The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-09
blows Always with the wind, or meets

blows Always with the wind, or meets
with any other mischance by which it
IL lost. burnt, destroyed. strange to
say. it is not lost at all; 1t simply
makes its way back to the national
treasury; loss to the individual, it is
a gain to the nation. So with the
stamp currency, the most desirable.
convenient change That ever entered
your pocket; "busy bee," too that
earned us-admitted by rogue Sher-
man himself-ten millions of dollars
before he smothered it to death with
his fdahcial brsmstone.
Then look at your thousand or ten
thousand or hundred thousand trans
actions in gold. You may get through
the one or ten thousand count by
wearing your time and your fingers.
But when you come to the hundred
thousand bring in The coal cart and
coal shovels and the patent weigh
bridge, shovel it in and count it by
weight. Have a guard of halberdiers
on hand so that you may cart it from
odStOm to treasury. Bnt you say this
GOULD be managed by paptr-by a pa.
per certificate or something of that
kind, and the trouble of carting saved.
TO be sure it could. In it's helpless
ness that avant courier paper could of
course come to its relief, but what
does thas prove in its favor? What
dics it show but it's clumsy. awkward
| helplessness. calling for the cart and
the coal shovels till the paper volun-
teer comes up to its relief.
But are You not drawing on your
imagination for this ludcrous pic
ture of the sprawling gold and the
count by weight and the carting!
! We should think not. 1t is Il picture
that has been realized hundreds of
times between the custom house and
the sub-treasury of New York city,
and would again be realized-would
every day if that half ounce of paper,
Inscribed with five or numerals. did
not come to it's relief. Of course, in
such condition OF things paper, when
there is too little of it to do the bust.
ness. must of very necessity be supe-
rlor to gold. That is, paper resting
upon all the real and personal proper
ty in the republic, with an additional
resting place in the hearts and affec-
tions of the people.
But whilst honest men were work.
ing to get Il home for thsir families,
Sherman and his accurse,l associates
were working to deprive them of that
llvlnS-WOrkiny To contract the cur
rency with the effect on the nation
that the man, whom we must not call
Il scOIndrel, did himself thus describe
in the United States senate in 1867
"Ihe appreciation U.P. cOntraction)
OF the currency is Il far more distress
| ing operation than senators suppose.
Our own and other nations have gone
through that process before. =
1T is not possible to take this voy-
age without the sorest distress. To
every persian except Il captaliit out
OF debt, or II salaried office or annui-
tant. it is Il period of loss. danger, las.
situde of trade. fall of wages, suspen-
sion of enterprise. bankruptcy and
disaster"
Well. in the face of this declaration,
issuing out of his own mouth, Sher-
man comes ont las busy us bee in
Il tar BARREL or 1.-The devil in high
wind. trooping from Washington to
New York to hold secret council with
the bankers and syndicates, devising
means for the destruction of the re.
public. Still. we must not, and we
Will not call him either scamp or
scondrel! His crimes are on Il nation
Ill scale. Hunger, and despair. and
suicide dog his footsteps; but then.
you see. he is an accomplished crimi-
nal. He has elbowed and lied him
self into high place, and therefore.
I'm ~ ut i,n.
him respectfully.
Why talk about scoundrels at all :
Well. it is not exactly because there is
akind of moral obliteration between
the two or three words; SHERMAN"
''syndicate, and "scoundrel." 1t is
not exactly because when you thing
of the one the other jumps into yo r
mind. 1t is not IT, at at all that has in
troduced into this article word so
impolite and so unusual. smooth,
oily. ordinary talk, like smooth.how.
ing stream. does not fix attention like
Il headlOng tumble or two over the
rocks. Our object is now to rouse up
attention, and then nail it down TO
the solid, stubborn. substantial truth
that. us volumes stand now, the re-
sumption act is unrepealable: that ev-
cry word now spoken about it is so
much wasted wind: that the one i'm
perative add undeferable d ty of con.
sress now is to fill up the murderous
vacuum that has been made in our
currency. 1t WAS to Startle attention
that we wrote down such word AS
"scoundrei." Startle it first. and
then try to fix it on the great truth
of the hour. that rs volumes stand
now the resumption act is unrepesla-
bic.
The amount of United States notes re-
tir,d the present m n b in consequence of
the issue of national bank notes, will be
about twelve hundred thousand dollars.
The secretary of the treasury orders this
amount to be replaced by silver dollars, to
be paid out in course of business. This
sum will be distributed among the various
sub-treasuri.s and public repositories. so
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