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 A PHILOSOPHY OF THE ROCK OF SILVER AND THE ROCK OF GOLD 
 
 WITH THE TRUTH BETWEEN THIS BATTLE OF THE 
 
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 The positive Han and Nation and Hemisphere versus the negative ilan 
 «nd Nation and Hemisphere. 
 
 Silver flercury or Warmth versus its counterpart, Chlorine of Gold or 
 Cold. 
 
 Speech is Silver, and talks too much, versus Silence is Gold, and talks 
 too little. 
 
 The Chemical properties of the warm 5un and Day versus its opposite, 
 the properties of the cold floon and Night. 
 
 The liberal Hydrogen, which radiates and gives too much, versus its oppo- 
 site, the conservative Oxygen, which absorbs and receives too much. 
 
 The Greek Celtic, or prodigal or second son, versus the Roman Saxon, 
 Roman Spaniard, or older son. 
 
 nilitancy in the open, on land, versus its opposite. Navy and industrial 
 rionopoly. 
 
 Paul, who pioneers and plants too much, versus ApoIIos, who receives 
 and waters too much. 
 
 The Sharp of Life versus the Flat of Life. 
 
 The King of Warmth and Love versus the King of Cold and Law. 
 
 Is it not better to radiate and give time than to 
 remain at home receiving and absorbing others' 
 time? 
 
 No, my dear brother, the mathematical or 
 reverse process is the basis of all life. To posit or 
 radiate abroad and give time in pioneering is undig- 
 nified. We are at the receiving end and prefer to 
 remain at home and accumulate others' time. 
 
 But is it not manly to be open and above board 
 Apollos? 
 
 No, my dear Paul, the mathematical and reverse 
 process is the manly part, which, being interpreted, 
 
You are entirely too fast, Paul, and 
 if we did not keep you down would wreck and inflate 
 our Nation and Continent into mercurial ether. 
 And are you not merely our mathematical and re- 
 verse process, entirely too slow, Apollos, and if we 
 did not keep you from sinking would drag us by your 
 density down, yes, down into the very grave? Gold 
 and its chemical properties of chlorine and negative 
 affinities of bromine and iodine are the night and 
 winter of life, remember. Your cold gold conserva- 
 tives are in the saddle on two Hemispheres at pres- 
 ent and your negative fleets surround the islands of 
 Crete and Cuba, helping destroy, by starvation and 
 famines and your pestilential fumes of night, the 
 liberals who dared to state and to assert your prom- 
 ises are never kept. 
 
 Yes, but my dear Paul, you are too impatient — 
 you do not give us time to keep our promises — 
 disturbing the peace of Europe and doing your 
 best to manufacture gunpowder and drag us 
 into war with Spain, to violate international law. 
 We also sympathize with Crete and Cuba and have 
 voted $50,000 to the Cuban cause, or rather to assist 
 our Americans in Cuba. 
 
 That is all very good as far as it goes — you have 
 some sympathy for Greece and Cuba, that is true; 
 you are possessed of some hydrogen, too, remember, 
 but you have more sympathy with the Negative 
 Turk and Spaniard and have more oxygen than hy- 
 drogen. While we, as your counterpart, would have 
 had a little sympathy for the Turk and Spain, but 
 would have openly assisted Greece and Cuba, and 
 
our fleets would have been at the Dardanelles and in 
 Havana instead of doing patrol duty for the Sultan 
 and for Spain. So that you must observe, Apollos, 
 v^e are counterparts, and in shutting up the mercury 
 of life in Continents, shutting up the mercury of life 
 in Cities, and violating Terrestrial laws you are 
 shutting up your own vitality and bringing pesti- 
 lence and the plague and the famine and travail to 
 our very doors. 
 
 There now, Paul, be calm and do keep still about 
 the plague and pestilence. It might disturb and in- 
 terfere with industry. You are very prone to show 
 off, Paul, and be theatrical and act the demagogue 
 under the guise of patriotism. Too ready to line up 
 with the liberal and jingo side of life, who are never 
 satisfied unless when creating a disturbance. Greece 
 creating a disturbance in Europe, Ireland disturbing 
 the peace of the Empire, Cuba disturbing the peace 
 of the American Continent and England's prodigal 
 disturbing the peace of the conservative Boer. 
 
 Yes, Apollos, that may be; we are somewhat dem- 
 onstrative, but you are our reverse, ever, remember, 
 too cold-blooded and slow, Apollos. "Thou hatest 
 to be reformed'' and are thus ever responsible for 
 this disturbance. Too slow with your promised re- 
 forms in Turkey, too slow with your reforms in 
 Crete, too slow with your reforms in Ireland, too 
 slow with your reforms in Cuba, too slow with 
 your reforms in Africa and too slow with your 
 financial reforms in America. Yes, my dear Apol- 
 los, we may radiate under the guise of patriotism, 
 
but you are merely our reverse process ever, you 
 absorb under the guise of patriotism. 
 
 But, my contrary and reverse process, you are 
 possessed of such inflating tendencies you are never 
 satisfied unless when increase and advance is the 
 order and only truth of life. 
 
 And are you not my counterpart, my opposite, 
 Mr. Cold Gold, and possessed of such contracting, 
 withering, blighting tendencies that you were never 
 so happy and jaunty as now, when contraction and 
 retreat you consider the order and Truth of this 
 Universe? Contraction (at our expense, of course), 
 too dull to observe your own City vitality and Nega- 
 tive affinities must also suffer; that Truth rests be- 
 tween and cuts with a two-edged sword. 
 
 But you are possessed of such visionary ideas, 
 Paul, of such anarchistic and socialistic tenden- 
 cies — tendencies that are degrading and danger- 
 ous, and must be suppressed by the better elements 
 of the land. Your social fads and theories are very 
 pretty, but there is nothing sound about them ; they 
 do not work in business. What we desire now is 
 business, not sentiment or preaching. 
 
 Then how comes it, Apollos, you are simply prac- 
 tising on the quiet, some of you, what we advocate 
 in the open? You form a pool, why? Because you 
 were fighting each other and going into a commer- 
 cial grave as a consequence, but you decided at last 
 to pool your issues and thereby save all extra ex- 
 pense and waste. You are not idle, but find a place 
 for each and are rewarded according to your worth. 
 Exactly, Apollos, in short, you are practising in Mo- 
 
nopoly what we aim at in Bi-Metallism, which would 
 mean a Universal pool — all in the Monopoly — the 
 even balance reached at last and the silver and the 
 gold of life would then be side by side, with each re- 
 warded according to their true worth. 
 
 Paul you are certainly a dreamer. Why, Bi- 
 Metallism would revolutionize all values, create an 
 industrial panic and scatter our Cities to the winds. 
 Why not let well enough alone instead of being agi- 
 tated and creating feeling and a disturbance. Under 
 Bi-Metallism there would be no earthly chance to 
 make money. We would have to give as much as 
 we receive. 
 
 Certainly, Apollos, and have you not, by your 
 wiles and sorcery, beguiled us to your Cities? Have 
 you not taken more than you were entitled to be- 
 cause of this Monopoly? Does it ever occur to you, 
 Apollos, in accumulating, as you term it, in robbing 
 us, you merely rob the other part of your own body, 
 National, political and individual, and go to sleep 
 and die as a consequence? And does it ever occur to 
 you, Apollos, in ceasing to coin silver, which, in its 
 process of smelting, feeds and fills the air with mer- 
 curial ether and hydrogen, you are violating a Ter- 
 restial law of Nature? Kobbing yourself as well as 
 us of much vital food and creating travail in and on 
 our Universe? That the days and all life of day, 
 including Continents on the silver part of life, or 
 positive, will become warmer and that the nights and 
 all life of night, including Continents, will become 
 colder — in short that positive Terrestrial atoms will 
 
become warmer and negative Terrestrial atoms 
 colder? 
 
 Bosh! What has a Terrestrial body to do with 
 business? What we desire now is peace and quiet 
 in order that Confidence may be restored and the 
 factories set in motion. 
 
 As is the individual so will be the body politic, 
 social, industrial, National and Terrestrial, and if 
 you disturb a Terrestrial body it will, by every law 
 of mathematics, create disturbance in an individual, 
 political, industrial and National body. Are we 
 not a miniature Continent — yea, a miniature Crea- 
 tion? Do we not contain all the chemical proper- 
 ties of a Continent? And does the Continent and its 
 air not furnish us our food? Tamper with a Terres- 
 trial Law of Nature and Nature will catch up with 
 you. 
 
 You mean the unusual agitation manifest in sil- 
 ver men, or liberal men (as they term themselves), 
 and on Silver Continents is caused by closing the 
 mints to the coinage of silver? That in shutting out 
 silver and coining more gold than ever before we 
 keep back and shut up, in a sense, the silver half of 
 life. Good. And do they not require keeping down 
 and keeping under? Are they not too prodigal now? 
 
 True, Apollos, we have ever been far too prodigal, 
 in a sense, and good natured and easy with you, but 
 remember we have been the Pauls who pioneered and 
 hustled and planted too much for you, and that when 
 Paul's confidence is shut up and he ceases to be prod- 
 igal or liberal and give too much, Apollos will cease 
 
to receive as much as usual and the growling we must 
 soon face will he a natural result. 
 
 Chemically speaking, you mean that in ceasing to 
 coin silver, coining gold and charging the air with 
 the Negative properties and currents of density we 
 strengthen silver which contracts with cold's prop- 
 erties of oxygen, and that lack of confidence and 
 business life and life generally will follow? 
 
 You have my idea exactly, only that, as your 
 smelter will inform you, the properties of the one 
 metal feed and strengthen and purify, by contrac- 
 tion, the other, but that each is poisoned by its like. 
 
 I presume you mean, Paul, that gold is strength- 
 ened by heat, which is silver's properties, and that 
 silver, as its reverse or complement, is strengthened 
 by cold, or the chemical properties of cold. Is that 
 what you aim at? Yes. Then gold and silver may 
 be taken from the baser metals and the air, after all, 
 if your argument would hold? 
 
 Yes, most assuredly so; but in seeking this result 
 we must remember, as the smelter will also inform 
 us, the sun will volatilize all silver life into mercu- 
 rial ether, which sun and mercurial ether feeds gold 
 and negative minerals, while night and winter and 
 their properties volatilize gold and feed all silver 
 life and positive minerals. Smelters will also in- 
 form you that the use of salt, which is a concentrated 
 cold, will not even prevent the mercury from being 
 lost during the day. So that as individuals, Apollos, 
 we really do die daily, and but for the other half of 
 each would not start to life again, and it might be 
 
well, Apollos, to seek PauPs confidence again instead 
 of denouncing him. 
 
 There may be something in this as a science, but 
 supply and demand regulate prices and the National 
 progress, nevertheless, my fertile and volatile 
 brother. 
 
 True, supply and demand and Monopoly regulate 
 prices but what regulates all, Apollos? We fondly 
 imagine we can chain the elements, but the elements, 
 of which we are a part, chain us yet somewhat, we 
 are beginning to find out. Gold conservatism, or 
 cold, is the night and winter of all life, is it not, my 
 dear, placid brother? And do you expect to con- 
 vince any one outside of New York and the conser- 
 vative East and side of life the night and winter of 
 all life is the only sound and safe policy, without re- 
 gard to the sunshine of life? Come now, Apollos, 
 winter, contraction, dissolution, death, will hardly 
 pass for the Truth and only "sound,'' as yet. 
 
 Well, Paul, contraction is not a bad thing to have 
 at times. Your side of life desire too much creation, 
 think the trouble is caused by a lack of everything, 
 deluge the whole earth with produce and life and 
 never satisfied. Contraction is a good thing to have, 
 Paul. It destroys all the weeds of life, the vines that 
 never should have been created; you think there is 
 too little of everything, including money. We are 
 the reverse, it would seem, and inclined to think 
 there is too much of everything, including life and 
 money. 
 
 But in shutting up the mercury, Apollos, did it 
 ever seem to you it means shutting up much of our 
 
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vitality and much of that positive current which 
 purifies the air, and that those only who are able to 
 reach the other side — ^the even balance — and be Bi- 
 Metallic in their tone are likely to escape this winter 
 of our life? 
 
 What is the use of being so excited and agitated 
 and fussy, Paul. Bi-Metallists seem to die like the 
 rest of us. If we can stand it, who are satisfied with 
 Gold, as the soundest Truth, surely you can. Why 
 delight in being so contrary and perverse? 
 
 If to shut up the silver of life means explosions, 
 we are likely to go together. 
 
 Yes, but Apollos, you forget there are two of us 
 and that you are as perverse and stiff-necked in our 
 eyes for acting the pig and wanting gold and cold 
 only as Truth as we are perverse in your eyes for 
 seeking an even balance. Justice with us seems to 
 be that silver and silver life and atoms or warmth 
 should be treated with as much consideration as 
 gold life and atoms or cold. You persist in forget- 
 ting there are two of us, complements of each other. 
 
 Oh, hang your Justice and preaching and senti- 
 ment; we are here to make as much as we can. What 
 we desire now is peace and quiet and a rest. 
 
 Peace, yes Apollos, and Arbitration, while you 
 and your Negative Affinities absorb the usual lion's 
 share of the spoil; but look out, Apollos, lest the 
 earth swallow and absorb the sea somewhat. 
 
 And what are you going to do about it, Paul? We 
 thrashed you among the hills of Scotland, have kept 
 you down in Ireland, thrashed you in Volatile 
 France, thrashed you in Silver Kussia, have shut 
 
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you up in Crete, penned you up in Cuba, thrashed 
 you often before and will do it again, my quarrel- 
 some brother. 
 
 Thrashed us in Scotland; yes, with the assistance 
 of Argyle. Thrashed us, yes, in France, with the 
 assistance of Silver's prussian blue. Thrashed us, 
 yes, in Kussia, with the assistance of the Volatile 
 France. Very adroit at getting another to do the 
 fighting for you, and especially adroit at running 
 off with the larger share of the spoil; but when the 
 prodigal returns, my dear brother, you will have no 
 other prodigal to assist you and we will then find 
 out whether gold or silver, oxygen or hydrogen may 
 be the more ductile or yielding side of life, and 
 whether equal balance of power does not mean an 
 equal balance of territory and Continents, as well 
 as of individual atoms. 
 
 Now, Paul, do be calm and not advertise your ill 
 nature; you are too restless and boisterous and hot- 
 headed. 
 
 Yes, Mr. Cold ApoUos, bromine and chlorine and 
 cold may be your idea of good nature and the only 
 safe and sound policy, but your cold will never help 
 you for having violated a Terrestrial law. 
 
 Terrestrial rot. What we propose now is busi- 
 ness and peace and quiet and rest. 
 
 True, Apollos, ever to your side of life, and we 
 are evidently going to have it to — that is Terrestrial 
 rot and a rest. This, my dear brother, may be a 
 prodigal Hemisphere versus a receptive Hemisphere, 
 the East as Conservatives versus the West and young 
 South, the producer versus the consumer, but it is 
 
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not the question of classes versus masses you would 
 have us believe, and when the Pauls of life have their 
 confidence shut up he withdraws his investments, 
 hoards his substance instead of crowding it on the 
 market, contraction begins, your gold is drawn from 
 your treasury, no silver is being coined to feed you, 
 and through a chaos of snarls and growls and rot 
 and death we arrive ultimately, by a Natural law, 
 at Bi-Metallism. 
 
 Contraction, dissolution, death. Yes, but Nitro- 
 gen is a two-edged sword, and for every silver son 
 that falls a counterpart somewhere will meet their 
 death. 
 
 My dear "King of love my Shepherd is," since when 
 did you start out as a calamity howler and begin to 
 pose and show off as a Philosopher? I thought you 
 were a hustler and progressive and creative, but 
 here you are settling down and contracting and cre- 
 ating feeling and fostering repudiation. Why not 
 get to work and do something? Man alive, you will 
 die of dry rot if you settle down at home and practice 
 the receiving part. It is better to give than to re- 
 ceive, Paul. Brace up and invest, spend your money 
 freely in order that we may do the receiving. 
 
