The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-25

the price of gold would be raised beyond
measure and we should see produced III Eu-
rope result lamentable enough.-Lem Fan
chett.
Ifthere 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, -, 4.
1t is too clear to be reasonably disputed that
Congress, under its Const utiunal powers to
lay taxes, to regulate commerce. and to r,gu-
late the value OF com, possesses anpe author
ity 20 control the credit circulation. Salmon
Z. Chase, Report, Dec. 1851.
The money QUESTION is not 50 much Of
grain racker as is by many supposed, but it is
rather simple when investigated l., the right
manner. Money is simplya measure OF values
and as the nation contrat is its clrcul ton, it
contracts the value OF all property in like pro-
POI ton. A. H. CASTOR.
Thomas Jefferson in his letters 10 dr. Epps,
volume Of his works, says: 'Treasury bills,
bOttomed on taxes, bearing or not bearing in
terest, as may be found Necessary, thrown into
circula ion, 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 barbarisul Recess
Encyclopedia.
Congress shall have the power to coin monsg,
to regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin,
emit bills of credit, or make anything besides
gold and silver legal tender in payment of
debts The Cohstitution-Daniel Webster.
Money should be thing Of, Or belonging to,
a country, not of Or belonging to the world
An ex portable commodity is not fitted to he
money, and nothing could b. more monstrous
than Englard's principle followed by the
Unlted States up to the war-h-r legislation
forcing her people to be buyers Of gold and
making their possession OF gold one of the
scarcest articles in the world condition of
Their being able to furnish themselves with
food and clothing. --lsaac Buchanan
x x x 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 valne 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 tie old notions Of ill.,.
supreme i'm portance of the precious metals at
once tell to the ground. English History of
Commerce. Buckle.
Benjamin Franklin, in volume 4, page s., Of
his works, says: "GO.d and silver are not in
trinsically Of equal value with IRON Their
value rests chiefly on the estimation they hap
pen 10 be in among the generality of nations
Any other wei founded credit is 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
nne reduced by demands for expectation. On
the whole no method has hitherto been formed
TO establish medium of trade equal in al 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 his
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 colnnlodites or services
and has not received an equivalent.
Gold and silver coin must be redeemed BY
commodities and services on demand or they
can no more perform the function Of money
than can irredeemable 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 in .
trinslc value.
As commodities gold and silver are capital,
but as mere money they are mere representa-
tives OF value.
All the confusion on the subject and which
has mystified the works on economy arises
out Of the fact of not distinguishing between
gold as merchandise and gold as stamped mon
ey.-Chas. Moran. France.
Reader can you define the sentence "main-
tanning the credit Of the nations' 1t is simply
paying the bondholder gold while the indus
trial classes starve journal, Pot Huron,
Michigan.
Fellow citizens, I believe in the greenback.
believe it is constitutional currency in time
of peace as we'll as in time Of war. | believe
it ought to be perpetuated as fundamental
basis and an element of our whole paper circu-
lation. have no doubt that it is a. far as il
goes, the very best currency that ever was in
this or any other country Stanley Mathews.