The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-29
The Patriotic s.FIaIs" are not Quite
so Happy.

Distinguished "Fi0tsn - There is
trouble in camp. The dear people
have gone into the investigation
business" and the result will be de-
struction to all our hopes If they are
not stopped. If some lamb-like patri.
OF don't poison the distinguished fiat"
statesmen, who are ever alluding to
France as being ineffably blest, and
holding it up as model for us, we had
just as we'll "told our tents" and silent
ly retire from "fame's eternal camping
ground" forever. The fact of tie busi
ness is, the French empire is anything
but a model. The Investigating
business" as conducted by the dear
people, shows the debt of France to be
So, 500, 600, 900, or nearly double that
of the United States. 1t also demon
strates that the French government
does not issue paper money at all.
The Bank of France is the ''blood-
sucking capitalist" that does the busi-
ness, and If the government requires
the banks notes 1t has to pay interest
for their use. During the past five years
the paper money has been contracted
nearly one-third, and instead OF there
being fifty dollars In circulation to
make each of the French patriots
happy there are only about fifteen, and
choice cuts from the hind quarter of
broken down dray horse are worth
about fifteen cents per pound. Indeed,
more than half of the working people
Of France have no meat at all for days
at time so prosperous is the country.
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model Of unadulterated happiness.
1t will also be well for some patriot to
assist the high and mighty ''fiat, who
gushed over a column and half in
Sundays Capital, to step down and
out. After writing over a column,
which contained only one profound
sentence, and that in psrenthesis, he
serenely says 'tNo one need flstter him.
self that greenbacks will be very cheap;
for it must be remembered that those
who now own the bonds will
be the owners of the green
backs. The uuterrifed Demo-
cra,s say the saNe thing, and I
want to know how we laborIng men,
who are neglecting our business to en-
gage in political sophism" as to the
best theory of flnance-the very thing
we know the least sbout-are going to
be benefited. Again he "gushes" over
and says there will "be no absolute
necessity for gold and silver money!"
''They will enter the circulation on a
par with the paper" OF, &" "become
merely a commodity, as is lead, iron
and other metals, and then the evoln
ton of such profound wisdom prostrat
ed the high and mighty ''fiat," and he
was placed on shutter and carried to
the ice house to cool off. The fact Of
the business is, the dear investigating
people know we do not use gold and
silver as money because ioe see a
stamp upon them, nor because the
gov ,rnment has made them le-
gal tender, but because they represent
giUea amount of Udlue," and we there
fore know that we can exchange them
for the same amount of value whenever
and wherever we please. Not so, how
eyer, with an irredeemable ''fiat"
greenback. OF course the government
can print ''iat" 'greenbacks in vast
them the life and potency of money.
Ii IL COulu, tneIe WOulu Oo no ueCes-
sity for any other labor than legisla-
tion. We could enact laws that would
Immediately make US all rich. be-
lieve, however, that this mode of
gro wing rich has never been found re
mar Ikably successful. An eminent man
say there are but two ways known
of God or among men for getting
money. One is to steal it, and the
other is to earn it. This is as true of
governments as of individuals"
1 am sorry that Gen. Sull, Chm. Ex.
Com G. B. (which is Gas Bag) parry,
and the immaculate Gen. Hqmman
lodged the very first missile innocent
ly chucked at them by the valiant
Democrats. Were it not that E. P.
Phillips is now with Us / would die in
despair. When Gen. Hamman arrives
wall take great pleasure in introduc-
ing HIM to Gov. Davis, Col E. p.
Phillips, ]. NJ. Piper and other patri-
ots. thine for the right"
HARD BRICK.