 Thank you, Apollos. Do your own planting and 
 pioneering and producing; you have abused us, vio- 
 lated our confidence, dictated to us the value of our 
 goods, as well as the value of your own, broken your 
 promises, been running off with the lion's share of 
 the attention and spoil, and there will be no more 
 confidence reached until Bi-Metallism has been 
 reached. Confidence is that which rests between 
 
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us — Justice and Faith. Bi-Metallism is Faith, be- 
 cause it holds neither of us under ground or in bond- 
 age, and your flout of creating feeling, etc., is sheer 
 ignorance, since your abuse of us in our ears is the 
 same feeling. When you catch an absorbent calf 
 by the ear it bawls. When you catch a greedy pig 
 by the ear it squeals. Yes, and every other ox and 
 pig around takes up the strain and bellows; yes, and 
 grunts around your heels, "pitch fork,'' anarchist, 
 dangerous, revolutionist, cheap reprobate, prodigal, 
 and "bad form," "don't you know" is offered as argu- 
 ment, mathematics and analysis. The same nega- 
 tive hiss that crucified martyrs and has fought every 
 liberal suggestion beginning with flouts and jibes 
 and noes and ending by accepting the suggestions 
 giving birth to them as a policy and claiming them 
 then as their very own — Gold the basis of society! 
 The golden molten calf the basis of society. Ah, he 
 is a wonderfully greedy beast, this prince of dark- 
 ness, and he is never satisfied. And yet we are not 
 one whit better, as presently constituted, for if we 
 were not so prodigal he would simply not receive 
 as much. We have too much hydrogen; he has too 
 much oxygen, and it takes us both in Harmony to 
 reach Truth or Nitrogen or Electricity, for Truth, 
 between heat and cold is Electricity. Truth between 
 flat and sharp in Harmony is Electricity. A current 
 and counter current, a cycle of giving and receiving, 
 where neither note dominates. Truth between 
 every Bi-Metallic harmony of color, the blending of 
 a blue with red, an orange with purple, is Bi-Metall- 
 ism, or Truth of Color, an equality in which neither 
 
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tone dominates, but in which they heighten and illu- 
 minate and feed each other. Not such an Electricity 
 or Truth, however, as man has as yet chained in his 
 business, but a Truth far more powerful, existing in 
 the even balance of all atoms. Nitrogen or Spirit, 
 the Creator of all life. Besting in the even balance 
 until such time as we return to Justice as a Terrestial 
 people. 
 
 The attempted Harmony of two negative atoms 
 create discord and absorbtion and is a continual 
 source of unhappiness, individual or National as it 
 is a perpetual filch, and the same will apply to the 
 attempted harmony of two positive atoms, only that, 
 instead of absorption, it is the reverse process and is 
 propulsion. The size of a body does not govern its 
 gravity, as has so often been supposed. No, it is the 
 degree, as any electrician will admit. 
 
 The harmony of a positive with its true negative 
 in color in the even balance, however, is a New Crea- 
 tion. The two alloy as one, they throw off a body 
 which is negative and, while invisable, they are the 
 Truth of that body and subsequent life, as chemistry 
 and the harmony of colors, as mineral pigments or 
 atoms will demonstrate, and it would seem the same 
 law of Nature governing mineral atoms govern all. 
 
 My dear Paul, you talk too much — are too vis- 
 ionary, and there is nothing sound or solid or sub- 
 stantial about your arguments — what we need in life 
 now is less music, less color, less excitement and more 
 sound, common sense; and the more I hear you the 
 more I am convinced, Paul, gold is the basis of so- 
 ciety and the only reliable policy or metal, while the 
 
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mere suggestion of silver sounds cheap and is offen- 
 sive and vulgar. 
 
 "Gold is the only sound," etc. Ah, yes; and what 
 Jiidge would agree with defendant who came into 
 court boasting the defense as the only truth of that 
 court? And what composer would agree with the 
 flats of life who came into the music room boasting 
 the cold bassos and cold altos as the only truth, with- 
 out regard to the warm soprano and tenor tones? 
 And what artist would agree with Negation who 
 came into the studio boasting Gold's negative pig- 
 ments of green and orange and red were the truth of 
 Color, without regard to Silver's pigments of the blue 
 and purple of life? And what chemist or board of 
 health officer or Physician would agree that the prop- 
 erties of gold alone are the basis of his society? That 
 oil could exist without the wine of life? 
 
 My dear Apollos, you are a fine conservative fel- 
 low, somewhat cold at times, but some day you may 
 be alive to the fact there are two of us, or strictly 
 speaking, four of us. A prodigal man at the liberal 
 side a grey eagle of life also at the prodigal hydro- 
 genic side. A quiet, conservative man, and a quiet, 
 conservative woman at the oxygenic or receptive side. 
 And you may also note that while you detest the vo- 
 latile and creative in us, you are wedded to it your- 
 self, nevertheless, either as an individual, national 
 or continental atom. And the reverse will hold, for 
 while detesting a calm man, we seem to fancy a placid 
 woman, and as a rule are wedded to the lion of life. 
 It seems doubtful, however, if, as presently consti- 
 tuted and dominated by Monopoly, man ever meets 
 
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his true counterpart, otherwise there would have 
 been an evolution of the race as the result of a nat- 
 ural selection or of a harmony dictated by Truth, in- 
 stead of by Monopoly, for the soul seems never to be 
 satisfied, either, with Monopoly in giving too much 
 or with Monopoly in receiving too much, and seems 
 ever striving, or aiming at, or seeking for, something 
 it has never — found. 
 
 Look here, Paul, suppose we stop this canting and 
 ranting now. We are in a Monopoly of the world's 
 products. The cities and stores in every land are 
 our agents, just as the distributing points of the 
 Standard Oil Company are and act as agents. We 
 have you down in bondage; yes, under the very 
 ground, and we intend to keep you down if we can, 
 now — there. 
 
 That sounds better than peace, peace and arbi- 
 tration, while you quietly absorb the earth, but you 
 are in for it now, Apollos, and will have to face a 
 rabbit your owm size at last, for when silver men and 
 nations begin to realize the truth and, returning, 
 claim their portion in the even balance on the earth, 
 including territory, all the growling you can raise, 
 Apollos, will not avail. Eemember, that when the 
 prodigal returns and ceases to be prodigal the recep- 
 tive half do not receive as much as usual, and ceasing 
 to be prodigal and returning to just weights and even 
 balances, including the coinage of treasure and the 
 division of territory, cannot be repudiaton. It might 
 also be well to remember that as you disturb the leaf 
 of a tree you disturb all the living life thereon, and 
 so with a terrestrial body. If the silver m^ mercury or 
 
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hydrogen in the air or earth is shut up or compressed, in- 
 stead of being coined to purify the air and earth, it will 
 purge that body and Continent — yes, and all its life. 
 Travail in the air and an the earth means travail in the 
 human body, and agitation, travail, famine, the sword, 
 pestilence, and the plague are part of the purging process. 
 Methinks Negation's foot has stumbled in his greed 
 for gain, as foreordained, and we must be prepared 
 to face the night and winter of our life before the 
 dawning Tri-Millenial. You are a fine fellow, Apol- 
 los, calm and steady, with many staying qualities we 
 seem, as yet, to lack, but when it coiaes to infallible 
 and the only sound policy, we object, knowing 
 Truth, to rest with the scales between us both. With 
 Justice on his side, no negative can keep the silver 
 under ground or compressed for long without serious 
 individual political and national results; yes, even 
 to terrestrial atoms, meaning earthquakes. In short, 
 earthquakes and eruptions, individual, political, na- 
 tional and terrestrial will simply follow as a natural 
 law. 
 
 Paul, you are a good-hearted sort of fellow, after 
 all, when we let you alone. Bi-Metallism may be all 
 right, but business is business, and really, now, we 
 cannot afford to begin and give back any territory or 
 possessions. We can out-point you and out-man- 
 euver you with our influence and diplomacy at every 
 turn, Paul, and you may as well get to work. Do the 
 duty and work you were created for, pioneering. And 
 yet conscience tells me that Bi-Metallism would be 
 Justice. Hold on a little, Paul. What is your rush. 
 You say that flouts and jibes and scolds are not math- 
 
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ematics or analysis and that we must start our own 
 individual brains and factories and test by their 
 mathematical process the suggestions offered by you 
 and the questions of finance that brought us where 
 we are, then we will begin here and now. If we 
 here, as two individuals, divide our possessions, will 
 it benefit the balance of creation? No. Does a pool 
 of any kind afford those outside the pool the same 
 chance? No; and every man and every woman in 
 this universe is kept back because they are not all in 
 the pool together, as you know. But, Paul, if we 
 induce the nations to form an international pool, 
 then it would descend, by every law of mathematics 
 and analysis, according to your theory, to the mean- 
 est creature on earth, for cereals and animals, too, 
 you will note, Paul, are out of balance and in monopo- 
 ly of either too much silver properties or too much 
 gold properties. So, likewise, with the metals, if we 
 coin an equal amount of silver side by side with gold, 
 so that the air we breathe, and the air all atoms 
 breathe and feed upon, is equal and has an equal 
 chance, and so that we would be equal givers and re- 
 ceivers, neither dominating. We might all be in the 
 pool, as Americans, but would be leaving out the 
 other Continent entirely, the conservative continent, 
 so that you would virtually be having us, as a terres- 
 trial people, at the feet of a silver idol or prodigal 
 Continent, instead of, as at present, at the feet of and 
 in bondage to, a negative or receptive Continent Our 
 aim is to practice, as a whole terrestrial people, what 
 we have ever preached on Sunday, but violated at 
 our Monetary Conferences on Monday — Even bal- 
 
ances. Absorb all, take all, into the pool. A ter- 
 restrial wedding and blending. So that, Paul, you 
 will perceive we are both working towards the same 
 goal, only by the reverse process of each other. We 
 desire to absorb all, take all, into the pool. You de- 
 sire to give all the equal chance. If you were half 
 as fast at heeding business that enables us to earn 
 our income as you are impatient to spend it for us 
 before it is earned, we would reach success so much 
 earlier, Paul. You are too slow at heeding our de- 
 sires and point of view, and too fast and anxious to 
 display your own fire-works. There are two of us, 
 you say; then face our side first. You are the oppo- 
 sition or defense, and evidently unaware of it. You 
 denounce us, but, as admitted, seem very fond of 
 wedding us and enjoying our gold either as an indi- 
 vidual atom, a national atom or a terrestrial atom. 
 
 Since you are beginning to settle down to analy- 
 sis now, Apollos, and mathematics we may soon be 
 able to reach an even balance of protection to Paul 
 and his silver warmth, as well as to Apollos and his 
 cold gold. Yes, my dear brother, we are too fast 
 and too impatient, and possessed of too much warmth 
 and youth, and the longer you keep us penned up 
 and shirk the question of finance in favor of your 
 selfish factories and eastern cities, gold, as "the only 
 sound Truth," the warmer and unyielding and re- 
 fractory the sun's warmth is likely to become. And 
 while it is true this is your innings and the current 
 has been reversed, the East being the advance agent 
 with the West and young South as receptive (dark- 
 ness turning into day and the reverse holding), we 
 
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are the party who posited the question of finance 
 and money as the issue, and the conditions of the 
 game were finance, and no one would listen to any- 
 thing but finance. If you will create a policy that 
 will be other than absorption, we will assume the 
 mathematical process, but since Paul and the silver 
 side of life generally posit the argument and the 
 great question of Bi-Metallism was advanced by the 
 liberal half of life, while the conservative half, by a 
 law of nature, lined up with their own graven image, 
 or mineral of density. We must remind you to keep 
 the promises you made and face manfully the finan- 
 cial and other questions of domestic, social and po- 
 litical economy, confronting the age instead of dis- 
 gusting all with your selfish and mathematical fac- 
 tories. Too slow at heeding the promises made to 
 the people, too ready to let your mathematics dictate 
 and to frame a law favoring the older son, while the 
 second son has to whistle and do the grovelling for 
 you. That we are wedded to this Monopoly of money 
 ourselves, as individuals, as nations and as terres- 
 trial bodies, we admit, but the fight we have main- 
 tained against its dominance over us has been per- 
 petual. Has it not ever stifled our aims, ambitions 
 and progress? Has it not kept us continually in bond- 
 age and the only result been the birth of another life 
 to leave us and try and strive again for this same even 
 balance of the scales. Just as it has resulted in the 
 birth of a Colony or Nation to strive again for this 
 same even balance of the scales. 
 
 As to your problem, we note you begin at the math- 
 ematical end as usual, Apollos. As individuals, how- 
 
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ever, before we became Nations, we may be pardoned 
 for suggesting the individual is even yet responsible 
 for this Monopoly and Bacteriology and Electricity 
 confirm the possibility of one human atom changing 
 the life of a Terrestrial atom, if assisted by Nitrogen, 
 although admitting your reverse process would hold. 
 
 Paul, you are an interesting fellow, after all. 
 Have many attractive qualities — qualities we lack. 
 Agile and original and somewhat more volatile, but 
 we never know where to find you, Paul, or what you 
 will do or say next. You are so uncertain, my counter- 
 part, and — my, but you are fast, and dying of prodi- 
 gality. Then gold is not the only Sound Truth, is it? 
 Ahem! I have sent my representative to find out, 
 Paul. Then wire him Apollos to brace up before the 
 storms begin, because there are two of us — one ex- 
 pecting the other to make brick without straw (heat) 
 — and the other thinking he can generate steam, and 
 reach prosperity "without the aid and consent" of 
 moisture — or the other half of the Universe. Yes, 
 you are such a restless lot, you pitchforks of life, and 
 seem to be getting more and more so every day. Why 
 not keep quiet and let the factories turn out pros- 
 perity for you. Mathematical factories and gold and 
 cities, my dear Paul, and law are "the basis of so- 
 ciety." 
 
 Of course, Apollos; you seem to forget, however, 
 that everything you have, from the food you eat to 
 the raiment you wear, must come first from the Pauls 
 w^ho plant the producing and silver side of life, and 
 when Paul does not come to town, why my dear fel- 
 low, town will very soon move out to Paul, and there 
 
is your Bi-Metallism, with your factories and Cities 
 (in Monopoly at present) scattered to the winds. — 
 There now, Paul, be calm; not so fast, not so much 
 love, my king, and a little more Roman Saxon law 
 and order. 
 
 Ah, yes. Law for your own selfish factories and 
 negative affinities, but have a care, my older brother, 
 Apollos; our desire was unto you as long as you did 
 what was near right, but when your foot slipped, re- 
 member our eyes were to be open. And w^hen Eng- 
 land, in her absorbent greed, desired to grab Vene- 
 zuela, desired to grab Mines in Alaska and Mines in 
 Africa, under the guise of a Saint and Arbitration, 
 the while their fleets were propping up their negative 
 Turk and absorbing Africa, the silver and prodigal 
 Nations of the earth began to detest her. And when 
 the East began to desire Gold alone and absorption 
 and Monopoly as the only sound policy, the West and 
 young South began to detest her, and when the small 
 stores began to learn they were being quietly ab- 
 sorbed by Monopoly they began to detest her, and 
 when the producer generally began to realize the 
 Cities and stores and receptive atoms or bodies, In- 
 dustrial and National, representing Negative in the 
 play of the Universe, were forever absorbing the 
 Lion's share, they began to detest them and this Mon- 
 opoly, until the whole earth now is in revolt at this 
 absorbent greed and gun-powder is being manufact- 
 ured by contraction in the breast of the silver half of 
 life, even to Terrestrial bodies and refraction of the 
 Sun. 
 
 Keep your feeling and agitation and abuse in 
 
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store now, Paul; remember it is your own counter- 
 part you are denouncing. The Koman Saxon, my 
 dear brother, is as safe and sound among the Nations 
 as gold is in business. 
 
 Yes, Apollos, and they are the only and the 
 infallible. Methinks that has a familiar sound. 
 But Leo XIII is a prodigal son himself, never- 
 theless, from a spiritual point of view — tender, 
 and warm-hearted, and compassionate, radiating 
 and giving into the ether more vitality than he 
 receives. Yes, a silver son whose compositions and 
 whose sentiments betray the breath of living life — 
 yes, mark him well for soon this father, too, will, as 
 he nears the other side, be calling in his flock and will 
 adopt a Bi-Metallic tone. 
 
