A HONDRED-CENT DOLLAR
THAT IS WHAT IT WOULD BE UNDER
FREE QOINAGE OF SILVER.
A Diminishing Currency Causes Unl
versal Distress — Free Colnage
Would Bring Rising Prices and
Prosperity For All Qur eople.
The following able address on the
money question was made by Mr.
Hugh E. Mclaughlin before the Ford-
ham Bimetallic Union, of New York
City :
The American people are to-day in the
middle of a campsign, the most important
perhaps in the politica | history of this coun-
try, and of unprecedented interest and con-
cern to every citizen of these United States,
Just as in old colonial days the people rose
up and threw off the yoke of their oppressor
and declared without fesr of consequences
that they were free and independent, so to-
day our people are again aroused and sooner
or later, whether at tne coming election or
not, are going to proclaim to the world that
this is not only a free eonntry in the in-
dividual and personal rights of citizenship,
but what is of almost equal importance, that
it will be financially free, and that within
the boundaries of theses United States every
man will be equal to his fellow wan, having
equal rights and privileges and equal protec«
tion. They intend once and for all to tell
the plutocrats and money kings of this
country and of England that this Govern-
ment will no longer tolerate the unfair ad-
vantage that they have so long enjoyed over
the Iaborer, the farmer and all producers of
wealth.
In 1776 the tarmers and the masses of the
eople, the real sinew and strength of the
Ron, made up the armies, fought thel:
country's battles and brought about its final
triumph and independence, while the higher
class, the so-called arist JOTACY, Were oon«
niviug and plotting at the downfall and
failure of their more patriotic countrymen.
They were the Tories then in the dark days
of the Revolution, and to-day the same class
are the Tories in this batile of the ballots,
and are crying aloud that this revolution,
lke the one of 78, is uupatriotie and even
dishonest, and is only the wild dream of the
rabble and the dangerous mob, But that
mob brought about, by their bravery and
patriotism, the liberty of their country, now
grown to be the greatest in the world, and
again the poople, whom the money kings de
nounce as a mob, are about to effect another
triumph over their oppressors, and will in
augurate the greatest ern of prosperity tha
this country has ever experionced,
We wish to show to the lollowers o
our opponents that the free
limited coinage of silver at 18 to 1 would
be to their best interests. If anv man
finds that he is better off under the gold
standard, if he sees that he 1s becoming rich-
er as his money appreciates, that as
Brows every day scarcer his is getting tore
valuable and will buy more, then let kim
»
i
money
this undeserved and unfair advants
his fellow man, but let him not turn in his
Arrogance on those who wish to establish a
standard that will not appreciate and eanss
the fall of prices and property and ali eom-
modities; let him not turn on those who wiil
establish m system that will make a dollar
the same ten years henoe that it is te -day,
and, holding himself up as the patriot, de-
clare that the advoostes of such a system are
un-American and even Anarchists, Bat we
are giad to see that as we are approaching
the settlement of this question thers is less
o Over
Peopie are nol to be fooled any longer, and
effect, despite their cries of alarm and in
aoe
ercia
bring prosperity and
When we ha A curren
ually diminishing
must necesarily dec
the growing
he trouble about
xe# and oth
+ X *
the fall of pri
fallicg prices distress,
2 #
at is
fall wit I
on the contrary increase, ti
fal 4 at 4
of the dollars, sul}
prices in every
Rose that are he up OY trusts, »
© rk is harder t
AYO
al, gas,
and whateve
bring what it would
state of affairs is brought about
traction of money, then
back to the creditor
and in protesting azai
we hari back bis charges of
we to be called
against paying
valuable money thar
as our creditors are e
VeRTS
y the
% we are
than we received,
& growing evil
§ repudiation,
idiniors for pr
dabts
testing
we received?
uewrned, we are simply
asking! ur progerty and
our goods, more work and better wages,
and we will pay him back in the same num-
ber of dollars that we received, If farmers,
laborers and debtors are better off, then the
creditor 100 Is bound to be benefited, for his
would ba a detestable position if he pros
pered only by the distress and hard times of
the people, But they say, suppose we end a
thousand doilars to-day and next vear when
or better prices for
and the debtor is repudiating his debt by
paying in dollars that will culy buy fifty-
threes cents’ worth of goods,
rise to par all at once, the volume of money
is not going to be doubled in a day for it was
not eat in half in a day, it has jaken some
twenty years to become half what it should be
and has eflectad the vdeclinelof prices gradn.
