The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-16
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wEDHEsDAY OCTOBER ie, SIS !.
{. 81. y,o,.on 1.lyerti Ter.
cheap Money.

Sgorking YOU ~ ~ - ], As - -
cross delasion about money ~ noH pI s.a,'
i abroad which would make WIG hayoc y, -
All fbs interests OF the country should .1t
,,revaiI. and from which none would suffer
! saonnr or worse than you who earn money
Nv labor. Great pains are taken 40 diiiuse
II among yourselves, and to make you
;ts servants first, to become its Victims
afterwards, You are told, and some OF
voIir number are fooled into believing,
that YOU are made aud kept Eeor !0y
being raid for. your. labor In money
OF the highest value, and that you
would be vastly better OFT should you
get yourselves paid in money worth less
Disguised yits propaga gators IN more TAI !:
terms. this Is, in plain words, the sum ana
substance of the brazcn prefence Dy WHICH.
n nossible, YOU are to be begailed-hrst OF
yoir WITS and then OF your earnings. a
;,oorer quality OF pay is TO ease your power
". This is precisely and to the letter what
is pretended. And some Of your number,
poor fellows, are throwing up their caps
and shouting in effect: g Hurran TOT poor
pay, Hurrah for wages not worth t1at
was pronnised!o When those VINO are 70
be cheated themselves lend hand ana
help the cheat, they, and all lnvosVed WI" Win
them, are but too truly In danger.
heuceforth in gold, or in notes OF the same
ya,ne. because exchangeable at your plea.
sure for gold. You have but to say at the
0olIs that you desire il. and the mere en-
nression OF your wish secures 1t to you.
In this money there is no trick. With this
for nav, you know what you bargein Tor;
and what you have bargained for you get.
No chance here for concealed sealing
down OF wages. The dollar is never luii
dollar to The eye and some fracflon OF
dollar in The pocket When your employer
hands II over he takes from himself ana
NAYS TO Won an entire dollars worth. When
Won offer it for goods, you get for 1t all that
any dollar can buy. Taking this, you are
not nut of with discounted pay while made
to believe that you get full payment. But
Won are advised to refuse this money when
freely offered, because it is "dear THAT
is, OF the highest value! You are advised
to insist upon being paid in money OF a
cheaper sort-that is. worth less. And to
assure you payment for all future Time IN
money worth the least possible, IL Il pro-
posed to manufacture and put upon the
country q brand-new kind OF dollar, the
irredeemable greenback. which is to cost
nothing, promise nothing, be IN Itself
worth nothing, and ony to pass as money
DccauSe I4e idS WIN say IA .a'S 'A,"
erty that YOU and the rest OF Us shall take
it or get nothing.
Rns why are YOU 10 choose this stuff in
preference to gold? What have its adyo-
Gates TO say i'm its favor? 1t will be cheap,
they tell YOU. They are right so far. Cheap
twill undoubtedly be-very cheap indeed
and cheap as dirt at last. But what q re-
markab!e recommendation Ask your next
door neighbor, whose family needs have
forced him to think about these things, and
he will answer: 81 want the little money l
get 10 be OF the highest value, not the low
est. do not get too much, and, having a
choice, would prefer decidedly Tat what l
do come by should be worth in the market
all that a given sum Of money can be
worth" Is the case otherwise with you? ?
Are YOUR wages worth too much? Would
Won scale them down by taking pay IN dol
lars that will be cheap in the market Wnen
weighed against goods Your new friends
seem to think so. At any rate, this sealing
down the value OF wages is precisely what
they propose for your benefit.
But to some ears the words "cheap
money" sound very inviting: Lea by the
car. the good souls imagine that, IL money
were but cheap enough, everybody could
live easily. Yet whoever looks at all into
the matter may see in ten seconds that
sound in this case is on one side, and sense
on the other. Money is what you get Tor
YOUR labor; il it is cheap, you are cheaply
paid. How Is a man in his senses to per-
suade himself that he will be the gamer by
getting for hard work only cheap return
Does The farmer wish that the wheat he
raises and exchanges for other articles
should be cheap? Cheap money Is cheap
nav. You can see that with bali an eye.
will you live the more easily for having
your pay cheapened in your hands? You
and most OF us get money by no cheap
process whoever may do so, you and L
are not Of the number. We work for II,
and honest hard work is not cheap 10 the
man that does it, however it may be so to
him that pays. Can you think, OF Will you
let any cunning talker persuade you, that
it viii be not only fair, but for your
advantage, that you should give genu-
inc work and get only q cheap
substitute for genuine pay? What you
give and what you get should correspond.
Let the ono be as real rs the other, and only
as real. II to print Dollar" upon piece
OF paper is enough to make it real dollar,
then to print "Work" on piece OF paper
Is enough TO make it real work. And il the
law compels you to take the one as money
leG it compel the employer to take the Other
as labor. Make an even thing OF 1t oil
round. Reject this one-sided arrangement
by which you are to give what costs yol
sweat and WEAKNESS and get what cost:
nothing. -