 Bi-Metallism, that is International Bi-Metallism, 
 we propose to bring about, as the conservative half of 
 the world, in our own conservative way and in our 
 own good time, and we do not propose to have a pol- 
 icy manufactured for us, Mr. Paul. Ah, indeed, Mr. 
 Apollos, then if you intend to formulate a new policy 
 other than absorption, your creative Forakers and 
 Thurstons and the hydrogen of your administration 
 will have to formulate it. Was Negative ever formed 
 without the silver plate in harmong with iodine, 
 bromine, chlorine, etc.? And was positive ever cre- 
 ated and completed again as original without the 
 negative being in harmony with the grey eagle of 
 life, as represented in the chemical properties of the 
 sun? My dear Apollos, you must be dull if you can 
 not see that even political parties are governed by 
 the same natural laws as are any other atoms, and 
 
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that they, too, are out of balance. Your McKinley 
 party seems like the Cleveland party. More oxygen 
 and gold properties than hydrogen and silver prop- 
 erties; but wait until the parties settle down to busi- 
 ness and you will find it is no longer Republican ver- 
 sus Democrat, but Whig versus Tory, or Liberal ver- 
 sus Conservative, or Silver versus Gold. 
 
 The same reprobate Naturalist, Paul; how horrid. 
 Think what the Nation escaped when it escaped Bi- 
 Metallism. 
 
 Reprobate is merely a flout, ApoUos. The ques- 
 tion is, are these suggestions true? And if true, 
 then Truth is beastly only to the beast. 
 
 And what has Nature to do with business and 
 National Exchange? 
 
 My dear Apollos, the laws governing business 
 relations are Nature's laws, and the laws govern- 
 ing National relations and Terrestrial relations in 
 the flowing and the ebbing tides are Nature's laws. 
 And as there are unjust relations with individuals, 
 there are unjust relations with political parties 
 and Nations. Unjust relations in the individual 
 are like the Apricot and Mule — soon blotted out; 
 so, likewise, with the Nations. When the time 
 arrives, however, for us to adopt Bi-Metallism 
 and thereby practice what we preach, the Na- 
 tions and the individuals, it begins to seem, will have 
 their promised heart's desire, and we will embark on 
 a New Era of life under the New Covenant and under 
 a light that will be something other than the sun and 
 moon. When we acquire a taste for tobacco we take 
 with it its counterpart, which is a mortgage on us, 
 
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ever craving more. When we acquire a taste for 
 wine we take with it its counterpart, which is a mort- 
 gage on us, ever craving more; and so with all our 
 varied tastes and habits. The more we give the more 
 we desire to give. The more we receive the more we 
 desire to receive; and it will be found the same argu- 
 ment holds in a National body bonded to its counter- 
 part, as well as any other atom with life on earth, 
 and it will only be a question of time when the mort- 
 gage will be foreclosed and death, individual or Na- 
 tional, would be the natural result, unless our eyes 
 were opened to the Truth. A Truth which reads 
 American prodigality, good nature, liberality, giving 
 ever, as a Continent, more than we received, has been 
 responsible for our bondage as a Continent to the 
 otlier half of life. If America, as a Hemisphere, 
 would remain at home instead of spending their time 
 and attention and treasures in another land, the 
 other Hemisphere would then be willing to meet us 
 half way in all things, including values. If the West 
 and young South, who have ever been generous, 
 would remain at home, the East would very soon be 
 willing to meet them half way in all things, including 
 values. When the producer has his eyes open to the 
 fact the City and store dictate to him the price of his 
 own goods, which they consider "cheap'' and "repro- 
 bate," and sell him the same goods adulterated and 
 with the strength manufactured out of them at high 
 prices, then is it time to scorn the husks by returning 
 home. And that, my dear Apollos, is what your con- 
 traction and Monopoly is going to be responsible for. 
 Electrically speaking, England, in her business 
 
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relations with Kussia, or any silver Nation, is en- 
 gaged in International purity and Justice for each 
 Nation, dictating the value of their products; it is 
 a cycle of giving and receiving — a current and coun- 
 ter-current in which neither dominates. But Eng- 
 land, in her business relations with other gold stand- 
 ard Nations, by virtue of her Monopoly, dictates the 
 price — a perpetual filch both ways, — and is, elec- 
 trically speaking, a national and promiscuous adul- 
 teress beguiling the Nations of the earth with her sor- 
 cery and wiles. A veritable Babylon, in short, while 
 posing as an Altruist and Saint, for the harmony of 
 two Negative atoms reads absorption by the larger 
 body as emphatically as that the attempted harmony 
 of two positive atoms reads propulsion — the one 
 warmth snuffing out the other. 
 
 Humph! The factories will hold the people in 
 groups, as any man of sense would perceive. But 
 you have everything but sense, Paul. Why, if I had 
 your audacity — your nerve — without your agility 
 and theatrical airs, there is nothing on earth that 
 I could not do, Paul. But you are too sensational, 
 too visionary, take in too much territory, and there 
 is entirely too much fur and feather about you, Paul. 
 As to your abuse of England, that is simply vulgar, 
 prompted by jealousy and envy and an ill-natured 
 atttempt to "create feeling'' and prejudice. 
 
 "Creating feeling" — Methinks that has a familiar 
 sound, Apollos; and "prejudice'' — yes, but you shirk 
 the question of Truth, as usual, detesting a Truth of 
 yourself that hurts and brings forth "creating feel- 
 ing," etc., preferring a Truth that reads "dangerous," 
 
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Anarchist, Eepudiator, etc. Yes, we understand. 
 As to the other suggestion, the reverse ever holds 
 if True, since we are counterparts and you are my 
 mathematics. If I had your repose and staying 
 qualities, with some of my own, so that I could reach 
 the even balance, I should be in harmony with the 
 Universe, a part of Truth, and there is nothing on 
 earth I could not do. To reach the other side and 
 see ourselves as the other side may see us is now the 
 Philosophy of our time, Apollos. To thoroughly 
 recognize there are two of us and that we are dia- 
 metrically opposite, with the Truth between us, is 
 to be Bi-Metallic in our tone. As to the fur and 
 feather and demagogic part, every male on earth is 
 a demagogue pealing a love song to his mate and 
 possessed of a bearing suggestive of plumage and 
 fur of varied hue. Why is it your side of life — ^the 
 conservative man — detests a brilliant color, Apollos, 
 and has little use for poetry or allegory, or anything 
 oriental and with a rythm or cadence about it? You 
 certainly seem constitutionally opposed to an even 
 balance in anything. All negative birds are quiet in 
 their manner, as a rule, Apollos, and somewhat quiet 
 in their dress, but the negative bird is a maneuverer 
 and full of wiles and sorcery, as mark how she will 
 lure you with deceit far from her nest Not that we 
 object to placidity, Apollos, but only in answer to 
 the assertion gold is the basis of society and the only 
 and infallible Truth we protest, insisting there are 
 two of us, that neither should dominate, and believ- 
 ing in Keciprocity, which is also the Philosophy of 
 
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Electricity — a current of giving as well as receiv- 
 ing — a current and counter-current. 
 
 Paul, you are like the silver sun of which you 
 speak — fitful, somewhat boisterous and far too mer- 
 curial. When we imagine you down for all time you 
 break forth in a fit of warmth as if there never had 
 been night or death. Tempest and tumult and some- 
 thing tragic and startling, your eyes seem to be 
 a magnifying glass, Paul, exaggerating ever — ^too 
 much noise and boom and parade, Paul. 
 
 Yes, Apollos, and you seem to be like the cold, 
 cold moon, that is growing very old, remember, calm 
 and placid and cold — the only spectacles through 
 which you observe everything. Your eyes are sim- 
 ply my reverse process, however, the magnifying 
 glass reversed seeing everything a long way off and 
 a narrow guage. Your idea of the Universe is one 
 manufactured by Negation to special order and war- 
 ranted to suit all negative points of view, a Universe 
 of slow, gradual growth and evolution. There is 
 nothing fitful in your idea of life or fitful or spas- 
 modic in your idea of growth. Age after age with 
 Negation has advanced under Negation as the only 
 "sound," etc., and is still advancing — by sloth — never 
 thinking for a moment there are days and summers of 
 life as well as nights and winters, and that there are 
 storms and tempests, as well as calms. Do you im- 
 agine, Apollos, if an earthquake should wipe us out 
 of existence the ruins of your negative and industrial 
 sky-scrapers and factories would compare favorably 
 with the ruins of France or Greece in Creative worth 
 in Architecture or in an ideal God? 
 
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And your idea of a Universe, Paul, as I under- 
 stand it, has been that it is an embryo which ex- 
 plodes in combustion every thousand years or two, 
 as the veil of the Universe is rent in twain, and that 
 a new created world springs up in evolution at 
 Heaven's command, but that is an exploded theory, 
 my dear boy. Even your advanced Gladdens and 
 Abbotts are beginning to realize the Bible, as a sacred 
 work, contains much that is fiction and poetry, song 
 and "folk lore." 
 
 True, Apollos, in part, that every sheep seems 
 to be straying, "every one to his own way." Casting 
 down such as stand in the way of book or literary 
 knowledge as if knowledge received from books was 
 anything other than negative mathematical or past 
 history knowledge. 
 
 "I will distil my speech upon the dew," Truth 
 tells us, and is warmth of life not fed in a sense by 
 moisture as moisture is fed by heat? And was the 
 reverse process not formed to test the theories by 
 mathematics? 
 
 And if the Bible had been formed to suit Apollos 
 only, when we are diametrically opposite, without 
 regard to Paul, where would have been the Truth 
 that holds us even yet in hand? My dear Apollos, 
 as a Philosophy of the positive giving part of life as 
 well as the gravity and receiving part of life the 
 Bible is the greatest of all Doctrines and the only 
 Spiritual or Electrical Truth, a Truth that has ever 
 recognized and cared for both. If Gladden and Ab- 
 bott would study the Philosophy of Electricity they 
 would begin and realize the suggestions of a prodigal 
 
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son, of Isaac, of the Song of Moses and the Rock, in 
 fact that all allegorical suggestions from Genesis to 
 Revelations were both Spiritual and Material, for 
 Spirit or Electricity or Nitrogen is composed of 
 atoms and mineral pigments of mercury and hydro- 
 gen, as well as gold and oxygen and the properties 
 of the air, are identical with those of the earth and 
 human body. Electrically or Psychically speaking, 
 Jonah would be swallowed by the whale, if at sea, 
 for the whale is a negative fish, and if Jonah was 
 too mercurial, the whale, being too absorbent, would 
 absorb him. Electrically and Chemically, the study 
 of Electricity as a Philosophy would also enable 
 these advanced thinkers to read the covenant with 
 Moses in the Testimony, was an allegorical de- 
 scription, not only of the positive and negative Con- 
 tinents and negative and positive Continents, but 
 also of the anatomy of the positive and negative man 
 and positive and negative woman. That, Electric- 
 ally speaking, or Psychically or Spiritually speak- 
 ing, they represent the same as the first chapter of 
 Ezekiel, the creation of a Photograph and the Crea- 
 tion of all life. That it is scales level, even balances 
 and Bi-Metallism, as Electricity and as the same 
 Truth has far more Philosophy in it than seems to 
 be realized. Think of it, Apollos, not a breath of 
 living life was ever created without reaching this 
 even balance or harmony of the metals and minerals 
 of all the precious treasures of this earth, the Nitro- 
 gen of life, for the human body, while dominated by 
 a monopoly of either hydrogen or oxygen, has all the 
 chemical properties of a continent. And in times 
 
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like these, when it is a question of a father versus his 
 son, we may understand what is meant in the Song 
 of Moses, "Of the Kock that begat thee thou art un- 
 mindful and hast forgotten God that formed thee." 
 Yes, my dear Apollos, these are times when knowl- 
 edge is being distilled upon the dew as food for 
 babes, and days are also near, it would seem, when 
 some of our wise men will be ridiculed, too, for a 
 very large proportion of children in these very days 
 are going through a fire of heat because, forsooth, 
 they will not bow down to a Golden Molten Calf; 
 that is (let us see how large, for in these days we are 
 material not spiritual) in a monopoly. Material, 
 yes; but where is the matter, pray, that does not con- 
 tain the Spirit of Nitrogen? Even Spencer has 
 changed his ideas and acknowledged psychology and 
 matter as indissolubly connected. 
 
 Gold the basis of society! the chemical properties 
 of the moon the basis of society. And does the 
 mariner not recognize a Truth between sun and 
 moon? And does the mariner not recognize a breeze 
 towards the land during the day and at night the 
 reverse process, a warm breeze from the land to the 
 sea? And what mariner would trust to and take 
 his observations from any moon alone, without re- 
 gard to sun? 
 
 But you forget, Paul, woman really represents 
 love, and that without her there would be neither 
 love nor compassion on earth; while as to Nations, 
 Kyd's suggestion of the Saxon race and Saxon son, 
 as being illustrative of tenderness and compassion 
 and altruism, is generally accepted. 
 
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Then how comes it, Apollos, the conservative and 
 negative half of life have ever crushed Ireland while 
 propping up her negative and placid diplomatic 
 affinity, the Turk? And how comes it the conserva- 
 tive or negative half of life are surrounding the 
 Island of Crete and starving the people of that 
 island? Look at their conservative compassion in 
 Cuba, Apollos, how benignly and with what cold- 
 blooded composure they altruize the people into 
 cities that they may starve and die. I tell you, sir, 
 gold absorbs all atoms, psychically and otherwise, 
 into cities and factories merely to starve and die and 
 every Nation that has ever worshiped at her shrine 
 has worshiped but to die and try again. That wo- 
 man and gold and wool and factories and cities rep- 
 resent one part of Truth and "sound" and Altruism 
 and Love, we will admit, as mark with what fond- 
 ness they care for their family, "protecting" them, 
 bearing them in her arms, nursing them on her 
 bosom, soothing them. But it is her own young and 
 family, particularly, Apollos, and there is little love 
 manifested anywhere on earth, as yet, from the 
 beasts of the field and the fowls of the air to the po- 
 litical party named conservative or Nation named 
 conservative, for the other side of life — the family 
 of others. The word liberty to them is repudiation 
 when not all on their side. In Truth, Apollos, the 
 oxygen of life is something of a "Jealous daughter 
 of Judah," and the positive side of life, while pos- 
 sessed of many weaknesses, while being somewhat 
 light and ductile has, nevertheless, been wide in 
 range and quite as altruistic and able to note there 
 
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are two of us as they are to note each side is merely 
 lining up with its mineral. And that one side, the 
 Mathematics of life, the factory and City, in the play 
 of the Universe has become so puffed up — has such a 
 "big head" — it fondly imagines itself the only God. 
 Not that we object to woman, the only true gold of 
 life in any sense, but to anything other than 
 equality as between man and woman we object — to 
 gold as the only sound we object and repudiate, to 
 maneuvering and diplomacy and adroitness and sor- 
 cery, which reads only the maneuverer is sound, the 
 open man who gives and is out-maneuvered because 
 he is composed of hydrogen and prefers to give, be- 
 ing "unsound" and void of honor and integrity — to 
 all such sorcery we object. If Negation or Mathe- 
 matics must dominate the earth, as she has encom- 
 passed man, then let us have the genuine true gold 
 as our Diplomats and adroit maneuverers; and if 
 Mathematics is to be the advance agent, the pioneer 
 who will clear the forests "without the aid and con- 
 sent" of hydrogen or silver, why the first mouse that 
 appears, my dear Apollos, will simply create a panic 
 on your bourse. 
 
 The Negative Nation, boasting itself as the only 
 and infallible. The Negative political party boast- 
 ing its affinities of factories and gold as the only and 
 infallible. The merchant and the farmer boasting 
 round the store fire of how they absorbed their neigh- 
 bor. And the woman in the circle of her friends 
 boasting of the number of her admirers and of how 
 she had beguiled them, are birds of the same feather, 
 and their name is "gravity, the greatest of discover- 
 
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ies"; but those who are in touch with the world as 
 a whole at this present time realize there must be a 
 prodigal (giver) for every one of these receivers, and 
 they are also noting that hydrogenic Nations and 
 political parties and individuals are up in arms on 
 two Hemispheres at this absorbent greed, as that it 
 is a battle royal, a battle of the elements now no- 
 ticeable in the earth and air, as well as among the 
 Nations. A battle of the elements of heat versus 
 cold, with the Truth resting in the even balance, as 
 Electricity. Not that we insinuate all are alike as 
 promiscuous as England, Heaven forbid! for as no 
 two stars in the firmament are alike in glory, neither 
 are any two oxygenic colors or gases or atoms alike, 
 although they are the counterparts of hydrogenic 
 blue and purple of all life. And just as Nations and 
 individuals tuned to the hydrogenic harmony are, 
 as the rays of day, becoming more and more refrac- 
 tory, as the contraction proceeds, so likewise we 
 will find it in the animal life. They, too, will become 
 refractory and obstinate and stiff-necked, for the 
 elements of Heaven, as well as the elements on earth, 
 are evidently at war; and the arch fiend of selfish 
 greed (money), knowing well this innings is his last, 
 with only one more wicket to fall, will do his best to 
 throw a volume of water at the new birth — a volume 
 of water and mud, however, which the earth will 
 merely swallow up. 
 
