The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-12

the price of gold would be raised beyond
measure and we should see produced in Eu-
rope a result lamentable enough.-Lem Fan
chett
| Iftlere is one measure better calculated than
another to produce that state of things where
| the rich are daily getting richer and the poor
daily getting poorer 1t Is a metallic currency
W. H. Harrison, Inaugural address, State Pa
pers. 2, -, T.
1t is too clear to be reasonably disputed that
Congress, under its Constitutional powers to
lay taxes, to regulate commerce. and to regu-
late the value of coin, possesses amp'e author
ity 70 control the credit circulation Salmon
P. Chase, Report, Dec. 1861.
The money question is not 50 much of a
grain racker as is by many supposed, but it is
rather simple when Investigated in the right
manner. Money is simplya measure Of values
and as the nation contracts its circulation, it
contracts the value Of all property in like pro-
portion. A. h. CASTOR.
Thomas jefferson in his letters to Mr.. Epps,
volume of his works, says: "Treasury bills,
bottomed on taxes, bearing or not bearing in
terest, as may be found necessary, thrown into
circulation, will take the place of SO much
gold and silver. Bank paper must be suppress
ed, and the circulation estored to the nation,
TO whom it belongs
Money, as used in modern civilization, is a
useful instrument that facilitates the exchange
OF commodities and services.
The intrinsic value idea of money was the
idea IN the crude day of Observation-Disclosures
Encyclopedia.
Congress shall have the power to coin money
to regulate the value thereof and offOreign COIN
emit bills OF credit, or make anything besides
gold and silver legal tender in payment of
debts The Consttution-Daniel Webster.
Money should be a thing Of, or belonging to-
a country, not OF or belonging to the world
An exportable commodity is not fitted to be
money, and nothing could be more 1nonstrous
than Englard's principle followed by the
United States up to the war-her legislation
forcing her people to be buyers Of gold and
making their possession of gold--o of the
scarcest articles in the world--the condition of
their being able to furnish themselves with
food and clothing. Isaac Buchanan
But when it was once clearly I'M
derstood that gold and silver are not wealth,
but merely representatives Of wealth; when
men began to see that wealth itself solely con-
sists OF the vane which skill and labor can add
to the raw material, and that the money is of no
possible use to a nation except to measure and
circulate its riches; all the old notions of the
supreme i'm portance of the precious metals at
once fell to the ground. English History of
Commerce. Buckle.
Benjamin Franklin, in volume 4. page s.. of
his works, says: Good and silver are not in
trlnsicaly OF equal value with iron. Their
value rests chiefly on the estimation they hap
pen o be in among the generality OF nations
Any other wel-founded credit is as much an
equivalent as gold and silver. Parer money,
we'll founded, has great advantages over gold
and silver; being light and convenient tor hand
ling large sums; and not likely to have its vol
nme reduced by demands for ex portation. On
the whole no method has hitherto been formed
| to establish medium of trade equal in all its
advantages, to bills Of credit made a general
| legal tender"
| When the laborer has received his wages in
money he has not received an equivalent for has
services, but only something which will enable
| him to get what he requires. The money there
fore is not the equivalent, but the evidence
| that he has parted with commodities or services
and has not received an equivalent
| Gold aud silver coin must be redeemed by
commodities and services ON demand, or they
can no more perform the function Of money
than can irredeeinable paper money.
The simplest and most perfect form of cur
rency IS that which represents transferable
debts paper money with no intrinsic value
Coin so long as it circulates for the purpose OF
| buying and selling for the time, loses its III
| trlnslc value.
As commodities gold and silver are capital
but as mere money they are mere representa-
tives otvalue.
All the confusion on the subject and which
has mystifled the works on economy arise:
ont Of the fact OF not distinguishing b.tweer
gold as merchandise and gold as stamped mon
ey.-Chas. Moran, France
Reader can you define the sentence "main-
tanning the credit of the nationi'' 1t is simpl,
having the bondh01dpr poli Will. thu iud,ts,
trial classes starve journal, Poit Huron
Michigan.
Fellow citizens, believe in the greenback
believe It is a constitutional currency in tim.
/ OF peace as Well As in time of war | h~liev,
1t ought to he perpetuated as a Fundamental
basis and an element Of our whole paper circu
laion. | have no doubt that ii is as far as i
goes, the very best currency that ever vas il
this or any other country ! Stanley Mathews