
produce," but the grand old man in his frank and honest manner added,
"so far as America is concerned, it would immediately give her control
of the markets of the world."

When we lament the fact that under our present financial system the
rich are growing richer and the poor are becoming poorer day by day, we
hear some one say, "that is true, but the