 Humph! Mere "generalizing'' and evanescent 
 vaguery, void of facts, not a single figure to back the 
 assertions or foundation to build upon. All in the 
 hydrogenic air, as usual, what Gladden would term 
 
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"fifth Century imagination," and ludicrous in the 
 light of this ''Scientific Age.^^ And then the Mil- 
 lenial, I presume. 
 
 Yes, you forget 1900 is the Millenial, Apollos; 
 however, you brush that fact aside as you do the sug- 
 gestion there are two of us, and that one cannot live 
 without the other. What sort of a figure would Eng- 
 land make without her Celtic Colonies? What sort 
 of a figure would the East make without the West 
 and South? 
 
 The same sort of a figure, Apollos, that woman 
 would without man, or gold would w ithout silver — 
 contract, wither up, die. Sneer at the Millenial, Apol- 
 los, as you will, but the elements will remind you, 
 from time to time, of its approach — 'Hhe handwriting 
 is there upon the walV As to Gladden^s ''Scientific Age,'^ 
 the science of the day and hour and age, Electricity tells 
 us the Bible, from Genesis to Revelations, is written 
 in the language of Electrical Philosophy and in an 
 Allegory which Negation, by very Nature, detests 
 and will refuse to recognize, as the liberal man will 
 pass details and figures as uninteresting and dull. 
 
 But you forget, my dear Paul, the age of positive 
 and negative Philosophy died with Greece some thou- 
 sand years ago, w4th all its cycles and its planes 
 and its mineral aflfinities and theories. This is an 
 age of peaceful industry and practical business life. 
 Of morality and humanity and mathematics. Now 
 take the Turk, for instance, whom you liberals ever 
 abuse. Investigations prove conclusively the Chris- 
 tian Greeks are ever the first to stir up a dust and 
 create agitation. The Conservatives fortunately are 
 
in power at present and have been able to sit down 
 on this gunpowder and disturber of the peace, and 
 while public sentiment for a time favors Greece, the 
 calm sound and reliable elements in the land, as in 
 the Venezuelan trouble, will eventually prevail, as 
 they have ever done. This is an age of peace and in- 
 dustry and conservative methods, my dear fellow, 
 and of arbitration, and the days of the brigand and 
 gunpowder and daring highway robbers are gone. 
 The Greeks and Celts have ever been unreliable. 
 "Beware of the Greeks bearing gifts." 
 
 Ah, yes, my dear cold-hearted brother, "Beware 
 of the Greeks bearing gifts," but you know very well 
 the Eoman Saxon son never was the bearer of gifts. 
 Could not bear gifts gracefully if he wanted to, be- 
 cause he has been the "receiver" ever of those gifts. 
 An age of Morality! Yes, the fleets of Conservative 
 Apollos blockading little Crete lest the inhabitants 
 secure any food to eat. Conquering them by starva- 
 tion — the fleet of America aiding in the same cold- 
 blooded work in Cuba. Yes, a wonderfully moral 
 age of gorged divorce courts, of Negations, Contrac- 
 tion — of Negation, cruel ever to his brother. But 
 your innings is nearly over, Apollos, and since every 
 atom on earth has its counterpart for every silver son 
 you destroy, you destroy the Psychical life current of 
 his counterpart, your own body. As to the Philoso- 
 phy of Cycles and planes and affinities that died some 
 two thousand years ago, we are merely beginning to 
 arrive with the Cycle of time at a point in civilization 
 passed by former races in former Cycles of time, since 
 methinks to open our eyes and observe Cycles cours- 
 
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ing along and whizzing through the air in straight 
 lines, at times, may be evidence of a fact we are 
 only beginning to understand what Cycles meant, 
 and methinks the study of Electricity, not for what 
 we can pocket by it, but with a view to learning what 
 it is and of what composed, may inform us we are 
 only beginning to realize what Electrical planes 
 meant, and politics is certainly an evidence of how a 
 man will line up with his mineral or affinity or point 
 of view; but wait until the Nations begin to line up, 
 Apollos, as Nations, not as Conservatives, and you 
 may find there is nothing in this world yet, other 
 than Eoman, that is not Greek in tone. We have had 
 many and various names for our cereals, but they are 
 all either dominated by too much hydrogen or silver 
 or by too much oxygen or gold properties. We have 
 had many and various breeds of poultry and cattle, 
 even, but, after all, there is the active breed versus 
 the passive breed. The one is too nervous and prodi- 
 gal, the other too dull and much of a pig. So that 
 neither alone, my dear Apollos, is the only "sound,'' 
 and as long as you fill the air with more of one min- 
 eral than you do with another, we are likely to be out 
 of tune and to line up with opposite points of view, 
 while to charge the air mth negative only of density and 
 shutting up the positive life and mercurial currents on two 
 Hemispheres, will simply mean earthquakes in Terrestrial 
 bodies and atoms, earthquakes in national bodies, earth- 
 quakes in individual bodies, and contraction which, of 
 course, means dissolution and death. The hour of dark- 
 ness before the dawning day. 
 
 And when are all these calamities to reach us, 
 
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Paul? I thought Electricity was the lightning's 
 flash that, like thought, could span a Continent in 
 the twinkling of an eye. We are anxious to see some 
 of these signs and wonders and calamities that ap- 
 peal so much to your warmth. And I say, Paul, when 
 did you begin to pose as a Prophet after the order of 
 Melchizedek while being averse to peace and arbitra- 
 tion? And Paul, how much longer are you to be in 
 learning the gods on your side, composed of positive 
 accumulation, Jewish tin, have ever sold you out and 
 been responsible for your death? 
 
 Arbitration, yes, Apollos, and Venezuela; but 
 that was a liberal triumph for the prodigal Continent 
 frowning; no, that was the end of Venezuelan ab- 
 sorption. Those seeking peace in sincerity will find 
 it, as you know, in Bi-Metallism, in the even balance 
 of territory, as well as weights and measures. Some 
 one has been doing business among the Nations, un- 
 der the guise of a Saint, with a false pair of scales, 
 and the Great Adjuster of weights and balances is 
 beginning to expose, not only her shame but the wan- 
 ton sorcery with which she has beguiled the Nations 
 and been "grinding down the faces of the poor'' upon 
 two Continents. My own body you say? My own 
 counterpart? Then if it will not meet half way in all 
 affairs of life and will persist in forcing us to bow for- 
 ever at the graven shrine of money, why, let it go. 
 There is no Truth in such a counterpart or atom. 
 
 As to the destruction of our power by the more 
 absorbent tin of life. That alchemy will corroborate 
 in connection with mineral atoms, and we are cer- 
 tainly governed by the same laws of heat and cold, 
 
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action and reaction. As for calamities, why, my 
 dear Apollos, they are with us now. Set your mathe- 
 matical brain and factory in motion, Apollos, and 
 figure out the natural result of the contraction al- 
 ready with us and your conclusions will bear me out. 
 Twenty-five per cent, of values on the tax dupli- 
 cate by contraction is cutting down one-fourth of 
 the weeds of life also. Since contraction of atoms 
 includes human atoms, we must remember. For one 
 who is such a stickler for laws (to suit negation) it is 
 a pity you fell out with Nature's laws, Apollos. But 
 you are going to learn, my dear brother, there are 
 Terrestrial laws — laws governed by higher Nature, 
 as well as laws framed to suit Monopoly or lower 
 Nature. 
 
 Terrestrial rant and rubbish, Paul. Why, you 
 are getting to be a "silver crank," and really not in 
 any condition to be about. 
 
 Apollos I Do you remember what Negation said 
 of General Sherman when he demanded half a mil- 
 lion men to crush at once the rising South? Did 
 they not say the man was mad, had lost his senses, 
 "don't you know," and should be removed? Yes. 
 Well, my dear Apollos, you are simply the same nega- 
 tive half of life, and as unable now to anticipate what 
 is coming as you were then. 
 
 General Sherman was the sharp of life. John 
 Sherman is the flat of life. The one was volatile and 
 fast and warm, the other is diplomatic and slow and 
 cold. The one detested diplomacy, the other detests 
 war. Splendid specimens of the positive and nega 
 tive man in life. Splendid specimens of propulsion 
 
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and absorption. The one will be remembered for his 
 boldness and daring in cutting the wires leading to 
 diplomacy and marching to the Sea. The other will 
 be remembered as one who formed and fashioned, 
 yes, and brought, the Koman Saxon golden and ab- 
 sorbent Calf of contraction here to America. And 
 yet to Conservatives John Sherman will seem the 
 better man, and to Liberals General Sherman will 
 seem the better man. But, strictly speaking, from 
 a spiritual or electrical point of view, one is as good 
 as the other — the one being merely the reverse pro- 
 cess of the other. If you would care to know, Apol- 
 los, the gift of seeing ourselves as others see us is 
 simply to be Bi-Metallic, to weigh our arguments, to 
 balance them in an effort to reach Truth. 
 
 You have offered so many fantastic ideas, Paul, 
 it is no easy matter to keep up with you. There is 
 one suggestion your counterparts or opposites of life 
 has opened up to me, however, in connection with the 
 Bible and I am really more glad than otherwise we 
 met this evening. The Bible seemed often to be con- 
 tradictory, favoring first one side and then the other. 
 But since it is evident our points of view really are 
 diametrically opposite, and since each finds encour- 
 agement there, the Bible certainly comes to me now 
 with a greater light, and while doing my best, na^* 
 turally, to look at the bright side of affairs, now that 
 our party is in control, it does begin to appear we 
 may be on the eve of a decided change in our indus- 
 trial affairs. If we sit down and face, mathematic- 
 ally, the present situation, taking the army of sev- 
 enty million bodies as our own, allow for a shrink- 
 
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age of 25 per cent., already manifest in taxes and 
 values, the amount of real estate accumulating in 
 the hands of the sheriff, the natural result of contrac- 
 tion by floods and wars and the season's disasters in 
 the West and South, which, in its turn, will be felt 
 by the railroads and cities, necessitating reductions 
 in wages and strikes at a time when agitation and 
 disturbance seem in the air — these alone, with the 
 corresponding lack of confidence, are evidence of 
 times of travail that must be met ; and while flouting 
 your suggestions of returning to a paternal form of 
 government again, in the interest of the unemployed, 
 we have really accepted your suggestion in our effort 
 to tax the people for the benefit of the unemployed. 
 That negative atoms destroy and poison other nega- 
 tive atoms we may admit, and that the contraction is 
 cutting in both directions we will also have to own, 
 with cities and city life and factories and mines, the 
 mathematical affinities in the play of the Universe, 
 evidently the greater sufferer. We may also own 
 that mercury, in harmony with its opposite, would, 
 as lightning or electricity, purify the air; but I am 
 not satisfied, and doubt the suggestion, that travail 
 and dread disease is in the air we breathe and feed 
 upon now as a result of ceasing to coin silver, al- 
 though admitting mercury assists in purification. 
 As to the suggestion. Negative atoms create discord 
 and that it would apply to Nations, England, in her 
 relations with India, Eussia, China or Mexico, we 
 must admit can only dictate the price one way, since 
 silver goods are high and they hold each other level; 
 while England, in her relations with America and 
 
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other countries where gold is the standard of value 
 and basis of exchange, will, by virtue of her monop- 
 oly of commerce, incline to dictate the value of 
 everything each way, just as the store does the 
 American producer. We will also have to admit a 
 strong argument in favor of coining the metals side by 
 side in France, That it has, since in part adopted, kept 
 the family and increase at a nominal rate and afforded 
 the land owner a chance in life. If you will only give 
 us time, however, International Bi-Metallism will 
 come as a result of our efforts. Monopoly dominates 
 all life in Nature, Paul, and, in a sense, seems to have 
 been foreordained, since it has ever crowded out the 
 other part to new fields and, therefore, been respon- 
 sible for reaching earth's ends. It is a well-known 
 fact a conservative man will avoid liberal men if they 
 are too much in evidence, and the reverse would 
 hold, if true, while we all know a liberal man does 
 love to Pioneer. Moreover the silver men and Na- 
 tions, when in Monopoly, crowd out, by war or vio- 
 lence, the conservative half, as witness Mexico and 
 Cuba with Spain, or Russia with their accumulative 
 Jew, as you term it; while, on the other side, Eng- 
 land and Germany, since gold was in control, have 
 quietly crowded out their Celts. I am also prepared 
 to admit gold and negation favor or represent, some- 
 what, contraction as an atom, an individual or a 
 Nation, but prodigality and inflation has had every- 
 thing up so high we must reach the ground at times 
 in order to take breath. If you will only keep calm 
 and quiet and not create a disturbance Bi-Metallism 
 will come that much sooner, Paul. 
 
 
But, my placid brother, can you keep a people 
 down when the very elements are at war within 
 them? Why trifle with their impatience? When 
 Paul does not come to town, Apollos himself will 
 do the growling, you will find. Why shirk the 
 money question? Why persist in flouting and 
 scolding your brother? You are the conserva- 
 tive Apollos. The liberal half of life have ever 
 been "the lambs,'^ electrically speaking, whom 
 you have fleeced. Are you so dull as to imagine 
 "Confidence," which rests between the silver and the 
 gold, is going to be found by flouts and adjectives, 
 instead of by Mathematics and Analysis? Can you 
 not see every flout and every day of golden cold 
 merely means an extra nail in the cofiin of your Neg- 
 ative Cities, merely increases lack of confidence? 
 Why not face the situation with analysis instead of 
 manufacturing, by your venom, silver gunpowder 
 that will rend your body Terrestrial, National and 
 individual, from sea to sea? 
 
