The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-02
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GREENBAGkS.

EDITOR CuIEF:-The article you published recently show
ing by reports of National Banks that they have,
average about twenty-five cents in gold for every one
thousand dollars of outstanding exhibits the cond
tion and ability of the country To specie payment
While it evident therefrom that it is impossible TO re
sumo and that any attempt do would generally stop
business and PROSTATE the energies of the whole country
vet suppose could be done and without any i'll results
what good would do Why is gold dollar any better
than a Government paper dollar ! One much the
other has to depend upon legislation value Had
gold not been egsaed into money it would have had
market value about the silver; for though it is
scarccr vet lacks the general utility of silver Adopt
ing gold legal tender currency basis is less sensible
than adopting wheat for the same-or the latter has an
intrinsic real value Food a human necessity and gold
is Iron Of more need and to man than gold
The countless millions of days woryes, ofyears work
spent in searching for gold could have made the earth
Garden of Eden-a paradse-and after ALL OF what util
ity is gold the human family All there is in the
world isn't worth so much as buffalo robe in cold wealth
er or a pint of at any time. Wealth is the accumu
aon of labor directed toward providing for the needs of
man. Metals included among the articles as being
wealth itself their utility goes, and farther
Man could get along without iron very well but he need
never of gold from the earth In fact it
has been hindrance instead of help 10 mans advance
Every day spent in digging has been day lost
TO humanity After getting it, it possesses little or no
utility currency paper the purpose infinite
y better 1t OF barbasm for people to 90 uGgng
metals other bulky and heavy truck for circu
latnG medium currency.
The Virginians used tobacco legal tender currency
Were they to come up out their graves at this time
they would doubt fight hard for tobacco legal ten
der basis the hard money men now fighting for
metallic legal tender basis The principle in both cases Is
the same though gold evidently the convenient o
the two.
To up with my opinion is that were all the Naol-
al Banks together with and the infamous gold rings
whose tool he is in the bottomless pit and the country
had Government paper currency as stable and S"u as
the existence Of the Government itself and plenty Of 1t
needs the country, should all be prosperous
and happy-(cxcept perhaps money sharksl voted LOT
Grant for the first term but when he barered the ooun
try to Wall Street for greed, l left his standard
As the representative of wealth, mot wealth itselD
paper currency convenient and better IN eV
ery way than gold and silver And at the Eext PreSden
tia election have but that grcenbacks viii win
the ay by an overw helmng majority The Changers are
generally on the side reform political as well as indus
trial Anything to lessen taxation and increase the re-
ward of honest labor But 50 long members Of our or
der and others vote and elect lawyers and shstes as
their legislators we may look for the defeat Of every
measure directed to head fraud extortion and corrup
ton and to remove the burdens bending the ab"rins
classes to the ground 6kAAEEk