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

LIZ A14 I'LL
duplicate of gold, paper, iron, silver
or other substance, exactly as the
Constitution of the United States
adopts set object as standard, dup
licates 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
ST.; 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, a year. Another man performs
labor that is rated at 81 day-a dol
lar exists only in the law. That law
fixes it's stamp to Sis worth of gold
and says it is Sis 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 a duty Of compensation.
So does the law fix it's 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 Of value. While it is a dol
lar the creation of law has no more
value in itself than has yard meas
lure, another creation Of law. That
duty Of compensation is ST., when it
brings ST. of labor, ST. 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
compensation for a claim held against
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
creditor who has bond, but whose
bond in reality is no more against us
than is a claim for services or for
J goods which we can and do pay in full
every day in paper money. There
fore, let us pay all the bonds in this
measure of the law. Then let these
measures, while called dollars, be-
+ cause they are in law dollars, have
Sis worth of intrinsic value, and stop
the drain of interest, that the people
I are each year paying-not for the use
5 of dollars of money, of property, but
simply to support a combination OF
!. idlers 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
r lions of law, which should be hOnOred
n as much as the bond itself. which is
S but creation Of the law; and then lei
s us, the people, have this greenback
e full legal-tender money to use in the
n transaction of business, the facilita
II ting of commerce and the acquisition
i of property, be it in gold, silver, lands
a or other products, even as the holders
l. of bonds accumulate unto themselve
this species of property, but without
f necessity for labor.
d We try our best to make oursel
/, clear. If we do not, come again, ant
;. keep coming We have the correc
IL idea, and inside of our brain is abund
n ant light so that we see the way per
ii fectly clear to most wonderful success
u for the people through ideas INTENDED
e only for their protection, but not 70
o the enrichment of untaXed idlers
d We comprehend the constitution fully
a completely, Understandings.
y seems, at times, to us, as though ever
d Trainer of that great instrument stoo
3, in spirit form in our library to aSSur
d us that we do comprehend the great
q ness of their work while they seem
n know perfectly of our effort to hav
that constitution hOnOred to the yer
It letter.
IL AS there is not in all the worl
lie enough gold for the people of the I'm
4 ted States to use to pay their debts
and as these debts can be paid in tn
1t legal-tender creation of money Oh ps
II per, exactly as the debts the govern
.e ment owed to the soldiers and sailor
% and all others who have served it wer
ID paid, so let us, the people, have TIL
le same money to pay our debts that tn
a. government used to pay it's debts
e Then ours will be a government of tn
people. and it will not be till then.
- THE FAMINE IN INDIA.
e Let no man, however ambition
lc says the London Spectator of Angus
g 4. envy the Marquis of Salisbury hi
official position. The approachin
h famine in southern India, misfol
It tune to all men, and to the sufferers
L. terrible calamity, is to him at once
l. misfortune, calamity. and crut
4, vexation. 1t involves, in addition t
endless direct and horrible const
4, quences to the people affected, tn
Y, temporary paralysis of progress
5, throughout India. There is still
" chance. bare chance, a catastroph
d may be averted-the rains suddenl
le recommending. but this is August
- no such occurrence is within ordinar
If experience. and we must. we feal
v make up our minds to a second yea
+ IF cnmnarafively total drought. Thi