 Do you desire to emulate Pharaoh with Israel? 
 Don you expect us to manufacture brick without 
 heat? Expect confidence without the mercury of 
 life? That is certainly the electrical solution or sug- 
 gestion of your policy of shutting up the mercury of 
 life; and not only does it mean dread disease in our 
 air, but it means that your first born too will feel it, 
 for this is silver versus gold, or father versus son — 
 "a Father rending his own arm." The true gold of 
 all, however, like the prodigal, has ever been left, 
 as a rule, to fight it out alone, since gold was in con- 
 trol, for the prodigal who hustles and moves to a far 
 
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country leaves his counterpart invariably behind. 
 The iron, or negative, or conservative man, by a na- 
 tural affinity, is wedded to the silver eagle of life. 
 But the lion — the prodigaPs true mate, the only true 
 gold, as a National body or individual body — it begins 
 to seem may yet have her heart's desire, for Bi-Me- 
 tallism will certainly level all balances and bring 
 each counterpart face to face. But I would prefer 
 to be a gold man, Paul. I hardly like the idea of 
 being neither the one nor the other, a sort of strad- 
 dler or two-faced being; and yet, as you suggest, the 
 perfect man or Truth had four in Ezekiel. True, the 
 perfect man would be in harmony with the elements 
 and could then destroy a city or an army at will. 
 "How could one chase a thousand and two, put ten 
 thousand to flight, unless their rock had sold them 
 and the Lord had shut them up,'' is somewhat sug- 
 gestive of these very times and of Bi-Metallism, or 
 Electricity, and it would certainly put an end to war, 
 while, no doubt, as we near the even balance we will 
 be able to see ourselves as others see us, but it is go- 
 ing to be as difficult for us, as conservative, to be the 
 advance agent and prodigal part as it is going to be 
 for you to play and act the receptive part. Yes, I 
 can see how cross and surly we are likely to be, as 
 individuals and Nations, with each other as a result 
 of being out of tune. But I say, Paul, if there is any 
 Truth in what you suggest that, as is the individual 
 atom so will be the human, political, social, National 
 and Terrestrial atom, with the reverse holding, and 
 we do find them out of tune, why, my dear fellow, 
 according to your Philosophy of Electricity, when 
 
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we go to the gold mines and silver mines for the pre- 
 cious treasures of the earth, we will find the silveu 
 mines in flames by contraction and the gold mines 
 turning either to moisture or ice and in a state of 
 chaos also, by contraction. And we may expect to 
 find a silver or positive continent as an atom and 
 agriculture in a state of fire, and the sword and a 
 Negative or Conservative Continent and Cities gen- 
 erally, in the play of the Universe, in a state of pesti- 
 lence and famine, with the walls broken and the 
 vitality departing. And if the Truth of this Uni- 
 verse is a current and counter-current, why, Paul, 
 this Continent and Nation and our Cities, individual 
 and otherwise, would be receiving all this contrac- 
 tion in turn. That might have been under the rule of 
 "pyrotechnics,'^ but not under the rule of Mathe- 
 matics and law. International law. And if the 
 Truth of this Universe is Electricity or Nitrogen, as 
 Spirit and Bi-Metallism means the coming of the 
 Nitrogen, we may expect to see all Oxygenic matter 
 and water, like an atom of gold or clay in the furnace, 
 change from an olive tinge to that of orange, thence, 
 in its exposure to the furnace of your earth's com- 
 pressed warmth, or Nitrogen, to red. Ah, yes; 
 sounds quite like the Millenial and "that last sunset 
 when the stars shall fall," but we will hardly believe 
 it yet, Paul, believe our fleets or waters will contract. 
 Very likely not, Apollos; hut you forget 1900 is the 
 Millenial. The Tri-Millenial. The beginning of the 
 third cycle of time, when, hy every Natural, Electrical and 
 Mathematical law, a new development or birth may 
 be expected in the harmony of the Silver Cycle with 
 
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the Gold. You also forget, in your reference to "that 
 last sunset/' etc., the year 1900 will witness the great- 
 est fall of stars and fire our earth has ever encoun- 
 tered. And what does earth mean if not our individual 
 body as well as Terrestrial body? These are Mathe- 
 matical facts, Apollos, you cannot brush aside with 
 a "flout." The handwriting is there "upon the wall,'' 
 scold as you will. If you will send a sepecial mes- 
 senger after your own heart, my dear brother, to 
 Spencer, of England; Edison, of New York, and 
 Langley, of the Smithsonian, calling in your ablest 
 Alchemist and your Philosopher of light, you may 
 be surprised to learn the atom of silver and the atom 
 of gold not only tell the story of heat and cold, hydro- 
 gen and oxygen, but that the story of the Heavens, 
 as known to an elderly Celtic woman, handed down 
 from generation to generation, is quite as near the 
 Truth of this Universe of ours as the wisdom of our 
 Mathematical men in figuring the distance of 
 Heavenly bodies through a reflecting glass, such as 
 the moisture and the ether of the Heavens may be. 
 As to "that last sunset," also, we may note first, 
 what you cannot get away from, that the sun is even 
 now clouded and spotted and refractory, and that 
 on two Hemispheres simultaneously the liberal or 
 sunshine of life are retiring to their tents, contract- 
 ing and becoming compressed and refractory, while 
 we have the most promising of all "signs and won- 
 ders," the conservative half of life, the party of dark- 
 ness and night are turning to the party of day. To 
 brush these facts aside, Apollos, with a sneer may 
 suit you when "talking politics," but they will be, 
 
and are, beside you continually in your sober mo- 
 ments. 
 
 But think of the contraction, Paul, the "savage 
 butchery" of it all. It is a bitter pill ; yes, bitter to 
 the taste, this Truth of yours, and really, now I am 
 hardly ready yet to accept it, although admitting 
 there is more in Bi-Metallism than has been realized. 
 
 Believe it, my doubting Thomas, Apollos, no, of 
 course you will not, and as to the contraction and 
 "savage butchery," it is a pity you did not think of 
 that before bringing to us your Golden Molten Calf 
 of absorbent Monopoly and greed. Believe a Truth 
 that is a retributive Justice? No, you desire to do 
 the butchering and starving to death yourself, Mr. 
 Cold Blood, in Crete and Cuba, and by absorbing our 
 life into your cities to starve, and think that part of 
 it quite the proper thing, but a God who rests in the 
 Center and metes out Justice to both, why, such a 
 God is a savage God. Yes, we understand, Mr. Ne- 
 gation, but for every son and silver woman and child 
 you destroy, my dear Contractor, you merely cut off, 
 the life current of their counterparts, since man, it is 
 being demonstrated by Electrical Philosophy, does 
 not live by any means on bread alone, but is fed 
 Psychically while asleep. We fight our weaker part 
 in fighting you. McKinley and Hanna fight their 
 weaker part, the Thurstons and Forakers of life, in 
 fighting the silver side. As the silver men, in fight- 
 ing McKinley and Hanna, are fighting their conserva- 
 tive Gormans and Hills and Whitneys. And you 
 will observe it may also apply to Nations, since Eng- 
 land, in fighting the volatile France or Kussia, merely 
 
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fight the weaker part of their own body — the silver 
 Celt of life. As Prussia, in fighting England, would 
 be fighting his German part of life. The reference 
 to music may also hold in life, individual and na- 
 tional, since what is flat in one harmony may be the 
 sharp in another. England's prodigal son in Africa 
 would really be the silver pioneer part, while Prus- 
 sia's Eoman son would be the Boer, too slow with his 
 reforms again. All know France pioneered it in 
 Suez and Egypt, but Apollos received it as usual. 
 
 It does begin to seem we are fighting our own life, 
 as individuals and nations, in fighting each other, 
 and going to the grave as a result of our greed some- 
 what. That part I will admit, and Electricity, as 
 the Philosophy of Nitrogen, of that which rests in the 
 even balance between affirmative and negative, 
 would apply to every argument and be the Truth, in 
 a manner, of every subject. Yes, we will have to ad- 
 mit the metals are the Philosophy of color and the 
 philosophy of Music the Notes inflating as they de- 
 scend the scale, expanding as they are strengthened 
 and fed by gold or cold, and at the other end of the 
 scale the reverse process the notes contracting and 
 being purified as they ascend the scale. 
 
 They are also the philosophy of clays, it would 
 seem, which, like negative minerals and colors, are 
 purified by contraction in the furnace of heat. But, 
 my dear Paul, you will have to confess Ck)ntraction 
 does purge us of our dross and tin, and you will have 
 to admit that contraction of life, even, is necessary 
 from time to time. 
 
 True, Apollos, I do admit it. Admit we have ever 
 
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been too prodigal in all things; but you must not 
 growl and marl, Apollos, when Contraction cuts your 
 side, including cities, territory and life, and must not 
 blaspheme a God and Justice that is a retributive Jus- 
 tice and whose sword is a two-edged sword. 
 
 True somewhat, Paul, and it is evident Blaine's 
 Keciprocitj and Pan-American conception was the 
 same Principle of an even balance — a current and 
 counter-current, as Bi-Metallism would suggest. 
 And that, in fighting the silver of life, we not only 
 combat part of ourselves as individual atoms, polit- 
 ical atoms, and national atoms, but that it will apply 
 to Terrestrial atoms, for the Great South American 
 Republics are of silver tone, we must admit, and there 
 seems no reason why Blaine's Pan-American con- 
 ception, as the Destiny of his Nation, should not be 
 carried out at this time and the Hemisphere, includ- 
 ing Canada, combine in Harmony as one great Bi- 
 Metallic whole. 
 
 We will also have to own, Paul, Gold has favored 
 the growth of cities and negative affinities, absorb- 
 ing the rural districts, as that in the contraction, as 
 the rural districts and interests are cared for by Justice^ 
 it will be at the expense of oxygen gold or cities gen- 
 erally. In short, Paul, the city and gold can only 
 profit and increase at the expense of the country and 
 silver, and the reverse must hold. When Agricul- 
 ture begins to increase in value it will be at our ex- 
 pense. 
 
 Exactly, Apollos, but your ideas of an even bal- 
 ance heretofore have been as your conception of Tem- 
 perance — and all on one infallible negative side. 
 
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But we are all likely soon to learn it takes both par- 
 ties to reach Ccmfidence and that either alone never 
 has and never can, "v^ithout the aid and consent" of 
 the other half, or the Justice or Truth or Conscience 
 (for I take it they are one), which rests between the 
 two and within ourselves as atoms individual and 
 continental. Yes we are in for it, both of us, Apol- 
 los. The peach bud blighted in the early fall will 
 cling to its branch throughout the winter months, 
 but with the flood of Nitric life and light that comes 
 on the Odylic Spring, it drops, yes dead upon the 
 ground, to be taken up as food by the parent stem; 
 and what are we but buds upon a parent tree, who 
 must be Bi-Metallic in our tone and proof against 
 the flood of Nitric fire and flood of stars our earth 
 (which, of course, is our body also) encounters in 1900 
 the Tri-Millenial? 
 
 But we know all about stars and meteors, Paul. 
 
 Ah, yes; do we? Ask Oamille Flamarion, who is 
 likely to know, and you may be surprised at the an- 
 swer. You hear sound and harmonies, but, tested 
 by your mathematics, the Truth of sound, you must 
 admit, is that which is void. So, likewise, with Color 
 and Vision; by greed we have separated color into 
 a positive color and negative color, while mathemat- 
 ics demonstrates Truth there is also opaque. Ah, 
 yes, we are seeing Sun, Moon and Stars simply be- 
 cause Nitrogen radiating through all, casts their 
 shadow in the ether of the Heavens. "In them hath 
 he set a Tabernacle for the Sun," is as true of to-day 
 as it ever was, Apollos ; and if you have any wise men 
 left other than Negation, it might be well to consult 
 
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them. Send a special messenger, my dear Brother, 
 to Langley, of the Smithsonian, asking as to the 
 luminous and photogenic matter of the human being 
 as an atom and you might be also surprised to learn 
 the human body or brain is composed of both positive 
 and negative, just as a grain of maise, if dissected 
 carefully, will prove to be both positive and negative. 
 That stars are falling from time to time, my dear 
 brother, is true and so, by wars at stated intervals of 
 time, have human lights been going out 
 
 Paul, I must admit it bitter to the taste. When 
 you get after me and see my weak points of contrac- 
 tion or the mote in my eye, I resort to "creating feel- 
 ing," detesting a Truth of myself, forgetting that, in 
 discussing the demagogic and inflating sunbeam in 
 your eye, I am creating the same kind of feeling. 
 Yes, it is somewhat bitter to the taste to learn there 
 is little Truth in us, as presently constituted, and that 
 we, as the conservative half of the world, are not in- 
 fallible, but the mathematical part of Truth only. 
 
 Can you demonstrate to me, in a practical sense, 
 the Philosophy of Electricity or Nitrogen as the 
 Higher Nature of all life, Paul? And why it is Elec- 
 tricity, as chained by man, has to be so contiually 
 fed? 
 
 That, Apollos, would indeed be a task fit for the 
 gods. The same sun, however, which will volatilize 
 all silver life into mercurial ether, and moon that will 
 volatilize all gold life into space is the reason all 
 atoms meet death and have to be renewed. Conquer 
 sun and moon, Apollos, and you have conquered 
 death. Look now at the Cycle dominated by Monop- 
 
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oly and we will suggest such a Cycle as we used in a 
 material sense only a year or two ago. The front 
 wheel was large and the hind wheel was small, and 
 they were out of balance, dominated by Monopoly. 
 This wheel we will designate as + in the play of the 
 Universe. Reverse the process, however, and we 
 simply have a Cycle which we designate — . Or, as 
 another illustration, examine the anatomy of the hu- 
 man brain, especially of the forehead, and you will 
 find the third eye of half the men diametrically oppo- 
 site the reverse process of each other. The same will 
 also apply to woman, in a sense. One-half of each 
 are "bond,'' the other half are "free." Those who are 
 free and open, possessing the Greek frontlet, are 
 formed as a radiator, we may designate as + and the 
 transmitter, psychically or electrically speaking. 
 Those who are bond, the reverse process and acting 
 as the receiver. — 
 
 If you place these men side by side, however, you 
 will find, as by placing the Cycles side by side, it is a 
 wheel within a wheel, or current and counter-current, 
 like the flowing and ebbing tide. Whereas, two posi- 
 tive beings are each anxious to do the talking, the 
 current in each being propulsion, with the reverse 
 holding on the other side, each current being an ab- 
 sorbent. 
 
 This Philosophy of Electricity seems not only to 
 be the anatomy of an embryo, as any one may note 
 who will dissect a grain of maise, or any other grain, 
 carefully, but is undoubtedly the electrical Philoso- 
 phy in allegory of Ezekiel, Chapter I, as it is the Phil- 
 
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osophy of a Photograph or a bill created in the Halls 
 of Washington. 
 
 So that there is little of anything new under the 
 sun, Apollos, and we are merely arriving with the 
 Cycle of time at Electricity with its Cycles and 
 Planes, material and electrical, as known to Bible 
 Philosophy and the Covenant with Moses in other 
 days. In for it! Yes. That representing the 
 country in the play of the Universe, it would now 
 seem, must be given to the fire and sword. That rep- 
 resenting Negation in the play of the Universe must 
 also be scattered to the winds. But there will be a 
 fairer City, Apollos, when the night of life has gone, 
 and nothing will defile that City, for Truth will be 
 the Light therein, and there will be no sun and moon 
 and no more curse of a Monopoly and death. The 
 mountain of the Curse must he conquered, Apollos, as we 
 near the Tri-Millenial and the mountain of the blessings 
 with the level scales. Conservative Monopoly in man 
 will guage his brother by his own graven idol of how 
 much he can accumulate, considering the man who is 
 easy and gives more than he receives, a worthless fel- 
 low. We, as the liberal half of life, heretofore (the 
 worthless fellow), guage a man by his ability to be 
 warm-hearted and charitable, considering the man 
 who forever ran off with the lion's share of the spoil, 
 an over accumulator. Chemically and electrically 
 speaking, it would seem we could not be over-recep- 
 tive without losing our originality of thought, and 
 could not, in reverse, be over-creative and original 
 without losing our staying qualities. A mathemat- 
 ical problem, wonderfully arranged to reach the 
 
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corners of the earth. But in lifting yourself up in 
 brigandine, my brother, methinks the other half of 
 life are wide awake now to your pose. Yes, Apollos, 
 you have upset the goose that ever gave the golden 
 egg. And where will you get your golden egg, Apol- 
 los? Money will stagnate and rot in the bank, as by 
 shutting up the silver of the earth it is purging your 
 Terrestrial body of a Continent, produce will stag- 
 nate and rot and sour. 
 
 Yes, railroads will stagnate and rot and human 
 beings will stagnate and rot. It is a horrible state 
 of affairs to contemplate, but it must be faced as the 
 result of your Contraction, Apollos. Silver inflates, 
 expands, and is a demagogue, and all hydrogen life 
 or liberal life in Monopoly are governed by the same 
 law of Nature — heat inflates, radiates, expands; 
 gold, as its reverse process, merely contracts because 
 it represents cold and density. It is winter now, 
 Apollos, your winter, and you must not growl. 
 Meantime Silver Paul should endeavor to be calm, 
 for it is his harvest nearing. As Apollos begins to 
 give his cold confidence, Paul begins to receive more 
 than he gives. They are both out of order, both 
 ready to fight at the drop of a hat Yes, Chaos and 
 Contraction and gold and cold is merely beginning, 
 and the golder it becomes the warmer silver atoms 
 will become, yes, even to Terrestrial bodies — as they 
 are compressed. 
 
