The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-07
THE GREAT PROBLEM.
New York state Editor Tackles the Cur
rency Question and Settles 1t---A Grand
Scheme


A New York state Editor Tackles the Cur.
| rency Question and Settles 1t---A Crput
| scheme.
We look upon the currency question
of the day as one of the most serious
problems before the people. The polit.
ical press, of course, look upon the ques
tion from standpoint governed entirely
by the platform of their party. 1t is tc
the independent press-the press shack.
eled by no political platform or halter
that the country must look for the solu.
ton of problem that, unless settled,
may end in bloodshed and strife. The
Record, an independent sheet, shall moi
be found wanting, or its editor playing
the laggard, at this important epoch. II
is the duty of the Independent press to
suggest plans and propositions that will
aid the country in its trying hour. The
Record offers this plan, which, it is
pleased to say, has the friendly counte-
nance of B-n F. B-r, J-y
&c, J-y Cd and W-m
B--rD-n: The proposition is start
ling in its features and immense in its
proportions, yet magnifcently simple.
1t is well known that gold is heavy, that
every person who carries it long in his
pocket is annoyed at its excessive ling
ling, bowed down by its weight. and
troubled by the fact that it is continual
ly wearing away his pockets. The
Record proposes to do away with gold
as circulating medium, and allow it to
be used entirely in its proper vocation
j. G., that of filling decayed teeth.
As to rag money, or the shinplaster,
every person knows how troublesome
that is. '- 1t is annoying, every time you
want to buy a cigar, TO be obliged to
break dollar bill, and it is more annoy
ing to find slowed away in every pocket
filthy "rags," that the chances are have
been fondled and hugged to the bosom
of paupers and perhaps lepers. Physi-
clans tell us that many cases are record
ed where the most loathsome diseases
have been eagendered through the cir
culation of shinplasters. Besides, they
encourage gambling, drinking, gift en-
terprises, and the use of patent medi-
cines; they encourage robbery and mur-
der, and the building of poorhouses.
The Record proposes to do away with
shinplasters and rag money. 1t proposes
that our business should be done on the
mutual plan.
For instance, if man wants a copy of
the Record, he stops into the Record
office and takes it. It is free as water.
No filthy lucre, no dirty greenbacks, no
fever-stricken shinplasters, no annoying
chunk of gold is offered for tit is sim
ply taken. If we wish a suit of clothes
or steam engine, steamboat or raft
OF logs, we simply send q note to the
man who deals in those things, and they
will be forthcoming. Each and every
person, man, woman or child, Pat from
the Emerald isle, Lo from the prairies
of Colorado, John from the land of tea
everybody does the same thing-takes
what is wanted, and gives what is asked
for by others. The system extends
through all the ramiications of business
and commerce, and to everything that is
pin to tunnel under
the English channel. 1t is bounded by
no contines-it is grand, unlimited in
its scheme and its workings. This grand
plan, which is original with us, simplifies
everything. 1t abolishes deceit and
crime, and simplifies our wants. If a
man can't get drink he bankers after it
under our plan it would be free to all.
and nobody would want it. How grand,
how magnificent, and yet how simple
how Uery Sin1plc-the plan is. 1t is
known that communism has threatened
France and other nations. Our plan
would scatter communism, for there
would be no necessity for it. There
would be no paupers, and everybody
would work with willing hand and
an open heart.
There might be some little incon-
venience in arranging matters on the
street, so that the wheel within the wheel
would run smoothly, but it would soon
be arranged, and all would go well.
There would be no necessity for party
platforms and chickering's, even in the
same party-no necessity for an editor
running around all the week to collect
ten dollars to pay his help-no necessity
for wife waking her husband up at
five o'clock in the morning for four cents
to buy pint of milk-no necessity for
in this world but the grand
and noble feeling of brotherly love and
which would be sure
to follow the adoption of the Records
great nuisance abollsher and methodi-
cal settlement of the currency question"
Let us have peace.-Oocego (M ~
Record