The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-19
THE NTIO NALCAMPAIGN,

THE NTIO NALCAMPAIGN.
HENRY CAREY BAIRD.
The amounts of money needed in country
should be determined by the wants of the PEG.
pie, and can only be done by means of ma
tional paper money.-HENRY CAREY BAIRD.
WHAT MoNRY sHoULD NOT BIZ MADE OF.
Money should he thing of, or belonging to,
the country. An exportable commodity is not
fitted to be money. And nothing could be
more monstrous than England's principle
followed by the United States-of forcing her
people to be buyers of gold, and making their
possession Of gold one of the scarcest arti-
cles III the world-the condition of their being
able to furnish themselves with food and
clothing Hon. ISAAC BUCHANAN, of Canada.
The most beautiful, most perfect, and most
certain plan ever devised or suggested bv man
for the accomplishment of this grand object
financial stabilily-is full supply of national
paper money having the feature Of inter-
changeabilty at the option of the holder, with
Government bonds at low and fixed rate Of
interest HENRY CAREY BAIRD.
THE PEOPLE MUST STUDY THE QUESTION.
This currency question must be studied by
the people A more profound knowledge must
prevail-not Of books Of science, Of literature,
but of the effect of few simple laws within
the comprehension of the most unlettered. No
constitutional objections have force, for the
people may change the constitution. When
the question is thoroughly understood by the
people true men everywhere regardless of party
will unite to overthrow selfshness. Then the
thin gossamer which has so long united mans
honest efforts against the unjust interest Of
SArI Ill L.
for all time, the value of brain, hand, and
sinew will rank superior to past accumula-
tions.-CHARLEs NJ. DUPUY.
"A BARBARISM UNWORTHY OF THE AGE"
Paper money would be a much nearer perfect
measure of value than gold or silver ever
have been or ever can he. The use of gold or
other merchandise as money is barbarism
unworthy OF the age.-WALLACE P. GROOM:
WHAT PAPER MONEY WOULD DO.
Distribute sufficient volume of full legal
tender paper currency through our country
and what will be the result Answer pro
rata increase in the employment of labor.
Why Because it will increase the demand for
the products of labor. McCnlloch's contraction
policy has smitten industry with paralysis
throughout the broad extent of our whole
country-PLINY FREEMAN
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Gold and silver are not intrinsicaly of equal
value with iron. Their value rests chiefly in
the estimation they happen to be in among the
generality of nations. Paper money has great
advantages over gold and silver, as it is not
likely to have its value reduced by exporta-
ton. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
DISHONEST SHAME EXPOSED
The attempt to force resumption of specie
payments by contracting a volume of currency
which is actively, legitimately, and profitaby
employed, is as dishonest as it is unwise and
its projectors pause not, though they discover
that it robs millions of laborers of their whole
estate. JUDGE KELLEY.
THE PEOPLE ASLEEP.
The people are, a. great giant, asleep,
whose thews and sinews are bound with fragile
wisps of straw. Once aroused from slumber
to a conscious sense of bondage, and the letters
will be rent into thousand fragments When
they generally know the integrity Of their cause
the ballot will commence its perfect work and
majorties will demand that interest shall be
more justly proportioned TO tho gains OF labor.
CHARLES NJ. Derby.
HOW TO PREVENT MONEY pANIcs
Give us national paper currency over
which the gold interest has no control, and we
have seen the last of the financial panics sgd
SEY MYERS o. Chicago.
A rRorHE-Y by HENRY CAREY BAIRD.
Instead OF transferring $500, OOO, coo Of our
debt abroad and paying X per cent. in gold
on il for thirty years, we can borrow $50 900, :
900 from the people Of the United States at an
average interest of per cent. in currency,
and bv this process we will have the means OF
vitalzing our industries, Of producing things
by the sale Of which we can pay our debt
abroad irstead Of getting dpep-r into debt, and
/ al the same time We will keep our people
employed, and prevent general ruin and de-
moraization among them. II We do not it
will not b. three years before the name Of the
American Government will be a by-word and
a reproach in the minds and hearts OF all the
best people in the world. To sum up. Get
our people TO work &c. them to work at any
cost If you do not, our whole fabric OF society
and government goes down in one crash never
10 rise, except under some form Of tyranny
HEsRr CAREY BAIRD.
THE DIFFICULTY ~ nut SHELL
The unemployed are willing TO work and
create wealth. Bet while they are creating IL.
they need some one 10 give them something
that the farmer will accept for food-that
the farmer could pass his neighbor shop
keeper for cloth-that that neighbor could
then Jass tn the city trader in satisfaction of
his debt. That thing, however. is scarcely
anywhere to he found and its generic name Is
money. HENRI c. CAREY.
JUDGE KELLEY or CONTRACTION.
Contraction Of the currency, if continued,
will prove failure, but not harmless one. It
will be fatal to a majority Of the business men
Of this generation and strip the frugal laborers
Of the small but hard earned sums they have
deposited in saving banks. Its object is 10 re-
dnce the amount Of working capital in the
country, and by thus unsettling values ii will
parzlyze trade, suspend production and deprive
industry OF employment. JrDGg KELLEY.
PETER COOPER
81 am convinced that when true American
system Of finance il adopted whici, shall put
all that circulztes a. money entirely and ex-
c.usiv~ly under the control Of the Government,
MAKING 1T RECEIVABLE FOR ALL DCT-
les AND DEBTS. employment for all the
working classs, and prosperity for the whole
country will b the natural and permanent
result" PETER CoePEE.
THE SCIENCE or MONET BRIEFLY STATED.
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