 If you will study the Chemical, Psychical or Elec- 
 trical Philosohpy of heat and cold — or silver and 
 gold, for they are the same in chemical properties — 
 you will find that when the density of air is greatly 
 
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increased and its volume reduced by pressure, it be- 
 comes intensely hot, and you will find the reverse 
 holding (as another proof of counterpart), for when 
 the density of air is decreased, by its volume being 
 expanded, it becomes quite as cold. And if you 
 knew the power you are generating by compression 
 in the silver half of life — a power which, when used 
 by a mob or body of men, has put to flight a great 
 Continental Army, my dear brother, you would has- 
 ten to meet the questions of finance and sociology con- 
 fronting the people of the Hemispheres at this time. 
 It is astonishing how apt we are to think our own 
 side the only Truth, however, Apollos. Our own 
 point of view, our own graven image of an idea as 
 Truth. Your side look at the sun and think only of 
 the graven gravity part the absorbent and receiving 
 part. The sun absorbs moisture or the earth ab- 
 sorbs heat, but you will never see that while the sun 
 is absorbing moisture he is radiating and giving 
 more heat than he receives moisture and goes to his 
 grave as a consequence. Likewise the night, the 
 mathematical part of day. You in Negation will 
 observe that at night the earth is gravity again and 
 absorbs dew, never thinking the earth merely the 
 reverse process, this time receiving dew and radi- 
 ating heat and light. All lamps of life alive and 
 burning while we sleep. No, you shut your eyes to 
 any giving current in life. To give is vulgar and 
 undignified, and yet mathematics, your own mathe- 
 matics, will demonstrate it is a Cycle of giving as 
 well as receiving — giving, on the one part, more than 
 we receive — receiving, on the other hand, more than 
 
we give, and chasing each other down into and out of 
 the grave as individuals and Nations as a conse- 
 quence. But gravity, greedy, graven gravity, is the 
 only Truth of this Universe, the "greatest of discov- 
 eries,'' the Truth of this Universe. Monopoly — ^the 
 Golden Molten Calf, the Truth of this Universe. My 
 dear Apollos, some wise men are going to have a fall 
 and children, it seems, are going to place them on 
 their feet. 
 
 Humph! All theory. Nothing practical or 
 sound. Never satisfied unless violating law with- 
 out creating a disturbance and endeavoring to upset 
 established laws and facts. Why, if all the Pauls 
 were alike, my brother, it would be safe to get to- 
 gether powder and ball and place the country under 
 martial law. 
 
 Certainly, Apollos, that would be part of your 
 program and it would be as natural for Mr. Cold 
 Blood to herd women and children into cities and 
 starve them to death on this side, as gold has ever 
 done, as it is for Mr. Conservative Cold Blood to 
 starve them in Europe and Cuba, because, forsooth, 
 silver and silver life is cheap and worthless and vul- 
 gar and must be punished for daring to remind the 
 other half their promises of reform are never kept. 
 Law has no use for charity. Law flouts charity as 
 being soft and mere sentiment. Law knows no love 
 that is not absorption and does not frame a law to 
 suit the older and the Roman son. Yes, Apollos, it 
 is an age when over-accumulators are treated in the 
 penitentiaries to the choicest of all foods, while love 
 and charity is left to starve; that provides over- 
 
accumulators with feasts and entertainments while 
 love and charity are absorbed to meet the expenses. 
 But when you coin silver love, my dear brother, as 
 fast as you coin golden law, methinks "the stone 
 which the builders rejected may be the chief stone 
 in the corner" after all, as that your high-headed, 
 towering sky-scrapers are likely to have a fall now 
 in the contraction, and may be refuge only for the 
 owls and bats of life, electrically speaking. 
 
 Pretty and sentimental and imaginative, Paul, 
 but not practical. According to your suggestion the 
 change from negative to positive, and the reverse 
 holding, we might expect to see the sun turn to dark- 
 ness and "darkness turn to day," while chaos would 
 be with us now on earth. 
 
 Certainly, the blending of the two degrees 
 means change — an immaculate change, or birth. 
 That is, if Bi-Metallism or even balance is the 
 Justice and the Truth of this Universe and to be 
 manifest now soon upon the earth. If Gravity 
 or Monopoly, or the Golden Molten Calf, is the 
 only Truth, however, why look out for prosper- 
 ity? But what is your idea of prosperity? Con- 
 traction seems to suit you if it be at our expense, 
 but when you find contraction is cutting your cities 
 and values, is our gain, in short, and your loss, why, 
 my dear Apollos, you will very soon be singing, "Will 
 ye no come back again"? And are we not, as a 
 whole Terrestrial people, in a state of chaos? Or 
 do you imagine "order fair prevails"? Will you 
 never understand there are two of us and that we 
 are the reverse process of each other, either as atoms 
 
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of silver and gold or as individual atoms or Nations 
 or Hemispheres? Take your first son to the garden, 
 Apollos; plant 100 strawberry plants each and you 
 will find out there are two of you and counterparts, 
 for Nature has not forgotten you, Apollos, and life 
 there, too, will shudder, yes, and die at the cold and 
 absorbent touch of iron, while Nature will respond 
 with life to the warmth of your son. The electrical 
 or psychical explanation is simple enough and may 
 be demonstrated in any family where the characters 
 or points of view, or Natures or Minerals (or graven 
 images), are pronounced. Your touch is cold and 
 absorbs the life current of the plant, taking more 
 than you give, by virtue of your receptive monopoly. 
 The son, your reverse process of your own life, gives 
 more life current to the plant than he absorbs. The 
 one is the transmitter, electrically or psychically, 
 the other is the receiver and, in this case, at least, 
 my dear brother, "the child is father to the man." 
 
 But the blending of the two degrees may create 
 Nitric Acid or Nitrogen in the human body, Paul, 
 and create havoc generally with us as presently con- 
 stituted. 
 
 Certainly, Apollos, it will cause contraction, a 
 veritable fiery furnace, in short, that will, in its turn, 
 reach you also. That is part of the Terrestrial rot, 
 as a result of bringing your graven image to this 
 Continent, as well as the other, and tampering with 
 a Terrestrial law. 
 
 And who would believe any such Truth as that? 
 Not your advanced scholars and divines. 
 
 Likely not, Apollos; we are all apt to manufac- 
 
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ture a Truth to suit our own fancy in these days, 
 without regard to the fancy of our counterpart, or 
 Truth resting between the two. "The song of 
 Moses,'' "The Prodigal's return," Abraham's sacri- 
 fice, Mordecai and Esther. A recognition of the sec- 
 ond son as well as the first, and a recognition of the 
 white horse as well as the red horse. These alle- 
 gorical suggestions and the evolution offered by 
 every Bible Prophet Philosopher are as mere "folk 
 lore" and "ignorance" to present literature. 
 
 True, literature may preach the even balance — 
 Bi-Metallism — ^yes, and remind you there are two of 
 us, which, of course, you will pass as uninteresting. 
 Two of us they will preach, however, Apollos, al- 
 though should one of the two offer a suggestion it 
 might possibly be flouted as "ignorance." Give the 
 advanced divines time, however, Apollos, and it may 
 he they will carve you out such a book as will suit 
 your fancy. There may not be much of the book 
 left when they have finished with it, Apollos. It 
 would be undignified to bless the second son or ac- 
 cept the white horse as one who wears the crown. 
 Ah, yes, to suit your fancy, Apollos, it would be all 
 lion and no lamb. But, electrically speaking, it 
 would seem the lion may yet rest beside the lamb 
 of life, as sugested, my dear brother. 
 
 Humph! I doubt it all. 
 
 Certainly, Apollos, you were born to doubt, 
 have been doubting and saying "No" from the 
 beginning of all time. As we have been saying 
 "Yes" from the beginning of time and born say- 
 ing yes, possibly. But we have reversed the 
 
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current now and, as your days lengthen, Apollos, 
 and your colds strengthen, Apollos, you are likely 
 to have an ocular demonstration of the fact that 
 while silver and all silver atoms in Monopoly inflate, 
 gold is merely its reverse process, or complement, 
 and in Monopoly will contract; that contraction 
 means death, whom, via Bi-Metallism, it would seem 
 we are to conquer. But silver will also contract 
 now; yes, undoubtedly. For every conservative 
 Turk that falls a silver Greek somewhere will also 
 meet his death, for every Koman Spanish son that 
 falls a silver Cuban son somewhere will meet his 
 death, and for every conservative Boer in Africa that 
 falls an English Celt will somewhere meet his 
 death. And if England dominate in Africa it 
 will only be to die in Europe. As gold and all 
 negative minerals and atoms are tried and strength- 
 ened and purified and refined hy contraction in the fur- 
 nace of heat, however, Apollos, I will admit silver 
 and all silver or positive minerals and atoms, are 
 tried and strengthend and purified hy contraction in 
 the furnace of cold; and while we certainly will not 
 ask you to believe life, such as it is, and governed by 
 Monopoly as the only Truth, you will have difficulty, 
 my dear Apollos, in convincing us contraction or 
 death is the only Truth of this Universe. The baser 
 metals and minerals, chemistry will demonstrate, 
 are the most inveterate absorbents. Cold brick in 
 Its first stage of the furnace is an inveterate absorb- 
 ent of heat. While on the other side corn meal is 
 an inveterate absorbent of moisture, requiring little 
 heat in its preparation for food. 
 
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The pure silver and the pure gold are each ductile and 
 yielding, one to the other, and each, as you have observed, 
 seems worJcing towards Bi-Metallism merely hy the reverse 
 process of each other. 
 
 Yes, Paul, I believe that part of it, but am not 
 satisfied with your violation of a Natural and Mate- 
 rial law. Remember Drummond's story of the swal- 
 low, Paul, and Kyds "stressing and struggling." 
 Even balances may do in Heaven, but we have never 
 yet been able to reach them on earth. 
 
 Then, Apollos, you will either have to abandon 
 your body or your soul, your business or your Church, 
 for the fight is on now, yes, in the very air we breathe, 
 through earth and sea. Disgusted with the hypo- 
 cracy of your conservative preaching, while prac- 
 ticing absorbtion with cat-like stealth, the liberal 
 half of life (including the sun) are retiring to their 
 tents until the issue has been fairly met, determined 
 to find out, at least, whether it be possible to do on 
 earth as it is in Heaven. Strong in the belief that 
 while the country of life will be given to the fire and 
 flames, the city of life will also be scattered to the 
 winds; while those left may be so strengthened and 
 purified by this contraction the city of the future will 
 be pure and undefiled. 
 
 That may be, Paul, that may be. But you have 
 too many visionary ideas, too much given to getting 
 off your feet, going out beyond your depth. There 
 have been many false Prophets, remember, and you 
 are not the first, Paul, who has strained at a camel 
 and had to swallow a gnat. Too many if s and an's 
 and suppositions. 
 
And may Truth not be reached in the parable, 
 Apollos? And may Truth not be reached in a true 
 harmony of color, as it may on the harp? Visionary 
 and gnat, and that sort of thing, is merely a flont, 
 Apollos; no mathematics there. You must have 
 your theory before you can test it by your mathe- 
 matics. Do you expect to start your factories and 
 get up the steam of progress without the heat of life? 
 
 The farmer who endeavors to grow silver heat 
 corn only on his farm, without feeding the land with 
 its counterparts, would find, in a few short years, 
 his farm was dead. But the farmer who farms his 
 land by God^s own Holy laws of Bi-Metallism or 
 Reciprocity or Rotation, has a farm that never dies. 
 And yet, Apollos, you expect us to manufacture 
 brick for you without the wheat straw, the heat, elec- 
 trically speaking, of life? You certainly are a very 
 greedy Pharaoh, but the time is coming when, if you 
 will not make haste to reform and meet us half way, 
 Mr. European Apollos, we will simply "break the 
 ^bonds' asunder and cast away the yoke from us." 
 Of course you will growl — growl repudiation, but 
 it will come by law, Apollos — a law neither of us will 
 be able to resist, for it will be a Natural law. Will 
 we relish it? No ; at least not until we reach it, some 
 of us, since your idea of an equal balance seems to be 
 4 for you and for us in the division of four; but con- 
 traction is cutting with a two-edged sword at pres- 
 ent and balances are being regulated to suit the other 
 half also, somewhat. 
 
 Give us time, Paul, give us time. You are en- 
 tirely too impatient. Our Eastern Mathematical 
 
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factories will turn out progress for the West now as 
 soon as the tariff bill is out of the way. 
 
 And the East will now become the advance agent, 
 will it? The hustler who spends his money freely 
 to the West, who allows the West to dictate the 
 prices of its products? Ah, yes; but it will be by 
 the Natural law of contraction, however, Apollos, 
 and because you may be running short of food. 
 
 Paul, as you have suggested there is nothing in 
 this world yet, in a manner other than Roman, that 
 is not Greek in tone, it might be well for us to emu- 
 late Rome's attitude with the English Church in 
 their effort to reach the even balance before the Tri- 
 Millenial. If you will get your various forces and 
 ideas that are so rattled and scattered together we 
 may then be able to learn what you desire and may 
 be able to meet you half way. Meantime if we can- 
 not manufacture brick without heat, you certainly 
 cannot produce without moisture. 
 
 But we have never posed as the only sound half 
 of life, Apollos, and as infallible. We have merely 
 offered you the suggestion of Bi-Metallism — gold 
 and silver side by side, just weights and even bal- 
 ances — as the only sound policy we can ever accept. 
 We neither desire a Silver Graven Kid nor a Golden 
 Molten Calf, and while willing to allow England an 
 opportunity to act graciously — in the blending of 
 the two degrees, two in the field, one taken the other 
 left — Bi-Metallism is as likely to include a Terres- 
 trial as well as an individual atom, and it is not likely 
 the people have been gathered to this Continent out 
 of the house of bondage and from every land only to 
 
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have the graven image chaining them again, and 
 merely by chance. With gold in Monopoly, which, 
 like any other Monopoly, means Baal and death for 
 a basis, your Terrestrial body is as likely to die as 
 any other atom, my dear Apollos, and while England 
 has it in her power to grant us peace, a lasting peace, 
 by offering Bi-Metallism as the wedding and blend- 
 ing of the Nations of this earth, it would seem that, 
 instead of peace, she is bringing us a sword. 
 
 England is mistress of the seas, Paul. Has the 
 greatest navy and does the largest business of any 
 power on earth. Then look at her Queen. The noble 
 woman, wife and mother. 
 
 True, Apollos, I grant it true. We may see the 
 fangs of her ocean greyhounds as they plow the 
 mighty deep, and we may see her warships lowering 
 round the coast of every land, proclaiming to the Na- 
 tions her intention to protect her ^Hnterests^^ wherever 
 they may be. Yes, and Victoria certainly has been 
 a noble woman, and while in her day of gladness 
 wedded to the silver side of life, and with a fondness 
 for the Celtic race, there has been little done, how- 
 ever, for them, other than "receiving" their homage, 
 you must own. A charming receiver, Apollos; but 
 it takes the grey eagle of life the Princess of Wales, 
 with her warmth, to do the radiating and sunny part 
 in life. And your Negative Apollos would cut a sorry 
 figure without her, as you know. As sorry a figure 
 as your army would without their Highlanders, their 
 Celts and Scottish Greys; and as sorry a figure as 
 your Navy would without your dashing Beresfords. 
 
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There are two of us, Apollos, you must own, either as 
 positive or negative. 
 
 Your rose of England is a beautiful and lustrous 
 flower, we grant, and charged with pigments, to, of 
 gold; but there are Scottish bells of blue, and purple 
 heather on the other side the silver side of life. 
 There is no lily of your field, no rose that hangs upon 
 your garden wall. There is no modest primrose of 
 the dale or blossom breathing golden fragrance to the 
 air, that does not have a silver prodigal somewhere 
 for mate. 
 
 A lover so "debased," the oxygenic son, the ox of 
 life, in sacrilege proclaims. Unmindful not only of 
 the father who begat him but of the God who formed 
 us both. 
 
 But you forget we are the great English speaking 
 race, Paul, and should be loyal and bound together 
 by the bond of language. 
 
 And from where did you derive your language, 
 if not from Greece and Rome and France? And 
 from where did you derive your blood, if not from 
 Greece and Rome and France? And do you imagine, 
 when it is a question of warm blood versus cold blood, 
 your "absorbent" language will count for anything? 
 
 Our blood is not the same, my brother Apollos, 
 and you know it. "For their Rock is not the same 
 as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being 
 Judges" — (Song of Moses). And if your gold could 
 not buy us in the early days, do you think the gold of 
 Oreb can buy us when it comes to a question of shut- 
 ting up one-half of Psychical life? My dear brother, 
 you must be dull if unable to note Destiny is driving 
 
the Roman Saxon and the Roman Spanish son back 
 to the Egypt of his life from whence he came. 
 
 To jubilate at a time when your family are suffer- 
 ing for food to eat and dying of the plague and pesti- 
 lence is of itself an evidence you have more territory 
 than able to care for, my dear brother, and you may 
 prepare to disgorge very soon now, as the contraction 
 proceeds. The black horse with the Scales levels all 
 balances, remember. As Chemistry and Electricity 
 will corroborate. 
 
