The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-06-03
TFFE VOICE.
BRANDON:
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1947.

fact that TINS circulating medium mas wrought much
mischief in community. These advocates Of reform
have quoted the expression Of Paul, that Money is
the root of all evil" deducng from this and from
the facts before named that money is filthy lucre
and should be banshed from use. Yet Of all the
advocates spoken Of, we have neither known or
heard of any one who would not ask contributions Of
this "accmsed thing" for the purpose of carrying
=, on their fayorite reform And the more they could
obtain, the more exultingly would they proclaim,
"Our cause is Advancing"
The idea that money, of itself, is necessarily an
evil, which should be cast out from civilized socie-
ty, seems rather too absurd to be entitled to notice
yet correction of such wild phantasies may some
times be of use to those who have INDUCED in them
We will suppose, for moment, that all the gold, sill
yer and copper coin be annhilated; what plan could
be devised for deflaying the cost of nercommunica
ton between different portions Of this country,or be-
tween this and other countries, unless there be a
| substitute found? And should this substitute be
brought into USE and be found equally valuable for
! the purpose named, see no reason why there
would not be the same temptation to obtain and
hoard it up, to use it for wrong purposes,
exists in regard to silver and gold. But will say
no more on this topic until some one will propose
substitute ;-one which shall be claimed to be such
in reality-as well in regard to usefulness, to its
preventive power against temptation to crime.
But much larger class frequently advance the
proposition that the credit system should be abolish
ed Among this class are several editors of news
papers. The reason they present as the strong one,
is that having trusted people for their papers, and
failed of getting their pay, they have either failed in
their business or have suffered extremely from the
neglect of their customers. That people have re-
ceved loss from giving credit to Others there canbe
no doubt That another class have suffered in COR
sequence of getting trusted, is equally true; but we
can see no more argument in these cases against
credit being given by man to another, than there
is against the usefulness of apples and peaches be-
cause an OK or Il COW leaps fence and partakes so
freely as to cause their death; because some peo-
pie extract the juice of the apple and peach and con-
vert it into brandy, and this brandy is swallowed by
some man, which so deranges and infuriates him as
to cause him to commit murder. And it appears to
US very strange that editor orpublisher ola paper
should decry the plan of giving credit while at the
same time they ask others to h7tSt them for UhoIe
year, for portion of the equivalent they design rem
dering for money had and received. But these are
| among the inconsistencies developed in those who
are DESTROYS to be called advocates of reform they
think will take with community, while they do not
to know that their call for ardnce pay for their
papers, condemns their protested reform principles
One thing is certain, and that is it is not among the
possibilities to transact business without giving cred
| Tl,o
close Of each day, he gives one days credit. If
we pay him in advance, we trust him for portion of
his work for this length of time So for any period
agreed upon If a man desires to enter the mercan-
| tile business, he must accumulate sufficient sum
of money to pay for good stock of goods and lay
by his earnings from day to day without interest
trust some man with the money, else he must get
trusted for portion of them until he can realise the
money from their sale. In either case there must be
a trusting of some one And should the country
merchant pay the city merchant, on receiving his
goods, he cannot get them home without paying the
freight in advance, thus trusting the freight man, or
getting the other to trust him. We trust these few
illustrations will show the impossibiity of doing bust
ness without practising on some credit system.
From what little experience we have had in black
smithing and paper publishing, we have found the
difficulty 10 be, not much in giving credit, as in
neglectng to collect after the time of promised pay
ment had arrived; and we are Of the opinion that
business men generally, will find, on looking back
into their past business transactions that their fail
ures have been the ones named.
The motto should be, to get trusted no more than
necessary; agree on the time of payment, and when
that arrives, cove oman any thing" This being
the established rule Of deal, men could meet theirli
abilities, and the use of the term fail would soon be-
come obsolete But while the mass of people so lit
tie heed the above rule, and since one disappoint-
ment may cause hundedS, it will be nothing strange
that lawyers are called for and refonmers by pro-
fession, get hold of the Relorm-bull by the TAIL in
stead of his horns.
NEW YORK MIRROR. This paper has recently
heightened its title, so that it now reads, "THE
AMERICAN LITERARY GAZETTE and New York
MIRROR" j. Is. Aud is to be the editor, assisted
by E. a. Duyckink, c. F. Briggs and H. c. Watson.
H. Fuller is ODE the editor of the Mirror 1t would
rather seem that cooks are to be furnished in