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peaches rot by hundreds of bushels?
26. Did you never know of corn bt
ing burned for fuel in the teemin
west?
"a. Did you never know of cattl
aud swine being given away TO thos
who would feed them?
%. Was there not over-productiol
in all such instances
20. Was il the government and tn
currency, or the deficiency or ex )ens'
Of transportation, or perhaps the lacl
of forethought in the producer, which
caused such n surplus OF the necessa
ries OF life as you know often exists il
some localities?
80. In saying that "money mus
have the stamp of the government up
on it,, !" do you mean the stamp OF tn,
home government?
81. III so, how do you account foi
Canadian bank notes now passing cur.
rent among usf
32. How do you account for Scotch
bank notes being the chief money OF
that thrifty people?
33. Don't you know that the Cana.
dian and the Scotch governments put
no stamp on that money and take no
responsibility for it2
"a. Don't you know that such money
is based wholly on the ability OF the
banks to pay these notes when requir-
ed, and on the public belief in that
ability?
35. Don't you know that gold and
silver in bars will boy just as much
property in coin?
SO. Don't you know that il the gov
ernment stamp should be all filed off a
gold eagle, but the filings all saved,
you could buy just as mach property
with il as when it was perfect?
81. Don't you know that before
there was any mint in California, the
gold dust was weighed (you say in
London, when you wanted currency
for them?
80. In short. don't you know that
the government stamp adds no value
to money, but simply certifies to the
value already in it?
80. Don't you know that in Austria.
liza the price Of drink of liquor used
to be pinch OF gold dust, and that
bar-tenders with big thumbs and fin
gers commanded high salaries?
40. Don't you know that the incon-
venience of this weighing and pinching
business led men to ask of the govern
ment its certificate of the money value
IA piece of coin, SO as TO save time
and disputes?
Al. II the government stamp alone
will make money, are you prepared to
pay as much for greenbacks and scrip
from which the stamp" has boen
worn away or washed out, take them
pound for pound, as You will pay for
gold or silver coin which has become
smooth by use?
AZ. Has not the paper lost all its val
TIE in losing the stamp?
43. Have the gold and silver which
remain lost any of their value?
A. In saying that iron nails were
once money in old Scotland, Goldfish was
money in Newfoundland, musket-balls
we're money in Massachusetts,. hoop poles
and coon-skins were money IN Indiana,
beaver-skins were money in Montreal, to
bacco was money in Maryland and Vir-
ginia, don't you give away your case I?
45. Don't you see that our fore fathers
demanded intrinsic value in their differ
ent kinds of money,-demanded some
thing which would stay valuable beyond
the day and the place where IT was ten
dered and accepted, ed,-something which
had labor concentrated in il?
46. Don't you see that they were
wiser than yourself and the irredeemA-
ble school of financiers?
AZ. Don't you know that the red men
of our forests would at first accept as
money certain shells and beads, worked
into wampum, of little or no intrinsic
value, but catching their foolish fancy
for ornaments?
As. Did you ever hear OF such simple
tons as those aborigines, until the green
back party arose, and clamored for g.
600. 900 or more Of pictured and printed
pieces Of paper, payable nowhere, never,
by nobody, but called absolute money?
40. Don't you think the redskins and
the greenheads make a noble team 20
help the human race out of "hard
umes?"-the wild savages who won't
work and don't talk much, and the Wild
or thinkers" and ''reformers" of our
day, who work tremendously-with their
mouths?
90 Don't you know that the bank of
England has never closed its doors and
refused 10 redeem its notes in specie
since it resumed in 1922?
81. Don't you know that 10 stop pan
ic the bank has been permitted 10 issue
more notes than it had gold 10 redeem
beyond its investment in British bonds
or consols), and that as soon as the pub
lie knew this iron rule TO be suspended,
they ceased 10 hurry to the bank for gold?
81. Don't you know that a bank Of
England note has never failed 10 be
worth its face in gold savereigns for
more than half century, although II is
not legal tender?
53. Why do you draw picture OF the
honest Christian banker issuing $40 of
bills for every 81 in specie he owns, as if
that had anything TO do with the exist
ing system?
81. Haven't you shook off the mouldy
notions of the past and learned that this
state-bank confidence" system has been
set aside by the well-secured, well-taxed,
well-examined, wel-regulated national
bank system?
55. Did you ever know O man 10 lose
dobar by his confidence" in national
/ bank bills?
56. Did you ever know man 10 re-
| fuse national-bank bills for any property
he had to sell?
81. Did YOU ever know interest or ex-
change 10 be as cheap under any other
system as at the national banks now?
SO When you say that ''greenbacks
and national-bank notes cannot any more
exist together than freedom and slavery,
for one Of them has got 10 get out Of the
way," don't you know that greenbacks
and national-bank notes have existed TO.
gether for IA years, and that for SIX
years past the difference between them
has not averaged $50, 900, ,0O07
50. Do you ever look into q treaury
report?
go. Do you konw anything about
the statistics Of finance?
81. When you say there are leo ma.
tional bankers in the congress Of the
United States. don't you know it il
false?
GO. Can you name 20 national bank.
ers in that body?
63. Can you name ten?
Ga Can you name even FIVE whose
business IL national banking7
65. Don't yon know that this false
hood was told three years ago by
Moses W. Field, and that he has nevei
yet given the names OF these nationa
bankers nor attempted to do so?
66. Do you count him as a reputabl,
witness. after he has been branded il
the courts Of this state for swipdling
soldiers widow ont Of bounty money
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