 But that is a vulgar attempt to create feeling by 
 appealing to the emotions and prejudices of the peo- 
 ple. Yes, Apollos, you mean, however, it is a Truth 
 of yourself that hurts and brings forth the baby 
 squeal of "creating feeling." The Truth you prefer, 
 my dear placid brother, is a Truth that will hurt us, 
 such as pitchfork, anarchist, dangerous and bad 
 form, and cheap and reprobate silver. Exactly, 
 Apollos, but the question hetween us is not, does it hurt? 
 does it create feeling and make us growl? hut, Is it true? 
 The days of sorcery and infallibility and the only 
 sound, etc., are going with the second Cycle of our 
 time. 
 
 These Cycles are breaking down our cities, Paul. 
 They are upsetting all business interests, disturbing 
 the street car business, interfering with railroad 
 travel, crowding out the horse and playing havoc 
 with the coal trade and business generally. And the 
 electrical Cycle seems to be art and part of the ma- 
 terial Cycle — working together, there seems no 
 limit to their progress or any telling where they are 
 likely to lead us. Why, from present indications, 
 
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the very suggestions we have flouted as being popo- 
 cratic and silveritic, are with us before we have been 
 in control six months. Contracted real estate and 
 contracted railroads; real estate selling for taxes and 
 no one to buy, returning to a paternal form of govern- 
 ment, by taxation, in the interest of the unemployed. 
 Certainly the horse is going and social life is in a 
 state of transition; and can you manufacture your 
 cold ice in an artificial way without ammonia? But 
 Nitrogen is the Eefiners fire, and who may abide the 
 hour of its coming? Physicians know well the Ni- 
 trogen so prevalent in Spring will release from bond- 
 age many a weary laden soul, and Naturalists know 
 the coming of the Nitrogen is a consuming fire that 
 robs the tiny buds of form if oil has gone and any 
 light was out. Those who are noting the extraordin- 
 ary amount of Nitrogen in the ground and air at the 
 present time are not going to believe it is here by 
 chance, but are looking for it in man, in the eyes of 
 fire begotten of the Truth, for Nitrogen will certainly 
 "purify the sons of Levi," and, as we reach it, will ob- 
 literate the sun and put an end to war, since, with a 
 flash of this indignant Truth, a city, or a regiment 
 would soon be blotted out. Smile as you will, Apol- 
 los; remember the human body is an electrical table 
 and the Covenant with Moses, in which we have de- 
 lighted, is virtually the Power which has not only 
 crowded out your horse, but is being manifest al- 
 ready, by contraction on the earth. You have 
 crushed us, Apollos, but in crushing us have merely 
 also crushed yourself — for Truth is a two-edged 
 sword. 
 
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True, somewhat, Paul, but if you had remained at 
 home instead of going forever abroad and being so 
 easy and good natured and such a spendthrift as a 
 Continent, we would not be required to play the re- 
 ceiver. And further, Paul, if you will only cultivate 
 patience now, instead of discord and strife, we will 
 proceed to absorb new territory for you. 
 
 Absorb territory, of course. Gravity and absorp- 
 tion is your idea, your only idea, of life. Nation will 
 now absorb Nation, while preaching peace, peace and 
 arbitration. Eailroad will now absorb railroad. 
 Bank will absorb bank. Street car Company will 
 absorb Street car Company. Business will absorb 
 business, and one individual atom of a human body 
 will absorb another. Ah, it is a wonderfully greedy 
 beast, this Golden Calf — this Baal, this Monopoly, 
 this death, and we are quite as bad, for we are but 
 the prodigal who ever worships at its shrine. 
 
 Will you never learn, Apollos, we are merely 
 counterparts — the reverse process of each other? 
 When, as mineral atoms in the depths of the earth, 
 were we not as one, and the reverse of each other? 
 So wonderfully fashioned in the depths of the earth 
 by the Creator of all life as human atoms, are we not 
 the reverse of each other even now? And while 
 composed of varied tones and hues, when grouped 
 together as political atoms, do we not range together 
 as the reverse process of each other? And while, as 
 Nations, we have various tones and modes of speech, 
 the one language absorbing the other in its westward 
 march, are we not either decidedly Roman and stolid 
 in tone or Greek and mercurial in tone? And in ad- 
 
vancing the argument to Hemispheres as Terrestrial 
 atoms, May we not suggest the Western Hemisphere 
 as being decidedly active in tone, with the older 
 world as passive in tone? And do you fancy, my 
 older brother, we have been gathered together from 
 every land merely by chance, and that you may fol- 
 low us with your selfish "loyalty" and selfish law? 
 A law that gives you everything? That you can 
 bring the golden Calf, that has ever absorbed the 
 Nation's vitality, unto Cities, crowding out the prod- 
 igals to other lands? It at least would seem doubt- 
 ful. 
 
 There is one argument, Paul, in our favor, which 
 you will have difficulty in reversing. Why is it you, 
 as the silver side of life, are like a carion bird, look- 
 ing for every little accident and calamity and death 
 — gloating over it, spewing it out of your mouth only 
 to be the dog again returning to his vomit, while "fac- 
 tories'' are starting up in every corner of the land? 
 .You persist in shutting your eyes to our factories, 
 Paul, and the evidences of prosperity and confidence 
 which are at hand. 
 
 My dear Brother, if the Philosophy of the Kock 
 (Nitrogen) is the Centrifugal force and Truth of this 
 Universe there is not an argument either side in 
 Monopoly can advance that cannot be reversed and 
 that will not cut as a two-edged sword. 
 
 We gloat over depression, you say, and persist in 
 brushing aside the evidences of factories, etc. And 
 you, as our reverse, Apollos, merely bow down and 
 worship your own graven image of a negative mathe- 
 matical factory, shutting your eyes to the depression 
 
existing in every city, because Paul is not coming to 
 Town and being the lamb of life. Is he a wise gen- 
 eral and mathematical who does not consider one- 
 half of his army who are starving and suffering for 
 food to eat, because forsooth, he has stuffed the other 
 half in Monopoly and greedy gorge? That we have 
 birds of carion on our side. Electricity and Alchemy 
 will demonstrate; but, my dear brother, they have, 
 for counterpart on your side, the animal Landseer 
 introduced, also, as well as the carion — a member 
 of the cat family that, in Monopoly and quiet stealth, 
 is resting on the bosom of the young America, ab- 
 sorbing, yes, his very vital life. Ah, he is a wonder- 
 fully greedy beast this carion as the — in man on the 
 hydrogenic side of life and a wonderfully greedy 
 beast this — in man on the oxygenic side of life. But 
 the current has been reversed now, Apollos, and it 
 will be interesting for us to note with what reluct- 
 ance the golden half of life in the receptive man ad- 
 vances and gives the current in order to protect his 
 interests or principle, and it will also be interesting 
 to note how the silver side, who are being compressed 
 and shut up, will be able "to abide the hour of trial," 
 will be able to remain at home and act as the re- 
 ceiver, while the Nitrogen is burning within him as 
 the Great Kefiner's Fire. 
 
 Humph ! Mere theory and vague imagery, with- 
 out regard to facts. Nothing solid as a basis. Must 
 you go? Then do cultivate repose of manner, Paul, 
 and dignity, and a due respect for the law. Love 
 may be all right, my volatile brother, but law and 
 
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mathematics and factories and cities are the basis 
 of our society. 
 
 Love or Nitrogen or Electricity or Spirit may gov- 
 ern the next world, Paul, but law and the golden rule 
 of gravity are Lords on Earth. As your own liberal 
 Divines observe, we have too much of this disem- 
 bodied Spirit — all Spirit and no body. Certainly, 
 Apollos, that is the side of Truth you look for and 
 the only side you see, oblivious to the fact there is a 
 reverse process of that Truth we see, reading, 
 "there are too many large bodies on this earth void 
 of soul." Yes you love to quote our side when they 
 note a flaw in us but will never recognize those same 
 Divines are able to note there are two of us — two 
 sides — or that one is merely the reverse process of 
 the other. As to your golden rule and law, when the 
 earth quakes beneath your feet and your own earth 
 of a body quakes in travail, do you think the golden 
 rule will help you out? And since you are respon- 
 sible for this contraction, by retiring to your tents, 
 do you think Justice will help you out Paul? Good 
 night. 
 
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'A drop of ink may make a million think. 
 
 Apollos, after PauPs departure. Did you ever 
 hear such a menagerie of nonsense? We must get 
 together cannon and ball. Despatch our flying 
 squadrons with sealed orders that our "interests" 
 be protected and our International laws be respected. 
 
 Nature's laws — how horrid. And yet Bi-Metall- 
 ism would be justice and the whole world does seem 
 out of tune. But such a lot of allegorical bosh. 
 Greek astrology and alchemy and electricity. Why 
 the blending of the two degrees in the human body, 
 constituted, as it is, of all the chemical properties 
 of a Continent, would create bromides and crystals, 
 with all the gems and precious minerals and treas- 
 ures of the earth. Confound the fellow's Bible sug- 
 gestion and the Tri-Millenial. Who ever thought of 
 becoming Bi-Metallic or of disappearing, by com- 
 bustion, into the crystaline ether of the Heavens? 
 
 The sugestion of compressing hydrogen is also 
 omenous and might create such a state of affairs in 
 the forehead as has been offered by the various Bible 
 Prophet evolutionists. The compression would also 
 create such intense heat as would be likely to "pluck 
 out the hair," while there is also the possibility of 
 explosion such as an opening of the third eye in an 
 evolution of the race. Humph, yes, and there also 
 seems a possibility of human spontaneous combus- 
 
tion. And the reverse side — our own side — is also 
 to be feared, for our men are getting as mincing and 
 jaunty on their feet as liberal men are compressed. 
 Yes, a reverse that reads hydraulics or condensed 
 moisture, and if the argument will apply to Nations, 
 as it would seem from their agitation, and to Hem- 
 ispheres, as it would seem from their temperature, 
 and the sea's contraction, why, then, we may prepare 
 for contraction generally. That there is + and — 
 in hydrogen, which have the relations of positive and 
 negative, we will have to admit, and the same is rec- 
 ognized of oxygen, so that his argument of a posi- 
 tive and negative prodigal and mathematics, it 
 seems, would hold in reference to human atoms. 
 
 We must also admit, as suggested by chemistry 
 and metallurgy, there are seven primary colors, as 
 seen in the bow upon the clouds ranging in a Bi- 
 Metallic harmony, and that, as there are seven notes 
 in music, so, likewise it would seem there may be in 
 us as human atoms seven distinct churches, with 
 each, as his Electricity would suggest, tuned to a 
 certain vibration. 
 
 Yes, Bi-Metallism has a meaning few politicians 
 seem as yet to realize, and since this brother of mine 
 has taken it up, we know from past experience no 
 power on earth will move him until his project has 
 been faced. As that the longer we refuse to meet 
 him, the more refractory will his warmth become 
 and the more of our oxygen and gold and city life 
 will he attract. Yes, we must also own these Cycles, 
 material and electrical, are creating such a change 
 in our mode of life contraction seems absolutely nec- 
 
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essary. And yet, as the horse is going, so may the 
 ammonia of human life be going. With Harmony 
 established, the treasures of the earth, as employed 
 at present, would count for nothing then. 
 
 Should the degrees in the atoms of individual life 
 be in Harmony at the Tri-Millenial, who knows what 
 form the evolution or birth may take? To look at 
 an egg or an embryo no one would imagine a fowl 
 with wings could evolve from such a cavity unless 
 led to expect it. That we are breathing ammonia 
 and brimstone daily and dying daily me must admit, 
 and it may be we are in a cavity (down in hades) in- 
 stead of being on the outside, as we fancy; for, after 
 all, who knows definitely whether, in looking at the 
 Heavens, we, as the former image of Truth, may not 
 be looking at our own shadow, at the great Divine 
 mind of which our mind is a miniature likeness. 
 
 That Paul, as the producer and silver half of life, 
 was formed to be in touch with Nature we must own, 
 as that we were evidently formed to receive his pro- 
 ducts and that it should be Keciprocity. Paul re- 
 ceiving my sister as mate while we, as the reverse, 
 receive his sister. 
 
 We will be compelled to admit we have absorbed 
 more into our cities than entitled to, however, and 
 must prepare to suffer by the contraction. But 
 there is a wierdness about this alchemy and astrology 
 and witchcraft that seems to our side, at least, as 
 doleful and uncanny as his Grecian mountains or his 
 Grampion Hills. 
 
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Flout these suggestions as you will, Apollos; if 
 there be any Truth here, truth will remain with you, 
 brush it aside as you may. 
 
 Dominating ever on your negative salt sea wa- 
 ters, you are no match alone, on land, for any posi- 
 tive Continental Army and you will merely be driven 
 out of Europe with the second Cycle of time. Mere 
 coincidence? Mere chance all these efforts of the 
 Nations to regulate the balance of power? Mere 
 chance that prompts the churches now to seek the 
 level scales and "Harmony"? Chance that prompts 
 the silver half of life to seek an even balance too? 
 Mere chance that brought us out of every land to this 
 America of ours, as well as yours? That groups 
 this change and agitation and contraction, the fall- 
 ing of the stars and the party of darkness turning to 
 the party of day, all towards the Tri-Millenial? 
 Name it chance, if you will, when talking selfish, 
 greedy politics, but at the bottom of your heart — 
 when in your sober moments — conscience tells you 
 you are merely shirking your duty by brushing these 
 facts aside with a flout, instead of facing them man- 
 fully and being equal to the emergency. 
 
 Old as this Universe seems to be, unless the hu- 
 man race had been removed by wars and by devas- 
 tation generally from time to time, it would require 
 as many mansions and worlds as there are stars in 
 the firmament to hold the Natural increase. This 
 any one could figure out who would start their Math- 
 ematical brain and factory and settle down to analy- 
 sis, instead of striking and "creating feeling" and a 
 disturbance with flouts and scolds and jibes — a 
 
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negative strike of Allah! Allah! Gold is the only 
 god and the mercury of life is cheap and debased and 
 unsound and vulgar and bad form, don't you know. 
 All of which, to one who is the Kock of silver, as well 
 as the Kock of gold, must be the greatest rubbish. 
 Is Truth not Alpha as well as Omega? Is Truth 
 not the pioneer and beginning as well as the Mathe- 
 matics and ending? Is Truth not silver inflation and 
 increase as well as gold's contraction and decrease? 
 Is Truth not as likely to be silver's sunny life as well 
 as gold's cold death? Ah, my dear brother, we 
 preach Truth, but there seems to be little of any 
 Truth in us, since we continually practice fraud. Re- 
 pudiation? But the negative consumer and mine 
 owner and factory owner will shirk his share of the 
 contraction, as per usual, and endeavor to take it out 
 of the blood of labor. Repudiation? Yes, will the 
 very worm that crawls upon the ground not turn 
 upon you if you crush it with your iron heel? Re- 
 pudiation? Yes, as our forefathers repudiated 
 England's conservative bondage in other days, his- 
 tory will repeat itself. As Mexico and Cuba have 
 repudiated Spain's conservative sloth and bondage 
 in these days, and as Greece, who is likely yet to be 
 assisted by the silver Nations against all the Nega- 
 tive and maneuvering Turks of life, will repudiate 
 the bondage, so, likewise, the party of life and youth 
 and future hope will repudiate you, my conservative 
 brother, if you will not hasten to reform and coin 
 us silver love as well as golden scolds and law. 
 
 Do you imagine the Black Horse of Truth with 
 the level scales followed by this contraction of Death 
 
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will not be likely to mete Justice out to and care for 
 the White Horse of life as well as the Bed Horse of 
 
 life? 
 
 As to Arbitration, my dear conservative New 
 York Apollos, if you will recognize there are two of 
 us and counterparts and are willing to arbitrate our 
 little difference of giving silver an equal chance with 
 gold, why, my dear sir, we will have solved the Phi- 
 losophy of life and reached the Covenant as an 
 American people. Since, however, we find your 
 idea of Arbitration an Arbitration that favors gold 
 only, why, my dear brother, the sooner you rid your- 
 self of this "ridiculous pose" the better for your 
 future "interests." 
 
 This logic is as plain, Mr. Apollos, as the sugges- 
 tion you have arrived at a period in life when — it 
 must be your body or your soul and body — your 
 methods of absorption by Monopoly or your con- 
 science and church, your method of robbing our 
 Treasury as a perpetual filch and that of Reciprocity, 
 which is Bi-Metallism, just weights and even bal- 
 ances. And in such a contest those who have 
 marked the Divinity shaping the course of this Hem- 
 isphere must realize what such a contest means. 
 
