Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-10-13
OFFIcE IN "JEFFERsoX BULDING.'
Saturday, October Is, 1877.
Pithy Paragraphs for the People.

Money is given in fee simple to none, in
use. To al. '-Lacrehgs.
Money is the creation of government
merchandise Of individual industry "-.Jno. 4.
Thomson.
Changing an incou7enient form of public
debt 10 a convenient one, does not increase the
amount - Water Hdldi,
The discussion of gold as against paper
j. futile aud must give place to the discussion
Paper Mouey-How to be issued. ."--.james
HarrCy
Look at this locomotive, inspect that steam
ship. examine the works OF this watch. Did
Ire mouied man make them? No, it is an
>wered but he caused them to be made He
.,und the means Ills money was the creative
Iower BE it go. Then labor will make it,
own money and the capitalist will no longer
be needed Edrad KsHog.
Whereas it has been known and declared
that the poor have no right to the property Of
the rich. wish it also 10 be known that the
rich have no right 10 the property Of the poor.
John RUskjn
at was great discovery when a metallic
medium was substituted for barter; it was al
so great discovery when paper was made con-
vertibie into gold and silver; bat third dis
covery was reserved for our own times, name
": that with an incouvertible paper currency,
agriculture commerce aud manufactures
might advance in career Of unexamped pros
perty Sir John Sinclair.
"Some Of the best English writers upon
commerce. set out with observing that the
wealth Of a country consists, not in is gold
and silver only, but in its lands, houses and
cousumabIe goods of all different kinds. In
the course Of their reasouings, however the
lands. houses and cOnsumable goods seem 10
slip ont Of their memory, and the strain OF
their argument frequently supposes that all
wealth consists in gold and silver, and that 10
multiply these metals IL the great object Of ma
tionll industry and commerce. "-Aiaa Smith
" You are doing no good there California;;
you are harming the world. Cover over your
mines. leave your gold in the earth, and 90 to
planting potatoes Every man who gives a
potato TO the world i the benehctor his race;
but you with your gold are overiurning socie-
Is, making the iguobe prominent increasing
everywhere the expense of living, and conlu-
sing all things Thomas Carlyle.
The intricacy Of the question has been
much increased by the hitherto necessary use
Of marketable commodities, such as gold sill
yer. salt shells, etc, to give intrinsic value
aud security TO currency; but the fnal and
best definition Of money is, that it is a docu-
nleu,ary promise ratified and guaranteed by
the Nation, % give or find a certain quantity
Of labor or the results Of labor. john BusSin.
"If one-third Of the money were locked up,
'rr exported, a. we gee 10 these days the peo-
PIE. not perceiving money 10 be gone, would
be JEALOUS one Of another, and each would en-
poy MS skill and power the best he could, 70
retrieve il again. aud bring il back into bis
pocket in the same plenty as before. But this
Is but .crambling among ourselves, and helps
10 more against our wants than the pulling ol
sheet coverlet will. among children that liz
together. preserve them all from the cold
Some viii starve, unless the father the Co.
yerumen0 provide better. and enlarge TIE
scanty coveriDg-(pToyi3e more money!" -
Ja0 Locke.