Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-16
POOR FOLKS MONEY

We have never withheld any Of the Just
Senator from Kentucky, hard, u7compro-
missing Democrat tho he be. There is a
Scotch terseness in his manner and method of
| statement which is very strong and very diff
cult to resist. For example, see how he talked
in the Senate the other day in discussing the
silver bill. 1t strikes as being very explicit
and very clear We quote as follows from the
body of a speech delivered by him Feb.
The fractional currency, whatever form it
assumes, was and is emphatacally 5he money
of the poor; 1t Is the money of the retail it is
the money in which the laborer receives his
daily pay Over $50, 100000 of the fractional
currency, good gold, and which was
obliged to be paid in gold-to which the labor
er was elftitled-has been withdrawr in the
last two years and half from GIRO ltion,
and debased currency > per cent. low than
the standard silver dollar has been subs uted
for it and circulated everywhere amop5 the
laborers of the country, and none of the bond
holders, money corporations, or their organs
have complained. Now, | ask, why should
not that money be made as GOOD as any other
money! Why have all the gentlemen. the
DdlheIS, Iil6 DOdItto Oh CIdte, JilG tidlnDef OF
commerce, the presidents Of savings banks,
the eloquent gentlemen on his fpor and at
the other end Of the Capitoi who nave been
crying out so loudly for good faith, national
honor, and honest money? Why cd not the
Legislature of Connecticut, in the resolutions
read here at the Clerks desk today, when it
talked about honest money and the national
faith, why have they not kept good faith with
that class of people for whom they call them
selves the special guardians, and whose inter
est is said to be ut the bottom of all the re
sistence to the silver dollar, and allow them
to retain fractional currency, w. ich is about
equal to gold instead OF forcing debased coin
age upon them in its stead! Has there been
one utterance heard anywhere; has there been
a manly protest against that substitution of |
debased for good money, whereby thirty-odd |
millions of money, which was by law required |
to be made as good as gold within ten months
from this time, has been Withdrawn from cir |
culatlon by your secretary Of the Treasury, |
and legal tenders now withheld from circu- |
lation to redeem what little balance remains, |
and debased currency of nearly forty mil
lions, ) per cent. below the standard silver
dollar is placed III the hands of the poor or
held in great corporations all over New Jersey
and New York and New ENGLAND, and paid to
their laborers every night, with which they
have to go to the market to buy bread, sugar,
coffee, and the other necessaries of life, when
they have agreed to pay an honest dollar for
the days work they have obtained.
Not word has been hearl from them on
that subject; but when the proposition is to
reissue the old standard dollar, which is the
dollar of their own contract, and which the
bond holder agreed to take for his principle
and interest, then the cry of good faith is
raised and we are called, l do not know
Observation-Disclosures, lunatics; well, it is not
worth while to enumerate, but we are called
that is vile by the METROPOLITAN
press and other hired scribblers, because we
viii not longer submit to extortion. | want
o restore the fractional coinage to the same I