The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-20

VI OtllCl OuUSCduCCs CAdCG1y do O1AO
Constitution of the United States
| adopts set object as a standard, dup
icates itself every time it is applied
or observed by the people who recog-
nize it as standard.
To stamp SIS worth of gold is SIM
ply testify by the stamp that it is SIS
worth Of gold. Now what do you
measure it by?
Simply by the law which says that
so many grains Of gold shall be worth
81; twice that number Of grains are
worth So. So a certain amount OF
service performed by the President
Of the United States is rated at $50,
900, year. Another man performs
labor that is rated at 81 a day-a dol
lar exists only in the law. That law
fixes it's stamp to Sis worth of gold |
and says it is $l's worth of gold. 1t |
fixes it's stamp to the little piece of
paper which is pasted on the corner of
an envelope so that it goes out as a
stamp to do duty Of compensation.
So does the law fix its stamp to a
greenback dollar, pays it out to SOL
der to do it's duty Of compensate on,
and to go on. and on, and on, simply as
measure ofvalue. While it is dol
lar the creation of law has no more
value in itself than has yard meas
ure. another creation of law. That
duty of compensation is ST., when it
brings ST of labor. 81 of crockery, ST
of butter or ST of gold to the measure
of the law.
AS we do use paper money and pay
it out day after day to men, in full
!. | 70, 1oi, ho1 ~
us, so do we, by our acts, prove that
, we do make a creation OF law that has
, no intrinsic value whatever, perform
the same service that unstamped
, property in gold, silver, grain or pro-
duce could perform. Now, as we do
use paper money, and us we do pay
our debts in full, citizen to citizen.
let us complete our honoring of the
| law by making enough Of that meas
ure of value to compensate that other
2 creditor who has bond, but whose
! bond in reality is no more against us
than is claim for services or Tor
5 goods which we can and do pay in full
t every day in paper money. There
: fore, let us pay all the bonds in this
e measure of the law Then let these
= measures, while called dollars, be-
I cause they are in law dollars, have
: 81 worth of intrinsic value. and stop
the drain of interest. that the people
n are each year paylng-nOt for the use
s of dollars of money, of property, but
t simply to support a combination OF
:. oilers who for years have presumed
upon the intelligence and prejudices of
the people whom they have robbed.
f Let us pay every bond in these crea-
+ lions of law. which should be hOnOred
n as much as the bond itself. which is
IS but creation of the law; and then let
IS us. the people, have this greenback
e full legal-tender money to use in the
n transaction of business, the facilita
n ting of commerce and the acquisition
II of property. be it III gold, silver, lands
a or other products, even as the holders
l. of bonds accumulate unto themselves
this species of property, but without
If necessity for labor.
Id We try our best to make ourseli
n, clear. If we do not. come again, anC
g. keep coming. We have the correct
II idea, and inside Of our brain is abund
IN ant light so that we see the way per
al fectlv clear to most wonderful success:
VI for the people through ideas intended
re only for their protection, but not TO
10 the enrichment of untaXed oilers
Id We comprehend the constitution fully
a completely, Understandings. l
v seems, at times, to as though ever,
Id Trainer of that great instrument stoot
e. in spirit form in our library to assur,
Id us that we do comprehend the great
IL ness of their work while they seem t,
in know perfectly of our effort to hav'
that constitution honored to the yer,
at letter.
III AS there is not in all the worlt
lie enough gold for the people Of the Uni
H. ted States to use to pay their debts
and as these debts can be paid in thu
ut legal-tender creation of money on pa
er per. exactly as the debts the govern
tie ment owed to the soldiers and sailor
to and all others who have served it wer
ID paid, so let us, the people. have tn
he same money to pay our debts that tn
a. government used to pay its debts
re Then ours will be a government of tn
people. and it will not be till then.
- THE FAMINE IN INDIA.
re Let no man. however ambition
ic says the London Spectator of Angus
10 4. envy the Marquis of Salisbury hi
official position. The approaching
sh famine in southern India, misfol
at tune to all men, and to the sufferers
u terrible calamity, is to him at once
H. misfortune, calamity. and crue
n, vexation. 1t involves, in addition t.
endless direct and horrible conse
n. quences to the people affected. tn
Y. temporary paralysis of progress
IS. throughout India. There is still
" chance. bare chance, a catastroph
ed may be averted-the rains suddenl
ne recommending. but this is August
:" no such occurrence is within ordinar
of experience. and we must. we feal
W. make up our minds to second yea
It. of comparatively total drought. Thi
ne is evidently the opinion of the India
IS. Secretary himself, who. on Saturday
&c in speech at Cooper's Hill, prepare
X the Young engineers and the worl