ally. The amount of money in circulation
will gradualiy increase and prices slowly
rise. Even when prices do reach a much
higher seals than at present the expense of
living is not going to be aoubled. If the
amount of whest in a loaf of bread costing five
cents is worth one cent and the price of
wheat doubles to two cents, is that any rea.
son why the baker should charge ten cents
for the loaf of bread? A suit of clothes that
sells at twenty dollars and contains, say two
dollars’ worth of wool, Is not going to cost
forty dollars beeauss wool doubles from two
to four dollars. The baker may add another
cent to his bread and charge six cents in.
stead of five, and it wages go up he might
make it seven cents. The elothier can add
the two dollars more that he paid for his
wool and change his twenty dollar suit to
twenty-two, or add another dollar or 8 on
account of higher wages and sell 8 for
twenty-three or fourdollars, And so with
everything. Higher prices and plenty of
inoney among the people will give
plenty of work and good wages,
which are synonymous with prosperity,
Our opponents tell us, and it is the first time
that such a senseless wry has ever been rafsed
in any political campaign, that governmept
cannot fix prices, hey endeavor to show
us that this Government cannot raise the
price of silver to par, In 1844 England fixed
the price of gold at about $10.50 per ounce,
and offered to buy the gold of the whols
world at that price, and what was the result?
Bhe succeeded, and did it alone without the
assistanoco of any other Nation, illastrating
clearly that commerce is not the ouly thing
that regulates price. In this instance it was
price fixed by the Government,
That the business of the world adjusts it-
sell to the arbitrary eonciments of govern.
ment is but the theory of {res trade and pro-
teotion. But to-day all our opponents,
whether gold Demoerats or Republicans, pro-
elaim that the Government cannot malerie
ally change the commercial value of silver,
Ou adversaries conrge that we will be re-
pudiators. They einim that under free coin.
age | will depreciate, have leas pur.
me power snd to pay a debt in it that
Was contracted under the wold standard will
be an aot of repudiation, as we will ba pave
Ing in fifty-three cent dollars. We deny this
and tell them that our dollar will be a bun
dred-cent dollar, The United Btates will
make it a legal tender doliar worth one
hundred oconts and will raise tho price of sil.
ver, which 1s now about fifty-three cents, to
100 cents, by making an unlimited demand
ora limited supply, and thers is no ono in
ino wide world who will sel his sliver, if he
ins any, at fifty-three cents or seventy-three
cents. or at any price lower than that which
the United States will give. This Gavern-
ment will coin anyone's sliver into silver
dollars worth 100 cents and that will fix the
price, Wa are told that we will be flooded
with the sliver of the world, which will drive
all our gold from our shore«, but this is also
8 groundiess issertion, The gold bugs
prophesied that under the Buaud act
our sold would go abroad, and
yet immediately after {ts passage our
stock of gold increased from one hundred
and ninety millions to nearly five hundred
millions, which clearly shows that silver in-
variably keeps the gold, while under the
kold standard we cannot keop it. We have
been witnesses to this fact, We have seen
our gold leaving us and golog abroad, and
wo have to lasus bonis and torrow money
to run the Government, and oven ncw the
bankers and brokers have had to make gigan-
tio efforts to get a little of the gold back, as
they know another bond {ssue or a paalo
would mean Bryan's alaction,
Now as to the flood of sliver. Bafore en-
teriag into any kind of discussion we might
answer casually that plenty of silver and no
gold is bettor than no silver and no gold.
Now let us see how much silver will make
ap this flood. The United States proauce
about forty per cent, of the silver of the
world, Mexico about forty more, leaving only
twenty per cent. to foreign countries, Mexico
13 not going to smd us any, since
she herself holds her mints open to receive
it and coin it, and we have remaining, thers-
fore, the twenty of foreign coun.
tries, jut the bimetailie, and even the gold
rountries of the world, most of this for
their own colnage. The flood cannot come,
harefore, from the production of the metal,
There are besides £3, 500,000,000 of silver
in coins outside of this continent, Although
it 1s chiefly subsidiary, being ecinnd on a
gold basis and backed up by gold, it is,
therefore, as efficient as gold, and forelgoers
are not going to {neur the expense of send-
ing it here and get nothing better for it.
