The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-01-04
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stance that should always be an equivalent
for every thing else; or should be payment
at certain valuation established by the law
of the community, which law was given by
Me lesaer and ruler, or king. The precious
metals, from their imperishable nature, were
considered the best adapted for that purpose,
hence were made legal tender and became
money. Noc the truth of history that zoe
present is that nothing could have CONSOLE
dated mankind first into communities, after
wards into powerful nations and empires,
but the arbitrary and despot:c one man pow
er and that the precious metals were the
best adapted as money to the despotic age.
We also present three truths That the first
era of the world was andrchicat; the second
was despotic and the third will be republi
can, or representative and consolidated.
The first era had no money and no public
rules the second era had despotic public
rules and despotie money, tgold and silver)
the third era opened with the falling Of the
despotic power and the building up Of con-
solidated republican governments, that are,
in form, representative. To this form of
government belongs a representative money.
We can further unhesitatingly state that
back to the despotic form, of gold and silver
Will StdoC W pC We VIII iuttuCi
state that self preservation from robbery and
murder in the anarchial age, self preserve
ton in the despotic age, from the burden of
taxation will bring on the republican or repre-
sentative age. We hear it said, that England
cannot ever pay her national debt. No, she
never will ; and not many years hence her
people will repudiate her form of govern
ment, her debt and the gold money the
way the shackles will fall in despotic Europe
from the hands of the laborer
will astonish the world, if this
republic goes on in the work of universal
emancipation and universal liberty, and
consigns the gold money to the age to which
| it belongs-the despotic era. The despotie
governments have outlived their natural
| time, at least one thousand years. And now
| we propose to tell how they do it. Man is
| born into the world with natural wants. He
| must be fed and clothed, his FIRST care is to
| supply these, and the first care of the des-
| potic ruler is that it shall take all his time
| and labor, well put in, to supply those wants.
and to prevent the wealth producers and la
| borers from having any spare time to think.
| Thousands of unnecessary Offices are crea-
ted and sustained at enormous salaries;
while an army ofsssessors and tax-gatherers
pecambulate the land gathering in the hard
earned surplus wealth. The monied lords
fear if any Surplus is left in the hands OF
the poor they might stop to think. Buthere
| the monied lords are mistaken; when man
kind are well fed and clothed for their labor
| it matters not TO them who rules, whether
money, pope, priest or king, they are con
tent. But when oppressed beyond certain
limits, when goaded TO desperation, forbear
ance ceases to be a virtue. Yet mankind
are only moved in great reforms By the in
stinct of self preservation.
We wish now to say that the people of the
republic made reform in civil laws, oil
those laws relating to the theory OF govern
ment; they remove the man despot, and make
an advance to freedom, but the other form
money despot, remains. Before this people
will enjon entire freedom, this must also bs
removed. And then equality in fact, as vel
as in theory, will be the brth-right of every
American citizen. In conclusion, we woulC
say that in our commercial laws and oul
money, If we return to a specie basis, W,
are in sympathy with all the despotic gov
ernments in the world, and in substance
the commercial laws that have degraded ant
despoiled labor in Europe, will do il her,
also. Ii is not because the poor of Europ,
do not vote, that they are oppressed voting
| wiz Hot save 'i'etht uIiess "he" 'hey Set IN
ballot thay vote to destroy the monopoly o
money, and reconstruct their commercia
laws on principles of natural Justice t,
have the ballot is only farce, unless W,
know how to use it. Have the American
people used the ballot to put down despo
tism? As yet they have used only the swor,
or bullet. and bayonet; but as a change, W,
hope that they will yet be wise and use tn,
ballot, before they have to use the bayone
and bullet. In my next l propose to So
forth a new system of money adapted to GU
form of government, and alsothe foundation
of It's yalne.