The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-02-21

This department of the'ADvANCE Is open to any
one to express his or her views in appropriate
language upon any subject whatever, whether
religious, philosophic, scientific or political.
The conditions are Brevity, write on one
side OF the paper only, use appropriate language
| and avoid personalities. The name of the writ
er must accompany communications, not for
publication unless desired, but as a guarantee
of good faith.
LIBERAL 1YlOUGH7-AIORE HONEY.
EDITOR ADVANCE: l congratulate
you on the noble freedom of your relig-
ious thought: You have said some
things that will be pretty hard for the
Orthodox to take, and am afraid they
will try to make capital against you as
Il hereto. When you come to place any
heather Chinaman above John Calvin,
you are treading on dangerous ground.
But go on. Reach out, and advance
with the ADVANCE, and I believe the
intelligence of this community will sus-
tain you. There is an under-current
OF thought, believe, among large
proportion Of our people that will sup
port and back up liberal and advanced
free thought. The old Calvinistic doc
trine OF eternal torture in Il reverend.
ing Hell, for few small crimes, and
those perhaps only in belief, while in
this life, is fast becoming obsolete.
The duration of punishment in the
future State, will, i'll my opinion, de-
pend very much upon the status of the
! individual. II the soul be a low, igno-
rant, debased one, stepped in crime and
win -or1, Ar1
to learn to undo what it has done amiss
and gain the lost ground of life spent
III wrong doing. Perhaps it may sink
deeper and deeper in sin until it stands
appalled, at its own blackness, and
turns to seek a higher plane. While on
the other hand, the noble and good and
exalted being Of earth will enter at
once upon a higher plane of life, and go
on performing deeds Of love, Justice.
mercy and charity, and see no more of
hell than it saw while performing the
same noble deeds on earth.
But enough of this. While my pen
IS in the ink, l want to give you a little
advice upon another subject. While
doing away with obsolete things, why
not do away with the old and ought-to-
be obsolete notion that nothing but
gold will represent values? There is
not gold enough in the known world to
40 the business of America and Eng
land. What are we tn understand Nv
a gold basis! Is it to have ten paper
dollars backed by one gold dollar, after
the old-fashioned system of banking?
| think that is what it will amount to.
During the S'specie basis'' period of
1914 to 1861, the country was convulsed
with nine distinct panics. But with
very different results from our present
panic. The holders of the paper dollars
of that day, based on a ''specie basis"
never got ore cent for them. They
were not worth the paint on theirfaces.
Not 50 with our present paper dollars.
No on has lost a dollar No one has
lost confidence in the ability of our
government to redeem its promise to
pay. The idea that we are suffering
from over-production, when one-l,alf Of
our laboring people are suffering for
the want OF sufficient clothing and food,
IS simply supremacy ridiculous. Over
production should show itself in in
creased ease in obtaining the necessa-
nakedness and hunger. No, sir. it is
not over-production. It is the want of
purchasing power, or money. caused Nv
the contraction policy of the Eastern
Bankers put in operation by Hugh Nc
Cullocl, whereby our circulating me-
dunn was contracted $1,000. OOO. 600.
Notwithstanding the assessments of our
Hon. member of Congress to the con-
trary. And now, Mr.. EDITOR, must
draw my communication to close,
but cannot close without entreating
you to speak out for this mucll-needed
reform, and stake my reputation upon
It, in the language Of Patrick Henry,
7 IL will consent to he taken for an i'd
lot," it you are not within five years
found in the van, the leader and fore
most ola gallant host. Already we see
the reactionary spirit in Congress, and
our own Legislature, overriding Presi-
dent and Gorerner, and speaking out for
the right. If European gold does not
again, as in 1873. override the better
Judgment of our legislators, we NAV
soon look for better times.
H. b. TRIP.
81aELow, Feb. 8, 1873.
A beautiful Circassian girl can be
bought at Constantinople for $780,
Exchange.
But where can a fellow get the $500.
- MDre than one hundred nersons have