On the contrary, they would lose by the
transaction, as the prevalent ratio in other
aountries is 15% tol. Ours being 16 to 1,
they would lose a hall part, or about three
eehts on the dollar. As to the silver used ia
the arts, it would not pay to melt down all
the silverware of the world, whichis to a
iarge extent, valuable for the labor and skill
applied to it, for the mere amount of sliver
bullion contained therein, Would it be ad-
propose, tu have free ¢
per cent,
use
, 5 some
unnatural bullion value of 3210 17
We are suffering from a contraction of
money; the scarcer it is the lower are pr
[ wa the ratio 32 to 1 we
would have to eall in all the silver that we
have already coined at 16 to 1, melt it down
and re-eoin it at 32to 1, and cause
ago of one-hall the money already {on cireu.
Two dollars woud } t
established of
a ahr
f SOT
n
made in
ny relief, wa
would cause a great scarcity of money and
harder times, The am { silver and gold
Hscovered and produced fu the
story of man, been too
demand upon it for coin and
Carlisle sald in "78: “Mankind
tunate, indeed, {{ the annual pr
gold and silver ooln shall keep pace with the
annual increase of population and industry,
It would be unwise, therefore,
A system t would
pr duction t
again offer to cut
saving the sliver inta
ish the ratio of §
unt «
ha« never,
he
oth
require a
ban has ever prevalied,
thers
the in t
yey in the same
namely,
nn
fa
ME RL,
oreosaitn.
. nn the
ne
(al tender
13 grains o
: Hi coin bim =»
ust judesd be m foolish
a the or
v nay BY cas
ty of the 50 cent
aollar for
than those
doilar.
ore
EE —
Gold Standard Not tiood for a Natiom
(in Debt,
The United States are eminently a
producing Nation. Our naturs! re-
abandance and quality are unequalled
by any other Nation in the world. In
the fiscal year 1804 our exports of
domestic products ezceeded our im-
ports by $215,210,8315. To realize
this balance of trade in our favor, we
had to sell about twice as many goods
as we would have had to sell under
bimetallic prices current before 1873,
In other words, if we bad the seme
Prives in 1894 that existed in 1873 the
alance in onr favor would have been
about $430,420,630 instead of only
$215,210,315, «
The appreciation of the gold stand-
ard bas been so great, even from 1890 to
1895, that England, a consuming Na-
tion, on balance of her imports over
her exports, realized a profit of about
$250,000,000, due to the fall of prices
from 1890 to 1885,
In addition to this, we being a debtor
Nation, every increase in the purches-
ing power of the dollar makes heavier
our burden. Oar National debt in
1866 was $2,827,868,050.46 and in No-
vember, }1895, was $1,126,379,106.
Taking nine leading staples of the
American market we flud to onr dis-
may that the balance due last Novem:
ber is greater in purchasing power
than the whole original debt was in
18661
For the American people, producers
snd debtors, to favor the gold standard,
which lessens the price of their pro-
ducts and enbances the value of their
debts, would indeed be a most suicidal
poliey.
A Prediction Verified.
Hicks~{o you believe in presents
ments?
Wicks—Yes; something told me only a
little while ago that I was going to meet
& bore.~Somerville Journal.
DOLLAR,
MEXICAN SILVER
If the gold bugs will but state all
the facts, they are welcome to all the
comfort they can get from the “object
lesson” of the Mexican silver dollar,
It Mexico practiced free and unlim-
ited coinage of silver, instéad of
throwing nearly one-balf of her pro-
duets into the markets of the world as
bullion, the price of the bullion would
not fix the prico of her silver, inelnd-
ing coins, as taught by the silver men
of Europe and America for the past
twenty years,
But Mexico is unable to preserve
the coinage value above the bullion
value for the following reasons :
Her silver money is in somewhat the
same condition as our greenbacks dur-
ing the War—good for all purposes
*‘except duties on imports and inter-
est on the publie debt,” and is, there.
