Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-17

the next State. The "bills" were mighty few
and far between that, if issued, we will say in
Vermont, or Maine, would "pass" in New
York St. Louis or Mobile. So, few of the
metropolitan banks had the call on their rus
| tic neighbors, and shaved them with merci-
lessness which was only excelled by the pa
| thence with which the operation was endured.
| And now, so much for the actual, and not the
imaginary, or the theoretical, Dollar of our
| Fathers. The real, solid, silver thing, the
child OF bullion teapots, old spoons, the spoils
| OF privateersmen and the swag of smugglers,
1t was salted down with all secrecy and care
In old pots underground, there ofttimes to be
forgotten; sewed up in old mattresses thence
to be ripped by an unlineal hand, no son of
the depositor succeeding; or hidden in stock
ing which, stored for safety in an old cistern,
fell prey to the repairing hand of the next
generation; or secreted in an unused oven got
melted up, ON some unlucky day, along with
new housewives batch of Sunday beans, or
was run into spradling shapes upon the broken
bricks and their irregular interstices. "The
Bank of Skowhegan, the Bank of the White
Water Canal Company. "The Shoemaker's
and Leather Finders Bank" "The Bank of
Nauvoo" these and ten thousand other i'm
pudent, wretched, self -complacent repositories
of deeds for wild cat lands, bills of lading and
outlawed notes,-how they did gouge and
chisel the land, breed sloth in the mart and
beget, in countless spawn and sprat, their
own very leprous and abominable kind When
the blessed war came and burnt away these
cancerous fungi, how suddenly the air grew
clear Then men could see what monstrous
crime jackson committed when, as Bradley
might with truth have said (but did not), he
''robbed" the United States Bank of it's De
posts and destroyed that magnificent institu
ton. Then came the era of greenbacks-
justly pronounced by wise and outspoken
western men to be the best and most useful
currency ever employed in the country
When the war was on, crafty, shrewd, hus-
banding New England, New York, New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania, feathering their nests
by the manufacture of war supplies, by fur
nishing the means of transportation by land
and sea, and by supplying The army and the
navy with ships and iron and coal, making the
profits of those days of sudden for
tunes, filled their safes with the cheaply-sold
bonds issued under Chase and Fessenden
The West dealing in more perishable things,
breadstuffs, meats, and horses and mules, got
immense amounts of this war money but real |
zed vastly less proportion of the profits |
Then also, by adroit legislation the East took
he lions share of the fallaciors and Must |
National Bank system; and so the West was |
hooded with ''irrcdecIna1ie currency while |
he East was double lined with bonds ere
leemable in coin Of the United States. Now
he West and the South and the far Pacific
demand a sqaaring-up of these old accounts
They demand the recommendation of silver the
lual standard of sovereign coinage and the
estoratlon of the (real. solid silver) Dollar of
ur Fathers To the accomplishment of this
onsumInation devoutly to be wished, the
Ion. John ?. Jones is devoting his magni6-
ent energies. The MORNING APPEAL bids
i'm God speed and halls him with the
earty lrlshism ''more power to ye, J ohm"