The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-02-28

III tuc itiEiAplltss ~ w 10 NN'i hit
reely any limit to the an)aas That
kin be put upon tho markit. Also
kin approximate the fact, that tho
man who is in debt and in distress.
and which is hungrin aud thrstin
10 git out, wich hez suthin, kin make
that sulhin avaleablo by bein able
to yoose silver in the payin NV his
debts
But that don't help MS ov the
Corners. Silver is u parohel releef,
but il don't strike that vast army nv
men wich amt got nuthin. Wat
good is il to say to mo, "Yoo shel
be released from yoor debts on the
payment Nv twenty five cents on the
dollar when 1 havn't got the twen-
ty Ave cents, an1 cin't see nv way
cleer to get EN- 1t il askin fpr
bsed aud given q stan. II is h)liin
out false Endorsements which amount
to nuthin.
Wat tho Corners want and wat the
Corners must hev, is q medium wich
is more eaily procoored than silver
The renonetizishun Nv silver wood
help out the bonanza men. and them
ez hev suthin wich they kin git sill
YER at the discount it will 20 to. but
that don't do us here in the Corners.
For while ! wuz advocatin the silver
bill the other day, and urgin that it
wood enable us to pay off our debts
ct discount. Joe Bisler KUN up,
and said he
"But, parson, 'spose you Good pay
Off 75 cents on the dollar with
silver Who're are 700 goin' to git
the IS cents g.
That remark NV his opened to me
o wide field Nv conjecter. Silver
won't do for us, for it hez some in.
trinsic valyoo. The dettor class
wants to be relieved in hole not in
part. We want n currency wich is
Available to the meanest ez we'll as
the noblest.
I sejest leather a!
Wat want ism currency made nv
leather. Leather is perdoosed in all
the states nv the looniuu. and is nc
cessiblc to the most humble citizen
nv the Republic Wherever there il
COW and u tannery, leather kin he
perdoosed, aud why wo shoolent
yoose that ez q medium NV exchange
beets me.
What is q dollar7 A dollar is n
idee. Whatever the government
puts its stamp onto is dollar The
bonanza men in Colorado want the
government to put its stamp onto
silver, aud make dollars nv silver.
becoz they happen to own the mines
which perdoose silver They will
then deliberately quit hoodin their
mines and they will pilo ont the
silver by the ton, and pay off their
debts with it, and see their titles
cleer to the property they now owe
for, and will retire in aiilience, and
conscious they have done u smart ii,
nanshal thing. But wat good will
that do us nv the Corners wich cant
git their silverf Watts the use Nv
sayin to starvin person that he kin
git bred at five cents loaf il he
hezn't got the five cents ? We hahn t
got seveuty-tive cents on the dollar
Nv wat we owe. aud tho passage nv
the silver bill is only going to help
the parshelly pscuneious.
Wat we want is full and entire re.
leef. We want currency wich We
ourselves kin furnish, aud that l am
going to move for. l want leather
coined and made legal tender for the
benefit NV the Middle States and the
East. In this holy croosade agin
the creditor class / insist that all
seckshuns shel start fair, aud that
no one seckshun shel hev an advan-
tage over the other
| want leather coined into dollars.
! want every man wich hez side
uv first rate soleleather to hev the
privilege Of depositin in q miut Nv
the Yoonited States, and heven it
stamped into pieces which shel re-
present dollars, and that them dolS
lars shel he lsgle tender for any
debt. public or private, that he may
owe.
Understand mo, | am no iniishun.
ist, nor do l desire to ipjuro the
public credit. desire that every
thing shell 80 along smoothly aud
properly Aud To that end | shel in. =.
sist that
LIST. Tue leather shel be sole, of
first quality, hemlock tanned, aud
entirely merchantable.
ID That it shel not be in the
power nv everybody to coin leather
l won't hev every min wich kiu git
apunch and stamp making his
own money, for then their wood be
an over ishoo. To prevent that
shel require that the coiuln nv lea-
ther shel be done at reglerly ins,i-
footed government mlnts, and by
nobody else. SO much to perfect
the currency.
81. To perfect the people and to
be shoer that onuif currency shel be
furnisht to supply the wants Nv
trade, insist that every man wich
kills bull shell be privileged to hev
tho hide tanned, and shel be allows
ed to take that hide, when tanned,
to q mint aud hev il stamped into
money, each piece to weigh no much
L-k /.