The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-20

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serves more than a brief notice His
denuncation5 characterize him as a
" Roughly rather than "a gentleman,
though doubtless he wears the coat of the
latter To prove that the taking ofseyen
per cent for The use Of money in Vermont
is immoral, is task which we defy X
Y. H., TO prove. We promise him new
hat and spending money for three months,
if he will do il, and even do il to the sat-
isiactlon of one in hundred Of the solid
sensible men in our county.
Yes we will enlarge the offer and toss
him in whip and pair Of spurs, if he
will make Aat-ci believe it, lie can only
doit on the principle that lie Tor false pos
sliion) may be 50 oft repeated, as at length
to prevent the authors Judgment, and
make it appear to him the very truth.
Dealing abusive words and hurting saucy
invective, or making a raid against ex-
tortioners, is foreign to the task. He
might as well undertake TO make butter
by churning the wind as TO prove that he
who takes six and one quarter per cent is
a thief" because he has the impudence
to call him one.
In a former article we proved we
think, by incontroverlible facts and argu-
ments that is now right in Vermont to re-
celve more than six per cent for the use
of money, We call on y. Y. H., or any
of his cousins 10 disprove it. Let him
not dodge the question, nor fly the track
in pursuit of ertortioners or those who
make merchandise of the necessities Of
men, GALL of whom we detest as much
as he), but stick to histask and over.
throw our positionand thoroughly
demolish our arguments. We cal
W. 9Oio'hihS Desluo h"tcpi14 ue'
nunciaIions,i something beside brayadc
and buster something beside false reas,
oning something beside mere assumption
and self confident assertion. Until this i,
done our position and arguments stanC
unanswered and untouched, and shall re
main firm and impregnable as the rock o
Gibraltar on the everlasting hills of our
own Green Mountain Stale.
We tell Y. l. L., and his allies, thai
it would be just as proper, just as wise,
for lawmakers to enact law, that n,
man hereafter shall receive legally oyel
II cts per lbs. for butter, 6 cents fol
cheese and 81 90 per bushe for wheat, nj
to pass law that no man shall receiv,
more than 6 per cent for the use of mon
ey Equality Of prices ia demanded nnt
all laws opposing it, are as feeble "a dyke
of sand against deep rolling stream.
Evidently the world moves Mas
has repealed her usury laws, Maine i.
moving in The matter, and viii follow
suit, Vermont is agiiai'ng the question
and will very likely alter her interest rate;
TO meet the new standard of prices that
now every where obtaines
1t is computed that California anG
Australia since 1897 have produced il
gold, Sl,10O, 100000 This vast in;
crease Of the precious metals have +
material bearing on prices, and we doubt
less shall never again see in our countr,
the old standard OF low prices, While
every other commodity is permanently ad
advanced, the rates of money must adj.
vance also
In justice to myself cannot omit say.
ing that the term necessities of men,
which called forth and made almost the
entire article of Y, Y. 4, is used by him
in an entirely different seuse from the one
| designed. used the term in a purely
commercial seuse and not in the one he sup.
posed.
This point however is merely side
issue, and is no part Of the main argu,
inert, and therefore with this explanation
we dismiss it.
PROGRESS.