The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-22
The Financial Question.
SEATTLE. Nav 81 1874

LIE, may II, 1913.
ED. iNTELLIGEscER II clip the
following extract from an editorial in
the New York Fireman. Journal ana
Catholic Register of the 4th inst:
Send your porter down into Wall
street with q bag of trade dollars acc
grams OF silver, nine-tenths fnc) and
there Is no sale for it, Send him down
for dollars of the daddies-for dol
lars containing only 4l2t grains of sill.
ver-and you cannot get 1t. except by
favor, or paying Q premium.
The stamp of the United States on
gold. on SILVER, or on paper. so long az
the United States Government is count.
cd solvent. makes paper, silver or gold
equal to any other medium of ex.
change between country and country
The editor of the Journal and REGISTER
James A. McMaster, is looked upon
not only BY Catholics oil over thc
world, but by influential men of al
classes. ~ one of the ablest editors and
writer's in America. A man upward,
OF 60 years of age, he has been in &C.
tive editorial life for nearly forty years
and his paper is estimated to have tn.
largest circulation in ell countries O,
any in the United States.
The Irish World, published in New
York, is another strong advocate of the
financial question from the greenbach
standpoint. The Irish people have 8
larger percentage Of grsenback men
among them than any Other
class of foreign born citizens
There is no people more anxiou.
to strike at the financial strategy b,
which the United States is ruled than
the Irish. The Welsh come next, then
the French. Scsndinavlans and Ger.
mans. as shown by the greenbsck sen.
timent among them. The Germans
have several Greenback papers in the
Eastern States, and have just started
another in Eau Claire, Wisconsin
They declare that labor creates wealth;
that men create laws; that law creates
money; and whatever the law says il
money must be money; and whateve,
the law says is not money, exactly IS q
greenback legal tender dollar 10 money,
and silver trade dollar 10 not money
that gold and silver cannot be money
till the law makes them 20.
/ have quoted the above extracts to
show those of your readers who NAV
not be posted as to the fact that the
agitation Of the finance question is no,
confined to the Communists and men
of advanced ideas in the significance in
which these terms are flung at US. but
that it 10 wide spread among all classes
and nationalities, without regard to
their peculiar ideas or views upon re-
ligious or other subjects. 1t is q ques
ton that strikes at the very life blood
of the laboring classes. not only Of our
own people. but of all nationalities
among las, md they are bound to faith
ON it. aud ascertain why it is that no
matter how hard they work - how
many hours of toll per day, starvation
stares them in the face Twenty-four
hours of sickness with the head Of the
family. brings them to want.
Communism, as distinct feature oi
itself, has no more to do with the lin.
ance question than Catholicism, Prot.
estantism. or any other ism. Ad
vanced ideas come. as in the finsnci.
question. among all classes-they are
ideas of force. advanced from the body
polite, by stern necessity.
NJ s r.