fore, worth less than onr full legal
tender money, ns was the case with
our trade dollars of 1878-6, So long as
they retained the quality of legal ten-
der they were at par with gold; when
the legal tender quality wus repealed
they became bullion and were worth
only bullion price. Also us was true
of gald when demonetized by Germany
in 1857, It became Lullion in that
country and the price of the coins fell
to bullion price. And in England, at
the present moment,§ the value of
English gold coin is three cents an
our = greater than gold bullion. The
difference is waintained by the laws of
legal tender and receivability in the
revenues,
In these respects the Government
of Mexico cannot act freely and fully,
because of the contract to pay goldon
her foreign debt (8180,000,000), which
was funded many years ago, when
gold and silver were at par, and it was
not anticipated that Any attempt
would be made to demonetize silver
in order to double the value of gold,
sod at which time the Mexican leaders
also consented that the interest—as a
matter of convenience—should be pay-
able in London and in gold.
Not knowing then, as they have
found out since, that thers would be
any inconvenience they, like our debt.
what should be justly paid, and there-
fore Mexico must collect a large por-
the revenues of the home country,
of silver above its bullion value, there
laws of legal tender well
enforced, asin the United States, Eng-
land, France, Germany, and several
other countries, In all these essential
No par-
allel can be drawn between the Mexi-
can dollar and the United States full
legal tender dollar under free
the
Chicago platform.—New York Sabuz-
ban,
——————
Evil Efleet of Falling Prices.
General falling prices mean a con
of money and are de
ity, not only in
business circles, but also among the
people at large. Low prices lassen the
profit to the maaufacturer
merchant, and destroy the
producers, ;
quent fall in their
mediate effeat uj
bers of society. The
fall, the number of men employed di-
mishes, no new concerns and enter.
{ all prospe
This conse-
revennes has its im-
the other mem.
wages of laborers
On
mills throughout the land are elossd.
aud, in a conntry where low prices pre-
itors will ultimately feel it, for the
debts due them enhance in value as
prices fall, and will finally be sacrificed
in their debtors’ bankruptey. All
these conditions are in our midst to.
day, the direct results of onr present
financial system. The gold standard
has been given a fair trial and has
been found wanting. The public econ-
fidence and credit of the Nation have
been weakened by the present Admin.
istration to the extent of 8160,000,000
in the maintenance of the present
standard. Isn't the continuance of the
present gold standard a little too dear
and costly for the American people ?—
New York Suburban,
I ————
An English Oplaion,
When Bryan's valisnt fight against
the corrupting money power was
opened, Democratic newspapers pub-
lished a statement made by the Lon-
don Financial News, of which the fol
lowing was the pertinent part:
“There can be no doubt abont it
that if the United States were to adopt
# silver basis to-morrow British trade
would be ruined before the year was
out, for American industry would be
protected not only at home, but in
every other market.”
It bothered the Republicans might-
ily and at last the sernpulous Repab-
liean press, that “Divine Right” sec-
tion of newspaperdom, sent u messayo
to the Financial News respscting the
quotation. The News denied that tae
statement had ever appeared in its
columns. Thereupon representatives
of Democratic newspapers were sent
to London to look through the Finan.
cial Nows files. They found that the
quotation was correct. Since then
the Republican party's press has not
said a word about the Financial News
quotation. [
A similar resnlt followed the alleged
discovery that Prince Bismarek's let-
ter favoring bimetallinn was falsely
translated. When the original was
published and the. Democratic claim
that it was genuine thns substantiated,
the Republican press relapsed into
profound silence on the ‘question. —
Madison (N. J.) Democrat,
DENEFICIAL EFFEOTS OF THE WIL.
fON TARIFF LAW,
An Enormous Increase in Our Kx
ports is Conclusive Evidence of
the Soundness of the Low Tarlnt
Position — Remarkable Showing,
The statement of this country’s total
foreign trade during Beptemober, is-
sued by the Burean of Statistics, 'mukes
without apy question the most re-
markable showing, for the autumn
keason, in the history of American
commerce. It was in September, 1801,
that the failure of the European and
Asiatic wheat crops started the huge
export movement of American grain
to Europe. Our export record of that
Year has long been proverbial in the
records of United States commerce,
Yet, though our total export trade of
September, 1801, reached the large
figure of $52,054,085, the exports of
last month riee mate rially above them,
of 885,008, 5u4, To
bearing of such a movement on
present sitnation, comparison
more recent years is necessary,
the
with
826,558,531 above that of September,
1895, and $26,050,731 above 1804,
When the
last month, as compared with previous
years, 18 taken into reckoning, the
contrast becomes even more
sive. © Our exports of Hast month ex-
ceeded imports by 834,272,889, where.
