Judge — December 5, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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\| THE JUDGE. 11 |] | Jas Your Jury of Public Opinion will not be | of millions of surplu content to stop in your inquest at a fact so action of the curr 1 and evidently explainable, as sand thus much but will K to what clude, would have Ton; since cau plosion but for extraore resourses and endurance of the will you express. other popular strength and patience to have ed throw If Your J sin these facts the best explanation of the situation, it will becom: your next duty to consider reme patier t needs ‘relief, and that. speedily, 1s for you to decide whether bimetallism— ndard of valnes—is suflic 0 find, you wil ne snrinke ige is world-wide, nounder trade. industrial and po! | systems widely ditle in free-trade } land and protec! I India and South A ‘The one fact that these differi ions is that values everywhere been rezulated by the standard 1 cone nt rem- order the con a, on equal The fact that gold has steadily become scarcer and higher im equal stops ‘with the decline of of evidenc servants at all values will complete the chain | Ws mn to cease their tinlawful co that fastens on the gold standard h ‘Treasury on the destruc: of val ibility for all the ruin and m se marked the course of if you find that bimetallism cannot that the influence of slution tothe situation | banks ts with the administra Your Jury will be aided | tion may continue to defeat bimetallist: artling reve {| maintain gold preferences and shrink nfluence Jury should consider whether To the is not necessary, in order to deliver the | ld values the country, to relrbite the silver slandard,. Tp ly depressing pr you decide on silver w of vale defiance of law. It is. even you will probably order the incre on the g tion that only gold | coinage of silver, and its substitut f Fs Jd in government tran 4" he fairly enforces ommercial far I. Your Ju 3 of business ad ent in business and industry month to month + mmer was heralded laelnenstad iii, is oidénily again ane definitely postponed, » year now draw. in se will make a record of the: lar- a r of busine of any year and alle when there teudera from cireul panie and bonds for nine months yp attention to th {refusal to. call with hu in our hi is nod uncial in face of all the elements of prosperity— ___ _ a peace, health and) super-abund of all | produets—must convince Your Jury tl | unusnal and unnatural a ies of de; | work. A DESPERATE CILARGE. ation is mark | raduct of steady ady of temporary ¢ w condition rather than of body politic. s to particularly en- dy, depressing, de- that has prostration ? rs within the none that so ! symptoms as shrinkage of values, This tendeney, if ant, must not only 4 succession of and consequent failures to all who deal in th but the downward te: ulyze en- terprise and de 1 hiding. Such are the effects long felt, «nd the cause | | is adequa perts have lito lay before you that de quotations fron nee of decline. in | at unimpeded daring: tho fast ten years, and substantially operative for | the past thirty-tive years. They v you that the decline in produce, merchan- dise and labor has entailed a loss in’ this | country of over three thousand million dollars: |} within the past deeade—property sunk and || disappeared to a larger amount than the | civil war cos! 3 of pea greater show than the d on of war. Your Jury find in the enormous. sealing m ercial letharg, ul inactivity, over-pr , unde ation, « and de- Hear yell that breaks the air! ement, all of which are but different All the folks wondered. effects of one great caus In rushed his wife, all wan— A tribunal so tho nd unprejudice bundant explanation of failures, in- ¥. W, TRESIDDER, comicbooks.com