The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-17
The Dollar Easy 10 Get,

From the Cincinnati Gazette
A contemporary, who Is tempted by
the initiation seductiOns, says that what
be wants Is the kind Of dollar that il
easy:to get. This is a very natural want,
and the inaatiOnists promise to satisfy
1t. The dollar that Is easy TO get means
one that you do not have to give much
for, either Of labor or other things. But
the dollar which ia easy TO get to one
must be alike easy to get to all. II the
labOrer has to give but little labor to get
the dollar, the farmer will have to give
but little produce, the meat man bnt little
meat, the milkman but little milk, the
manufacturer but little Of his products,
the storekeepet but lutte goods, the
HORSEPOWER but little room, and so all
round. Thus the dollar which is easy
for the laborcr TO get-that is to say,
which will buy but little lnbor-will,
when the labOrer has got II, buy Just a.
little Of all the articles Of his subsistence.
Suppose Lhatby imitation, which Pendle.
ton, Cary, and Others Of that stripe set up
the measure for by false statements that
we had near 1000 millions OF currency in
the war, the volume OF currency should
be doubled, and as a natural consequence
prices should he so inflated, that is to say,
the currency 50 deprecated, that the day 3
work which now fetches 81 80 and 81 80
would fetch s. 90 and 50 90, the imitation
or depreciation would be the same in all
that the workman has to buy, and there.
fore his having dollars that were twice rs
easy to get would make him no better of;
Dollars easy to get mean dollars easy to
go. II the laborer, or farmer, or manu-.
lacturer, is enabled TO get dollars by Civ.
ing less for them than now, each will find
that the dollars will buy less Of what he
wants.
Thus initiation promises that one class
shall cheat the others, and results in mu.
tual cheating all round. But when we
suppose that the imitation Of prices Of
things-that Is TO say, the depreciation Of
the currency-Will be uniform In all
things, we allow the most favorable work.
ing Of the cheat, In practice II does not
work so we'll as this. For that apparent
initiation Of prices which is made by a de.
probation Of the currency, and a belief
that continued increase will continue the
depreciation, starts up wild speculation
among the middle men. Wages are not a
commodity that can be Specnlated In, be.
cause there Is no accumulated stock Of
wages q the market TO be bought and
boarded, as there Is oil land and merchan-
disc. -.
Therefore the speculation Of middle
men Seites on the staple articles ot the
subsistence oil the people, and ny bold
speculative purchases, and BY holding
out oil market, and by the various de:
vices Tor creating an appearance OF
scarcity, u raises the prices OF the ntti.
cies Of subsistence IN advance Of the rate
Of the currency initiation, and far beyond
II; while wages, not having any lift from
speculation, remain undlstutbed in all
the early stages Of imitation, and work.
men are reduced by rapid advance in
the cost Of ihe neeesn:Aries Of living to
hght by strikes ior the wages advance
they are entitled to-; Aud this always
comes grudgihgly ana The latest Of all.
This Is the reason Of the fixed tradition
that ifredeemable paper money always