The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-20
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FRIDAY, JULY 90, 1877.
SILVER RESUMPTION.

The clamor for the 'dollar of our
l." fathers by those who are not inaptly
styled the "slver plated greenbackers"
looks more like n scene from one of Mol
ieres comedies than a serious discussion OF
algrave financial question. 1t is hardly two
years ago when they could hardly find
words with which to express their contempt
and disgust for The 'dollar of our dsddies,
the "monty of our mammles," as they
sneeringly called it; and they blatantly
proclaimed that specie was a delusion,
snare and fraud, and that ''mouey" de-
rived its only value from statute law, and
that the sole currency suited TO American
institutions and American citizens was the
greenback ard shinpla,ter conceived in the
desire to save the Union from dismember-
ment, born in the throes of battle ard
stained with the blood shed on many hard
fought field. 1t was simply impossible to
get too much of this ideal and Utopian
" money" 1t was easy enough to print it,
and the road to prosperity lay through
constant running of the printing presses
and & consequent unlimited supply CT
greenbscks.
These silver plated greenbackels have
now changed their linen, and appear in the
role of silver resumptionists; but their dis-
guss is thin and imperfect. With remark
able condescension, they consent to waive
any mention of the past, aud would, per-
haps, have us bekeve that from the OUTSET,
they have been the uncompromisipg, ar
dent advocates of silver, and the faithful
believers in salvation by silver alone 10 the
exclusion Of gold, nickel, copper, green
backs anu everything else. But, even, if
they belonged to another brood of cats, if
they could, as they endeavor to do, conceal
their personal identity, The same old ideas,
the same old arguments, the same old
phraseology still crops out aud pierce
through the thin disguise like the "voice"
of the jackass through the lions skin. The
same old stump speeches, platforms and
arguments are used, with the simple diff
ference that the "dollar Of our fathers" is
substituted for "rag-baby" wherever it
may occur, and they arc, to-day, as deter
mined and jealous in demanding that the
rag-baby shall be sacrificed to the Moloch
Bonanza as, two years ago, they were in
protesting that the hope Of the nation rest
cd in an unlimited procreation of iag-ba-
bies.
All this would be absurd enough even il
these Brummagen resumptionists really de-
sired to resume, but the hight Of absurdity
Is reached when ii appears that in spite OF
their frantic zeal for the adoption of the
dollar of the fathers, they have not the
slightest idea Of even laying up sufficient
store Of it to make the least foundation fol
resumption. When these most eminent
financiers were demonstrating, to their owl
satisfaction at least, Hat resumption il
gold was impraclicable, they claimed tina
1t would require somewhere from foul
hundred millions t. five hundred millionI
of dollars in gold coin Al the very least to re
deem the legal tender currency and to carry
on the ordinary operations Of trade We be
heve that it has never been claimed that
silver dollar was worth more, or would g
further, than gold dollar, and it is, there
fore, reasonable to conclude that as larg
an amount of silver "a of gold would be re
qnired. But has anyone ever seriously PIC
posed TO heap up five hundred millions O
dollars, or, even, fifty millions? Eve
Ionaa In, ,..il Iaet niuhN Of Ii
arRentiferous frenzy, does not propose any
thing 30 wild as that it would kill I'd
party, as surely as some OF our postofiic
contemporaries would have us believe til
presidents civil service policy will; and 6
when they demand resumption of silve
they wish it distinctly understood that it
not at all necessary that there should
any silver to resume with.
And right here We see wherein silve
plated resumption 10 more absurd than Il
rag-baby. When these eminent fnancie
were clamorIng for more greenbacks, the
knew and pointed out the way to get then
Near tue roof of the old United Stat
treasury building, in Washington, is
bureau OF printing and engraving
equipped and ready for work, and an insi
nihcsnt appropriation Of one hundred tho
sand dollars, more or less, would set d
presses running and print, at least, a tho
sand millions of gret nbacks-- and then
would be go easy to l1od the country wi
couuterfeits which would largely oontri
ute TO making aud keeping the volume
the currency equal to the wants
trade. But SO far, these silver I'M
have no more silver in sight thl
enough to pay for the cigars for the crow
and we have yet to hear of lheir prOposi
to lay in further stock. When the NOV