![]() When, in 1878, the owners of silver, supported by the class who in former years had been in favor of dishonest repudiation and depreciated paper money, induced Congress to pass an act by which an amount of silver purchasable for about eighty-six cents was to receive the familiar name of dollar, and the government was to give it out as an equivalent for one hundred cents in gold, so that the treasury should thereby gain fourteen cents on every dollar it issued, it looked very much as if the state had descended to help the silver owners in a questionable attempt to raise the market value of their commodity, and in return to receive a profit of fourteen cents on each dollar coined. Therefore, when, on an uncomfortable day in late winter, an attendant of the beasts casually remarked that the bars of the cage were almost gnawed through (he was sorry he could not help it), and asked the bystanders what they thought of it, it is not to he wondered at that a sudden paroxysm of alarm seized even sensible men, and that there ensued a general attempt to put a barrier between them and possible harm. ![]() ![]() ![]() IN a populous town there was once placed a cage of wild beasts, and in the very beginning the frailty of the bars gave timid people considerable alarm but the mere fact that the creatures did not get out convinced passers-by, in the course of years, that there was really no danger, after all, and men hurried past the animals, hearing the sounds of their baffled ferocity, but gave them no great attention. ![]()
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