Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-14

preventing statute such as VI have briefly
outlined.
FOR HONEST MONEY.
Bob Ingersoll Makes a Pointed Plea which
Can BIC Readily Comprehended.
Col. Robert G.. Ingersoll, in an address at
. county fair at Malone, N. Y, on the 4th,
said:
We have had in our country a magnif-
cent imitation. W. have built within twenty.
five years some seventy.fve thousand miles
Of railroad, and in order to build that We
spent about $4,000, 900, 200. Well, there
was work for everybody. We had every.
thing growing and there was prosperity all
over the land. Everybody worked for ev-
erybody-everybody wanted tn employ ev-
erybody else. In the meantime the wal
came upon our hands, and in that We spent
$4,000, DOC, 900. What for? To build up?
No; to tear down and destroy. Every sim
GLE, solitary dollar that was spent
was wasted by us. Bnt, as a matter of fact,
to. We scattered all over the country GER
have not got them paid yet. In my judg
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put down the rebellion a. it will to pay the
debt. A man can be brave a few minutes
when he is right in the line of battle, and
when he looks and sees that nobody else
runs. 1t is comparatively easy to do that,
and be shot down at the post Of glory. 1t
is comparatively easy to die for a principle.
But it is mighty hard to live for it. 1t is
hard work to get up at 4 o'clock in the morn.
ing and work until the sun goes down, and
do that for a life.
l say We spent all this money, and we
had what they called prosperity, and while
that was going IN the young men left the
farms, and said they didn't want to be
farmers. They said: ave won't farm it;
we will go to the city, Every man who
could get $500 worth of goods on trus: be-
came a merchant. They wanted to be den
lists, lawyers, Accommodating that there
was no work in. When they could not do
that they would start an insurance ~associa-
ton. Then they sent their agents all over
the country to get your property insured, Il
get your life insured, and every moment you
would have a picture of a coffin thrust in
your face to see if yon wouldn't insure,
And those agents would come and sit down
and talk about your last struggle with tina,
monster-death. Thew got a certain share
Of the premium, and they insured anybody
They insured consumption in its last hem
orrhage, and the money flowed into the so
ciety. As soon as the fellows began to dit
the company closed its doors. Then they
had fire insurance companies. The agents
Of these also had a share Of the premiums
and I tell you what for six, eight or ter
years they would have insured an icebers
in perdition. Then the merchants 6llet
all the cars and the hotels and bars Will
runners and drummers. Every man tba
you met had three carpet-sacks filled will
samples. And in the meantime we had
bankrupt law 90 that every man who couldn'
pay his debts might take the benefit o
this law. Then all went to the clerks, etc.
of the courts. l never heard of anybody get
ting more than 3 per cent, on any claim il
my life.
All at once-in 1S73-there came a crash
and the brother that had stayed at home ane
worked on the farm, saw in the paper tina
his brother who was president of . life in
surance company was a vagrant and q vsga
boud. He read, too, that the railroad hat
failed, and that it was in the hands of a re
ceiyer, and that its bonds we're as worthless
as the first autumn leaves that grew on thu
earth. Then he began to think that he wai
doing we'll himself; and the fact is that the
men who cultivate the soil are to-day the
richest, on the average, of any class Of meu
under our flag. Then We got. hard times
Everybody who had a mortgage az an adorn'
ment to his property has suffered. Nov
they say the way to get back-the way te
have prosperous times again-is to again e
in debt. Suppose I bought a farm for 5000
and gave my note for it and then bough,
horses and wagons and gave my note; anc
then bought a piano for Mary and gave my
note, and sent james to school and gave my
note, and they all run a year. What
magnificent time l could have for that year
Then when they came around and wantet
me to pay the note. I would say, II vii
give you little notes for the interest, On,
let them run another year" What a splen
did time I could have for another year
Finally, when they come and say they hav
got to have the money, what would yo
think if I were to say to them, II never ha
. better time in my life than when I va
giving those notes. All that 10 necessar
for universal happiness and peace is to Il
me keep right on giving my notes." l "a
I to them the reason OF hard times is becaut
they have lost confidence in me. They -
the reason they have lost confidence is tn,
l have not got the money.
Now it is precisely the same with an il
|, dividual that it is with the government.
, say here to-day that every farmer ought
known that be can't make something out
nothing. The United States governmel
-lcan't make money. 1t can make what
|. cslls money. Il has not the power 70 NAL
II Il has the power 10 make yen take
In Other words Il his the power to NAL
every creditor take it, Ind nobody else.
J you 20 to buy q bushel Of wheat, and yt
!. have got "saif' money, the man can say,
= will take $l.0O in gold for that vhes
. but I want $500 il you pay in "6.s
How are you going to prevent him
The money you have rot Is good simply b
cause Il promises 10 pay. Nov II i props
ed TO have money that We will psoniss .