Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-09-29
or? Will two dollars satisfy HIM?

for? Will two dollars satisfy him?
Perhaps SO, for one year, but for
the next year, seeing it only takes
new law to do 1t, he would rather
like to double the price again-say
make it even five dollars. That would
seem little more like. And how
about the next year? The wheat
sellers having the power to regulate
the price, would it stop at five dol
lars? Not bit of it; nor at ten dol
lars, nor at fifty nor anywhere else
until the bottom struck solid ground
and everything tumbled into ruin
together; because as long as human
nature is human nature, men will sell
as high as they can and that is all
there is of it.
Well, now, supposng you have
got imitation fairly inaugurated and
everything working finely, with wheat
at $4,000 and hogs at $3.50, wouldn't
your hired man and maid find it out,
and want fifty dollars day and per-
quisites, and wouldn't your girls find
it out, and wouldn't there be new
silk dresses all round at hundred
dollars per yard, and a piano at five
thousand, and carpets, and furniture,
and new front to the house at
cost of twenty-five thousand; and
wouldn't the boys find it out and de-
mand a fancy team and elegant har-
ness and costly carriage, and worst
of ALL. they would become oilers,
then spendthrifts, then loafers and
finally vagabonds, and in the midst
of it all YOU think you feel an earth
quake, and on looking out you find
the balloon has fallen to earth, and
you are caught with debts that keep
you in the tread,mill the rest of your
days. For every one thus caught
after the past initiation, there will be
ten the next time, for that was but an
unexpected and unfortunate incident
OF the necessities of war, whereas
the next Will be Il deliberate act,with
the sole intention or reaping the re-
suits Of imitation. Again, suppose
you are prudent man and want to
make all you can out Of the imitation.
What will you do? You find your
farm worth five hundred dollars an
acre. Will you sell it? If you sell,
what will you do then? Go into
trade? Almost every town in the
West has seen the ruin Of farmers
who turned traders. Don't do that.
Will you buy another farm? 1t will
cost you more than you sold for
Will you put your money in Say
lngs Bank? 1t will burst up. Will
you hoard it in your house? That
won't do; tor if the tramps don't
steal it nor the fire burn it nor the
mice make a nest of it, you will find
it worth about one mill on the dollar
when the balloon strikes ground.
The thing you Will do will be to
let it to your less prudent neighbor,
and take a mortgage on his farm, for
that will hold in all kinds Of wealth
er; but then you will enter into the
despised creditor class, and the
Greenbackers are after that class with
a sharp stick. Never mind, the most
violent railel against the creditors,
only rails in political sense, and
would without delay become cred
itor himself if opportunity offered;
and so, too of the great army who
are wasting themselves in abusing
and despising gold. One would
think they could not be induced to
touch it. You would expect if Il
genuine Greenbacller were to discov-
CT gold on his farm, he would deem
it as great a calamity as the "milk
sick" and flee from it as he would
from the wrath to come; but | assure
you upon the honor of full grown
man of fifty that he would bear it
like man, and while regardingit as
a Christening dispensation Of Provi-
dencc, he would humbly accept the
situation and proceed to dig out the
ore himself lest some weaker broth
er be caused to sin thereby, and
he would take on the condition of a
bloated Bullionist with such meek
resignation that you would feel ev-
cry time you met him that he was
not long for this world.
Moody Grow.