Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-10

Do you know what makes things dull
Just now? One cause is that so few peo-
pie can get at any money to buy any
thing with, Why not? Because the
men who have money keep too much
of It locked up, waiting for something!
Now it is very well to grumble at Con-
gress for not giving to tine west its fair
share of currency. But every man who
keeps fifty dollars in bank or in his pock-
ct, while he owes that much, simply con :
tracts the currency. He makes it impos-
sible for hundred poor men, whose
debts that sum would satisfy, in weeks
travel, to buy what they need. Pay up!
To that extent, we are in favor of expan-
sion of the currency. Let every man
who owes few dollars, and finds bust.
ness dull, begin to enliven business by
paying his debts. and putting just so
much more money in motion.
How can fifty dollars do any good 2"
Why fifty dollars can pay or help to pay
twenty debts day, and that adds thirty
thousand a month to the currency in cir
culstion. Suppose that one hundred men
in ST. Louis should let out fifty dollars
each day, the result would be instant re-
lief in thousands of pockets-and instant
increase of purchases for thousands of
consumers. Money idlesis money spoil
ed. Set it moving if you want the ben
eft of it.
But my butcher does not want the
money just yet" Probably not, and
when your butcher does want that mo
uey you will pay for the delay SLOW
many little bills" 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. Collectors wear out shoe leather as
well as patience. Somebody has to pay
for both. Pay cash! When you buy
thing you want it, and the money looks
small. But when you get trusted, and
pay while afterwards, the dollar looks
larger than cart wheel, and you wonder
whether the man did not charge you too
much; and books have to be oyerhauled,
and ever SO much bother and worry en-
dured. and there is a waste of human
energy and happiness; al! because you
didn't pay cash! If every man who is
bothered with little bills will just begin
to pay cash, he will soon find that he
makes money by the operati9n-and SO
do the people with whom he deals.
We have been undergoing, within a
year, what would in former times have
been a terrible panic or disaster. Why
were not its effects serious. like those of
of other yearsl Partly 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, if he does a cash bus
mess. In proportion as our people have
got out of the absurd fashion of long
credits, and credits in all business large
or small, in that proportion disorders
have been less prolonged and less severe.
Merchants have more confidence rs well
as more ability to help each, other when
a real pinch comes, and the business of
the whole community is contracted with
less waste and risk. Therefore, let us
all move as fast as possible in the direc-
ton Of cash! Begin with the little bills;
cash for the poor people all around US. to
whom the dollar is the key to world of
comfort. Cash for the iaborer and the
servant! Cash for the butcher and gro
GER! Cash for the merchant, and in all
trans actions. where cash pavment il
possible!r So shall we make money
plenty. ...,... g..v-
Com VIsEaAR.--Boil pint Of corn
until it is a little soft; put it into jar,
add pint of molasses and four quarts
of water: mix welltogether, and set near
the stove. In two days it will be good
vinegar. The same corn will do for SIX
months When the vinegar is made,
pour it off and add molasses and water to
the corn. In this way you will have q