The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-10-24

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measure and We should see produced in Eu
rope result lamentable enough-Lera Fan
chett
| IftLeye is one measure better calculated than
another to produce that state of things where
the ricl. are daily getting richer and the poor
| daiv getting poorer it Is metallic currency
| ". II. ttarrlst., inaugural address, State Pa
perS.2, II. 4
1t Is too clear to be reasonably disputed that
Congress, under its Const utional powers 10
lay taxes, to regulate commerce. and to rec.-
late the value OF coin, Possesses ample author
ity 70 control the credit circulation. Salmon
z. Chase, Report, Dec. 1851.
The money question is not 30 much Of q
gram racker as Is by many supposed, but it is
rather simple when invests gated in the right
manner. Money is simplya measure OF values
and as the nation contracts its circulation, it
contracts the value OF al property II like pro-
portion. a. Il. CASTOR.
Thomas Jefferson in his letters to Mr.. Epps,
volume Of his works, says: ''Treasury bills,
/ bOitOmed on taxes, bearlng or not bearing IN
terest, as may De found necessary, thrown into
circulation, will take the place OF SO much
gold and silver. Bank PAPER must besuppress-
ed, and the circulation estored to the nation,
to whom it belongs"
Money, as used in modern civilization, is a
useful INSTRUMENT facilitates LIl0 cZcl&QQ6
OF commodities and services
The intrinsic value idea Of money was tie
idea in the crude day OF barbarism.-Re
Encyclopedia.
Congress shall have the power to coin lJujul
to Regulate the value thereof and OF foreiapeein,
emit ris OF credit, or make anything .,ba1tflss
god aad silver d legal tender IN pdyhdehM OF
debts The observation-disclosures Webster.
Money should be thing of, or i11qn<1n61p
country, not Of or Longing toJ 3llg ~.
II. ez portable commodity is notx ftfsdts bs
money, and nothing could be more WpQ3 fFous
than Eng lard's princi pie folluN#o Dy the
United States up to the war-kS& ntatica
forcing her people to be buy IL ~ Is Mud
making their possession Of a69l -ons4 g. lha
scarcest articles in the world coud 20
their being able to turnisIass1 r. ~ I'll
food and clothing. Isaac R1 - NS1
x = x But when it wa fnn-l
der'tood that gold and siivS a ]
but merely representatives In
men began to see that W slthx E. 1enon-
sists OF the yaine which skill and 1lDr can add
to the raw material, and5thst 1he p1opey il sfno
possible use to natl9n e fnd
supreme Importance 81 ~ Be at
once tell to the groNl pS (fy of
Commerce. bucAlas onx4 IL isas,x srs,ss.T
Benjamin FrankIizI tinIso aulA31y 80 So, OF
his works, says: "lis66baDds - 1not in
trinsically Of eYxaAiein Nllndh Their
value rests ohief36uAk4 <stimalioR {tey hap
pen o be in amongs H. yeudt1tt1-8 nations
Any other well-founGsd credk = = much an
Equivalent as gold-enA Rnper money
and silver bah M and - mt tori for hand and.
ling large sums; and not hkely to have It's vol
mn, ams r sa' p0 stad 'a,' On
to ss SI eqp psGi in lo Al its
advantages, = b. u 5Eedit made a general
legal telldsr. as zs5uaAHa
When KeKn60nfl61urueyed his wages IN
money Re kadnd1r n equivalent for his
services, hut only something which viii enable
him to 50 what - FeG9ifgs. 7 he money there
fore Ia lot tie eosf5f &34Ek but the evidence
that he2 - hmodities or services
and h541oO - - InN14uivalent.
GoI<2w1TIr DGlst be redeemed By
conf on demand, or they
can function Of money
than per money.
r. IL Perfect form of cur
reney u thas 8 represents transferable
o rIa ss no for 9 5hs paIp sa"< Of
huylsss and seili4g ~ the time, loses its in
trinsio value. -91Es
AZ commodities sol and silver ars capital,
Tut = mere money they are mere representa-
tivm q valt1. 500,
Al Ms eenfi61f on the subject and which
- 41l0I1k(N Eorks on economy arises
out Il Tie nj 81 hct Distinguishing between
~ a(yakhaa(54 and gold as stamped mon
ey.-C has. M0rs6. France.
| Reader csas RdeGne the sentence 'slrain-
tain11G tbs eEeaitpf the nationin l. is simply
! paving ess 6bddhoder gold while the indus
/ trial classes starve journal, Port Huron
Michigan.
/ Fellow citizens, believe IN the greenback
! lpllaYe Us. unconstitutional currency in tins
80 Y~aGuh644w1lsss in time OF war | believe
| u ought ~ b. perpetuate1 as Fundamental
t1nU1n &nRn2Gpent OF our whole paper circu-
l4tion. | have no doubt that It IS a. far as il
MD0EDL1wpst currency that ever was ir
- J country stanley Mathews