8s in the same month of 1805 there Was
of imports reaching
Ih re is little cause for
wetonishment the favorable
ment of the foreign xschanges,
such a radical
in Love
wien
alteration in our trade
situation has oceurred,
large part of this enorme
trade has been caused
1891,
us
1808,
export
ns in
ghortaze oO ceria
Crops, & very
in this country. But
great misfortune to
to the grain move.
went the ut heavy export trade.
The rec Septem be t's grain ox.
ports, i ity and by Yolame, is
issued nrean
with peral tra
throws great lizht on
oy h
European grain
generous harvest
it would be a
ascribe entire iy
a
against
simultaneons
reg ort,
6 ae
movement.
Comparison
those of the oc
1861 shows very plainly tl
i ¥ Lunt
figures with
month in
other
combined with
breadstuffs in rai ing this vear's ex-
port average to sal. It is
rue breadstafls « port movement
’
ol shows increase of
EEE
Con
its heavy
al
over last year: bat
10 such comparison
our total ex.
the record of
igh
kinds exceed
stuff trade of
Last
ounirs’s
9,649,953
¢ wide)
lower,
he eo
I BGT hoa
AOA, TY
i
are slioht
|
f
breadstuffe
og per
exports
cent. of the
exports; this year
percentage to the t barely
From this the necessary conolus-
ion is that our export trade this
#on 10 sll brasches i
in §
vastly exceeded that A YEar ago,
but has passed far be yond the record
of 1801. In other words the country's
ia}
IRA 18
3
nels and o anuinct:
of
years of the Wilson tai net, has
reached a volume quite without preco-
dent in oor history.
That this movewent is not the ont
of a single season, was amply demon-
strated by the official figures of man.
page last Friday, In the face of such
impressive and instructive
lessons in the benefits even of & hall- |
way tariff reduction measure, we
ehould certainly advise Republioan
orators to say no more about proteo-
tion. Taken along with the paralysis
in the country’s export trade in man.
ufactures, which promptly followed
the nohappy McKinley law of 1890,
the movement of the present year is
conclusive witness jo the soundness of
the low tariff position.
As to the sctual significance, to our
futare, of this unprecedentedly favor.
Able trade balance, there can be no
two opinions. Had the export increase
beon in agricultural products only,
it would have been easy encugh, and
in the main correct, to pass it by ss a
lucky accident ; a picoe of comparative
good fortune which we owe to the
reason’s hot winds in India, or the
wet harvesting season among the other
foreign grain producers. This would
bave made the improvement in our
geveral situation, which may be ex.
pected qnite aa reasonably this year
ns in 15801, a temporary mattor—as
indeed it was five years ago. But
when evidence points wo convincingly
to the faot that Amerioan trade and
production of all kinds have struggled
fivally to » sound and stable basis,
where they cau at last compete on
fairly equal terms with the world at
large, the inference from the export
trade statistion becomes a matter of
the largest moment, — Now York Post.
» 3
Teacher-—-Johnnie, do you know waal
memory is? :
Johnnie Chaffie-— Yes, sir: that's what
you forget with.—Texas Sifter,
Protectionist Gall, Wen
We have seen many specimens of
protectionist gall, but the following
from the Cleveland Iron Trade Review
comes very near the top of the list:
“There has heen not a little infiam-
matory comment in the cotton grow-
ing section of the Bouth on the
ndvance in cotton ties this year, Last
year orders were taken as low as 624
cents n bundle of thirty ties, or forty.
five pounds, This year the price has
been advanced to $1.25, There will
be no sympathy with the compluints
of the cotton tie consumers, in view
of their open and successful assault
upon the manufacturers in the Wilson-
Gorman tariff act, which put cotton
ties on the freo list, while less finished
products carried a fair duty. After
strugghng for two years under this
handicap, and carrying on a profitiess
competition with English manufactur-
ers, the cotton tie mills of the United
States made an arrangement with
their Euglish competitors for a divis-
ion of tonnage, and later, it is report.
ed, the foreign allotment was bought
up by the mills in this country. This
15 a counter upon the ruthless attacks
for his ties, as he ought to without
complaint—since all are on an equal
footing—and the manufecturer will
ont,”
tariff that is more just than that which
cotton on the free list,
[hey can be made as cheaply ia the
United Btates as anywhere
world, and there would be
or justice for placing » duty on them.
