The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-04-21
Financial
ifving.

from the New York Book
The financial quack tells you that mon
ey makes business that paper money j.
as good as gold; that the more paper mon
ey the nation possesses, the richer will tina
nation become; that banks are blessings
and the more banks We have the happier
the people, whether in peace or war. Die
you ever hear one of these empires as
sert that money represented property p
that plethora ofmoney, an over represen.
tation of wealth, was disastrous to the in.
terests ola country? that banks were
engines oftaxation that every paper dol
lar put into circulation was an evidence OF
debt, and demanded five, six. or seven pei
cent. Ter year from labor? Did you ever
hear of a body Of laboring men demanding
the creation of banks as the means of rem.
dering their condition less burdensome
Did you ever know a body of droncs, spec
ulaters, gamblers, who aid not constantly
cry for more banks. more currency? No
you never did
What is the condition Of this country to.
day under the great plentifulncss of cur.
rency. money paper? Glorious; prosper.
Gus; wealth-getting; progressing; upward
and onward, politically and commercially
is the response. But from whom doe.
this response come? From the worthless
Wall street stock gambler, who never earn.
cd dollar honestly in his life. A Legal
swindler, whose whole life is passed in
making dupes of the creduIous fools who
have a little spare cash in their pocket
inherited from some honest, toiling ances.
tor. These fools are seduced into the
schemes Of the stock gambler, and take the
chances, us they would at a game of faro.
Or the response comes from that other
human vampire, who feeds aad fattens
upon the lifeblood of the nation through
war contracts and while he is sucking the
last drop of vitality from a dying people,
bawls out Justify ''subjueate, subjugation, !"
and sucks on, knowing that 'subiugation. =
as the dominant idea, is millions of dollars
per year into the pockets of him and those
he is banded with. Or the response comes
from the sordid, narrow minded, ignorant
tradesman, who fawns upon, and cringes
to, the wealth bloated stock gambler and
war contractor, for patronage, rs a craven
spirited and hungry dog would beg for a
bone. This mcrcenary and soulless mer-
chants cries out prosperity" when labor
asks, what the war, with its accompa-
nying creation ofuew banks, and the issue
OF thousand millions of paper money, has
brought m?" But what says "labor"
about the solid prosperity of the country
What is the response Of the 10000
persons employed in agriculture in the
North and West? What is the reply of
the great mass of struggling men, woman
and girls in the northern manufactures to
the number of 800, 900 more-an aggregate
Of 2, 4OO, 900 Of the working classes? Ask
the huge working population of New York
or New England, and the weekly, strikes
for higher pay, not to indulge in Injuries
but to obtain the necessaries of life, will be
your answer. Thousands of Woodworking
girls, laboring from sun rise to ten al nigh
daily. do not earn three dollars per week
Contractors for army clothing, clearing !;
hundred thousand dollars per year, refus,
to pay twelve shillings for making twelve
shirts. This grinding system is universe
in the labor market, and rami6es into every
department..
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