 If Terrestrial Philosophy, who recognize Magnet- 
 ism, is strongest in winter, when and where the air 
 is dense, instead of rare, and as silver in smelting is 
 at night, will answer why the sun's light is at pres- 
 ent so refractory (if not because the air charged with 
 negative currents is denser than usual), the writer 
 would claim all atoms tuned to that vibration are 
 alike refractory and obstinate and unyielding be- 
 
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cause of a change from the ductile in the rare atmos- 
 phere of hydrogen. 
 
 Ah, yes, we chain the elements, but the elements 
 are chaining us to such an extent we allow our Roct^ 
 to run away with us without regard to our other 
 half — and the Truth between us and the Rock of our 
 salvation. All of which, together with the Philosophy 
 of our time, will read. Confidence is the Creator of 
 Money as well as other life, but that Money only 
 never can and never will create Confidence, since 
 there are two of us, and Bi-Metallism is the only Con- 
 fidence and Truth, the level scales. Electricity, Ni- 
 trogen, Spirit, as any student of Electrical Phi- 
 losophy must own. 
 
 And is the Nation not as safe under an Altgeld 
 in the demagogic open light of day with the ability 
 to note there is an active mercury as well as a chlo- 
 rine of density, as the Nation will be under a quiet 
 Hanna consorting with England as the only conser- 
 vative and sound, under cover of the darkness and 
 the night, who fondly imagines Conservatism the ad- 
 vance agent, while the active half, who have ever 
 been their pioneers and whom they have been "fleec- 
 ing" with their Monopoly of gold as the basis of ex- 
 change each way, are now considered cheap and rep- 
 robate, and forsooth vulgar, for presuming to sug- 
 gest a repudiation of this bondage. 
 
 When the colonies of England realize gold as the 
 basis of exchange, each way means England's price 
 for everything you sell her and England's price again 
 for everything you buy from her. That by the sor- 
 cery of "gold as the only sound" she has been en- 
 
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abled to draw from their treasury, in one long, per- 
 petual and insidious "filch," more than her share — 
 the balance on the average in her favor. When 
 these facts, which can be demonstrated by an ex- 
 amination of gold standard records and by other 
 sciences in the attempted harmony of two negative 
 atoms, when the colonies and the other Nations of 
 the earth have their eyes opened to this simple, yet 
 sublime. Law of Nature pervading all life, animate 
 and inanimate, England's Monopoly and selfish law 
 (favoring the receiver of life) could be made to col- 
 lapse without the loss of a single life or the firing of 
 a single gun by adopting a silver standard and hold- 
 ing the balance level if she refuse Bi-Metallism. 
 
 And if the conservative Roman Saxon and Roman 
 Spanish son of density and law (to suit himself, the 
 older son) in Europe and America imagine they will 
 be allowed by the liberals — the Grecian Highland 
 Celtic and hydrogenic silver side of life, including the 
 leading Military Powers of Europe — to lift them- 
 selves up in such a brigaudine of peace, peace, while 
 with catlike stealth they absorb the earth, proclaim- 
 ing their conservative graven image of a rock of gold 
 as the only sound — proclaiming density, oxygen, the 
 fumes of night and greedy, graven gravity and ab- 
 sorption as the only Truth of this Universe, without 
 regard to either the hydrogen and rarity of life or 
 the Truth of Nitrogen in the even balance between 
 the two, they are reckoning without a Mighty Host 
 and the man must certainly be dull who does not note 
 the blues and greys of life are champing at their bits, 
 impatient for the silver trumpet's call. 
 
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IN CONCLUSION. 
 
 While the effort throughout has been to demon- 
 strate there are two of us, one dominated by warmth 
 and the other dominated by cold, with each inclining 
 to their own graven point of view without regard to 
 the other half or the Truth resting with the level 
 scales between, we will own contraction necessary 
 in order to obliterate corruption and level all bal- 
 ances again. Who knows how soon the people "that 
 walk in darkness'' may see the Truth of light radiat- 
 ing through every form of life? Who knows how 
 soon our ears may be open to the Truth of sound? 
 That Nitrogen is the wall resting between the Cloud 
 by day and fire by night Philosophy and Chemistry 
 already own, as that the "drop of dew upon the blade 
 of grass" or "small rain upon the tender herb" con- 
 tain the Lightnings flash, as that the harmony or 
 even balance of a positive and negative current 
 would generate in us a light that would be something 
 other than the sun or moon. Electrical Philosophy 
 also owns all atoms of life are tuned to a certain 
 vibration, and are throbbing and pulsating with a 
 song we cannot as yet hear. 
 
 That woman represents one-half, and has ever 
 been identified with one-half of all the good, and 
 joy and rapture of this Universe we must own, but 
 we must also own woman is found identified with 
 one-half of all the evil also of life. That there are 
 
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two of us, a silver side and a gold side every law of 
 Nature and every science suggests, neither of which 
 should dominate, but they also demonstrate all atoms 
 as presently constituted are unfinished, unbalanced 
 and in bondage to this Monopoly of a greedy body, 
 with the baser minerals and atoms as the most in- 
 veterate absorbents, and the most jealous and cov- 
 etous daughters of Judah. 
 
 If we are to recognize gravity and absorption as 
 the only Truth the sooner labor is thoroughly organ- 
 ized and absorbs Monopoly and the few greedy Trusts 
 the better for all. Those who are noting the ele- 
 ments on two Hemispheres, however, incline to be- 
 lieve we are merely taking our places in the great 
 dramatic play of life. Mere puppets in this Battle 
 of the Elements. And is it likely then the liberal 
 and festive silver half of life and the true gold of 
 life, ever yielding one to the other, will continue to 
 be ductile and yielding that the contraction be at 
 their expense alone? And can Confidence be reached 
 without them? And yet the time must come we 
 own when we may have "a measure of wheat for a 
 penny and three measures of barley for a penny" 
 with "See thou hurt not the wine (as well as), and the 
 oil" of life. A time when money will cut a very meager 
 figure in life, will neither make the man and woman, 
 nor govern their selections and point of view, but 
 when all governed by Equity — level scales — life will 
 then be to live and let live, to give as well as receive. 
 A current and counter-current in which neither dom- 
 inates. 
 
 That such a state can never be reached as pres- 
 
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ently constituted we must all admit, but the sugges- 
 tion we offer is that the elements are at work on us 
 even now regulating and balancing all the weights 
 and measures of our life. 
 
 These suggestions — an inductive Philosophy of 
 the Kock of silver and the Rock of gold are offered 
 for analysis, trusting they may be tested by a posit- 
 ing as well as a negating process, however, in order 
 to reach the Truth; and the hypothesis of the study 
 would be. If, as is the hydrogen and silver atom of 
 life so is the liberal individual, political party. Na- 
 tion and Hemisphere, and if, as is the oxygen and 
 gold atom of life so is the conservative individual, 
 political party. Nation and Hemisphere, and we find 
 them all in travail and out of tune in an effort to 
 reach the even balance. Inasmuch as level scales 
 or Bi-Metallism means by every Science, Truth or 
 Creation, may we not expect to reach a New Era of 
 life towards the end of the Century — ^towards the 
 Tri-Millenial? And if visionary, why do the Na- 
 tions and political parties and the people and the 
 Churches strive for such a vain and visionary thing? 
 
 If gold alone or gravity, without regard to the 
 giving half of life, is to be the only Truth, he must 
 be a dull man who cannot realize labor, when thor- 
 oughly organized, would simply swallow up and ab- 
 sorb Monopoly (The earth swallowing the sea elec- 
 trically speaking), since Militia would not be likely 
 then to protect their enemy in life. In truth gold as 
 the only sound and Truth on this side would be in 
 the same state of "splendid isolation" their mineral 
 and conservative affinity England finds herself on the 
 
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other Hemisphere. The isolation of absorbent greed 
 and selfishness. An isolation far more complete 
 when the colonies accept the challenge and proceed 
 to protect themselves against the perpetual filch by 
 repudiating a standard of value and an Equity that 
 is all on one side of the scale, dictating the price each 
 way. 
 
 Gold either as an atom, an individual, a political 
 party or a Nation, has never had very much of a heart 
 or soul and the little cold and sluggish heart it has 
 ever had throbbed ever for itself alone, ever receiv- 
 ing much, giving little in return. 
 
 English law and Justice and Equity! Think of 
 it. A law leaving the estate to the older son while 
 the family have to whistle and grovel for him. How 
 Equitable and how Just do we behold it! And are 
 Conservative political parties not all alike? "Hating 
 to be reformed when thou sawest a thief thou con- 
 sentest unto him.'' Do they not detest a change or 
 advance? Is their idea of life not absorption, run- 
 ning off with the lion's share, coining a law to pro- 
 tect themselves, coining a metal that is their own 
 receptive graven image? And do they expect the 
 silver half of life to worship at their shrine forever? 
 Let the conservative of life mark his brother now in 
 every corner of the earth and methinks he will find 
 an atom as indifferent and unbending and refractory 
 to his golden sorcery as ever were the other side. 
 
 When all the princes then of darkness boast their 
 gold, their graven image and the properties of night 
 as Truth, why should the princes of the morning 
 
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blush to own the bright and morning star while rec- 
 ognizing Truth as resting in the wall between? 
 
 This with reference to the photogenic and lumin- 
 ous matter of the human brain. The active brain 
 being phospherous, hydrogenic or the wine of life 
 presumably. The passive brain being oxygenic in 
 its density or the oil of life. And why agitate if 
 gold is food for silver? you ask. As the wheat in soul 
 and mineral tone is gold or oxygenic its body, the 
 straw, is composed of silver's hydrogen of heat; and 
 while gold as now coined is feeding its opposite of 
 silver, destroying the conservative soul or vital tone, 
 it is feeding his hydrogenic body. 
 
 On the silver side it is the reverse process merely, 
 the oats and barley of life having for soul or vital 
 tone the silver properties have for body the oxygen 
 or gold properties. Gold in its process of being 
 coined, therefore, feeds all silver life but is poison 
 to all negative atoms and it is only a question of time 
 when the conservative individual will fear his very 
 shadow and the liberal man's body — the Cities of life 
 — must wane in favor of his brain or soul or vital 
 tone, suggesting there will be little of any peace or 
 Confidence now on either of the Hemispheres until 
 Bi-Metallism and the even balance in the division of 
 territory has been reached. And does any one im- 
 agine the level scales can be reached without Eng- 
 land's having to disgorge some of the territory she 
 has absorbed? And does any one imagine the level 
 scales can be reached without the Cities of life hav- 
 ing their walls broken down and their population 
 redistributed and rearranged? Or that the even 
 
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balanced individual would not be the consummation 
 of Old Testament "folk lore/' New Testament "po- 
 etry" and "allegory" and "song"? An evolution of 
 the body as well as of the spiritual, Electrical or 
 Psychical soul? Ask a Tesla, an Edison or any stu- 
 dent of Electrical Philosophy or Psychology. Gold 
 alone, without a silver half to draw upon will fade 
 and wither and will never yield the fruit of life, will 
 blight and droop and die, but gold and silver side by 
 side, true counterparts, would reach the Truth of 
 life, and feeding and illuminating one the other like 
 a Turner's brilliant Bi-Metallic harmony of color 
 (hissed and hooted at first by passive artists of 
 course) they would live and never die. 
 
 And does any one imagine it would be an easy 
 matter for England to conquer her body and yield 
 up any of her territory and offspring? Or for Cities 
 to yield up their inhabitants or for individuals to 
 yield up any of their offspring in conquering their 
 body? And does contraction and level scales not 
 mean a yielding and giving on the receptive side with 
 the reverse holding on the other side? And yet it 
 must be evident we never can be free until we reach 
 this level balance where Truth resides, until as a 
 great Terrestrial people by adopting Bi-Metallism, 
 we cast the golden calf into the fire. As evident as 
 it must be to any one who will stop to consider that 
 boasting "gold as the only sound" is not only the 
 worst form of anarchy — is not only being governed 
 by greedy, receptive, selfish and one-sided Nature, 
 but is far more to be dreaded in its sorcery and' 
 quiet, insidious stealth than a party seeking equity 
 
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and level scales. And while the best element in each 
 party recognize Bi-Metallism as Justice, each party 
 must beware of those who boast their "gold as the 
 only sound," since it is the same Tory Benedict Ar- 
 nold of old as Altgeld suggests. The same conser- 
 vative hiss that greeted Washington when march- 
 ing through the Eastern streets. 
 
 As another demonstration there are two of us and 
 diametrically opposite, yet feeding each other, take 
 a thermometer of mercury or spirit and take a ther- 
 mometer of chlorine of gold or highly refined oil, 
 place them side by side and it will convince any 
 doubting Thomas that what is food for one is poison 
 for another in one sense as that one feeds and 
 strengthens the other. It will also convince any 
 doubting Thomas gold or the oil of life instead of 
 feeding density is poison to the Conservative and 
 strength to the mercury of life. So that Bryan is 
 really the Moses of life to Conservatives; and the re- 
 verse must hold gold has been and is going to be the 
 prodigals salvation, for its brazen attitude has cre- 
 ated in him revolt, and when the liberal half of life 
 cease to be liberal and ductile the receptive half 
 ceasing to receive, the current is reversed and a bat- 
 tle of the elements begins, a battle that will result as 
 any student may note in the liberal Hemisphere be- 
 coming one Bi-Metallic whole — breaking their bonds 
 asunder and casting away from them the yoke be- 
 gotten of sorcery and selfishness. And is this era 
 and these agitations on two Hemispheres the work 
 only of a few demagogues? Mere coincidence — mere 
 chance? Guided by gold as the only *sound," or is 
 
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the era and these agitations being governed by the 
 Centrifugal Power, the Nitrogen of life, the two- 
 edged sword that levels and adjusts all balances? 
 The Destiny of our Nation! — And will a doctrine of 
 Christian Sociology of level scales, and equity be 
 agreeable to the conservative and "sound'' and in- 
 fallible part of life at this time? Will it not be hissed 
 and rejected as usual and denounced because, for- 
 sooth, it will not longer worship at the golden shrine? 
 
 If Christ should come and be manifest upon the 
 earth again would this octopus of greedy monopoly 
 that has the Nations by the throat not denounce Him 
 as an "Anarchist," a "Repudiator," a "Reprobate"? 
 Would the "enlightened" half of the earth, domi- 
 nated by their gold as the only sound, not cast Him 
 into jail, spit upon Him, yes, and even crucify Him? 
 Is the man who dares to range against this greedy 
 and absorbent pig of life not denounced as "danger- 
 ous," "demagogue," Anarchist and all the other ad- 
 jectives at their command? And do they imagine 
 they are not "creating all the feeling" by striking 
 with a tongue full of venom and from clusters "bit- 
 ter as gall"? That the Military powers of Europe 
 and the great young West and South will repudiate 
 this ridiculous conservative pose must be evident to 
 the liberal half of life at least. 
 
 And as the greatest of Diplomats would have the 
 assistance of her maneuvering peace, peace, and arbi- 
 tration and diplomatic son among the Nations, as 
 Spain would have the assistance of Rome, as Japan 
 would have the assistance of all the other golden and 
 "enlightened" Negative Nations of density, does any 
 
one imagine the volatile and demagogic France, the 
 emotional Slav of Silver Russia and by no means 
 least the demagogic Emperor of Prussias hydro- 
 genic silver blue, w^ould not be found ranging on the 
 other* side, as some of them have ever done? That 
 it will not be as Natural for a liberal Nation to line 
 up with a liberal Nation in such a battle of the Ele- 
 ments? 
 
 And would the tender mother in individual life 
 not detest her husband and cling to her own degree 
 in the body of the son she bore? Will such a battle 
 of the Elements not disrupt every individual family 
 government as well as National government? 
 
 And did language and creed count for anything 
 in Canada lately when it was a question of Justice? 
 Does Justice rest with only one side — with only one 
 language and creed, and will it count in a battle of 
 the Elements of Silver versus the Elements of Gold? 
 Wait and see, and mark if it will not extend to every 
 form of life. When man violates a Natural law the 
 Physician is not a prophet who may diagnose the 
 case, and one does not require to be a Prophet to 
 diagnose the result of this violation of a Terrestrial 
 Law. 
 
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