If manufacturers of cotton ties
ever carried on a ““profitless competi-
pinges ties
in
ou
because they did not manage their own
business well,
They can make tics at as small a
cost as the Pritish mannfacturer, if
not smaller, and the only reason why
they want high protection for their
product is to secure a bounty which
the farmers of the South would have
to pay.
The recent rise
is tho result of
with a prohibit
far easier than it is now for
turers of cott
maintain extortionate prices for their
products. — Atlanta Journal
—————
ties
but
in the price of
a combination,
manufao-
in ties to
The False Viea of Protection.
T duties is
CIAIROTY
tariff is
he average rate of
over 40 per 1 i to
protection Hen BUCH 8
now
force is rid
What do
Where Are
9
$ 2 * 4 i
otestion 1s
e, to what height
favorite cries ia,
mericans,” and they
ut the duty
preserve the
for our
home m
pr
§
of
IC INAarKet
"ho bas the
Ties
Yaiue
AR JI is of
an
similiar character am iess than
$300,000, 000, or : eth
the quantity of home
the same character,
4
less tha tard
A very small per
the United
States bay foreign-made goods, and an
increase of the tariff would
the f in
of the people.
While our
mand of the
cent, sitizens of
the
Cot «
home market under the
rapidly their sales in other countries.
They increased
crease since July 1 has been
larger in proportion.
factory than were those of the MeKin-
ley tariff, which the Republican leader
18 #0 anxious to restore.—Atlante
Journal,
All Denefiting by a Lower Tarif,
The farmers are not the only class
that are finding better markets even
under that imperfect measure of tariff
reform, the Vion Chas act. The
increase in the export of agricultural
products does not sccount for the
whole of the increase in exports. The
Courier-Journal has repeatedly ealled
attention to the fact that the present
tariff bas given our manufacturers a
continually growing foreign market.
manufacturers themselves have
recognized this faot, and while some
of them are still clamoring for higher
duties many others are opposed to any
revision of tariff, except in the direc-
tion of more revenue, whioh means
less protection. — Courier-Journal,
When Blondin walked a rope over
Niagara, thousands went to see him
who wonld hardly have walked a block
to see him walk the same rope stretched
twenty feet above terra firma. Why?
Manifestly because in the one ease a
fall would have been a trifling affair,
and in the other he would have gong
down to sure death. Now a searcher
after glory and simoleons announces
that he will ride across Niagara on a
Bleyele over a charged wire, Of sonra
Thousands will go to see the wonderful
and idiotic feat, and if he goes down to
the whirlpool! and rocks below there
will be the usual emotional effects, In.
cluding sobbing men and faluting wor
med, who went there half expecting
Jus. such a tragedy.
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WILL RAISE ELEPHANTS.
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in California
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that the tem-
perature of the cylinder remains sta.
tionary and so low that the cooling ap-
paratus generally required is dispensed
with, It is supposed that this system
of motors will be available for motors
which range from one horse
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Don't Sleep Just After Dinner,
To test the supposed advantages of a
nap after dinner, Dr. Schule of Fri
bourg has made a series of experiments
on two normal subjects. The contents
of the stomach were analyzed a few
bours after meals, some of which were
followed by sleep and some were not,
and the results indicate that eleop
weakens the stomach’s movements,
while the acidity of the gastric juice is
increased. On the other hand, simple
repose in a horizontal position stimu-
lates the motion of the stomach with.
ont increasing the acidity of the gas-
tric juice. It is concluded. therefore,
that one should streteh himself our for
a rest after a hearty meal, but should
not go to sleep, especially if the «om.
ach isin a dilated condition or is juices
very acid,
A New Plant,
The cultivation of the cassava plant
has been begun in the United Stare,
It is a shrub from six to eight feet tall
and bears large tubers underground.
These are first heated to drive of the
poisonous hydrocyanie acld, and they
are then made into tapioca and dex-
trive. It ix sadd that the latter can be
sore easily manufacture] from this
aan than from corn.