The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-02-03

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Do you know What makes things dnl
Just now? One cause is that SO few peo
pie can get at-any money to buy anything
with. !. Why not? Because the men
! who have money keep too much OF. Ii
locked up, waiting for something?
Now it's very well to grumble at
| Congress Tor not giviag to the West its
fair share Of currency" But every man
who keeps fifty dollars in bank or in his
pocket. while he owes that much simply
contracts the. currency. He makes it
i'm possible for an hundred poor men,
whose debts that sun would satisfy, in
a week $, travel, to buy what they need.
Pay upl To that extent, We are in
favor OF expansion of the currency. Let
every man who owes few dollars, and
finds business dull, begin tostenliyen
business by paying his debts, and put
ting just SO much more money IN mo-
tion. i29'- sAf
How can fifty dollars do any good 2''
Why1 fifty dollars cau- pay or helpFto pay
twenty debts. q day, and that adds thirty
thousand a inonth to the currency in
circulati6n. Suppose that one hundred
mea in ST. Lous7 should let out Gfty
dollars each day, the result would be
instant relief, in thousands OF pockets
and instant increase Of purchases for
thousands Of consumers. Money idle
'is-'n eaey -snoiEed, Set it moving you
want the benefit Of it. ~ N'''
But my butcher does not want the
money just yet. - Probably not, and
whenyolr butcher does rant that mon
,ey you Will pay for the delay How
many little bill" are there in this city,
do you suppose. which get bigger the
longer they lie? Every man who waits
for his money, and then has the expense
or bother Of collecting, must charge. for
it. Coliectors wear out shoe leather as
we'll as patience. Somebody has to pay
inr both. Fay cash! Nv hen You buy
3 thing you want it, and the money 10 ks
small. But when you get trusted, and
pay a while afterwards, the dollar looks
larger than a5cart wheel, and you Won
der whether the man did not eaarge you
too plUek ;.aud. books h3ye .te be over
hauled. and ever so. mucll bother and
worry endured, and there is a waste of
human energy and iIappioess,,; lad be
cause you didn,t pay cash ! + every
man who is bothered win little bills
will Just begin to pay cash, he viii soon
Ht!d ti.'>J ilC itstACS iEOlICJ ny tEiG CitSIc-
tions-and so do, the peeple~ with whom
he deals.
We have been undergoing, within a
yearr.Rhat7w waald in form-r tunes have
been ayterrible panic or disaster. Why
were not its effects serious, ike sthosesot
sother years? Parity because people
have learned to run on credit less, and
pay cash more Everybody does big
ger business for the same capital, and a
safer business, too, ii he does a cash
business. 4 proportion as-etsr recple
have got out ofthe absurd fashion Of
long credits, and credits in All business
large or small, in that proportion dis
or!erS have been less prolonged and
less severe. Merchants have more CON
fdcnce as well as moca ability to help
each ether when real pinch comes, and
The bdsii9ss' OF. the whole community Is
contracted with less waste and risk.
let us all move as fast as pos
sibie IN the direction of cash Begin
with the little 6ills; cash fur9tbe poor
people al around US, to whom the dol
lar IS the key to a world OF comfort.
Cash for the laborer and the servant !!
Cash for the butcher and grocer Cash
for the merchant, and in all transactions
where cash payment is possible! So
shall we make money plenty.