The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-11-07
Making a total of.....SI 1853 600 900


Then they declare that on Jan l. 1868
this country had currency TO the amount
OF 81, 76S, 900 900, when in truth to obtain
that sum they have added up the amounts
out at four different times But let me
illustrate that way Of figuring up large
sum
On the lst day of January, 1864, the
census taker comes along and inquiries as
to the me embers of your family, and you
respond, "a wife and eight childen
Jan. l, 1865, he calls again, and you an
swer, "a wife and eight children" Jan
l, 1876, he comes again. and you answer,
"a wife and nine children" He comes
again in 1871 and you make the same
report Now, figure these upon the prin-
ciple adopted by these new fnanciers,
and you will be surprised to find your
self possessed of four wives and "a chill
dren. Now, / should think you Green
hackers would hang your heads in shame
to peddle out such doctrines as these
But they they tell US about the "bloat-
ed bondholders" Who are the bloated
bondholders ? Why, every laboring man.
AMI every poor widow or orphan child
/ whoputs dollar into a savings bank ia
bloated bondholder; for every we'll
manage1 savings bank finds the safest
| 80 vi liS SUI piuo IOhuS III OOf-
ernment 1onds. The emigrant who
comes to Our shores with his liLtle saw
ings Of $50 orSl00 will be found IN pos
session of one Or more of our bonds
| Your Secretary of he Treasury will Tell
you that our bonds are chiefly held by
| parties holding small quantities of them
| Not more than one out of every 100
holders of our bonds owns $1,000 worth
of them Our bonds are owned to day
| by citizens of every civilized nation in
the world Any policy that should de-
preciate or destroy the value of our
bonds would fall most heavily upon the
poor widow end orphan, whose all is in.
veeted N these securities, rather than the
wealthy man, who seldom has his all in
these bonds-only a portion of his sur
plus funds.
God has commanded that "in the sweat
OF tiny brow shalt thou eat bread" But
the Green hackers have made a new dis
covery, and the law now reads. by fat
OF Government you shall be made rich
Tell mp how YOU are To get money with
out working for it The Green hacker
says make fiat money; but how are you
to get fiat" money, even. unless you
have something to sell? You must mean
some other process OF getting the fiat
money, tor you can get plenty OF good
money now IT you have anything to sell
Surprising W. make aud distribute 81 to
each person, the tramp wouldn't have
enough tor a halt days drunk suppose
we make it so to each it woudUt last
him week, and only ply the third oi
price of one speech of Que of those polit
ical tramps Ii we are to issue n fiat dol
lar, we might as well make every one n
millionaire and done with it 1t doesn't
cost any more to print million dollar
absolute money" fiat" than it does to
print s. But the tramp then comes to
me AID says: Il have got million dol
lars, and | want to buy one OF your Per
cheron horses" | tell him: II will sell,
but | want a million dollars tor the
horse " But" says he you only asked
$500 yesterday. | answer: That is
true. but horses have riz; can't take less
than million now If you owed me,
the Government might compel me to
take that paper and pocket the loss, but
you cannot compel me to sell you horse
Tor it."